Question 1: Why are the Moai statues on Easter Island famous?
Question 2: How many companies are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)?
The NYSE is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. It was founded in 1792 and is located on Wall Street in New York City.
Question 3: Which greenhouse gas is produced in the largest quantities by human activities?
Carbon dioxide is released through activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and cement production. It accounts for about 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
Question 4: What is the traditional name for the Maori New Year?
Matariki marks the rising of the Pleiades star cluster and begins the New Year for the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Matariki celebrations include remembrance, planting new crops, and the release of lanterns.
Question 5: What is the basic structural and functional unit of living organisms?
There are two main types of cells: prokaryotic and eukaryotic. The scientific study of cells is called cytology.
Question 6: What famous painting by Edvard Munch depicts a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky?
The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition.
Question 7: Who is the alter ego of the superhero Iron Man?
Tony Stark is a wealthy businessman and engineer who becomes the superhero Iron Man in the Marvel Comics universe. After suffering a severe chest injury during a kidnapping, Stark builds a powered suit of armor to save his own life and then uses the technology to become a force for good.
Question 8: How many times was Elizabeth Taylor married?
Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands (Richard Burton being two of those eight marriages). She was known not only for her acting career but also for her colorful personal life.
Question 9: Which infamous world leader was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938?
Adolf Hitler was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938. Shocking, right? But the distinction, forerunner of the more modern Person of the Year, went to Hitler not because of anything great. As explained by the magazine, the Man of the Year applied to newsmakers who affected the world for better — and for worse. Time unflinchingly called out Hitler's aggressive actions in present-day Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, eventually leading to World War II.
Question 10: Which space agency landed the first human on the moon?
NASA achieved this historic milestone on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first and second humans to step on the lunar surface.
The Moai are monolithic human figures carved between the years 1250 and 1500 by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. The moai are famous for their large, broad noses and strong chins, along with rectangle-shaped ears and deep eye slits.