Who was the first author to use a typewriter to write a novel?
- Mark Twain
In ballet, what is allongé?
- to lengthen
Where in space can you find the ‘sea of tranquility?
- Moon
How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
- Just once
What is the classical symphony music that astronaut armstrong took with him during the apollo mission?
- Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9
What country was cheguevara killed in?
- Bolivia
What did Alfred Nobel invent in the 1800s?
- dynamite
What do you call a group of jellyfish?
- smack
who was wrongly accused for starting the geat chicago fire in 1871?
- Catharine O’Leary
what do you call the state of matter that is low density dilute gas cooled to almost zero temperature?
- Bose-Einstein Condensate
what’s the name of the astronomer who produced the drake equation in the 1960s?
- Frank Drake
Who was the first ever paleontologist to discover dinosaur fossil?
- Gideon Mantell
What’s the name of the great dane who flew next to this master to accompany him on his missions during world war I?
- Moritz
What is the name of the most poisonous british mushroom?
- Death Cap
How do you say goodbye in afrikaans?
- Totsiens
During which war was the star spangled banner written?
- War of 1812
What does the word ‘astronaut’ mean in greek language?
- star sailor
Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, how many have 28 days?
- 12
What’s the maximum speed of an accelerated graphics port 3.5?
- 2133 mb/s
What was thailand’s official name before 1939?
- Siam
In wich year of the first world war did germany declare war on russia and france?
- 1914
What year did the berlin wall come down?
- 1989
Which of the car brands below did james bond never drive in his films?
- Acura
What was the unsolved case where 9 ski hikers died mysteriously in the mountains of russia?
- The Incident at Dyatlov Pass
How much was stolen on the first bank robbery at clay county savings association?
- $60,000
What is the mathematical theorem stating that there are always unprovable statements?
- Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem
Where can you find michelangelo’s sculpture of david?
- Florence
What is M in E=MC2?
- Mass
How many neurons does the average human brain have?
- 86 billion
How many bones are in an elephant’s trunk?
- 0
What is the fastest human sense?
- Hearing
Peter’s mom has four children. their names are april, may,
june and ____?
- Peter
How many grams of polonium 210 is enough to kill a person?
- 1 microgram
In the bible, who had the dream about a warning from god to back off Abraham’s wife?
- Abimelech
What was the first ever motion-picture film?
- Roundhay Garden Scene
Which principality did Charles VI created in 1719?
- Lichtenstein
Which is the smallest nation in the Americas?
- St. Kitts and Nevis
When is 99 more than 100?
- on the microwave
How many sides does a snowflake have?
- 6
What is infinity plus infinity?
- infinity
What are the first three perfect numbers?
- 6, 28, 496
What is the name of the experiment that proved that observing particles affect how they behave?
- Double Slit Experiment
What’s the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
- Damascus, Syria
What song knocked ‘one sweet day’ off the number 1 spot in the 90s?
- Because You Loved Me
What is the equatorial diameter of earth?
- 12,756 kilometers
Where is bradley international airport?
- Connecticut
True or false: diamond is harder than granite.
- True
Where did J.K. Rowling write the very first harry potter novel?
- Elephant House cafe in Edinburgh
How many valves does a trumpet have?
- 3
In greek mythology, what animal form did Zeus transform into when he seduced eurymedousa?
- ant
How many different ways can you pronounce’ough’?
- 9
What do you call the phobia of dogs?
- cynophobia
Alektorophobia is a fear of what?
- Chickens
In greek mythology, who is the goddess of agriculture?
- Demeter
What is philematology?
- the science of kissing
Where is the nizhnyaya Tunguska river located?
- Siberia
Who was the second pharaoh who continued with the construction on the pyramids of giza?
- Pharaoh Khafre
Freddie Mercury died in which year?
- 1991
What number below is three more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-half of 5,000?
- 53
What is the most common element in the earth’s atmosphere?
- Nitrogen
What is a supernova?
- explosion of a star
What is the name of the third co-founder of apple who worked with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak?
- Ronald Wayne
What is the name of the organization that established a new african colony home for freed slaves in 1822?
- American Colonization Society
What is the color of a lobster’s blood?
- blue
Which month do people sleep less?
- February
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