Random!
Which Shakespeare play was the movie "10 things I Hate about You" based on?
a) Taming of the Shrew
b) A Midsummer Night's Dream
c) Much Ado About Nothing
d) Romeo and Juliet
a) Taming of the Shrew
Physics: In a thunderstorm, why is it that we see lightning before we hear thunder?
Light travels at a much faster speed than sound! Light is an EM wave while sound is a release of energy!
Unscramble this word:
OTNILBLI
BILLITON
Which of William Shakespeare's works does the famous line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" come from?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Sonnet 18
c) Sonnet 18
In what year was the first ever Wimbledon Championship held?
a) 1877
b) 1811
c) 1811
d) 1911
a) 1877!
Which of the following has NOT been added to the official Oxford dictionary as of 2018?
a) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
b) Fantabulous
c) Selfie
d) Chillax
d) Chillax was added in 2020
Chemistry: If you fill a glass to the brim with ice water and the ice melts, what will happen?
a) The glass will overflow as the ice turns to water
b) The water level in the glass will remain unchanged as the ice melts
c) The water level will drop slightly as the ice melts
c) The water level will drop slightly as the ice melts
Can you guess what the following phrase is?
give get
give get
give get
give get
fo(u)rgive and fo(u)rget!
All of the movies listed below feature wartime stories. Which movie is the odd one out?
a) Schindler's List (Oscar Schindler) (Liam Neeson) (1993)
b) American Sniper (Clint Eastwood for Chris Kyle) (2014)
c) Hacksaw Ridge (2016)d) Fury (2014)
Fury is a fictional story. The rest of the movies are based on true wartime stories.
Which animal can be seen from the Porsche logo?
A Horse!
"Small changes can have big ramifications later on." What is this phenomenon called?
a) The Doppler Effect
b) Fermi Paradox
c) Huygens' Principle
d) The Butterfly Effect
d) The Butterfly Effect
About how many tastebuds does the average human tongue have?
a) 50 000
b) 10 000
c) 15 000
d) 90 000
b) 10 000!
Which of these words is not borrowed from French?
a) Denim
b) Miniature
c) Rampant
d) Police
b) Miniature:
from Italian while the rest are from French
Out of the following, what movie was Eddie Murphy not a part of?
a) Shrek (2001)
b) Mulan (1998)
c) Dr. Dolittle (1998)
d) Frozen (2013)
d) Frozen
Eddie Murphy did not star in Frozen. He acted in Dr. Dolittle and voiced characters in Mulan and Shrek.
Roger Federer has won Wimbledon a record eight times, but in what year was his first triumph?
a) 2002
b) 2003
c) 2004
d) 2005
b) 2003
Which event did not take place in 1975?
a) American soldiers evacuated Saigon
b) Richard Nixon resigns the presidency
c) Leonid Brezhnev signs the agreement on Security and Corporation in Europe
d) Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the opposition
b) Nixon resigned on 8th August 1974
Physics:
If you mix all colors of light, what color do you get?
White!
Where did the words drama, actor, scene, comedy and tragedy originate from?
a) Greece
b) China
c) Egypt
d) Italy
a) Greece
Many of the words we use today to do with theatre originate from Greek
Who was the artist who painted "The Last Judgement"?
Michelangelo
If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth starting from Wellington in New Zealand, which European country would you end up in?
a) Italy
b) France
c) Portugal
d) Spain
d) Spain
What score did cricketing legend Don Bradman average as a batsman across his career?
99.4
Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
Brainteaser:
You have a 3 gallon jar, a 5 gallon jar. You need to measure out exactly 7 gallons of water. How can you do it?
Fill the 5 gallon jar and pour into the 3 gallon jar. You have 2 gallons left in the 5 gallon jar. Measure another 5 gallon jar and you have 2+5 = 7!
You're in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
The matchstick
True or False:
V (Taehyung Kim), a member of the popular K-Pop group BTS is the first and fastest solo artist to reach #1 on iTunes in 105 countries.
True!
He broke a 5 year record set by Adele by reaching #1 in 105 countries with his song Sweet Night.
Which European country has 158 verses to its national anthem?
a) Estonia
b) Albania
c) Greece
d) Macedonia
c) Greece