Free Entry for Children Under 8!

All questions and answers are from current knowledge. No research done.

GEOGRAPHY! (kind of)

1. Height of Mt. Everest? (answers within 500m accepted)
2. People from Melbourne are Melbournians. What are people from Moscow called?*
3. And people from Paris?
4. Order these three continents in size: N. America, S. America, Africa. (not entirely sure myself lol)
5. Where is Belfast?

HISTORY! (admittedly its mainly Asian history)

1. What dynasty followed the Taiping Rebellion in China?
2. What relation is Kublai Khan to Genghis Khan?*
3. When was Malacca considered the absolute epicentre of trade in Asia?* (century)
4. Where was Captain Cook killed?
5. When was China unified by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China? (century)

SCIENCE & MODERN TECHNOLOGY!!

1. Ohm's Law? V = ?
2. What does HTML stand for?
3. What shape is a truss?* =D
4. Everybody know's Pi to two decimal places, what is Pi to four decimal places?
5. How much bits in a byte?

LANGUAGES!!

1. What is 'piscine' French for?*
2. What is 'cuttlefish' in Japanese?*
3. What is 'poo, no.2, faecal matter' in Hokkien?
4. What is the structure of a haiku?
5. What was Jesus' native tongue? (not sure if i spelt the answer right)

MISCELLANEOUS!

1. What is the title of the occupation for one who makes and edits dictionaries?*
2. What is the suffix '-cracy' indicating?
3. What fashion label's icon is two letter Cs overlapping (one mirrored horizontally)?
4. Which country invented the gesture of the middle finger up?*
5. Who is the current world record holder for the 100m dash?

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g1. 8848m above sea level; g2. Moscuvites; g3. Parisians; g4. Africa, N. America, S. America; g5. Ireland I think?

h1. Ming Dynasty; h2. great-great-grandson i think, possibly great-grandson; h3. 17th Century (~1600); h4. Hawaii (speared by natives i think); h5. 221BC i.e. 3rd Century BC

s1. IR; s2. Hypertext Markup Language?; s3. Right angled triangle? s4. 3.1415; s5. 8

l1. swimming pool; l2. ii ka (whatever the hiragana is); l3. bang sai; l4. 3, 5, 3 syllables; l5. Aramaic

m1. lexicography; m2. a type of government; m3. Chanel; m4. England (english archers specifically); m5. Usain Bolt

DONE. With mistakes.

*double points