World History
This ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza.
What is Egypt?
The yellow fruit that monkeys are famous for loving.
What is a banana
He played Iron Man in the Marvel movies.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
The continent where Egypt is located.
What is Africa?
The number of players on a soccer team on the field at once.
What is 11?
An antonym of "hot."
What is cold?
The company behind the iPhone.
What is Apple Jacks
The year the Berlin Wall fell
1989
This dairy product is used to make both mozzarella and parmesan
What is milk
This song by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee became a global hit in 2017.
What is "Despacito"?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What is an echo
The world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The sport associated with Wimbledon.
What is tennis?
A word that reads the same forwards and backwards.
What is a palindrome?
This search engine is known for its colorful logo.
What is Google
He was the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus?
The alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes.
What is wine
The TV show featuring a chemistry teacher who becomes a meth kingpin.
What is Breaking Bad?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
The river that flows through Paris.
What is the Seine?
The number of rings on the Olympic flag.
What is five?
A homophone of "sea."
What is see?
The file format for a digital image with lossless compression.
What is PNG?
The name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America.
What is the Mayflower?
The spice that gives curry its yellow color.
What is turmeric?
The winner of the first season of American Idol.
Who is Kelly Clarkson?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
What is a candle?
The capital city of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
The team that won the Super Bowl in 2020.
What is the Kansas City Chiefs?
The plural of "cactus."
What is cacti?
The programming language used for web page structure.
What is HTML?
The dynasty that ruled China during the construction of the Great Wall.
What is the Qin Dynasty
This type of rice is traditionally used in making risotto.
What is Arborio?
The director of "Pulp Fiction."
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
What is nine?
The mountain range separating Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The first country to host the FIFA World Cup.
What is Uruguay?
The root word in "unbelievable."
What is believe?
The term for malicious software.
What is malware?
The event that triggered World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The French term for the process of preparing ingredients before cooking.
What is mise en place?
The decade the Beatles released their first album.
What is the 1960s?
A man walks into a bar and orders a drink. He then leaves and walks back in. The bartender says “Hey, I just served you!” but the man insists it wasn't him. Why?
He has an identical twin.
The smallest country in the world by area.
What is Vatican City?
The term for scoring three goals in one game of hockey.
What is a hat trick?
A seven-letter word meaning a humorous play on words.
What is punning?
The year the first iPad was released.
What is 2010?
The treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This type of cured pork product is aged and thinly sliced, often served in Italian antipasto.
What is prosciutto?
The number of Oscar wins for "Titanic."
What is 11?
You see a boat filled with people. It hasn’t sunk, but when you look again, you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
They were all married.
The desert that covers much of northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The athlete known as "The Greatest" in boxing.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The literary term for repeating consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The inventor of the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
The man who led the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
A traditional Spanish dish of rice, saffron, and mixed seafood or meats
What is paella?
This Japanese director is known for influencing Hollywood with films like "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon."
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many does he have left?
What is 9?
The city known as the highest capital in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
The year the modern Olympics began.
What is 1896?
The rhetorical device of addressing an absent or imaginary person.
What is apostrophe?
The technology that enables digital currency transactions.
What is blockchain?