General Ignorance (+/-)
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Natural World
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200
Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?
A) Oxygen
B) Carbon Dioxide
C) Nitrogen
D) Hydrogen
C) Nitrogen
200
In chess, what’s the only piece that can jump over others?
Knight
200
1. If someone “kicked the bucket,” what happened to them?
A) They stubbed their toe
B) They got fired
C) They died
D) They cleaned the house
C) “Kicked the bucket” is a lighthearted way to say someone died.
200
What color are zebras — black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?
Black with white stripes — confirmed by skin pigment and embryo development
200
On which continent is this city?
triple points: what country is it?
Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
400
What word is always spelled incorrectly in the dictionary?
“Incorrectly”
400
Which classic video game involves eating all the dots in a maze?
Pac-Man
400
What do we call a verb form ending in "-ing" that functions as a noun.
a gerund
eg. Exercising is good for.
400
What is the largest living structure on Earth?
A) Amazon Rainforest
B) Great Barrier Reef
C) Rocky Mountains
D) Sahara Desert
B) Great Barrier Reef
400
Which country spans the most time zones?
A) USA
B) China
C) Russia
D) Australia
triple points: how many time zones does it have?
C) Russia (11)
600
Which country has the most pyramids in the world?
A) Egypt
B) Sudan
C) Mexico
D) Peru
B) Sudan
Sudan has over 200 pyramids — more than Egypt.
600
What is the highest-selling video game of all time?
A) Tetris
B) Minecraft
C) Grand Theft Auto V
D) Wii Sports
B) Minecraft
Over 300 million copies sold.
600
Which creature can sleep for up to three years at a time?
A) Bear
B) Snail
C) Sloth
D) Crocodile
B) Snail
600
What is the strongest currency in the world?
a) US Doillar
b) Kuwaiti Dinar
c) British Pound
d) Swiss Franc
b) Kuwaiti Dinar
800
What is the tallest mountain in the world from base to summit?
a) Mount Everest, Nepal
b) Mauna Kea, Hawaii
c) Mount Kilomanjaro, Tanzania
d) K2 mountain, Pakistan
b) Mauna Kea
800
Which board game was invented during the Great Depression and became a worldwide classic involving buying and trading property?
Monopoly
800
What is the only known animal that can survive in space?
A) Cockroach
B) Water bear (tardigrade)
C) Mite
D) Jellyfish
B) water bear (tardigrade)
800
What’s the only number that has the same number of letters as its value?
Four (4)
1000
Where were fortune cookies invented?
Invented in Japan, popularized in America.
1000
What board game uses letters to form words?
Scrabble
1000
What is the grammatical term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. eg. Sally sadly sat staring at the sea.
a. Assimilation
b. Atonement
c. Affliction
d. Alliteration
d. Alliteration
1000
The process by which plants convert sunlight into energy is called _____.
Photosynthesis
1000
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"