| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is made from mostly wood, graphite, and rubber? | Pencil | 82%
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| In what country are "bonjour", "Guten Tag", and "buongiorno" all different ways to say hello using an official language? | Switzerland | 80%
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| What was notable about Dolly, a famous sheep born in 1996? | She was a clone | 76%
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| What is halite better known as, especially when you put it on your food? | Salt | 74%
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| What 1997 movie was, at the time, the most expensive in history and required a 17 million gallon water tank? | Titanic | 72%
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| On what island would you find the River Shannon? | Ireland | 66%
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| Magnus Jóhannesson is from Iceland. He has a son. What is his son's last name? | Magnusson | 65%
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| What is known in France as petit-déjeuner, literal translation: "little lunch"? | Breakfast | 60%
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| What causes things to sound higher pitched when they are moving towards us? | {Doppler} Effect | 52%
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| What car model, on its retirement in 1927, was responsible for about half of all the automobiles ever sold? | Ford Model T | 52%
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| Where was Kwanzaa first celebrated in 1966? (name the country) | United States | 51%
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| What would you use a "depth charge" against? | Submarine | 47%
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| What profession's red and white sign stands for blood and bandages, a relic from when they provided surgical services? | Barbers | 38%
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| In what country would you find the Nagorno-Karabakh region, once home to a large Armenian population that was forced to flee in 2023? | Azerbaijan | 33%
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| What absurdist play could be summarized as "Godot never shows up"? | Waiting for Godot | 33%
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| What dark red gem is the birthstone for the month of January? | Garnet | 32%
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| What Nobel Prize winning leader stepped down in 1991 and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial seven years later? | Mikhail Gorbachev | 32%
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| What place did aviator Richard E. Byrd visit by air in 1929, becoming the first person to do so? | The South Pole | 32%
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| What fabric gets its name from the city of Nîmes, France? | Denim | 22%
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| What army unit consists of about 10,000–25,000 soldiers? | Division | 22%
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