Question 1: Which country won the first FIFA World Cup?
Question 2: Which TV series features a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine?
Breaking Bad, which aired from 2008 to 2013, tells the story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, who turns to producing and selling methamphetamine to secure his family's future.
Question 3: The TV show "Friends" is set in which American city?
"Friends," a popular American television sitcom, is set in the Manhattan area of New York City. The characters' apartments and Central Perk coffee house – where much of the series takes place – are iconic settings in the show.
Question 4: What is the term for a major crime, such as murder or arson?
In the United States legal system, a felony is a serious crime that carries a potential punishment of one year or more in prison, whereas misdemeanors and infractions are lesser offenses.
Question 5: What is the driest place on Earth?
The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica receive almost no rainfall, making them the driest places on Earth. Some parts of these valleys haven't seen rain for more than 2 million years. The region is so dry because the surrounding mountains block the flow of ice from the polar plateau.
Question 6: How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
The English alphabet contains 26 letters, from A to Z. These can be either uppercase or lowercase, and can form a virtually infinite number of words!
Question 7: Why did Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night" get its name?
In Elizabethan England, the Twelfth Night marked the end of a winter festival that started on All Hallows Eve. Shakespeare's play was meant to be entertainment for this special occasion.
Question 8: What type of rock is commonly associated with the presence of fossils?
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the accumulation of sediments, which can include fragments of rocks, minerals, and organic material like fossils. Due to the way these rocks form, they can often contain a record of past life on Earth. Igneous and metamorphic rocks undergo conditions that are typically destructive to fossils, such as high heat and pressure.
Question 9: Who wrote the influential philosophical work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. The book is a treatise on Nietzsche's famous ideas of the death of God, the Übermensch, and eternal recurrence.
Question 10: What city is known as "The City of Light"?
Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light," both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment and more literally because it was one of the first large European cities to use gas street lighting on a grand scale on its boulevards and monuments.
Uruguay won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930, which they also hosted. The final match was against Argentina, and Uruguay came from behind to win 4-2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo.