Question 1: When translating from English, which language uses the Latin alphabet with a total of 32 letters?
Question 2: The character "The Joker" is a frequent adversary of which superhero?
The Joker, who was first introduced in Batman #1 in 1940, is a criminally insane prankster with a white skin, green hair, and a wide, red smile, and is considered Batman's arch-nemesis.
Question 3: What was the name of the first episode of the original Star Trek series?
"The Man Trap" aired on September 8, 1966 as the premiere episode of Star Trek, even though it was actually the sixth episode produced. The episode involves a shape-shifting creature that kills by extracting salt from its victims.
Question 4: In which country was the actress Charlize Theron born?
Charlize Theron was born on August 7, 1975, in Benoni, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng Province), South Africa. She moved to the United States at the age of 19 to pursue an acting career and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2007. Theron is known for her roles in films such as Monster, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules, and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Question 5: Which ancient Greek mathematician is known as the 'father of geometry'?
Euclid, who lived in Alexandria around 300 BC, is known as the 'father of geometry' due to his groundbreaking work, 'Elements', which introduced many of the fundamental concepts and proofs in geometry that are still used today.
Question 6: Who created the constructed language Esperanto?
Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist. His goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
Question 7: What fashion item did Louis Réard introduce in 1946?
Réard named the bikini after the Bikini Atoll nuclear test site in the Pacific, as he believed the revealing swimsuit would create an "explosive" reaction in the fashion world, much like the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
Question 8: If an orchestra is playing at 440Hz, what note are they tuned to?
The A above middle C, known as A4 or A440, has a frequency of 440 Hz and serves as a standard for musical pitch. Most modern orchestras use this as their tuning reference.
Question 9: Which former U.S. President won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album?
Barack Obama has actually won two Grammy Awards in the Best Spoken Word Album category - the first in 2006 for his audiobook "Dreams from My Father" and the second in 2008 for his audiobook "The Audacity of Hope."
Question 10: Who was the youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt was 42 years and 322 days old when he became president after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person elected president at age 43.
The Polish alphabet is based on the Latin script but has 9 additional letters (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż) making it a total of 32 letters.