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100

100: Which country has the world’s smallest coastline?

A) Monaco 

B) Liechtenstein

C) San Marino

D) Vatican City

  • A) Monaco ✅

100

100: What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

A) Mercury 

B) Gallium

C) Cesium

D) Bromine

  • A) Mercury ✅

100

100: Which ancient city was buried by volcanic ash in 79 AD?

A) Pompeii 

B) Herculaneum

C) Athens

D) Carthage

  • A) Pompeii ✅

100

100: Which language has the most native speakers worldwide?

A) Mandarin Chinese

B) English

C) Hindi

D) Spanish

  • A) Mandarin Chinese ✅

100

100: What is the main ingredient in the Japanese dish natto?

A) Soybeans 

B) Rice

C) Seaweed

D) Tofu

  • A) Soybeans ✅

200

200: What is the least densely populated country in the world?

A) Mongolia ✅

B) Namibia

C) Greenland

D) Iceland

  • A) Mongolia ✅

200

200: Tardigrades are known for surviving what extreme condition?

A) Complete vacuum 

B) Boiling water

C) Magnetism

D) High sugar content

A) Complete vacuum ✅


200

200: The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was?

A) Marie Curie 

B) Rosalind Franklin

C) Ada Lovelace

D) Dorothy Hodgkin

  • A) Marie Curie ✅

200

200: Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?

A) John Milton 

B) Geoffrey Chaucer

C) William Blake

D) Alexander Pope

  • A) John Milton ✅

200

200: Which fruit has its seeds on the outside?

A) Kiwi

B) Strawberry 

C) Raspberry

D) Mango

  • B) Strawberry ✅

300

300: The island of Socotra is part of which country?

A) Oman 

B) Yemen

C) Maldives

D) Seychelles

A) Oman ✅

300

300: What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth?

A) Francium 

B) Astatine

C) Promethium

D) Neptunium

  • A) Francium ✅

300

300: The “Defenestration of Prague” in 1618 led to which war?

A) Thirty Years’ War 

B) Seven Years’ War

C) War of Austrian Succession

D) Napoleonic Wars

  • A) Thirty Years’ War ✅

300

00: What is the term for a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

A) Anagram

B) Palindrome
C) Oxymoron

D) Homonym

  • B) Palindrome ✅

300

300: What type of alcohol is made from juniper berries?

A) Vodka

B) Gin 

C) Rum

D) Tequila

  • B) Gin ✅

400

400: Lake Baikal holds roughly what percentage of the world’s unfrozen freshwater?

A) 5%

B) 20% 

C) 10%

D) 30%

B) 20% ✅

400

400: Which organ in the human body can regenerate most efficiently?

A) Heart

B) Liver

C) Kidney

D) Skin

  • B) Liver ✅

400

400: Who was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt?

A) Cleopatra VII 

B) Ramses II

C) Tutankhamun

D) Hatshepsut

  • A) Cleopatra VII ✅

400

400: The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by?

A) Gabriel García Márquez 

B) Jorge Luis Borges

C) Isabel Allende

D) Mario Vargas Llosa

  • A) Gabriel García Márquez ✅

400

400: Saffron is obtained from which part of the plant?

A) Leaf

B) Stigma

C) Stem

D) Root

  • B) Stigma ✅

500

500: Which desert is shrinking due to climate change rather than expanding?

A) Gobi 

B) Sahara

C) Kalahari

D) Patagonian

  • A) Gobi ✅

500

500: What phenomenon causes a river to glow neon blue in certain conditions?

A) Bioluminescent algae 

B) Phosphorescent minerals

C) Acidic water

D) High oxygen content

  • A) Bioluminescent algae ✅

500

00: What empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, famous for his wealth?

A) Mali 

B) Songhai

C) Ghana

D) Axum

  • A) Mali ✅

500

500: In linguistics, the “Great Vowel Shift” affected which language?

A) French

B) English 

C) German

D) Spanish

  • B) English ✅

500

500: The cheese “Cashel Blue” originates from which country?

A) France

B) Ireland
C) England

D) Switzerland

  • B) Ireland ✅