The Ultimate Pub Trivia Rumble: Golden Trophy Edition

The English playwright known as the 'Bard of Avon', who penned 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth', and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Answer:William Shakespeare

Note:Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant fictional detective who lived at 221B Baker Street in London.

Answer:Sherlock Holmes

Note:Accompanied by his loyal friend and chronicler Dr. John Watson.

The author who created Middle-earth, authoring 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'.

Answer:J.R.R. Tolkien

Note:Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon and philology.

The groundbreaking 1818 Gothic science fiction novel written by an 18-year-old Mary Shelley.

Answer:Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus)

Note:Considered one of the earliest examples of science fiction.

Spanish writer who created the delusional knight errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza.

Answer:Miguel de Cervantes

Note:'Don Quixote' is considered the first modern European novel.

German craftsman who introduced movable-type mechanical printing to Europe around 1440.

Answer:Johannes Gutenberg

Note:Printed the Gutenberg Bible, revolutionizing mass literacy.

Scottish physician who serendipitously discovered the first modern antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928.

Answer:Alexander Fleming

Note:Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

American aviation brothers Orville and Wilbur who made the first powered, sustained airplane flight in 1903.

Answer:The Wright Brothers

Note:Took place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.

Answer:Tim Berners-Lee

Note:Created HTML, HTTP, and the first web browser and web server.

Serbian-American electrical engineer who patented alternating current (AC) electricity transmission.

Answer:Nikola Tesla

Note:Held over 300 patents worldwide.

The highest mountain on Earth above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and China.

Answer:Mount Everest (Sagarmatha / Chomolungma)

Note:Stands at 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet).

The deepest oceanic trench in the world, with the Challenger Deep reaching roughly 11,000 meters down.

Answer:Mariana Trench

Note:Located in the western Pacific Ocean.

The speed of light in a vacuum, rounded to the nearest thousand kilometers per second.

Answer:300,000 km/s (299,792 km/s)

Note:Represented by the constant 'c' in Einstein's physics.

The only mammalian species that is capable of true sustained powered flight.

Answer:Bat

Note:Belongs to the order Chiroptera with over 1,400 species.

The chemical element named after the Greek word for 'sun' because it was first discovered in the solar spectrum.

Answer:Helium

Note:Second most abundant element in the observable universe.

The capital city of Australia, chosen as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne.

Answer:Canberra

Note:Became capital in 1913.

The longest river in South America and the largest in the world by water discharge volume.

Answer:Amazon River

Note:Discharges more water than the next 7 largest rivers combined.

The only nation that borders both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean besides Morocco and Spain.

Answer:France

Note:Has coastlines on both the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay/Atlantic.

The world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, dropping 979 meters in Venezuela.

Answer:Angel Falls (Salto Ángel)

Note:Located within Canaima National Park.

The world's smallest sovereign independent state by both area and population.

Answer:Vatican City

Note:Enclaved completely within the city of Rome, Italy.

The massive amphitheater in central Rome built of travertine limestone and concrete under the Flavian emperors.

Answer:The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

Note:Could hold between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators.

The white marble mausoleum commissioned in 1632 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife.

Answer:Taj Mahal

Note:Located in Agra, India, on the southern bank of the Yamuna River.

The 15th-century Inca citadel set high in the Andes Mountains above the Sacred Valley in Peru.

Answer:Machu Picchu

Note:Brought to international attention by Hiram Bingham in 1911.

The ancient rock-cut city in Jordan famous for its water conduit system and Treasury facade.

Answer:Petra

Note:Established as early as the 4th century BC as the capital of the Nabataeans.

The only surviving structure of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Answer:The Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)

Note:Constructed around 2560 BC in Egypt.