Languages
‘Simba’ means ‘lion’ in what language?
Swahili
What city is the world’s largest by area, and also happens to have a province all to itself?
Chongqing, China
What is the most common file extension starting with 'Z'?
.ZIP
How many black squares are on 4 chess boards?
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx?
Friedrich Engels
Gujarati is a language spoken mostly in what country?
India
What city has the most direct flight connections?
London
H2SO4 is the composition of what chemical compound?
Sulfuric Acid
What is the 2nd best-selling board game of all time?
Checkers
Who wrote Animal Farm and 1984?
George Orwell
What 3 languages does Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (a.k.a. The Weeknd) speak?
English, Amharic, French
Peking is the former English name of what city?
Beijing, China
What is the first number between 10-100 when sorted alphabetically?
18 (eighteen)
How many Triple Word Score squares are on 7 Scrabble boards where the outermost column and row in every direction is not present?
0
Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
What are the 4 most commonly spoken Chinese Languages?
Mandarin, Min, Wu, Yue (Cantonese)
What city was Pope Francis born in?
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hong Xiuquan, the man who caused the Taiping rebellion, proclaimed himself to be the brother of whom?
Jesus Christ
What is the highest scoring word ever played in Scrabble tournament play, scoring 392 points?
Caziques
Who is thought to have written the Book of Exodus from the Bible and Torah?
Moses
Nebraska is close to the Sioux word for what?
Shallow water
Which US county has the most Brazilian immigrants on record?
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
What country in the EU has the lowest score on the Spartacus Gay Travel Index (GTI), with a score of -9?
Poland
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Who wrote the Japanese book '1Q84'?
Haruki Murakami