34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Norwegian explorer first navigated the Northwest Passage in 1906?
Answer
Roald Amundsen
What physical effect did Albert Einstein explain in his 1905 paper on light quanta?
Answer
Photoelectric effect
Which painter created 'The Old Guitarist' during his Blue Period?
Answer
Pablo Picasso
What 1906 U.S. law regulated food and drug safety?
Answer
Pure Food and Drug Act
What explosive event occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in 1908?
Answer
Tunguska event
What international peacekeeping organization was founded in 1920?
Answer
League of Nations
Who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942?
Answer
Enrico Fermi
Which U.S. Supreme Court case in 1954 ended school racial segregation?
Answer
Brown v. Board of Education
What new country was created in 1918 from Czech and Slovak territories?
Answer
Czechoslovakia
Which British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915?
Answer
RMS Lusitania
Which language family includes English, German, and Dutch?
Answer
Germanic
What script is used to write the Hindi language?
Answer
Devanagari
What is the term for the study of the meaning of words?
Answer
Semantics
What is the term for a language that is no longer spoken by any community?
Answer
Extinct language
What is the name of the writing system used for Arabic?
Answer
Arabic script
What is a word derived from a person's name called?
Answer
Eponym
What is the smallest meaningful unit of language called?
Answer
Morpheme
Which French fashion house was founded by a Spanish designer?
Answer
Balenciaga
Which textile pattern is associated with Scottish clans?
Answer
Tartan
What was the original name of Nike before it was renamed in 1971?
Answer
Blue Ribbon Sports
Which British fashion designer was famously dubbed the 'Queen of Punk'?
Answer
Vivienne Westwood
What is the approximate equatorial diameter of Earth?
Answer
12,756 km
What is the name of the boundary where two tectonic plates move apart?
Answer
divergent boundary
What is the name of the tectonic plate that underlies the Pacific Ocean?
Answer
Pacific Plate
What is the average depth of Earth's oceans in meters?
Answer
3,688 meters
What is the geological epoch that ended about 11,700 years ago?
Answer
Pleistocene
In which layer of Earth's atmosphere does the International Space Station orbit?
Answer
Thermosphere
On which tectonic plate does the Indian subcontinent primarily lie?
Answer
Indian Plate
What is the average thickness of Earth's continental crust?
Answer
35 kilometers
What is the term for the process by which surface water sinks in the ocean?
Answer
Downwelling
What is the name of the largest tectonic plate?
Answer
Pacific Plate