The Genius Quiz

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

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

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

What’s the missing number?

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?

Among land animals, what species has the largest eyes?

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

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

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

Which location has the capital city of Frankfort?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Which has more landmass: Antarctica or Canada?

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?

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

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

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