Which British entrepreneur founded YO! Sushi before appearing as a dragon on Dragon's Den?
Answer
Simon Woodroffe
85990 Intermediate Trivia Questions
85990 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which waterfall has the greatest uninterrupted height in the world?
Answer
Angel Falls
Which ancient city in Peru was built by the Inca in the 15th century?
Answer
Machu Picchu
What is the world’s deepest freshwater lake, located in Siberia, Russia?
Answer
Lake Baikal
Who performs the song “Tomorrow” on the Camp Rock 3 soundtrack?
Answer
Malachi Barton
Who plays Callie Banks in Camp Rock 3?
Answer
Brooklynn Pitts
What bladed war vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design to cut through enemy troops?
Answer
Scythed chariot
What automated mechanical figure did Leonardo da Vinci design around 1495?
Answer
Robot knight
What musical instrument did Leonardo da Vinci invent with strings and keyboard keys?
Answer
Viola organista
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s early automobile-like invention called?
Answer
Self-propelled cart
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s helical flying-machine concept called?
Answer
Aerial screw
How high did the Floodwaters rise above the mountains in Genesis?
Answer
Fifteen cubits
How many days did rain fall during the Flood in the Genesis account of Noah’s Ark?
Answer
Forty days and forty nights
How many cubits wide does Genesis say Noah’s Ark was?
Answer
50 cubits
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on Beowulf called?
Answer
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Who leads the Dwarves’ quest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
Answer
Thorin Oakenshield
Which 1720 bubble burst when shares of the South Sea Company collapsed in Britain?
Answer
South Sea Bubble
Which Russian financial crisis included the August 1998 default on domestic debt?
Answer
Russian financial crisis
Which 1997 crisis began with Thailand abandoning its fixed exchange rate for the baht?
Answer
Asian financial crisis
Which 1929 trading day saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average lose nearly 13%?
Answer
Black Monday
On what date did the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach its pandemic-crash low in 2020?
Answer
March 23, 2020
Which index reached its dot-com bubble peak on March 10, 2000?
Answer
Nasdaq Composite
What was the peak date of Japan’s Nikkei 225 before the 1990s asset-price crash?
Answer
December 29, 1989
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s first published novel, released in 1933?
Answer
The Pilgrim’s Regress
Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1961 under the title A Grief Observed?
Answer
A Grief Observed
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis book argues that education must cultivate objective value?
Answer
The Abolition of Man
Which C.S. Lewis book grew out of his BBC radio talks broadcast during World War II?
Answer
Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional world of Malacandra?
Answer
Out of the Silent Planet