Science
Hardest substance on earth
Diamond
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth
Shakespeare
Which coffee shop features in the show Friends
Central Perk
In which country did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
What is the only food that never spoils?
Honey
What is the role of ribosomes?
Protein synthesis
What does GDP stand for
Gross domestic product
“You better watch out, you better not cry…”
Guess the Christmas song
Santa Claus is coming to town
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Extra 100 for naming both
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What word describes a group of crows
Murder
Loudness of sound depends on which wave property?
Amplitude
What is the deepest point in the world’s oceans called (in the Mariana Trench)?
Challenger deep
Which director directed Once upon a time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction, and Django unchained
Quentin Tarantino
The Siege of Caffa famously introduced this disease to europe in the 14th century
Plague
The more of me you take, the more of me you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
This cell organelle contains its own DNA.
Bonus 100 points if both are named
What is the name of the study of flags?
Vexillology
"Not quite my tempo" - name the movie
Whiplash
Which empire controlled Constantinople in 1453?
Bonus 100 points to name the strait that passes through Constantinople
Byzantine
Bosphorous
Christiania was the name of this northern European city from 1624-1924, given by King Christian IV
Oslo
This extremely dense object is found at the centre of most galaxies; bonus 200 points if you can name the one at the centre of the Milky Way.
(Supermassive) Black hole. Saggiatrius A*
What phenomenon causes time to run slower at high speeds?
Time dilation
Overjoyed, I Wish, and As are songs by?
Stevie Wonder
What ancient law code is one of the earliest written legal systems?
Hammurabi Code
This large, spherical, icy region surrounds the Solar System, extending far beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, and is likely the source of many comets.
Oort cloud