General Knowledge
Where did the first writing system develop?
Mesopotamia (roughly located in modern-day Iraq)
Who wrote the play "Much Ado About Nothing"?
William Shakespeare
What language does the word "kindergarten" come from?
German: children's garden
I begin with T, end with T, and am filled with T. What am I?
A teapot.
diohyal
Holiday
How many pounds are in a kilogram?
2.2
Which author is the first and only person to become a billionaire through writing?
J.K. Rowling
What is an oxymoron?
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to each other (e.g. pretty ugly)
I am a word of letters three. Add two more, and fewer there will be. What am I?
Few.
teiltl
Little
What dinosaur's name means "three-horned"?
Triceratops
Name the author of the famous poem that begins:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Correctly pronounce this word: segue
Seg-way
Poor men have it. Rich men need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Nothing
veoltuorni
Revolution
What is the most valuable currency in the world?
The Kuwaiti Dinar
What was the name of William Shakespeare's wife?
Anne Hathaway
What are the two main definitions of the word "sanction"?
It can mean both a permission and a restriction. :)
How do you make 30 cents out of two coins, if one of the coins isn't a nickel? (Nickel=5 Dime=10 Quarter=25 Penny=1)
One of the coins isn't a nickel but the other is.
dmreima
Mermaid
What world capital means "good air"?
Buenos Aires
Which famous poet wrote the following lines?
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper
T.S. Eliot
Identify this punctuation mark: ...
This is called an ellipsis. It is not called "three dots."
When is a door not a door?
When it's ajar.
smuoungho
Humongous