Geography
What is the largest landlocked country in the world
Kazakhstan
What year did the civil war begin
1861
What is the only group of mammals capable of true powered flight?
Bats
What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
Potassium
What type of pasta name translates to “little worms” in Italian?
Vermicelli
Nigeria
What empire was rules by mania musa, famous for his wealth
Mali empire
hat is the name of the largest species of penguin?
Emperor penguin
How many bones are typically found in an adult human body?
206
What type of pasta name translates to “little worms” in Italian?
Fermented soybeans
What is the capital of Brazil
Brasilia
What 1648 peace settlement ended the Thirty Years' Warin Europe?
The Peace of Westphalia
What is the name of the process by which some reptilesand amphibians shed their outer skin?
Ecdysis (molting or shedding)
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyondwhich nothing can escape?
The event horizon
Which French cooking term describes preparing ingredientsby cutting them into very small, uniform cubes?
Brunoise
What 2 countries have the longest international running border in the world
Canda and USA
Who was the first woman to win the noble prize
Marie curie
Which marine animal has three hearts and blue blood?
Octopus
Which element has the atomic number 74?
Tungsten
What type of fungus is traditionally used to produce bluecheese's characteristic veins?
Penicillium mold, commonly Penicillium roqueforti
What is the only sea that has no land coastline, bounded instead by ocean water currents
The Sargasso Sea
Which Byzantine emperor commissioned the compilationof Roman law known as the Corpus Juris Civilis?
What is the only living mammal known to lay eggs besidesthe echidnas?
Platypus
What mathematical constant is approximately equal to 2.71828and is the base of natural logarithms?
Eulers number (e)
What Japanese term describes the savory, fifth basic taste associated with glutamate?
Umami