Geograpgy
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa
Who was the famous civil rights leader who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King
What is the hardest natural substance found on Earth?
Diamond
Who wrote the novel “The Hunger Games”?
Suzanne Collins
How many players are on the field for one team in soccer during a match?
The Nile River flows mainly through which two African countries?
Egypt and Sudan
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall, symbolizing the end of the Cold War era?
1989
Which organ in the human body is responsible for filtering blood and producing urine?
kidneys
Which Dutch artist painted “Starry Night”?
Vincent van gogh
What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Fe
Which desert is the largest hot desert in the world?
What was the name of the ancient trade route connecting China with the Mediterranean?
Silk road
What is the SI unit of force?
Newton
What is the term for a 14‑line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, used by Shakespeare and others?
Sonnet
Which company created the smartphone operating system Android?
Which European city is built on canals and often called “The Floating City”?
Venice
Which queen ruled England for most of the second half of the 19th century and gave her name to an era?
Queen Victoria
What law states that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”?
Newton's third law of motion
In Greek mythology, who is the god of the underworld?
Hades
What is the term for a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards, like “level”?
palindrome
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in what African country?
Tanzania
What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 during World War II?
Operation overload
What is the term for the smallest amount of an element that still retains that element’s chemical properties?
atom
Which Russian author wrote “Crime and Punishment”?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In computing, what does the acronym “URL” stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator