Random facts
How many minutes are in a full week?
10,080
How many faces does a Dodecahedron have?
12
What is a Beaujolais?
A type of red wine
which president delivered the famous gettysburg address in 1863
Abraham Lincoln
Which is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
Africa
What was the name of the crime boss who was head of the feared Chicago Outfit?
Al Capone
What is the state capital of New York?
Albany
In Australia, what is commonly known as a bottle-o?
An off-license/liquor store
On which continent would you find the world's largest desert?
Antarctica
Who was the Ancient Greek God of the Sun?
Apollo
What country features a shipwreck on its national flag?
Bermuda
Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
Colorado River
In what capital would you find The Little Mermaid statue?
Copenhagen (in denmark)
What was the name of the first computer virus?
Creeper
What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
In medieval times the hundred years war was fought between which two nations.
England and France
In which U.S. state is the country's busiest airport located?
Georgia (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport)
Who famously crossed the Alps with elephants on the way to war with the Romans?
Hannibal
Which country has the highest life expectancy?
Hong Kong
The ganges river flows through which country
India
The camp david accords, a peace agreement between egypt an israel were brokered under which president.
Jimmy carter
Which president signed the alien and sedition acts into law in 1798
John adams
The "corrupt bargain" of 1824 allowed which president to win the election despite losing the popular vote
John quincy adams
What is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world?
Mexico City
longest river in us
Missouri River
What is the only flag that does not have four sides?
Nepal
Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the sun?
Nicolaus Copernicus
What company was initially known as "Blue Ribbon Sports"?
Nike
What phone company produced the 3310?
Nokia
Which city is the capital of both a U.S state and a Canadian province?
None
Roald Amundsen was the first man to reach the South Pole, but where was he from?
Norway
Which middle eastern country has muscat as its capital
Oman
The columbia river forms much of the border between which two U.S states
Oregon and Washington
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same backward as forward?
Palindrome
What was the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god?
Ra
What Renaissance artist is buried in Rome's Pantheon? Raphael
Raphael
What is the rarest and most expensive spice in the world by weight?
Saffron
December 26 is known by what names in Ireland?
Saint Stephen's Day
What was the name of the muslim leader who recapured Jerusalem from the Crusaders
Saladin
What is the most common surname in the United States?
Smith
Which country has the most islands?
Sweden (270,000)
In which country would you find Mount Kilimanjaro? Tanzania
Tanzania
What event marked the end of the Roman Empire in the West?
The Fall of Rome
What mountain range separates Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains
At which battle in 480 BCE did the greek city, led by athens, defeat the persian navy under Xerxes 1
The battle of Salamis
In medieval times which battle in 1066 established william the conqueror as the king of england?
The battle of hastings
Which two rivers converge in khartoum to form the nile
The blue nile and white nile
What river forms part of the border between Germany and France
The rhine river
Which river was famously crossed by Julius caesar in 49BCE, marking the start of civil war
The rubicon
what war involved conflicts from 1618 to 1648 and began as a religious war in the Roman Empire which turned into a struggle for European political dominance
The thirty years war
The spanish american war in 1898 was triggered by the explosion f which american battleship in Havana Harbor
USS Maine
Where is Angel Falls, the world's largest waterfall, located?
Venezuela
which president only served 31 days
William henry harrison
Aureolin is a shade of what color?
Yellow
In the election of 1876 rutherford b hayes became president after a compromise that ended in which period in the U.S history
reconstruction
The iran cantra affair occured during the administration of which president
ronald reagan
