General Knowledge
riddles
Geography
Food & Drink
Literature
100

Who sang "Billie Jean"?

Michael Jackson 

100

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

100

What is the smallest country in the world?

Vatican City

100

What ingredient makes bread rise?

Yeast

100

Which Greek poem is "the song of Achilles" based off of?

The Illiad 

200

Which US president survived an assassination attempt in 1980? 

Ronald Regan 

200

What has a ring but no fingers?

a telephone 

200

 Which is the only vowel not used as the first letter in a US State?

E

200

What is the chemical formula for Table Salt?

NaCl

200

What was the name of the book Hitler wrote and published?

Mein Kampf 

300

What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

300

What's white when it's dirty?

A black board 

300

What is the highest mountain in Britain?

Ben Nevis 

300

When was McDonald's founded?

1955

300

What are the names of the 2 main characters (boy and girl) in the book "The Fault in Our Stars"?

Hazel Grace Lancaster & Augustus Waters 

400

What continent was home to the red tomato?

South America 

400

What question can you never answer yes to?

Are you asleep yet?

OR

Are you dead yet?

400

What's the full name of North Korea?

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

400

What shape is the pasta called 'chiocciole'?

shell

400

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a writer from which country?

USA

500

What is 400 in roman numerals?

CD

500

A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?

He was born on February 29th

500

How many countries still have the shilling as currency? Can you name them?

Four – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia

500

 Which vitamin is the only one that you will not find in an egg?

Vitamin-C

500

For which of his novels was Gabriel Garcia Marquez awarded a Nobel Prize?

A hundred years of solitude