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Category: Film
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Academy Awards| |Politics|
Which director boycotted the 2017 Oscars in protest against Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13769, known to critics as the “Muslim ban,” leaving Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi to accept the award for The Salesman on his behalf?
Asghar Farhadi
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Art Museums| |Russia| |St Petersburg|
Russia’s most famous museum, and one of the great museums of the world, is located in St. Petersburg. What is it called?
Hermitage
Category: Art
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Art Museums| |Madrid| |Spain|
Madrid is home to a world-famous museum known for an extraordinary collection of painting and sculpture. What is this museum called?
Prado
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Art Museums| |France| |Paris|
Besides the Louvre, Paris has another world-famous art museum, located at 1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur and famous for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections. What is it called?
Musée d’Orsay
Category: Art
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Art Museums|
A short museum question: which city is home to the famous J. Paul Getty Museum?
Los Angeles
Category: Science
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
The largest known living organism on Earth, Armillaria ostoyae, lives mostly underground in Oregon and covers nearly 9 square kilometres. What type of organism is it?
Fungus
Category: History
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Ancient Greece| |Athens|
Draco’s name gave rise to the term draconian, used for extremely harsh laws and punishments. In which Greek city-state did he write his famous code?
Athens
Category: Trivia
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Israel|
What is the name of the Israeli collective agricultural commune based on shared property and democratic organization?
Kibbutz
Category: Science
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Fluids| |Mechanics| |Physics|
When different layers of a liquid or gas move at different speeds, friction appears within the fluid. What is this property called?
Viscosity
Category: Music
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Elton John| |Pop Culture|
Philadelphia Freedom was inspired by Elton John’s friendship with a famous tennis player who was part of the Philadelphia Freedoms professional team. What is her name?
Billie Jean King
Category: Film
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |American Literature| |Stephen King|
One of Stephen King’s cult novels is centered on a dog that becomes a deadly threat to everyone around him. What is the title of this novel?
Cujo
Category: History
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Athletics|
Which athlete became the first sportsman to appear as the main motif on a banknote in a European country, if we know he was a track-and-field legend?
Paavo Nurmi
Category: TV
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Breaking Bad| |Bryan Cranston| |Crime Series|
The series Breaking Bad centers on Walter White, a terminally ill chemistry teacher whose life takes a dramatic turn. Which actor plays him?
Bryan Cranston
Category: Trivia
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Comic Books| |DC Comics|
DC Comics is one of the best-known names in comic book history. Which two words does the abbreviation DC stand for?
Detective Comics
Category: History
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Military History| |Tank Warfare| |World War II|
One of the most famous German tank commanders of the Second World War was credited with destroying more than 100 tanks on the Eastern Front. He became especially famous after the fighting in Normandy, where propaganda claimed that his Tiger destroyed 14 British tanks and 15 transport vehicles. What was his name?
Michael Wittmann
Category: Geography
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |South America|
Which country has as many as 37 official languages, with Spanish serving as the main one?
Bolivia
Category: Sport
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Arpad Elo|
In 1960, Arpad Elo created a rating system designed to measure the strength of players and help balance opponents more accurately. For which sport was this system first developed?
Chess
Category: Trivia
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Gaming| |Sid Meier| |Strategy Games|
Sid Meier is often called the Hitchcock of video games. His name appears in the title of which famous series, launched in 1991 and widely regarded as one of the greatest turn-based strategy franchises ever?
Civilization
Category: Literature
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Terms: |German Literature| |Romanticism|
In 1774, literature received one of its most famous love triangles. The name of the unfortunate young man will stay hidden here, but what is the title of the work in which Lotte breaks the hero’s heart?
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Category: Film
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Caribbean Islands| |Pirates of the Caribbean|
In the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, Jack Sparrow searches for cursed pirate treasure hidden on a small Caribbean island. The crew of the Black Pearl had stored their stolen loot there, including the cursed Aztec gold at the center of the story. What is the island called?
Isla de Muerta
Category: TV
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Costa Rica| |Jurassic Park|
The 1993 film Jurassic Park is set in a modern theme park where dinosaurs have been brought back to life. For safety, the park is placed on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. What is the name of this fictional island?
Isla Nublar
Category: Science
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Every reflex consists of a stimulus and a response, while a conditioned reflex is learned from an existing one. In experiments with dogs, salivation was the natural response to food, but a Russian scientist trained the dogs to salivate in response to a sound instead. What was the name of this scientist?
Ivan Pavlov
Category: Science
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Biology| |Charles Darwin| |Evolution Theory|
Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution sparked a revolution in the study of life on our planet. What was the name of Charles Darwin’s book that marked a new era in the understanding of the evolution of the organic world?
On the Origin of Species
Category: Science
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Gregor Mendel|
Gregor Mendel’s experiments on reproduction and the inheritance of traits laid the foundations for the science of heredity. By what other name is this science known?
Genetics