1. Which ancient civilization built the city of Teotihuacan?

a) Inca
b) Maya
c) *Aztec
d) Olmec

2. What is the name of the world's largest ice sheet?

a) Greenland Ice Sheet
b) West Antarctic Ice Sheet
c) *East Antarctic Ice Sheet
d) Vatnajökull Ice Cap

3. Who composed the opera "The Ring of the Nibelung"?

a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b) Ludwig van Beethoven
c) *Richard Wagner
d) Giuseppe Verdi

4. Which element was named after the Greek word for "green"?
a) Chlorine
b) *Praseodymium
c) Neodymium
d) Europium

5. What is the capital of Bhutan?

a) Paro
b) Punakha
c) *Thimphu
d) Phuntsholing

6. Which astronomical object was the first to be identified as a black hole?

a) Sagittarius A*
b) *Cygnus X-1
c) M87*
d) V404 Cygni

7. Who wrote the philosophical work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?

a) Immanuel Kant
b) Jean-Paul Sartre
c) *Friedrich Nietzsche
d) Søren Kierkegaard

8. What is the largest known cave system in the world?

a) Son Doong Cave
b) Sac Actun System
c) *Mammoth Cave System
d) Jewel Cave

9. Which painter is known for founding the De Stijl movement?

a) Wassily Kandinsky
b) *Piet Mondrian
c) Kazimir Malevich
 d) Paul Klee

10. What is the name of the deepest known point in Earth's oceans?
a) Tonga Trench
b) Java Trench
c) *Challenger Deep
d) Puerto Rico Trench

11. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

a) Edward Jenner
b) Louis Pasteur
c) *Jonas Salk
d) Albert Sabin

12. Which ancient wonder was located in present-day Iraq?

a) Colossus of Rhodes
b) *Hanging Gardens of Babylon
c) Lighthouse of Alexandria
d) Temple of Artemis

13. What is the world's oldest known living tree species?

a) Giant Sequoia
b) *Ginkgo biloba
c) Bristlecone Pine
d) Wollemi Pine

14. Who wrote the play "Waiting for Godot"?

a) Eugene Ionesco
b) *Samuel Beckett
c) Harold Pinter
d) Tom Stoppard

15. Which mountain is known as the "Savage Mountain" due to its difficulty?
a) Mount Everest
b) Annapurna
c) *K2
d) Nanga Parbat

16. What is the largest known structure in the universe?

a) Laniakea Supercluster
b) *Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
c) Sloan Great Wall
d) Boötes Void

17. Who discovered the principles of genetic inheritance?

a) Charles Darwin
b) *Gregor Mendel
c) Francis Crick
d) Rosalind Franklin

18. Which city is home to the ancient Nabataean city of Petra?

a) Cairo, Egypt
b) Damascus, Syria
 c) *Amman, Jordan
d) Beirut, Lebanon

19. What is the name of the world's largest known virus?

a) Megavirus chilensis
b) Pandoravirus salinus
c) *Pithovirus sibericum
d) Mimivirus

20. Who composed the ballet "The Rite of Spring"?

a) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
b) Sergei Prokofiev
c) *Igor Stravinsky
d) Dmitri Shostakovich

21. Which island is home to the world's largest lizard?

a) Borneo
b) *Komodo
c) Madagascar
d) New Guinea

22. What is the name of the oldest known surviving work of literature?
a) The Iliad
b) The Book of the Dead
c) *Epic of Gilgamesh
d) Rigveda

23. Who invented the first programmable computer?

a) Alan Turing
b) *Charles Babbage
c) Ada Lovelace
d) John von Neumann

24. Which country is home to the ancient city of Persepolis?

a) Iraq
b) Turkey
c) *Iran
d) Syria

25. What is the name of the largest known impact crater on Earth?
a) Chicxulub crater
b) *Vredefort crater
c) Sudbury Basin
d) Acraman crater

26. Who developed the concept of archetypes in analytical psychology?

a) Sigmund Freud
b) *Carl Jung
c) Alfred Adler
d) Erik Erikson

27. Which astronomical object is nicknamed the "Sombrero Galaxy"?

a) Andromeda Galaxy
 b) *Messier 104
c) Whirlpool Galaxy
d) Centaurus A

28. What is the name of the longest river in Australia?

a) Murray River
b) Darling River
c) *Murray-Darling River System
d) Murrumbidgee River

29. Who wrote the philosophical work "Being and Nothingness"?

a) Albert Camus
b) *Jean-Paul Sartre
c) Simone de Beauvoir
d) Maurice Merleau-Ponty

30. Which ancient civilization built the city of Mohenjo-daro?

a) Mesopotamian
b) Egyptian
c) *Indus Valley
d) Chinese

31. What is the name of the largest known butterfly?

a) Atlas Moth
b) Goliath Birdwing
c) *Queen Alexandra's Birdwing
d) Hercules Moth

32. Who composed the opera "Tristan und Isolde"?

a) Giuseppe Verdi
b) *Richard Wagner
c) Giacomo Puccini
d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

