The Genius Quiz

What country’s land is mostly on an island, although most of its people live on a peninsula across the South China Sea?

In a 2010 study, people found more mistakes when they marked essays with a pen of what colour?

What princess was traditionally called Badr al-Budur before Disney renamed her?

Who’s the only athlete who ever lit the cauldron for an Olympics and then won a gold medal at those same games?

So far, which has been the only FIFA World Cup host not to make it out of the group stage?

Which country, other than Switzerland, uses the Swiss franc?

Worldwide, which is the most commonly transplanted organ from living donors?

Which country should you visit if you want to spot a wild platypus?

First separated from USA in 1946, what nation’s Independence Day celebrates of independence from Spain in 1898?

Arancini is an Italian delicacy. Its name means “little orange” but it’s actually made mostly of what?

New Zealand’s largest city, home to over 142,000 Maori, is known as Ta-maki Makaurau in Maori and what in English?

So far, which continent has hosted the Olympics the most times?

Main-sequence stars fuse hydrogen into helium in their cores. What’s the closest one to Earth?

According to its former minister of tourism, which country is known for its three R's: reggae, romance and running?

Who got nominated for directing the now widely respected film Scarface?

Which country’s flag features an eagle eating a snake?

Which of Sri Lanka’s official languages also has official status in Singapore and parts of India?

Which member of boxing’s “Fabulous Four” was the only one who defeated each of the other three at least once?

Mauritius is the only African country where the most commonly practised religion is what?

What app, a monster hit in 2016, has been credited with teaching Americans the metric system?

Name the number that is three more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-half of 5,000. You've got 2 min...

In 2016, a Pizza Hut in Dar es Salaam set a record for the highest-elevation pizza delivery, to what mountain?

What geothermal Icelandic site has the same name as a 1980 movie?

What’s the missing number?

What writer with a highfalutin reputation used jokes about passing wind in such plays as The Comedy of Errors & Othello

The world’s oldest known musical instruments are 42,000-year-old flutes made from bird bone and the ivory of this mammal

Which location has the capital city of Frankfort?

The kiwi fruit is native to New Zealand. True or false?

The first purchase of real-world goods with bitcoins, 10,000 of them (worth US$90 million today) were exchanged for what

In 2016, who used his own namesake manoeuvre when he saw that a woman at his retirement home was choking?

What Indian mausoleum was called a “teardrop… on the cheek of time” by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?

Which of the following is NOT a sub-atomic particle?

Surprisingly, whose team lost a Christmas-decorating contest when she was an inmate at Alderson Women’s Prison?

What international retail chain got its start in Älmhult, Sweden, and runs a museum dedicated to its history there?

Which event has the longer-distance world record: men’s discus throw or women’s discus throw?

Queen Mary Tudor of England is better known to history by what name?

Among land animals, what species has the largest eyes?

Which has more landmass: Antarctica or Canada?

What flightless bird, now extinct, was last seen on an island off the coast of Iceland?

In printing, it’s the colour black. In chemistry, it’s potassium. In baseball, it’s a strikeout. Which letter is it?

If you order “murgh” from the menu at an Indian restaurant, what meat will you get?