What was the name of the Turkish city of Istanbul until 1923?
Constantinople
The emergency brakes are red on the train. And what color are them on the plane?
They are not there
Everyone knows Leonardo da Vinci's painting “Mona Lisa" (Giaconda). What detail of appearance is missing from the woman depicted on this canvas, while every person has it.
Eyebrows
Which classical composer became deaf at an advanced age?
Beethoven
Say in French “unforeseen extraordinary circumstances”
Force Majeure
What does 'www' mean in a website browser?
The World Wide Web
Is it sometimes possible to say that iron is a liquid?
Yes, if you heat it up
Which continent has no rivers?
Antarctica
The Russians have a tsar, the Egyptians have a pharaoh, the Franks have a king, the Arabs have ....?
Caliph
A person who speaks many languages.
Polyglot
Who owns the phrase: “What was required to prove"?
To Euclid. This formula ended every mathematical reasoning of the great Greek mathematician
Name the most famous dead city.
Pompeii
What do we call a mountain which could erupt?
Volcano
The umbrella was invented twice: the first time in Ancient China, the second in England. How does an English umbrella differ from a Chinese one?
English for rain, Chinese for sun
Who uttered the phrase “came, saw, won"?
Julius Caesar
Which of the great playwrights claimed that “the whole world is a theater, and the people in it are actors”?
Shakespeare
Who made the first trip around the world?
Magellan
Which sport is played at Wimbledon?
Tennis
In which country is a cat a sacred animal?
Egypt
In which sea you can't drown
In the Dead Sea, because of the salinity, the water density is very high
In which country is the New Year celebrated not at midnight, but at sunrise?
Japan
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