The Genius Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among land animals, what species has the largest eyes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which location has the capital city of Frankfort?

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

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

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

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

What’s the missing number?

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

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

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

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

Which has more landmass: Antarctica or Canada?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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