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Level 110 questions

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Level 210 questions

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Level 310 questions

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Level 410 questions

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Level 510 questions

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Level 610 questions

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Level 710 questions

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Level 810 questions

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Level 910 questions

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Level 1010 questions

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Level 1110 questions

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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Level 1210 questions

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Level 1310 questions

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Level 1410 questions

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Level 1510 questions

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Level 1610 questions

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Level 1710 questions

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Level 1810 questions

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

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A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

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The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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5
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

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This instrument measures air pressure.

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He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

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His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

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The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

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In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

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The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

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A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

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He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

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Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

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The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

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This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

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Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

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Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

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Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

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Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

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Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

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The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

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The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

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The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

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The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

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Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

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The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

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He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

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Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

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A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

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The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

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This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

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He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

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Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

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Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

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The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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The currency of Japan.

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Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

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On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

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In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

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Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

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This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

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Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

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The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

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A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

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This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

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Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

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He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

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Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

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This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

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In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

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He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

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The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

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A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

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This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

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Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

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The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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5
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Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

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The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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5
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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

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The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

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The currency of Japan.

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Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

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'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

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NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

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On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

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The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

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The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

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The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

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A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

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The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

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The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

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This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

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Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

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Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

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Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

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The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

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The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

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In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

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This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

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He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

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This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

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In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

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The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

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The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

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The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

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Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

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In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

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The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

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In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

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This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

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The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

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The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

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A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

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The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

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Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

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Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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5
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Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Level 20110 questions

Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

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He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

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The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

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Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

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In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

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Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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7

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

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This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

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Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

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A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

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George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

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The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

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He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

The planets

The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Greek myth

He flew too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax.

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Icarus
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Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Word origins

'Robot' entered English from a 1920 play first written in this language.

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Czech
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Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

Painters

He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Novels

He wrote War and Peace.

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Leo Tolstoy
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

The Oscars

The first film to win Best Picture, at the 1929 Academy Awards.

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Wings
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Organs

This organ makes the hormone insulin.

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Pancreas
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The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

The air

The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere.

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Nitrogen
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Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Lakes

Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and this country.

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Bolivia
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Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Philosophers

His Critique of Pure Reason was published in 1781.

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Immanuel Kant
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Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

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The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

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In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

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The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

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The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Computing

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine hold the first published program.

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Ada Lovelace
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Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

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Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Dishes

Paella comes from this country.

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Spain
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Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

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The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

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George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Units

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit measures power.

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Watt
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Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Geography

The longest river in South America.

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Amazon

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Geography

The largest hot desert in the world.

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Sahara

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Geography

The smallest country in the world by area.

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Vatican City

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Museums

The Paris museum where the Mona Lisa hangs.

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Louvre
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Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Flags

Its flag shows a red maple leaf.

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Canada

The body

The largest organ of the human body.

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Skin

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Flags

Its flag is a plain red disc on a white field.

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Japan

The body

The number of bones in a typical adult skeleton.

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206

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Flags

The only country whose national flag is not four-sided.

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Nepal

The body

The smallest bone in the body, found in the middle ear.

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Stapes

Spaceflight

In 2012 it became the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

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Voyager 1
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Elements

Symbol O, it makes up about a fifth of the air.

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Oxygen

Oceans

The largest ocean on Earth.

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Pacific Ocean

Explorers

Sailing for Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.

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Columbus

Elements

Its chemical symbol is Au.

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Gold

Oceans

This sea meets the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Mediterranean

Explorers

He led the first voyage around the world but was killed on the way.

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Magellan

Elements

Symbol W, this metal has the highest melting point of any metal.

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Tungsten

Oceans

The deepest known point in the oceans, in the Mariana Trench.

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Challenger Deep

Explorers

In 1911 his team was the first to reach the South Pole.

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Roald Amundsen

Mathematicians

The theorem a² + b² = c² is named after him.

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Pythagoras
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World capitals

This city on the Seine is the capital of France.

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Paris

The planets

The largest planet in our solar system.

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Jupiter

Sports

The number of players a soccer team has on the field.

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11

World capitals

Canada's capital shares its name with the river it sits on.

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Ottawa

The planets

The planet closest to the Sun.

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Mercury

Sports

This tennis tournament is played on grass in London.

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Wimbledon

World capitals

Australia built this planned city as its capital instead of choosing Sydney or Melbourne.

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Canberra

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The hottest planet, kept hot by its thick carbon dioxide air.

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Venus

Sports

In golf, a score of two under par on one hole.

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Eagle

Wildlife

The largest animal known to have ever lived.

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Blue whale
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Painters

He painted The Starry Night in 1889.

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Van Gogh

Biology

The molecule whose double helix was described in 1953.

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DNA

Numbers

The number of sides on a hexagon.

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6

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He founded Cubism with Georges Braque.

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Picasso

Biology

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species set out natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

Numbers

The number the Roman numeral C stands for.

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100

Painters

This Dutch master painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Vermeer

Biology

The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.

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Chloroplast

Numbers

The only even prime number.

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2

World Cup

The country that has won the most men's FIFA World Cups.

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Brazil
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US presidents

The first president of the United States.

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George Washington

Food

Guacamole is made mainly from this fruit.

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Avocado

Space

The name of the galaxy we live in.

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Milky Way

US presidents

He gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

Food

The soft Italian cheese on a classic pizza margherita.

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Mozzarella

Space

In 1961 he became the first human in space.

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Yuri Gagarin

US presidents

The only US president elected four times.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Food

Saffron threads are this part of the crocus flower.

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Stigma

Space

Mars has two moons, Phobos and this one.

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Deimos

Composers

He composed The Four Seasons.

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Vivaldi
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Colour

Mixing blue and yellow paint makes this colour.

