What is the official elevation of Mount Everest listed by Nepal and China?
Answer
8,848.86 metres
3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which ancient wonder stood in the harbor of Rhodes until an earthquake toppled it?
Answer
Colossus of Rhodes
Which country has the largest population in Africa?
Answer
Nigeria
Which ancient people built the city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico?
Answer
Unknown; no confirmed name
Which empire built the ancient city of Machu Picchu?
Answer
Inca Empire
Which ancient structure is the largest surviving pyramid in Egypt?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Which landmark was built for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris?
Answer
Eiffel Tower
Which country is Portugal's only land neighbor?
Answer
Spain
Which event officially opened the Panama Canal in 1914?
Answer
SS Ancon's transit
Which eruption in Indonesia caused the loudest sound recorded in modern history?
Answer
Krakatoa eruption of 1883
What object did the Event Horizon Telescope first image in 2019?
Answer
M87* black hole
Which African lake is the world’s second-deepest lake?
Answer
Lake Tanganyika
Who designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris?
Answer
Gustave Eiffel
Which mountain is the highest volcano on Earth, rising about 6,893 meters in the Andes?
Answer
Ojos del Salado
Which event in 1884–1885 set rules for European claims over territory in Africa?
Answer
Berlin Conference
What was the first national park established anywhere in the world?
Answer
Yellowstone National Park
Which astronomer proposed the heliocentric model in his 1543 work De revolutionibus?
Answer
Nicolaus Copernicus
What national happiness measure did Bhutan make internationally famous?
Answer
Gross National Happiness
Where was the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919?
Answer
Palace of Versailles
What is the name of the line of latitude at 23.5 degrees north?
Answer
Tropic of Cancer
For which 1889 event was the Eiffel Tower built in Paris?
Answer
Exposition Universelle
Which ancient wonder was built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Which civilization built the city of Petra, now in Jordan?
Answer
Nabataeans
Who completed the first circumnavigation of Earth by leading the expedition after Magellan’s death?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Who wrote the 1869 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas?
Answer
Jules Verne
Who was the first human to step onto the Moon during Apollo 11?
Answer
Neil Armstrong