Science
There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
True or False
TRUE. There are 3 trillion trees and roughly 100-400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy.
In the sentence "The cat sat quickly," what kind of word is quickly?
Adverb
This South American country sounds like a popular side dish you’d find at a BBQ.
Chile
Often called the "King of Pop," he released the best-selling album of all time, Thriller.
Michael Jackson
This massive Buddhist monument in Central Java is the largest of its kind in the world.
Borobudur
This scale is used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of a solution.
PH scale
This is a word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word.
Synonym
This country is unique for having three different capital cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
South Africa
He played the character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Johnny Depp
In 1883, the eruption of this volcanic island in the Sunda Strait created the loudest sound ever historically recorded.
Krakatoa
This material is the hardest natural substance on Earth, but it can be completely vaporised into CO2 gas if placed in a standard oven at 1,400°F.
Diamond
This figure of speech uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison.
a. Simile. b. Metaphor. c. Idiom
Simile
Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest peak on this continent.
Africa
This musical term indicates that a piece should be played very loudly.
a. Forte. b. Fortississimo. c. Fortissimo.
c. Fortissimo.
This is the largest volcanic lake in the world.
Lake Toba
This term, coined by Isaac Asimov in 1941, describes a branch of science that did not yet exist at the time.
a. A.I. b. Robotics c. Virtual Reality
b. Robotics
In this 1818 novel, the title character is not the monster, but the scientist who brings it to life.
Frankenstein
Which capital city is home to the Acropolis?
a. Turkey. b. Moldova. c. Greece. d. Bulgaria
c. Greece
This 18th-century child prodigy composed his first symphony at the age of eight.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This 14th-century Prime Minister of the Majapahit Empire famously took the "Sumpah Palapa" oath, vowing not to consume spices until he unified the archipelago.
Gajah Mada
This is the only letter in the English alphabet that does not appear on the Periodic Table of Elements.
J
This punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause that is more pronounced than a comma but less than a period.
Semi colon (;)
This body of water is technically the lowest point on the Earth's land surface, sitting at over 1,400 feet below sea level.
The Dead Sea
This 2019 film made history by becoming the first non-English language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Parasite
This explorer’s 1869 book, The Malay Archipelago, detailed the distinct faunal boundary between Asian and Australian species found in Indonesia.
The boundary mentioned passes right between Bali and Lombok!
Alfred Russell Wallace (Wallace Line)