Bing Weekly Quiz: 10 Challenging Trivia  Questions

Delaware earned the nickname “The First State” because its delegates were the first to approve the U.S. Constitution. The state ratified it just days before Pennsylvania and New Jersey followed.

Manchester became closely associated with cotton manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution. Its mills and growing network of canals and railways helped turn it into one of Britain's most important industrial cities.

Plutonium was discovered in 1940 by a team working at the University of California, Berkeley. Its name followed the naming pattern of uranium and neptunium, taking inspiration from planets in the Solar System.

Qhapaq Ñan was an enormous network of roads connecting settlements across the Andes. It stretched through several modern South American countries and helped the Inca Empire move people, goods, and messages across difficult mountain terrain.

Java was originally called Oak during its early development. It was designed with the idea of portability in mind, summarized by the famous principle that Java applications could run across different platforms through the Java Virtual Machine.

Bong Joon Ho's South Korean film Parasite made Oscar history at the 2020 Academy Awards. It won both Best Picture and Best International Feature Film, becoming the first film to win both awards.

Reykjavík, Iceland's capital, sits at a latitude of about 64° north. Despite its far-northern location, the city has a relatively mild climate for its latitude because of the influence of the North Atlantic and surrounding ocean currents.

Roland-Garros is the only Grand Slam tournament played on clay. The surface creates longer rallies and gives the ball a different bounce compared with the hard courts used at the Australian Open and US Open.

The Rosetta Stone contains the same decree written in three scripts: Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Greek text gave scholars a known language that helped unlock the meaning of the hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Abyssinia was a historical name commonly used in Europe for the Ethiopian highlands and the Ethiopian state. Ethiopia has one of Africa's oldest continuous cultural and political traditions and was never formally colonized, although Italy occupied it from 1936 to 1941.