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Question 1

Stainless steel is an alloy consisting of steel and 10% what?

Answer 1

Chromium

Question 2

What was the real name of the priate Blackbeard? When did he live?

Answer 2

Edward Teach lived from 1680 – 1718. His ship was named Queen Anne’s Revenge. He had captured that ship from the French. It was originally named La Concorde.

Question 3

Who found a cure for polio?

Answer 3

Jonas Salk

Question 4

When was the Hollywood sign first erected?

Answer 4

1923

Question 5

What is the official flower of Florida state?

Answer 5

The blossom of orange tree

Question 6

What is a menorah?

Answer 6

A seven-branched candelabrum in judaism, i.e. a candle holder with seven branches.

Question 7

What is a single candle called that are used with a menorah?

Answer 7

Shamash. Shamash is also a Mesopotamian sun god.

Question 8

In which year did Michael Fagan intrude into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom in Buckingham Palace?

Answer 8

1982

Question 9

What were the names of the ships Christopher Columbus used for his voyage across the Atlantic in 1492?

Answer 9

Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 10

Who killed Alexander Hamilton in a gun duel in 1804?

Answer 10

Aaron Burr

Question 11

What building did artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap in fabric in 1995?

Answer 11

The Berlin Reichstag

Question 12

Who was the president that Fidel Castro force out of power in 1958?

Answer 12

Fulgencio Batista

Question 13

How is the study of bells called?

Answer 13

Campanology

Question 14

Where does jerky originate from?

Answer 14

Jamaica

Question 15

In which city is Taj Mahal located in?

Answer 15

Agra, India

Question 16

What is the name of the only painting that Vincent van Gogh had sold during his lifetime?

Answer 16

The Red Vineyard

Question 17

In crocodilians, what environmental factor determines the sex of the hatchling?

Answer 17

The temperature of egg incubation. If the temperature is cool (around 30°C) the hatchlings are all female. Warmer temperatures hatch all males.

Question 18

Who started eBay?

Answer 18

Pierre Omidyar. He wanted to help his wife collect PEZ dispensers.

Question 19

Who wrote the Narina Chronicles?

Answer 19

C. S. Lewis

Question 20

Which two Nobel prize winners have voluntarily declined the award?

Answer 20

Jean-Paul Sartre, who refused all official awards, did not accept the 1964 literature prize. In 1974 he was joined by Le Duc Tho, who, with Henry Kissinger, shared the peace prize for their work to end the Vietnam War.

Question 21

Who two people were the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest?

Answer 21

Sir Edmund Hillary together with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, on 29 May 1953.

Question 22

Sumo wrestlers throw what into the ring at the beginning of every wrestling match as a purifying ritual?

Answer 22

Salt

Question 23

Stendhal syndrome refers to a collection of intense physical and mental symptoms you may experience while or after doing what?

Answer 23

Viewing a work of beautiful art

Question 24

Eschatology is the study of what?

Answer 24

The study of the end of the world. It concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or the world itself. It belongs in the theology sector.

Question 25

What is Docetism?

Answer 25

A doctrine that Christ's body was not human and his sufferings were only apparent.

Question 26

Who was the first discovered example of Homo Erectus?

Answer 26

The Java Man discovered on the Java island in Indonesia.

Question 27

The Kitchen Debate were interpreter talks between which two important people?

Answer 27

U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and President Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibit on July 24, 1959 in Moscow. The talks were called the "kitchen debate" because the USA had built a model home (and kitchen) in Moscow. Khrushchev claimed that Nixon's grandchildren would live under communism and Nixon claimed that Khrushchev's grandchildren would live in freedom.

Question 28

What card game was responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards?

Answer 28

Euchre

Question 29

What place is traditionally considered the resting place of Noah's Ark?

Answer 29

Mount Ararat in Turkey

Question 30

Which strait separates Sicily from the Italian mainland?

Answer 30

Strait of Messina

Question 31

What is a spectometer?

Answer 31

A device to measure wavelengths.

Question 32

Who was the first Pope to fly an airplane?

Answer 32

Paul VI (Giovanni Montini, crowned 262th pope in 1963). It was the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century. He was also the last pope to be crowned (with a papal tiara), all subsequent popes have been inaugurated.

Question 33

Which pope was the first to be from the southern hemisphere?

Answer 33

Pope Fransicus (266th pope). He visited Estonia in 2018. He is also the only jesuit pope in history.

Question 34

Who was the first Pope ever?

Answer 34

St. Peter

Question 35

What are the three main secondary colors?

Answer 35

Green, orange and violet.

Question 36

Which three countries have a dragon on their flag?

Answer 36

Bhutan, Wales and Malta. On the Malta flag, there is a cross in the upper left corner depicting a dragon being fought by Saint George.

Question 37

Who invented the plus and minus and equals signs?

Answer 37

Robert Recorde in 1557. He said "there are no two more equal things than two parallel lines of the same length". The multiplication sign (x) was invented in 1631 by William Oughtred, and the division sign (÷) in 1659 by Johann Rahn.

Question 38

Who was the first French king to represent the Bourbon dynasty?

Answer 38

Henry IV

Question 39

What is the Boyle's Law?

Answer 39

Pressure is inversely proportional to the volume. P = 1 / V For example, if, at constant temperature, the pressure increases by 2 times, the volume of the confined gas decreases by 2.

Question 40

In poker, what is a hand with a pair of Aces and a pair of Eights called?

Answer 40

Dead Man's Hand. This was the hand "Wild Bill" Hickok was holding when he was murdered.

Question 41

How old is Earth considered to be today?

Answer 41

4,5 billion years.

Question 41

What does the term "banzai" mean?

Answer 41

From japanese, "ten thousand years" of long life, or in modern world "YESSS!!"

Question 41

What was the real name of Harry Houdini?

Answer 41

Erik Weisz