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300
Longest flight in the world (will accept top 3 answers in miles, hours, or locations) 10% margin of error
SIN to JFK - 9,537 miles - 18 hours, 50 minutes
SIN to EWR - 9,523 miles - 18 hrs, 45 mins
PER to LHR - 9,010 miles - 17 hrs, 15 mins
MEL to DFW - 8,992 miles, 17 hrs, 35 mins/
AKL to JFK - 8,828 miles, 17 hrs, 50 mins
300
This Asian country is a nation, a city, and a state.
Singapore. It is about 275 square miles, smaller than the State of Rhode Island, and inhabited by five million people from four major communities; Chinese (majority), Malay, Indian and Eurasian
300
This italian dessert includes a shot of espresso atop vanilla ice cream
Affogato
300
A day on Venus is longer than xx days on Earth (10% margin of error)
Venus rotates very slowly on its axis – one day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days.
300
This gentleman is rumored to be dead in an Embraer jet crash after he started a rebellion against a head of state.
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board.
400
This country has the highest number of pyramids in the world
Sudan - 255 pyramids. Powered by agriculture, ancient Sudan’s great civilizations thrived and erected mighty temples and tombs honoring their gods, kings, queens, and nobles. Their building boom left behind some 255 pyramids—more than twice the number Egypt constructed next door.
400
This is fully landlocked country in Southern Africa - entirely surrounded by another country (will accept either country as an answer)
Lesotho. Fully encircled by the Republic of South Africa.
400
French delicacy: a liver of a goose or duck that has been fattened by a process of force-feeding
Foie Gras
400
This species of aquatic animals can live for up to 500 years
The Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates, living an average of 272 years, and some of them can live to be around 500 years old.
400
The Prime Minister of this country decided to eat a delicacy publicly to alleviate concerns regarding water safety off its shores
To show the water near Japan's Fukushima nuclear site is safe Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has eaten a piece of fish caught in the area where radioactive wastewater has begun being released into the ocean.
500
These countries issues "delay certificates" if their trains are running late by more than 5 mins.
Japanese trains. The documents can be shown to bosses or teachers to explain a passenger’s lateness. Delay certificates are also issued on some trains in Germany and in Paris (France).
500
This city's drug use problem resulted in the country decriminalizing all drugs for personal use. Will accept country.
In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to decriminalize the consumption of all drugs. After 20 years, drug-induced death rate has plummeted to five times lower than the E.U. average and stands at one-fiftieth of the United States’.
500
In what Country (ies) do we eat a fertilized bird egg (usually a duck) which is incubated for a period of 14 to 21 days, depending on the local culture, and then steamed.
Balut is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. It is commonly sold as street food most notably in the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. The term comes from the Filipino language
500
This food product never expires
Honey has a perfect chemical composition that makes it never spoil. Organisms can't live inside it, meaning there's nothing that can spoil in the first place. 5,000-year-old honey has been found and, in theory, is perfectly edible.
500
President of this prestigious university recently resigned after an investigation found several academic reports that he authored contained manipulated data.
Stanford University. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who has spent seven years as president, authored 12 reports that contained falsified information, including lab panels that had been stitched together, panel backgrounds that were digitally altered and blot results taken from other research papers.
He was the principal author on five of the reports, and a co-author on seven.
700
Any of the top 3 most visited (by travelers) cities in the world.
Hong Kong (26 million), Bangkok, London, Singapore, Macau, Dubai
700
Cutting-edge tech made this tiny European country a major exporter of food.
The Netherlands, a country slightly bigger than Maryland,
The Netherlands produces 4 million cows, 13 million pigs and 104 million chickens annually and is Europe’s biggest meat exporter. But it also provides vegetables to much of Western Europe. The country has nearly 24,000 acres — almost twice the size of Manhattan — of crops growing in greenhouses.
700
Name or location of the current spiciest chilli in the world
Carolina Reaper the hottest chili in the world - a hybrid chili of the Chinense Capsicum species, (the hottest pepper family that exists) originally codenamed “HP22B”, grown by Ed Currie, who runs the PuckerButt Pepper a pepper company in South Carolina.
700
2 of Top 5 countries with highest alcohol consumption
- Czechia - 14.26 liters of pure alcohol per capita
- Latvia - 13.19
- Moldova - 12.85
- Germany - 12.79
- Lithuania - 12.78
700
In a rambling social media post, this gentleman is considering suing the Anti-Defamation League for defamation to the tune of $4 billion
Elon Musk said he may sue the Anti-Defamation League for purportedly accusing X and the billionaire owner of the social platform of antisemitism and fueling advertisers' exodus from the social network.
1000
What is the only country in the world not to have a rectangular or square flag?
The national flag of Nepal is the world's only national flag that is non-quadrilateral in shape. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons, the vexillological word for a pennant. Its crimson red is the color of the rhododendron, the country's national flower. Red is also the sign of victory in war.
1000
Name two of the top 5 most expensive cities in the world (according to The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Singapore (1), Hong Kong (2), Sydney (3), Melbourne (4), Seoul & Shanghai (tie for 5)
1000
Which city/country has the greatest number of Michelin stars? 2023 data
Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo was awarded 263 Michelin Stars across 200 restaurants in the 2023 guide. Paris = 199. Kyoto = 108, Osaka = 98, NYC = 76.
1000
This large country imports a vast majority of its food
China. China accounts for about 20% of the world’s population, but it has less than 10% of its arable land. In recent decades, as the country developed and urbanized, its farmland shrank
1000
The then-28-year-old, who in 1971 became the first woman in any sport to win more than $100,000 in a calendar year, championed equal pay for women.
Billie Jean King. "We had a meeting about a week before the tournament, and about 35 or 40 of us voted unanimously not to play because the money was lousy,” King said.