General Knowledge: Big Ideas, Places, and Pop Culture

1. What connects the words kilometer and kilogram?

2. Which has the greatest land area: Canada, China, or the United States?

3. Which recent June 2026 headline is a safe culture hook?

4. The word geography literally refers to writing about what?

5. Which city is the capital of Australia?

6. Which animal is famous for laying eggs but feeding its young with milk?

7. Which country was the first to host the modern Olympic Games?

8. Which came first: the invention of the telephone, the first powered airplane, or the first commercial television broadcast?

9. Among maple, oak, cedar, and salmon, which item is the odd one out?

10. Clue 1: I am a number. Clue 2: I am the only even prime. Clue 3: I sit between 1 and 3. What am I?