Which organization awards the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer
Norwegian Nobel Committee
3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which sea passage separates Europe from Africa at the western end of the Mediterranean?
Answer
Strait of Gibraltar
What is the famous defensive wall system in northern China called?
Answer
Great Wall of China
Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing civil rights through nonviolent resistance?
Answer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Answer
Roald Amundsen
Which explorer reached the South Pole first, arriving there on 14 December 1911?
Answer
Roald Amundsen
Which river carries more water to the sea than any other river?
Answer
Amazon River
Which painting by Leonardo da Vinci hangs in Paris's Louvre Museum?
Answer
Mona Lisa
Which 1953 expedition first successfully climbed Mount Everest's summit?
Answer
Hunt expedition
Which structure connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
Answer
Suez Canal
Which country has the greatest number of natural lakes?
Answer
Canada
Who completed the first expedition to circumnavigate the world after Ferdinand Magellan’s death?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Which sea route does the Suez Canal connect?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Which city stands on both sides of the Bosporus Strait?
Answer
Istanbul
Which mathematician is credited with inventing the modern World Wide Web in 1989?
Answer
Tim Berners-Lee
Which ancient wonder was built in the city of Alexandria?
Answer
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Which line of longitude was chosen as the prime meridian in 1884?
Answer
Greenwich Meridian
Who wrote the 1943 novella The Little Prince?
Answer
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Which 1953 expedition first reached Mount Everest’s summit, with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?
Answer
British expedition
Which ancient wonder stood in Alexandria and was traditionally attributed to Sostratus of Cnidus?
Answer
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Which 1953 expedition first confirmed that Mount Everest had been climbed?
Answer
British expedition
Who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969?
Answer
Neil Armstrong
Which country contains the ancient site of Petra?
Answer
Jordan
Which body of water separates Europe from Africa at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer
Strait of Gibraltar
What is the official elevation of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain?
Answer
8,848.86 metres
Which empire used Constantinople as its capital until the city fell in 1453?
Answer
Byzantine Empire
Which Chinese dynasty built most of the existing Great Wall?
Answer
Ming dynasty
Which 1884 conference divided much of Africa into European spheres of influence?
Answer
Berlin Conference
Which empire built the Colosseum in Rome during the first century CE?
Answer
Roman Empire
Which island is home to the monumental moai statues?
Answer
Rapa Nui
What ancient device, found in a 1901 shipwreck, is called the world’s oldest known analogue computer?
Answer
Antikythera mechanism
How deep is Lake Baikal at its deepest point?
Answer
1,642 metres
Who commissioned the Taj Mahal in Agra, India?
Answer
Shah Jahan