Which city is home to the Taj Mahal?
Answer
Agra
3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Into which sea does the Nile River empty?
Answer
Mediterranean Sea
What is the largest ocean on Earth, according to the Pacific Ocean article?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
Which sea is the only one defined by ocean currents rather than coastlines?
Answer
Sargasso Sea
What is the longest man-made structure in the world, according to the measured length of the Great Wall of China?
Answer
The Great Wall of China
What is the official capital of Kazakhstan?
Answer
Astana
Which woman was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
Answer
Bertha von Suttner
Which 1884–1885 conference formalized European rules for claiming African territory?
Answer
Berlin Conference
Which empire built the road system centered on the ancient city of Tenochtitlan?
Answer
Aztec Empire
Which ancient city in Peru is famous for its Inca ruins high in the Andes?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Which volcano’s 79 CE eruption buried Pompeii?
Answer
Mount Vesuvius
Where was the Magna Carta sealed in 1215?
Answer
Runnymede
What is Bhutan’s official development philosophy measuring national well-being?
Answer
Gross National Happiness
Which two bodies of water are linked by the Panama Canal?
Answer
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Which desert covers much of northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea?
Answer
Sahara Desert
What is the name of the strait separating Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula from Alaska?
Answer
Bering Strait
What is the SI base unit of electric current?
Answer
Ampere
Which building was the tallest in the world when it opened in 1931?
Answer
Empire State Building
Which mathematician’s last theorem was proved by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s?
Answer
Pierre de Fermat
Which ancient wonder stood in the harbor of Rhodes and was destroyed by an earthquake around 226 BCE?
Answer
Colossus of Rhodes
In which year did humans first land on the Moon?
Answer
1969