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Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
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Which two continents are part of the same country?
Turkey — it lies in both Asia and Europe.
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What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value?
Four
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What common condiment was originally sold as a medicine for indigestion in the 1830s?
Ketchup
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Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
Mars
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What was the first country to launch a satellite into space?
The Soviet Union, with Sputnik 1 in 1957.
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Which European country has no rivers?
Vatican City
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What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
Honey
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Who invented the light bulb as we know it today?
Thomas Edison
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What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Diamond
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and in which field?
Marie Curie, in Physics
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Which country has an entire city built underground to escape extreme heat?
Australia — the town of Coober Pedy, famous for its opal mines.
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What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
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Which device was invented to help blind people read using raised dots?
Braille system, by Louis Braille.
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What is the main gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
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What was the first country to give women the right to vote?
New Zealand
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In which country can you find an entire forest that’s underwater for half the year — and visible only during the dry season?
Kazakhstan — Lake Kaindy, known for its submerged spruce trees.
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What is the name of the deepest part of the ocean?
The Mariana Trench.
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Which drink was invented as a medicine for stomach problems in the 1800s?
Coca-Cola
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What does a trichologist treat?
Hair
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Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
Sir Edmund Hillary (from New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (from Nepal), in 1953.
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Which country is home to a “door to hell” — a massive gas crater that has been burning continuously for over 50 years?
Turkmenistan — the Darvaza gas crater.
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What is the fastest muscle in the human body?
The eyelid muscle (it can blink in 1/100th of a second).
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What device was invented to measure earthquakes?
Seismograph
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Which animal has fingerprints nearly identical to humans?
Koala