Which sea is the Nile River’s northern outlet?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea
3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who invented the original Rubik’s Cube in 1974?
Answer
Ernő Rubik
What is the Moho, the boundary between Earth's crust and what layer?
Answer
The mantle
On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer
9 November 1989
Which 1883 eruption destroyed the Indonesian volcano island of Krakatoa and caused huge tsunamis?
Answer
Krakatoa eruption
Which explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate Earth, completed in 1522 after his death?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan
Which civilization created the Rosetta Stone, discovered in Egypt in 1799?
Answer
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Which explorer was first to reach the South Pole, arriving there in December 1911?
Answer
Roald Amundsen
What is the only sea named in the five oceans that has no coastline?
Answer
Sargasso Sea
Which country contains the Angkor Wat temple complex?
Answer
Cambodia
In which city is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
Answer
Oslo
Which chemical element was named after France?
Answer
Francium
Which country became the world’s newest independent state in 2011?
Answer
South Sudan
Which civilization created the writing system known as cuneiform?
Answer
Sumerians
Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?
Answer
Frank Gehry
Which empire was founded by Sundiata Keita in West Africa?
Answer
Mali Empire
What is the only continent crossed by every line of longitude?
Answer
Antarctica
Which scientist formulated the theory of general relativity?
Answer
Albert Einstein
In which city was the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony held?
Answer
Rio de Janeiro
Which space telescope launched in December 2021 to study the early universe in infrared light?
Answer
James Webb Space Telescope
How high is Mount Everest above sea level according to the 2020 Nepal–China measurement?
Answer
8,848.86 metres
Which river has the greatest average water discharge in the world?
Answer
Amazon River
What shape is the national flag of Switzerland?
Answer
Square
Which empire built the road network centered on the Royal Road described by Herodotus?
Answer
Achaemenid Empire
Which landmark was completed in Paris for the 1889 Exposition Universelle?
Answer
Eiffel Tower
Which animal is the national animal of Bhutan?
Answer
Takin
What is the world’s oldest continuously operating university, according to UNESCO and university tradition?
Answer
University of al-Qarawiyyin