33. Which element was the first to be artificially produced?

a) Plutonium
b) *Technetium
c) Francium
d) Astatine

34. What is the capital of Liechtenstein?

a) Schaan
b) *Vaduz
c) Balzers
d) Triesen

35. Which space probe was the first to land on a comet?

a) Rosetta
b) *Philae
c) Deep Impact
d) Stardust

36. Who wrote the philosophical work "The World as Will and Representation"?
 a) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
b) *Arthur Schopenhauer
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Friedrich Nietzsche

37. What is the name of the largest known cave chamber in the world?
a) Sarawak Chamber
b) *Son Doong Cave
c) Miao Room
d) Majlis al Jinn

38. Which artist is known for creating the sculpture "The Thinker"?
a) Michelangelo
b) *Auguste Rodin
c) Pablo Picasso
d) Henry Moore

39. What is the name of the oldest known musical composition?

a) Seikilos Epitaph
b) *Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal
c) Gregorian Chant
d) Sumerian Hymns

40. Who discovered the structure of benzene?

a) Linus Pauling
b) *Friedrich August Kekulé
c) Robert Burns Woodward
d) Dmitri Mendeleev

41. Which ancient city was known as Byzantium before it became Constantinople?
a) Athens
b) Rome
c) *Istanbul
d) Alexandria

42. What is the name of the largest known plant on Earth?

a) General Sherman (Giant Sequoia)
b) *Posidonia australis (Seagrass)
c) Pando (Quaking Aspen)
d) Great Banyan Tree

43. Who wrote the philosophical work "Critique of Pure Reason"?

a) John Locke
b) *Immanuel Kant
c) David Hume
d) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

44. Which mountain is nicknamed the "Savage Mountain" due to its difficulty?
a) Mount Everest
b) *K2
c) Annapurna
d) Nanga Parbat
45. What is the name of the largest known asteroid in the Solar System?
a) Vesta
b) *Ceres
c) Pallas
d) Hygiea

46. Who developed the concept of the collective unconscious?

a) Sigmund Freud
b) *Carl Jung
c) Alfred Adler
d) Erik Erikson

47. Which ancient civilization built the city of Tikal?

a) Aztec
b) Inca
c) *Maya
d) Olmec

48. What is the name of the deepest known cave on Earth?

a) Krubera Cave
b) *Veryovkina Cave
c) Sarma Cave
d) Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya Cave System

49. Who composed the ballet "The Firebird"?

a) Sergei Prokofiev
b) *Igor Stravinsky
c) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
d) Dmitri Shostakovich

50. Which element was named after the Latin word for "France"?
a) Germanium
b) Polonium
c) *Francium
d) Europium

51. What is the capital of Suriname?

a) Georgetown
b) *Paramaribo
c) Cayenne
d) Belem

52. Which space telescope was specifically designed to study exoplanets?

a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) *Kepler Space Telescope
c) James Webb Space Telescope
d) Chandra X-ray Observatory

53. Who wrote the philosophical work "The Phenomenology of Spirit"?

a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) *Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Jean-Paul Sartre
54. What is the name of the largest known coral atoll in the world?
a) Kwajalein Atoll
b) *Kiritimati (Christmas Island)
c) Rangiroa Atoll
d) Aldabra Atoll

55. Which artist is known for creating the painting "The Persistence of Memory"?
a) Pablo Picasso
b) *Salvador Dalí
c) René Magritte
d) Frida Kahlo

56. What is the name of the oldest known living animal individual?
a) Ming the Clam
b) *Jonathan the Tortoise
c) Adwaita the Tortoise
d) Hanako the Koi Fish

57. Who developed the theory of plate tectonics?

a) Charles Darwin
b) *Alfred Wegener
c) Georges Cuvier
d) James Hutton

58. Which ancient wonder was located in present-day Turkey?

a) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
b) *Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
c) Colossus of Rhodes
d) Lighthouse of Alexandria

59. What is the name of the largest known virus?

a) Megavirus chilensis
b) *Pithovirus sibericum
c) Mimivirus
d) Pandoravirus salinus

60. Who wrote the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author"?

a) Samuel Beckett
b) *Luigi Pirandello
c) Eugene Ionesco
d) Bertolt Brecht

61. Which mountain is known as the "Throne of the Gods" in Greek mythology?
a) Mount Olympus
b) *Mount Othrys
c) Mount Parnassus
d) Mount Ida

62. What is the name of the largest known structure in the observable universe?
a) Sloan Great Wall
b) *Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
c) Laniakea Supercluster
 d) Boötes Void

63. Who discovered the principles of classical conditioning?

a) B.F. Skinner
b) *Ivan Pavlov
c) John Watson
d) Edward Thorndike

64. Which city is home to the ancient Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza?
a) Tulum, Mexico
b) *Pisté, Mexico
c) Tikal, Guatemala
d) Copán, Honduras

65. What is the name of the largest known bird by wingspan?

a) Andean Condor
b) *Wandering Albatross
c) California Condor
d) Dalmatian Pelican

66. Who composed the opera "The Marriage of Figaro"?

a) Giuseppe Verdi
b) *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c) Giacomo Puccini
d) Richard Wagner

