3394 World Trivia Questions with Answers
3394 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who were the first climbers confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Which mountain is the highest point in the Andes and outside Asia?
Answer
Aconcagua
Which ocean did Apollo 11 astronauts cross before reaching the Moon?
Answer
Atlantic Ocean
Which volcano erupted in AD 79 and buried Pompeii?
Answer
Mount Vesuvius
Which African country contains most of Mount Kilimanjaro?
Answer
Tanzania
Which scientist developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Answer
Albert Einstein
Which ocean separates Africa from Australia?
Answer
Indian Ocean
Which device, found in a shipwreck, is often called the world’s first known analog computer?
Answer
Antikythera mechanism
Which mathematician is credited with inventing the modern logarithm in 1614?
Answer
John Napier
Who wrote the epic poem The Divine Comedy?
Answer
Dante Alighieri
Which ancient structure in Egypt was built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Who was the world’s first woman to become prime minister?
Answer
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
How many months are in the traditional Ethiopian calendar?
Answer
Thirteen
Which European city is divided by the Bosporus Strait?
Answer
Istanbul
Where were the ancient Olympic Games traditionally held?
Answer
Olympia
What is the name of the desert covering much of northern Africa?
Answer
Sahara Desert
What is the capital city of Mongolia, located between Russia and China?
Answer
Ulaanbaatar
Who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
Answer
Tim Berners-Lee
Which element’s name comes from the continent of Europe?
Answer
Europium
Which architect designed the original plan for Brasília?
Answer
Lúcio Costa
Which city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and is now called Istanbul?
Answer
Constantinople
What is the name of the strait connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden?
Answer
Bab-el-Mandeb
Who completed the first circumnavigation of Earth after Ferdinand Magellan was killed?
Answer
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Which empire built the road system known as the Royal Road?
Answer
Achaemenid Empire
Which astronomer published the heliocentric model in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543?
Answer
Nicolaus Copernicus