General Knowledge
The treaty that ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This ancient Greek philosopher was the teacher of Aristotle
Who is Plato?
This author created Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda.
Who is Roald Dahl ?
This equation, fundamental to quantum mechanics, describes the wave function of a quantum system.
What is the Schrödinger equation?
The tallest statue in the world
What is the Statue of Unity?
The only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
This military leader led the French Revolution and became Emperor of France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Twilight series, featuring vampires and werewolves, was written by this author.
Who is Stepheny Meyer?
This scientist proposed the principle, stating that one cannot simultaneously know the exact position and momentum of a particle.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
This lost city of the Inca civilization sits high in the Peruvian Andes.
What is Machu Picchu?
This war, lasting from 1618 to 1648, was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
The leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This Stephen King novel features Pennywise, a terrifying shape-shifting clown.
What is "It"?
The theoretical state of matter at absolute zero where particles lose their individual identities and behave as a single quantum entity.
What is a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
This massive rock formation in Australia is sacred to the Indigenous Anangu people
What is Uluru (Ayers Rock)?
The first known civilization to develop a system of democracy.
(Double Jeopardy)
What is ancient Athens?
The Egyptian queen known for her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This fantasy novel series by J.R.R. Tolkien was turned into an award-winning film trilogy by Peter Jackson.
What is The Lord of The Rings?
This effect explains why time slows down as an object approaches the speed of light.
What is time dilation?
This prehistoric monument in England is believed to have been used for astronomical purposes
What is Stonehenge?
This ancient script, used by Mesopotamians, is one of the earliest forms of writing.
What is cuneiform?
This revolutionary led Cuba and established a communist
Who is Fidel Castro?
This Indian author won the Booker Prize twice, first for The God of Small Things (1997) and then for The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017).
Who is Arundhati Roy?
This paradox suggests that an object moving at near-light speed will appear to be shorter to a stationary observer.
What is the Lorentz contraction?
This legendary library, one of the greatest of the ancient world, was destroyed in a series of fires in Egypt.
What is the Library of Alexandria?