67. Which element was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered?
a) Plutonium
b) *Francium
c) Astatine
d) Promethium

68. What is the capital of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)?

a) Manzini
b) *Mbabane
c) Lobamba
d) Siteki

69. Which space probe was the first to orbit Saturn?

a) Voyager 1
b) *Cassini
c) Pioneer 11
d) New Horizons

70. Who wrote the philosophical work "The Republic"?

a) Aristotle
b) *Plato
c) Socrates
d) Xenophon

71. What is the name of the largest known invertebrate?

a) Giant Squid
b) *Colossal Squid
 c) Japanese Spider Crab
d) Giant Pacific Octopus

72. Which artist is known for creating the sculpture "The Kiss"?
a) Auguste Rodin
b) *Constantin Brâncuși
c) Alberto Giacometti
d) Henry Moore

73. What is the name of the oldest known musical instrument?

a) Bone Flute
b) *Divje Babe Flute
c) Lithophone
d) Bull-roarer

74. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
b) *Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
c) Gregor Mendel
d) Thomas Henry Huxley

75. Which ancient city was known as Lutecia before it became Paris?
a) Lyon
b) *Paris
c) Marseille
d) Bordeaux

76. What is the name of the largest known flower in the world?
a) Titan Arum
b) *Rafflesia arnoldii
c) Giant Water Lily
d) Corpse Flower

77. Who wrote the philosophical work "Being and Time"?

a) Jean-Paul Sartre
b) *Martin Heidegger
c) Edmund Husserl
d) Maurice Merleau-Ponty

78. Which mountain is nicknamed the "Killer Mountain" due to its high fatality rate?
a) K2
b) *Nanga Parbat
c) Annapurna
d) Kangchenjunga

79. What is the name of the largest known impact crater on the Moon?
a) Tycho
b) *South Pole-Aitken Basin
c) Copernicus
d) Clavius

80. Who developed the concept of the unconscious mind in psychoanalysis?

a) Carl Jung
 b) *Sigmund Freud
c) Alfred Adler
d) Jacques Lacan

81. Which ancient civilization built the city of Caral?

a) Inca
b) *Norte Chico
c) Moche
d) Chavín

82. What is the name of the deepest known trench in the Earth's oceans?
a) Tonga Trench
b) *Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench)
c) Puerto Rico Trench
d) Java Trench

83. Who composed the ballet "Swan Lake"?

a) Igor Stravinsky
b) *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
c) Sergei Prokofiev
d) Dmitri Shostakovich

84. Which element was named after the Greek word for "hidden"?
a) Neon
b) *Krypton
c) Xenon
d) Argon

85. What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?

a) Almaty
b) *Bishkek
c) Tashkent
d) Dushanbe

86. Which space mission was the first to land humans on the Moon?
a) Apollo 8
b) *Apollo 11
c) Apollo 13
d) Gemini 4

87. Who wrote the philosophical work "The Social Contract"?

a) John Locke
b) *Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c) Thomas Hobbes
d) Voltaire

88. What is the name of the largest known cave system in the world?
a) Sistema Sac Actun
b) *Mammoth Cave System
c) Son Doong Cave
d) Jewel Cave

89. Which artist is known for creating the painting "The Scream"?
 a) Vincent van Gogh
b) *Edvard Munch
c) Gustav Klimt
d) Wassily Kandinsky

90. What is the name of the oldest known living tree?

a) General Sherman
b) *Methuselah
c) Old Tjikko
d) Sarv-e Abarkuh

91. Who developed the theory of general relativity?

a) Isaac Newton
b) *Albert Einstein
c) Niels Bohr
d) Max Planck

92. Which ancient wonder was located in present-day Greece?

a) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
b) *Colossus of Rhodes
c) Lighthouse of Alexandria
d) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

93. What is the name of the largest known bacterium?

a) Epulopiscium fishelsoni
b) *Thiomargarita magnifica
c) Beggiatoa
d) Achromatium oxaliferum

94. Who wrote the play "Long Day's Journey into Night"?
a) Tennessee Williams
b) *Eugene O'Neill
c) Arthur Miller
d) Samuel Beckett

95. Which mountain is known as the "Mountain of Mountains" in the Alps?

a) Mont Blanc
b) *Matterhorn
c) Eiger
d) Jungfrau

96. What is the name of the largest known volcano in the Solar System?
a) Mauna Loa
b) *Olympus Mons
c) Mount Vesuvius
d) Krakatoa

97. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

a) Galileo Galilei
b) *Johannes Kepler
c) Nicolaus Copernicus
d) Tycho Brahe
98. Which city is home to the ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu?
a) Lima, Peru
b) *Cusco, Peru
c) La Paz, Bolivia
d) Quito, Ecuador

99. What is the name of the largest known flying bird by wingspan?
a) Andean Condor
b) *Wandering Albatross
c) Great White Pelican
d) Dalmatian Pelican

100. Who composed the opera "Madame Butterfly"?

a) Giuseppe Verdi
b) *Giacomo Puccini
c) Richard Wagner
d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart