Science
What is the first element on the Periodic Table?
Hydrogen
What does the acronym HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language.
What structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town? The structure's tilt comes from the soft ground of its unstable foundation.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
What does the roman numeral (C) represent?
One hundred.
Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Switzerland
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
What does the acronym "GUI" stand for?
Graphical User Interface
The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents what unit of electrical resistance?
Ohm
Icosahedrons have how many equal sides?
Twenty
In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas known as?
Boxing Day
What is the smallest unit of matter?
Atom
Who co-founded Apple along with Steve Jobs?
Steve Wozniak
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Alcoa and Arconia are the two largest US-based producers of what elemental metal?
Aluminum
What is the only number that has letters in alphabetical order?
Forty
Name all seven dwarves from the tale Snow White
Doc, Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy
Which is the only planet in our solar system whose rotation is almost at a right angle to its orbit (i.e., it spins on its side)? The largest moon of this planet is Titania.
Uranus
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
In a 2012 speech, Barack Obama compared Boulder City's Copper Mountain Solar Facility to what ginormous hydroelectric piece of infrastructure straddling the Arizona-Nevada border?
Hoover Dam
You have a cube with has 7-inch sides. What is the surface area of the cube?
294 square inches
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
-459.67 Fahrenheit degrees (or 0 Kelvin) equals what two-word term for when all particles completely stop moving?
Absolute Zero
What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?
Linux
What term is the popular phrase (in English) to describe the Japanese train known as the Shinkansen?
Bullet Train
Who developed the cartesian axes?
René Descartes
On which ship did Charles Darwin make his famous expedition, which led to his evolution theory?
HMS Beagle