| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the only country in the world where some highways have no speed limit? | Germany | 94%
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| What company did Bill Gates and Paul Allen found in 1975? | Microsoft | 91%
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| Who was the father of Hercules? | Jupiter | 84%
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| In terms of video games, what does the term VR stand for? | Virtual reality | 83%
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| What can come in Basmati, Arborio, and Jasmine varieties? | Rice | 80%
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| What word comes next in this series: Solo, Duet, Trio? | Quartet | 77%
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| What rail line connects the cities of Moscow and Vladivostok? | Trans-{Siberian} Railway | 68%
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| By area, what is the largest country that is entirely within Europe? | Ukraine | 67%
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| What well-known single cell organism has a name that starts and ends with A? | Amoeba | 63%
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| Whose image supposedly appears on the Shroud of Turin? | Jesus | 62%
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| What is the most famous movie starring Judy Garland? | The Wizard of Oz | 58%
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| What Olympic sport combines the five events of fencing, swimming, horse jumping, shooting, and running? | Modern pentathlon | 55%
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| In what country, other than China and Taiwan, do more than 25% of adults speak Chinese as a first language? | Singapore | 50%
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| In what country did the sport of hurling originate? | Ireland | 42%
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| What band takes its name from an American spy plane used during the Cold War? | U2 | 38%
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| What German word means "to take pleasure from the misfortune of others"? | Schadenfreude | 36%
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| What is either a common first name or something a litigious person might do? | Sue | 36%
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| What would you add to a Croque Monsieur sandwich to make it a Croque Madame? | Fried egg | 35%
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| What country is personified by the goddess Helvetia? | Switzerland | 31%
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| For what highly-effective insecticide did chemist Paul Hermann Müller win a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948? | DDT | 23%
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