Sixteen categories

Countries, cities, populations, distances and the odd border fact.

• How big is Argentina?#12
• How many people lived in Papua New Guinea in 2024?#11
• How long is the Great Barrier Reef?#7
• How long is the Congo River?#4
• How many people lived in Nigeria in 2024?#2

When things happened, how long they lasted and how big they were.

• In what year did Magellan's expedition complete the first voyage around the world?#12
• In what year did Australia's six colonies federate into a single nation?#6
• In what year did Vesuvius erupt and bury Pompeii?#5

Records, scores, stadiums, transfers and the numbers behind the games.

• How many people does Michigan Stadium officially hold in 2026?#6

Release years, running times, budgets and box-office figures.

• How tall is an Oscar statuette, in centimetres?#10
• In what year was the Australian comedy Crocodile Dundee first released?#8
• How many Oscars did Slumdog Millionaire win?#6
• How many episodes of Lost were broadcast in total?#3

Chart runs, album sales, concert crowds and song lengths.

Launch dates, file sizes, chip counts and the growth of the devices you use.

• In what year did Jack Kilby build the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments?#11
• When did the dual-screen Nintendo DS first reach shops?#10
• In what year did the first Apple Watch go on sale?#2

Prices, salaries, valuations and the biggest deals ever done.

• How much did Facebook pay for Instagram in 2012?#9
• How much did 'Apex', the Stegosaurus skeleton, fetch at Sotheby's New York in July 2024?#8

Speeds, weights, lifespans and the extremes of the animal kingdom.

• What is the resting heart rate of an Etruscan shrew, a 2-gram mammal?#8

Temperatures, masses, discoveries and the scale of the physical world.

• How deep is the Grand Canyon at its deepest, from rim to river?#12
• Thunder reaches you 10 seconds after the flash. How far away was the lightning?#9
• How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?#7
• What is the fastest wind gust ever measured (Barrow Island, Australia, 1996)?#6
• How old is the Earth?#4

Distances, mission dates, planet sizes and what it takes to leave Earth.

• In what year did the Cassini spacecraft end its mission by diving into Saturn?#11
• How far from Earth does the James Webb Space Telescope orbit?#10
• How many years did New Horizons take to fly from Earth to Pluto?#4
• In what year did SpaceX first carry astronauts to orbit, on the Crew Dragon Demo-2 flight?#3

Calories, invention years, harvests and the numbers on your plate.

• How many calories are in a 250 ml glass of whole milk?#11
• To what internal temperature does the FDA say chicken must be cooked?#5
• In what year was Nando's founded in Johannesburg?#4

How much, how fast and how long: the measurements of being human.

• How much blood does a resting adult heart pump each minute?#9
• How much does one of an adult man's kidneys weigh?#3
• How tall is the average adult woman in the US (2021–2023 survey)?#2

Users, uploads, launch years and the size of the online world.

• How many new countries did Netflix switch on in a single day in January 2016?#12
• In what year did Google Maps go live?#10
• What share of Kenya's population used the internet in 2023?#9
• In what year did Tim Berners-Lee write his proposal for the World Wide Web at CERN?#7
• In what year was Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant, founded?#6
• When did Wikipedia launch?#5

Top speeds, launch years, journey times and the machines that move us.

• When was the first Ford Model T built?#12
• In what year did Harley and Davidson build their first motorcycle in a Milwaukee shed?#8
• In which year was the Porsche 911 first shown to the public at the Frankfurt motor show?#7
• How long is Switzerland's Gotthard Base Tunnel, the rail tunnel under the Alps?#5
• In what year did BMW launch the first 3 Series?#3
• In what year did the Airbus A320 make its first flight?#2

Heights, spans, build times and the buildings everyone has heard of.

• How tall is St Peter's Basilica, floor to the top of the cross on its dome?#10
• In what year did Japan's Akashi Kaikyō Bridge open to traffic?#9
• How tall is the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, to its roof?#4
• How tall are the twin spires of Cologne Cathedral?#2

Mountains, rivers, storms and the planet at its most extreme.

• How many adult Wollemi pines survived in the wild in 2024?#11
• How many trees are there on Earth?#7
• How old is the General Sherman giant sequoia, by the latest estimate?#5