In which year was the Antarctic Treaty signed?
Answer
1959
3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which railway is commonly described as the world’s longest railway line, linking Moscow and Vladivostok?
Answer
Trans-Siberian Railway
Which 1883 volcanic eruption destroyed Krakatoa and produced a huge tsunami?
Answer
Krakatoa eruption
What is the name of the strait connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer
Strait of Gibraltar
Which tower was completed in Paris for the 1889 Exposition Universelle?
Answer
Eiffel Tower
Which explorer led the expedition that began the first circumnavigation of Earth?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan
What is the only country named after a woman?
Answer
Saint Lucia
What is the only sea with no coastline, defined instead by ocean currents?
Answer
Sargasso Sea
Which ancient city in Peru is known as the Inca citadel in the Andes?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Which Nobel Prize winner was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes?
Answer
Marie Curie
Which explorer reached the Pacific Ocean from the Americas in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama?
Answer
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Which ancient monument in Egypt is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Who coined the term “Gross National Happiness” for Bhutan’s development philosophy?
Answer
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
What three ancient writing systems appear on the Rosetta Stone?
Answer
Hieroglyphic, Demotic, Greek
What is the name of the 0° latitude line circling Earth?
Answer
Equator
Which ocean is the deepest, reaching about 10,935 metres at Challenger Deep?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
Which astronaut became the first human to orbit Earth during Vostok 1 in 1961?
Answer
Yuri Gagarin
Which continent is also Earth's largest desert by area?
Answer
Antarctica
What type of desert is Antarctica classified as by annual precipitation?
Answer
Polar desert
Which country was the first to launch an artificial satellite into space?
Answer
Soviet Union