20 Very Hard Trivia Questions

  1. What is the only country to have a non-quadrilateral flag?
    Answer: Nepal

  2. Which artist is credited with painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”?
    Answer: Hieronymus Bosch

  3. In what year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
    Answer: 1901

  4. What is the chemical symbol for the element with the highest melting point?
    Answer: W (Tungsten)

  5. Which language is the closest modern relative to Ancient Egyptian?
    Answer: Coptic

  6. Who wrote the book “Gargantua and Pantagruel”?
    Answer: François Rabelais

  7. What is the rarest blood type in the world?
    Answer: Rh-null

  8. What is the capital of the Marshall Islands?
    Answer: Majuro

  9. Which Roman emperor was the first to be assassinated?
    Answer: Caligula

  10. In which country would you find the world’s oldest surviving parliament, the Alþingi?
    Answer: Iceland

  11. Who developed the theory of the four humors, which was influential in medicine for over a thousand years?
    Answer: Hippocrates

  12. Which is the smallest independent country on the mainland of Africa?
    Answer: The Gambia

  13. Who composed the opera “The Marriage of Figaro”?
    Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  14. What was the first synthetic dye, discovered in 1856 by William Henry Perkin?
    Answer: Mauveine

  15. Which famous mathematician is known for his last theorem, which was not proven until 1994?
    Answer: Pierre de Fermat

  16. What is the longest river in Asia?
    Answer: Yangtze River

  17. In Greek mythology, who was the only mortal Gorgon?
    Answer: Medusa

  18. Which city is traditionally said to be built on seven hills?
    Answer: Rome

  19. Who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize?
    Answer: Marie Curie

  20. What is the main ingredient of the dish “haggis”?
    Answer: Sheep’s stomach filled with offal, oatmeal, and spices