General Knowledge Quiz Questions

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A straightforward round of the questions most people feel they ought to know. The planet with the most moons, what www stands for, who painted the Mona Lisa, and the world's largest country by area.

Useful as an opening round or for a younger table, since almost every answer is a single clean fact.

  1. Which planet has the most moons in our solar system?
  2. What does the "www" stand for in a website browser?
  3. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
  4. What is the world's largest country by area?
  5. Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis?
  6. Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?
  7. What is the currency of Japan?
  8. Which metal is a liquid at room temperature?
  9. In which year did the Titanic sink?
  10. Which is the largest organ in the human body?
  11. How many bones are in the adult human body?
  12. What is the world's longest mountain range above sea level?
  13. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
  14. Which country invented paper?
  15. How many colours appear in a standard rainbow?
  16. The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean on Earth.
  17. Sound travels faster in water than in air.
  18. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity.
  19. Australia is both a country and a continent.