Geography and Politics
Which country left the European Union in 2020?
United Kingdom
Which war (1979-1989) involved the Soviet Union in Afghanistan?
Soviet-Afghan War
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
What principle describes the empirical trend of doubling of transistor counts roughly every two years?
Moore's Law
Which instrument has 88 keys?
Piano
What is the only country that borders both Spain and France and has its own official language unrelated to either?
Andorra
What was the name of the German air force in WWII?
Luftwaffe
What is the currency of Ireland?
Euro
What mammalian hormone, produced mainly in adispose tissue, regulates energy balance by inhibiting hunger?
Leptin
What is the central prayer and declaration of Jewish faith beginning "Hear, O Israel"?
The Shema
What is the name of the region disputed by both India and Pakistan?
Kashmir
Which Empire had their capital city as Xanadu?
Mongol Empire
What type of market structure has only one seller?
Monopoly
What is the smallest addressable unit of data storage on a magnetic hard disk?
Sector
In Japanese etiquette, placing chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice is avoided because it resembles what?
Funeral incense offerings
This city is the Capital City of the Cherokee Nation in the United States and is one of the most populated cities in Oklahoma?
Tahlequah
The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) was led by a man who claimed to be the brother of whom?
Jesus Christ
What is the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP?
Nominal = current prices; Real = adjusted for inflation
In orbital mechanics, the general term for the point in an orbiting satellite's trajectory closest to the central body is called what?
Periapsis
Which fictitious treaty about pufferfish, inserted as a prank by the Green Party in Hessen, Germany in 1984, went unnoticed in official records for years?
The Shanghai Fugu Agreement
Korean is the official writing script of South Korea, North Korea and a regional language of this country?
Indonesia (Cia-Cia)
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide was triggered with the assassination of which national leader?
President Juvenal Habyarimana
Which country uses the currency called the Nakfa?
Eritrea
What property of superconductors is characterised by the complete explulsion of magnetic fields?
Meißner-Ochsenfeld effect
In Andean highland ritual, coca leaves are offered to which mountain spirits believed to guard communities?
Apus