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Q What is the familiar term for nitrous oxide?
A Laughing gas
Q What is the name of the group of megaliths on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England? A Stonehenge
Q Pure gold is how many karats?
A 24
Q What is the first day of Lent called?
A Ash Wednesday
Q What do the letters SCUBA stand for?
A Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Q What constellation is known as the Winged Horse?
A Pegasus
Q Ascorbic acid is another name for what vitamin?
A Vitamin C
Q Camp David is named after the grandson of what president?
A Dwight D. Eisenhower
Q Shiitake and enoki are what kind of food?
A Mushrooms
Q What element is abbreviated Pb?
A Lead
Q What is the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
A Enola Gay
Q What sauce is usually used atop eggs Benedict?
A Hollandaise sauce
Q What disease used to be called consumption?
A Tuberculosis
Q What does a sphygmanometer measure?
A Blood pressure
Q What language was invented by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof?
A Esperanto
Q What is the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed in the 1860's?
A Beagle
Q What is the Jewish New Year called?
A Rosh Hashanah
Q Who invented dynamite?
A Alfred Nobel
Q What's the scientific name for the North Star?
A Polaris
Q Who founded the Mormon Church?
A Joseph Smith
Q What is the solid form of carbon dioxide commonly called?
A Dry Ice
Q On what day is Bastille Day celebrated in France?
A 14 July
Q What's the name of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army?
A Sinn Fein
Q Who led an expedition on a raft called Kon-Tiki?
A Thor Heyerdahl
Q The Watch Tower is published by what religious group?
A Jehovah's Witnesses
Q What's the technical name for the thighbone?
A Femur
Q The three main classes of rocks are igneous, metamorphic, and what?
A Sedimentary
Q What mineral is a 10 on the Mohs scale?
A Diamond
Q What lowercase letter is used to represent the square root of negative one?
A i
Q What is the Tokyo Stock Exchange index called?
A Nikkei
Q Who fought Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
A Sparta
Q What's the ninth month of the Muslim calendar?
A Ramadan
Q Who invented the helicopter?
A Igor Sikorsky
Q How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?
A 23
Q The Eightfold Path is part of what religion?
A Buddhism
Q What astrological sign follows Leo?
A Virgo
Q What was the name of the Siamese twin who was attached to Chang?
A Eng
Q What month has amethyst as its birthstone?
A February
Q What metal coats galvanised steel?
A Zinc
Q Bronze is made up primarily of copper and what other metal?
A Tin
Q In what country did the Battle of Bulge take place?
A Belgium
Q The disease rickets is caused by a lack of what vitamin?
A Vitamin D
Q What city has the oldest subway system in the world?
A London
Q What comes between order and genus in the taxonomic hierarchy?
A Family
Q Who became Secretary General of the United Nations in 1997?
A Kofi Annan
Q How many furlongs make a mile?
A Eight
Q At what temperature are the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures the same?
A -40
Q Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for chemistry as well as the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize?
A Linus Pauling
Q Which planet has the most moons?
A Saturn
Q Who was the astronaut who accompanied Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the first lunar mission?
A Michael Collins
Q Who wrote the three laws of planetary motion?
A Johannes Kepler
Q What element has atomic number 3?
A Lithium
Q In what country is Alberto Fujimori the president?
A Peru
Q In 1993, Eritrea declared itself independent of what nation?
A Ethiopia
Q What was the name of the first space shuttle that flew into Earth's orbit?
A Columbia
Q What letter is represented by two dots in Morse code?
A I
Q Hibernation is the state of dormancy during the winter.
What is the state of dormancy during the summer called?
A Estivation
Q Name two of the three principal Hindu deities.
A Brahma, Shiva (or Siva), and Vishnu
Q What is the lesser-known name for the more familiar brontosaurus?
A Apatosaurus
Q The ides of a month can fall on which two dates?
A 13th or 15th
Q On what date is Guy Fawkes Day celebrated?
A 5 November
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