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Green

Weather

This instrument measures air pressure.

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Barometer

Board games

The only chess piece that moves in an L shape.

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Knight

Colour

Screens mix all their colours from red, green and this light.

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Blue

Weather

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens.

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Troposphere

Board games

The priciest property on the classic US Monopoly board.

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Boardwalk

Colour

The name for two colours that sit opposite on the colour wheel.

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Complementary

Weather

This scale rates hurricanes from Category 1 to 5.

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Saffir-Simpson

Board games

In English Scrabble, Q and this letter are each worth 10 points.

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Z

Ancient Egypt

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, was the key to reading this script.

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Hieroglyphs
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Dinosaurs

Its name means 'tyrant lizard king'.

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Tyrannosaurus

Mythology

The Greek king of the gods, who hurled thunderbolts.

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Zeus

Ancient Rome

The great Roman arena opened in AD 80 for games and fights.

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Colosseum

Dinosaurs

The dinosaur with big back plates and a spiked tail.

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Stegosaurus

Mythology

The Norse god of thunder who carries the hammer Mjölnir.

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Thor

Ancient Rome

This volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79.

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Vesuvius

Dinosaurs

The period that ended with the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago.

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Cretaceous

Mythology

This jackal-headed Egyptian god watched over tombs and embalming.

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Anubis

Ancient Rome

Rome's first emperor, who took that title in 27 BC.

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Augustus

Government

The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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Shapes

A polygon with eight sides.

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Octagon

Film

James Cameron's 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner.

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Titanic

Physics

The SI unit of force, written N.

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Newton

Shapes

The angles inside any flat triangle add up to this many degrees.

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180

Film

He directed Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park.

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Steven Spielberg

Physics

Of all the colours in a rainbow, this one has the longest wavelength.

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Red

Shapes

A triangle whose three sides all have different lengths.

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Scalene

Film

The first feature film made entirely with computer animation, in 1995.

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Toy Story

Physics

Light travels about 300,000 of these each second.

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Kilometres

Charters

This 1215 charter limited the power of England's King John.

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Magna Carta
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Buildings

This iron tower was built for the 1889 Paris world's fair.

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Eiffel Tower

Rivers

The river that flows through London.

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Thames

Rock and pop

The Liverpool band of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The Beatles

Buildings

The Taj Mahal stands in this Indian city.

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Agra

Rivers

The river that flows through Cairo.

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Nile

Rock and pop

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of this band.

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Queen

Buildings

He designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

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Antoni Gaudí

Rivers

The longest river in Europe.

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Volga

Rock and pop

Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.

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The Police

Inventions

In 1876 he was granted a US patent for the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell
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Technology

The company that launched the first iPhone in 2007.

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Apple

Chemistry

H2O is the chemical formula for this.

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Water

Medicine

Alexander Fleming discovered this antibiotic in 1928.

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Penicillin

Technology

One byte is made of this many bits.

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8

Chemistry

NaCl is the formula for this kitchen staple.

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Table salt

Medicine

The red cell blood type called the universal donor.

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O negative

Technology

He invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Chemistry

On the pH scale, pure water sits at this value.

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Medicine

In 1796 he tested the first smallpox vaccine.

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Edward Jenner

Mountains

The highest mountain in Africa.

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Kilimanjaro
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Islands

This island nation off southeast Africa is famous for its lemurs.

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Madagascar

Olympics

The number of rings on the Olympic flag.

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5

The Bard

The Danish prince who asks, 'To be, or not to be'.

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Hamlet

Islands

Not counting Australia, the largest island in the world.

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Greenland

Olympics

He won eight swimming golds at the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Michael Phelps

The Bard

In this play, three witches tell a Scottish lord he will be king.

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Macbeth

Islands

The Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu.

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Oahu

Olympics

The city that hosted the first modern Olympics, in 1896.

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Athens

The Bard

The London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company.

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The Globe

Languages

The language with the most native speakers in the world.

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Mandarin Chinese
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History

In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Money

The currency shared by most European Union countries.

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Euro

Authors

She wrote Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen

History

This wall, which split a city in two, opened in 1989.

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Berlin Wall

Money

The currency of Japan.

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Yen

Authors

He created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

History

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

Money

This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

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Adam Smith

Authors

This Colombian wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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García Márquez

Art

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo
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Greek letters

The first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Alpha

Philosophy

This French thinker wrote, 'I think, therefore I am'.

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Descartes

Books

He wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare

Greek letters

The last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Omega

Philosophy

Plato's teacher, sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC.

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Socrates

Books

Herman Melville's novel about a captain hunting a white whale.

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Moby-Dick

Greek letters

Written as a capital, this letter is the maths sign for a sum.

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Sigma

Philosophy

This Dutch philosopher, a lens grinder by trade, wrote the Ethics.

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Spinoza

Books

George Orwell's novel where Big Brother is watching you.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Science

He published his theory of general relativity in 1915.

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Albert Einstein
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Level 24010 questions

Words

A word that reads the same backward, like 'level'.

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Palindrome

Animals

The tallest land animal alive today.

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Giraffe

Music

This instrument has 88 keys in its standard modern form.

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Piano

Words

A word made from initials and said as a word, like NASA.

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Acronym

Animals

The only mammal capable of true flapping flight.

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Bat

Music

He kept composing after losing his hearing, including his Ninth Symphony.

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Beethoven

Words

A phrase that pairs opposites, like 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

Animals

A group of these birds is called a parliament.

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Owls

Music

Italian for 'little book', it is the text of an opera.

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Libretto

Earth

The supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.

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Pangaea
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