3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which element’s name comes from the Latin name for Poland?
Answer
Polonium
Which treaty created the European Union in 1993?
Answer
Maastricht Treaty
Which treaty settlement ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648?
Answer
Peace of Westphalia
Which woman became the first Nobel Prize laureate in 1903?
Answer
Marie Curie
Which city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer
Beijing
Which river flows through London and reaches the North Sea?
Answer
River Thames
Which Roman emperor ordered Hadrian’s Wall to be built?
Answer
Hadrian
Who was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Answer
Marie Curie
What is the maximum depth of Lake Baikal, in metres?
Answer
1,642 metres
What is the deepest known freshwater lake in the world?
Answer
Lake Baikal
Which ancient city in Peru was built by the Inca ruler Pachacuti?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Who was the first person to complete a circumnavigation of Earth?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Which telescope produced the first deep field image released by NASA in 1996?
Answer
Hubble Space Telescope
Who founded the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Answer
The Mexica
Which explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, although he died before it ended?
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Ferdinand Magellan
Which architect designed Brasília’s famous Cathedral of Brasília?
Answer
Oscar Niemeyer
Which explorer completed the first circumnavigation of Earth in 1522 after Magellan’s death?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
What is the smallest sovereign country in the world by area?
Answer
Vatican City
Who became the first person to orbit Earth in 1961?
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Yuri Gagarin
Which mountain is the highest peak above sea level?
Answer
Mount Everest
Which scientist proposed the three laws of motion in the 1687 book Principia?
Answer
Isaac Newton
What is the name of the line at 0° longitude that passes through Greenwich, England?
Answer
Prime Meridian
Which river flows through London before emptying into the North Sea?
Answer
River Thames
Which bacterium caused the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century?
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Yersinia pestis
Which mountain is the highest point above sea level?
Answer
Mount Everest
Which woman was the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer
Bertha von Suttner
What is Africa’s highest mountain, measured from sea level?
Answer
Mount Kilimanjaro
Who created the constructed international language Esperanto?
Answer
L. L. Zamenhof
Who created the international auxiliary language Esperanto?
Answer
L. L. Zamenhof
What is the deepest lake in the world, according to the Lake Baikal article?
Answer
Lake Baikal
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
Answer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which architect designed the original dome of Florence Cathedral?
Answer
Filippo Brunelleschi
Which planet in our Solar System has the Great Red Spot?
Answer
Jupiter
Which ancient city is famous for its 15th-century Inca ruins in Peru?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Which country has the world’s largest population of wild orangutans?
Answer
Indonesia
Which line was selected as the prime meridian at the 1884 International Meridian Conference?
Answer
Greenwich Meridian