Which small country has Schaan as its largest municipality?
Answer
Liechtenstein
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of George Custer's brigade at East Cavalry Field?
Answer
Michigan Brigade
Which Union general ordered Farnsworth's cavalry charge near Big Round Top?
Answer
Judson Kilpatrick
Which Union general was killed during the South Cavalry Field fighting?
Answer
Elon J. Farnsworth
Which farm area was central to the East Cavalry Field fighting on July 3?
Answer
Rummel farm
Who served as George Meade's chief of staff at Gettysburg?
Answer
Daniel Butterfield
Who was Lee's chief of artillery at Gettysburg?
Answer
William N. Pendleton
Who reportedly fired the first Union shot at Gettysburg?
Answer
Marcellus Jones
What peak is the highest point of the Czech Republic?
Answer
Sněžka
What is the highest volcano in Asia?
Answer
Mount Damavand
What is widely cited as the world's highest unclimbed mountain?
Answer
Gangkhar Puensum
What is the highest summit of Mount Stanley in the Rwenzori Mountains?
Answer
Margherita Peak
What is the highest peak in Svalbard?
Answer
Newtontoppen
What is the highest summit in Spain's Picos de Europa?
Answer
Torre de Cerredo
Which ancient Tamil work is the oldest extant Tamil grammar text?
Answer
Tolkappiyam
Which Kalinga king is praised in the Hathigumpha inscription?
Answer
Kharavela
Which ancient Indian city was the capital of the Vatsa kingdom?
Answer
Kaushambi
Which Buddhist council is traditionally said to have been held at Rajgir soon after the Buddha's death?
Answer
First Buddhist council
Which Roman general was married to Julius Caesar's aunt Julia?
Answer
Gaius Marius
Which English sea captain led the first English voyage to the East Indies in 1591?
Answer
James Lancaster
Which Dutch navigator led the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies in 1595?
Answer
Cornelis de Houtman
Which English writer published The Principal Navigations in 1589?
Answer
Richard Hakluyt
What was the wintering hut of Willem Barentsz's 1596 expedition called?
Answer
Het Behouden Huys
Which English navigator reached the White Sea in 1553 while seeking a northeast passage?
Answer
Richard Chancellor
Which friar discovered the Manila galleons' return route across the Pacific?
Answer
Andrés de Urdaneta
Which Spanish explorer gave the Philippines their name after Philip II?
Answer
Ruy López de Villalobos
What 1502 Portuguese map is one of the earliest to show Brazil's coast?
Answer
Cantino planisphere
Which 1570 atlas by Abraham Ortelius is often called the first modern atlas?
Answer
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Which Spanish agency, founded in 1503 in Seville, regulated trade with the Americas?
Answer
Casa de Contratación
Which Spartan survivor of Thermopylae later fought and died at Plataea?
Answer
Aristodemus
Who created the modern Leonidas Monument at Thermopylae?
Answer
Vassos Falireas
Which Sicilian historian also wrote an account of the Greco-Persian Wars?
Answer
Diodorus Siculus
Which Scottish chemist invented the waterproof fabric used in Mackintosh coats?
Answer
Charles Macintosh
Who patented the hot blast process for iron furnaces in 1828?
Answer
James Beaumont Neilson
Which Welsh ironworks became the world's largest ironworks in the early 19th century?
Answer
Cyfarthfa Ironworks
Which country consists of two main islands and has a total area of 5,131 square kilometers?
Answer
Trinidad and Tobago