All Quizzes

Each fact page on Footnoted ends with a five-question quiz. Answers are checked against the sources listed on the page, and every answer comes with a short explanation.

History

• The largest empires in history
• Holy Roman Emperors
• The Christmas truce of 1914
• Why the Roman Empire fell
• The Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night

Geography

• The longest rivers in Africa
• The largest lakes in the world
• What a square metre costs in 10 cities (ten questions)
• The Seven Summits

Nature

• The giant Asian hornet
• Hairless dog breeds
• How a honeybee colony works

Human body

• Bones of the body
• The central nervous system
• How the heart works
• How the lungs work
• How digestion works
• How the kidneys work

People & customs

• How Halloween started
• Hand gestures around the world
• The Day of the Dead

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