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1.

What is the capital of France?

Answer: Paris
2.

Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

Answer: William Shakespeare
3.

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Jupiter
4.

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
5.

What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

Answer: Diamond
6.

What year did the Titanic sink?

Answer: 1912
7.

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming
8.

What is the smallest country in the world?

Answer: Vatican City
9.

Which element has the chemical symbol 'O'?

Answer: Oxygen
10.

Who was the first person to walk on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong
11.

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer: Nile River
12.

What is the capital of Japan?

Answer: Tokyo
13.

How many continents are there?

Answer: Seven
14.

What is the main ingredient in guacamole?

Answer: Avocado
15.

Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
16.

In what year did World War II begin?

Answer: 1939
17.

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Answer: Au
18.

What is the tallest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mount Everest
19.

What organ is vital for pumping blood throughout the body?

Answer: Heart
20.

Who is known as the father of modern physics?

Answer: Albert Einstein
21.

In what city would you find the Statue of Liberty?

Answer: New York City
22.

What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

Answer: Carbon dioxide
23.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Answer: Marie Curie
24.

What is the currency of the United Kingdom?

Answer: Pound sterling
25.

What is the largest mammal in the world?

Answer: Blue whale
26.

In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Answer: 1989
27.

What is the main language spoken in Brazil?

Answer: Portuguese
28.

Who invented the telephone?

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
29.

What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?

Answer: 0 degrees Celsius
30.

What is the term for a baby kangaroo?

Answer: Joey
31.

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer: Michelangelo
32.

In what country did the Olympic Games originate?

Answer: Greece
33.

What is the most spoken language in the world?

Answer: Mandarin Chinese
34.

What is the boiling point of water in Celsius?

Answer: 100 degrees Celsius
35.

Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer: George Washington
36.

What is the capital of Canada?

Answer: Ottawa
37.

Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

Answer: Mars
38.

What do bees produce?

Answer: Honey
39.

What is the largest ocean on Earth?

Answer: Pacific Ocean
40.

Who wrote the song "Imagine"?

Answer: John Lennon
41.

What is the chemical formula for table salt?

Answer: NaCl
42.

Who created the first successful airplane?

Answer: Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
43.

What is the tallest building in the world as of 2023?

Answer: Burj Khalifa
44.

In which organ of the body is insulin produced?

Answer: Pancreas
45.

In what year did the first man-made satellite go into orbit?

Answer: 1957 (Sputnik 1)
46.

What is the main gas found in the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen
47.

Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?

Answer: J.K. Rowling
48.

What is the formula for calculating the area of a circle?

Answer: A = πr² (Area = Pi times radius squared)
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