General Knowledge Quiz #185 - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the second letter in the Greek alphabet?	Beta	96%
Where were paper, the printing press, the compass, and gunpowder first invented?	China	86%
What do you call something that has a pH of less than 7?	An acid	85%
What was the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1453–1922?	Constantinople	81%
The words zeitgeist and poltergeist come to us from German. What does "Geist" mean in German?	Ghost	80%
Name one of the two non-extinct animals that has tusks and whose name starts with W.	Walrus / Warthog	79%
What does the French word "musée" mean in English?	Museum	77%
Where would you find the neocortex?	In the brain	75%
What are San Quentin, Robben Island, and the Bastille?	Prisons	72%
What country on the African mainland is geographically closest to North America?	Morocco	69%
Who died while composing a requiem (music for a funeral)?	W. A. Mozart	66%
What substance can be given an "octane rating"?	Gasoline	61%
What city is home to the world's tallest arch?	St. Louis	49%
According to Occam's Razor, which solution is usually correct?	The simplest one	48%
Who was the first human to orbit Earth?	Yuri Gagarin	48%
What island, starting with the letter B, is the only island in the world to be shared by three different countries?	Borneo	45%
What is a "djinn" better known as?	Genie	45%
What is a knoll?	A small hill	44%
In hip hop lingo, what is scrilla?	Money	25%
What city means "New Siberia"?	Novosibirsk	24%

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