This document contains 12 general knowledge questions about topics ranging from staple foods and religious concepts to astronomy and geography. Questions cover which region maize is a staple food, the religious goal of Buddhism, the builders of Machu Picchu, Wilhelm Roentgen's Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the most abundant element on Earth after oxygen, the fraction value of pi, the location of the world's largest iron ore mine, how long the sun has been shining, the term for a dying star that explodes, what geographers call a chain of islands, where kibbutzim communities can be found, and the Greek goddess of agriculture.