World Geography
What is the capital of France?
Paris
In what year did World War II start?
1939
Hindi, Persian, and English belong to which language family?
Indo-European
What is the name of the wizarding school in Harry Potter?
Hogwarts
What animal is known as the “ship of the desert”?
Camel
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
Which empire was ruled by Mansa Musa?
The Mali
What is the official working language of Ethiopia?
Amharic
Which K-pop group released the song “Dynamite”?
BTS
Which 20th-century physicist was known as “the father of the atomic bomb”?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
Who founded the Achaemenid (First Persian) Empire?
Cyrus the Great
Which two European languages are not Indo-European?
Basque and Finnish (or Hungarian or Estonian)
Who voiced Shrek in the English version of the animated film series?
Mike Myers
What is the only food that never spoils?
Honey
Which river flows through Baghdad?
The Tigris
What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire before Constantinople?
Nicomedia
What language uses the Hangul writing system?
Korean
Which TV series has won the most Emmy Awards in history?
Saturday Night Live
What mammal has the strongest bite force?
The hippopotamus
What is the world’s largest desert?
The Antarctic
What was the name of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
Which languages we do not support have two official writing systems?
Serbian, Mongolian, Moldovan, and Hausa
What is the title of Madonna's first album?
Madonna
Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Switzerland
Which European country has the oldest continuously unchanged borders?
Portugal
What treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War?
The Peace of Westphalia
Which African language group includes famous click consonants?
Khoisan languages (e.g., !Kung)
Who directed the 1954 classic Seven Samurai?
Akira Kurosawa
Which planet has a day longer than its year?
Venus
Name the two landlocked countries that are completely surrounded by another landlocked country.
Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein
What is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
Jericho, Palestine
What is the term for languages where verbs encode politeness and social hierarchy?
Honorific systems
What is the longest-running scripted primetime TV series in the world?
Coronation Street
What is the rarest blood type in the world?
Rh-null