Math
Famous Universities
Geopolitics
Mongolian History
Logic
100

Solve: 3x+5=20

x=5

100

Founded in 1636, this is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

Harvard University

100

This 1917 political upheaval overthrew the Russian Romanov monarchy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

Bolshevik (or Russian) Revolution

100

Written in the 13th century, this oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language chronicles the life, family tree, and conquests of Genghis Khan.

Mongoliin Nuuts Tovchoo

100

It is a rainy day, and you are driving a bus. The bus has 18 women, 5 of whom are over 50 years old, 12 men, 4 of whom are over 40 years old, and 4 children. The bus weighs over 3 tons in weight and is 6 meters long. If the bus was going at 50 kilometers per hour, who is the bus's driver? 

(Your name)
200

A $60 jacket is discounted by 25%. What is the new price?

$45

200

This university’s mascot is Tim the Beaver, chosen because the beaver is considered “nature’s engineer.”

MIT

200

This vast civilization, famed for its aqueducts and coliseums, officially transitioned from a Republic to an Empire under Caesar Augustus in 27 BCE.

Roman Empire

200

Established by Ogedei Khan in 1235, this ancient city served as the capital of the Mongol Empire for thirty years before Khubilai Khan moved it.

Kharkhorin

200

A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How is that scenario logically possible?

The horse's name is Friday

300

Find the determinant of the following matrice:

| 10  5 |

| 4    2 |

0

300

Two parents founded this university in memory of their only son, who died from typhoid fever at age 15.

Stanford

300

This strategic, narrow waterway connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and is a vital chokepoint for the world's oil supply.

Strait of Hormuz

300

The year that Mongolia declared its independence, ending over two centuries of foreign rule under the Qing dynasty (Manchu).

1911

300

If you are running a race in track class and you successfully overtake the person running in second place, what is your position now?

2nd place

400

A line passes through (2,5) and (6,13). What is its slope?

2

400

Teaching existed at this university as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

Oxford University

400

Which two countries share the longest international land boundary in the world?

Canada and the USA

400

Using a megaphone to preach non-violence during the freezing winter protests of 1989 and 1990, this young university lecturer became the revered "Golden Swallow of Democracy (Ардчиллын алтан хараацай)" before his tragic assassination in 1998.

Sanjaasurengiin Zorig

400

A father and his son are involved in a serious car accident. The father dies, and the son is taken to the hospital. The surgeon looks at the boy and says,
“I cannot operate on him. He is my son.”
How is this possible?

The surgeon is his mother.

500

What is the derivative of the following function?

ln(x) + 5^x = y

1/x + ln (5) * 5^x  = y'

500

During the Manhattan Project, scientists built the world’s first successful nuclear reactor underneath the football stadium of which university?

University of Chicago

500

In 1990, this man became the only Soviet President to win the Nobel Peace Prize, just a year before he resigned and the USSR dissolved.

Mikhail Gorbachev

500

These seven revolutionaries are remembered as “Анхны долоо” for helping lead Mongolia’s 1921 revolution. Name at least 5.

  • Догсомын Бодоо 
  • Солийн Данзан 
  • Дамдины Сүхбаатар 
  • Дамбын Чагдаржав 
  • Дансранбилэгийн Догсом 
  • Дарьзавын Лосол 
  • Хорлоогийн Чойбалсан
500

You have 9 identical-looking coins, but one is counterfeit and slightly heavier than the rest. Using a classic balance scale, how can you find the fake coin in exactly two weighings?

Group them into 3 groups of 3.