Uzbekistan
Which Uzbek city is famous for the Registan ensemble?
Samarkand
How many players are there on a football team on the field?
Answer: 11
Which scientist developed the theory of relativity?
Albert Einstein
All planets in our solar system rotate in the same direction.
Answer: False
Venus and Uranus rotate in the opposite direction from most other planets.
What comes down but never goes up?
Rain.
Which river is one of the major rivers of Uzbekistan and flows through the Fergana Valley?
Answer: Syr Darya
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
Answer: 5
Which language has the largest number of native speakers in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese
Adults have fewer bones than babies.
True
Infants are born with approximately 300 bones. Many of these fuse together as the body grows and matures, resulting in adults having 206 bones.
What is more useful when it is broken?
An egg.
What was the name of the ancient region that covered parts of modern-day Uzbekistan and was one of the major centers of the ancient Persian world?
Sogdiana (Sogdia). Located in the Zeravshan River valley
In tennis, what does the term "love" mean in scoring?
Answer: Zero
What is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
More people live in the city of Tokyo than in the entire country of Canada.
True
The greater Tokyo metropolitan area has around 37 million residents, which is close to the entire population of Canada.
How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?
SEE O DOUBLE YOU.
Uzbekistan is one of the world's largest producers of which natural resource, historically important to its economy?
Answer: Cotton
In football, what is awarded when a defending player commits a foul inside their own penalty area?
Answer: Penalty kick
Which economic concept describes a sustained increase in the general level of prices?
Answer: Inflation
Golf was the first sport played on the moon.
True
Astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
A glove.
Uzbekistan is one of only two double-landlocked countries in the world. Which is the other one?
Answer: Liechtenstein
Which athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals in history?
Answer: Michael Phelps
Which country has the most islands?
Answer: Sweden (270,000)
The first Olympic Games were held in Rome.
False.
Ancient games began at Olympia, Greece; the first modern games were in Athens, 1896.
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Nothing.