World Curiosities Mix

What this quiz asks

• An Olympic gold medal is made mostly of which metal?
• The Canary Islands take their name from which animal?
• A patent for sending images by wire, the ancestor of the fax, was granted before the telephone was invented.
• What did the builders of Venice drive into the lagoon mud to hold the city up?
• Select ALL of these countries that founded the European Economic Community in 1957.
• The word "robot" comes from which language?
• In what year was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, often called the shortest war in history?
• Which Himalayan kingdom officially measures progress by "Gross National Happiness"?
• Order these events from earliest to latest.
• This mythical creature is the official national animal of which country?
• Which of these countries has a national anthem with no official lyrics?
• Were woolly mammoths still alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built?
• Brazil is named after brazilwood, a tree that Europeans prized for what?
• Select ALL of these that are true berries in the botanical sense.
• Which poet wrote The Lusiads, the Portuguese epic published in 1572?
• Mainland Australia is wider from east to west than the Moon is across.
• Scientists estimate there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
• When it was invented in 1957, Bubble Wrap was meant to be what?
• Despite the nickname, what colour is an airliner's "black box" flight recorder?
• In Italian, the @ symbol is nicknamed after which animal?