Question: What was the biggest land empire of all time?
Answer: Mongol Empire

Question: According to legend, what mountain was the home of the Greek gods?
Answer: Mount Olympus

Question: What is the Southern Hemisphere's equivalent to the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: Tropic of Capricorn

Question: What volcano in Washinton state erupted in 1980, killing 57 people?
Answer: Mount St. Helens

Question: What city was once known as Tenochtitlan?
Answer: Mexico City

Question: In what country would you find a Gurkha soldier?
Answer: Nepal

Question: What is the largest city in the Midlands region of England?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: The Adirondack and Blue Ridge ranges are part of what larger mountain range?
Answer: Appalachian

Question: Kardashian and Sarkisian are examples of common surnames from what language?
Answer: Armenian

Question: What Egyptian city was once home to the world's greatest library?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: In what mountain range is the Matterhorn located?
Answer: Alps

Question: What is Hinduism's most sacred river?
Answer: Ganges

Question: Lemurs are native to what island?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: What is the most common religion in India?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: What name is given to the northeast part of China?
Answer: Manchuria

Question: What is a three-letter word for a professor from that university?
Answer: Don

Question: What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh city?
Answer: Saigon

Question: In what U.S. state does the Mississippi River begin?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: What is the official residence of the Russian President?
Answer: The Kremlin

Question: Every year, the Spanish town of Buñol has a food fight. What type of food is thrown?
Answer: Tomatoes

Question: What building is the headquarters of the U.S. military?
Answer: The Pentagon

Question: What major river flows through the Grand Canyon?
Answer: Colorado River

Question: What is Hobart the capital of?
Answer: Tasmania

Question: What is the smallest province in Canada?
Answer: Prince Edward Island

Question: In what country would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: What is the main island of Japan?
Answer: Honshu

Question: Not counting continents, what is the world's largest island?
Answer: Greenland

Question: In what country would you find Annapurna?
Answer: Nepal

Question: What mountain range separates France and Spain?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: ^ And what micronation is located within that mountain range?
Answer: Andorra

Question: What is the capital of Djibouti?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: In what country did Zoroastrianism start?
Answer: Iran

Question: What is the tallest active volcano in Italy?
Answer: Mt. Etna

Question: What is the most populous province of Canada?
Answer: Ontario

Question: New Zealand was named after a province of what country?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What historical overland route connected China to the Mediterranean?
Answer: Silk Road

Question: What is the name for Russian exclave that borders Lithuania and Poland?
Answer: Kaliningrad

Question: What was the world's tallest building in 1950?
Answer: Empire State Building

Question: What river intersects the Mississippi river near St. Louis?
Answer: Missouri

Question: What is the world's most populous country?
Answer: China

Question: What is the highest mountain range in South America?
Answer: Andes

Question: What family name is shared by approximately 40% of Vietnamese people?
Answer: Nguyễn

Question: What strait separates Alaska and Russia?
Answer: Bering Strait

Question: What is the world's biggest freshwater lake by surface area?
Answer: Lake Superior

Question: What word is used to describe a chain of islands?
Answer: Archipelago

Question: What building is famously located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
Answer: The White House

Question: What is either the name of a US state or an independent country?
Answer: Georgia

Question: In what city would you find the Kowloon peninsula?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: What English town is famous for its white cliffs?
Answer: Dover

Question: What is the biggest island in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: What type of bird is on a Canadian $1 coin?
Answer: Common Loon

Question: In what country is Vegemite popular?
Answer: Australia

Question: What uninhabited island was settled by HMS Bounty mutineers?
Answer: Pitcairn Island

Question: What city was once called New Amsterdam?
Answer: New York City

Question: Including inland seas, what's the world's largest lake?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: What became the world's newest independent country in 2011?
Answer: South Sudan

Question: Who had his capital at Xanadu?
Answer: Kublai Khan

Question: Near what major American city is Lake Pontchartrain located?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: In what city would you find the world's tallest building?
Answer: Dubai

Question: What valley is the site of the Earth's highest-ever recorded temperature, 134°F?
Answer: Death Valley

Question: Albania and Serbia are located on what peninsula?
Answer: Balkan

Question: What is Pakistan's longest river?
Answer: Indus River

Question: If measured from its base on the sea floor, what mountain is the world's tallest?
Answer: Mauna Kea

Question: What gold coin was worth 21 shillings?
Answer: Guinea

Question: Who is on the American $100 bill?
Answer: Ben Franklin

Question: What constellation is depicted on the Australian flag?
Answer: Southern Cross

Question: Mérida and Cancún are located on what peninsula?
Answer: Yucatán

Question: What famous event for daredevils happens in Pamplona, Spain?
Answer: Running of the Bulls

Question: What is the capital of Western Australia?
Answer: Perth

Question: What language does the word tsunami come from?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What strait divides Morocco and Spain?
Answer: Strait of Gibraltar

Question: On what street would you find the official residence of the British Prime Minister?
Answer: Downing

Question: What ethnic group does the ETA separatist movement claim to represent?
Answer: Basques

Question: On what peninsula do Spain and Portugal lie?
Answer: Iberian Peninsula

Question: What U.S. state has the largest Mormon population?
Answer: Utah

Question: What city was supposedly founded by Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Rome

Question: By surface area, what is the largest of Africa's great lakes?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What ocean current brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe?
Answer: Gulf Stream

Question: In what country is Khmer the primary language?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: What canal terminates at Buffalo?
Answer: Erie Canal

Question: What was the former currency of Italy?
Answer: Italian Lira

Question: On what Turkish mountain is Noah's ark often said to have landed?
Answer: Mount Ararat

Question: What's the Spanish name for the United States?
Answer: Estados Unidos

Question: What island is divided between Greek and Turkish factions?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: What is another name for a "Brownshirt"?
Answer: A Fascist

Question: What group sacked Baghdad in 1258, ending the Islamic Golden Age?
Answer: The Mongols

Question: What yellow gas was famously used in WWI?
Answer: Mustard Gas

Question: Who famously said "I am not a crook"?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Who supposedly fiddled while Rome burned (but actually didn't)?
Answer: Nero

Question: What father and son Prime Ministers are referred to as "The Elder" and "The Younger"?
Answer: William Pitt

Question: What bird product was an important fertilizer in the 19th century?
Answer: Guano

Question: Who is the namesake of the country of Bolivia?
Answer: Simón Bolívar

Question: What epic poem is thought to be the oldest in the English language?
Answer: Beowulf

Question: What country used Molotov cocktails in their war with the Soviets?
Answer: Finland

Question: What ancient empire was led by Xerxes, Cyrus, and Darius?
Answer: Persia