| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What city has been called "The Capital of Latin America", despite not actually being part of Latin America? | Miami | 42%
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| What movie featured amplifiers that could be turned up to 11? | This Is Spın̈al Tap | 39%
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| What highly-effective insecticide earned chemist Paul Hermann Müller a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948? | DDT | 37%
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| Metaphorically speaking, what are beaten into plowshares in time of peace? | Swords | 35%
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| What does an autodidact do without the assistance of others? | Learn | 34%
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| What is a nosegay made of? | Flowers | 33%
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| What musical features the song "Springtime for Hitler"? | The Producers | 33%
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| What fictional super-spy suffers from amnesia? | Jason Bourne | 32%
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| What sport was revolutionized by Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi? | Competitive {eating} | 29%
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| Who is also known as Jove? | Jupiter | 29%
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| What bisexual English poet wrote "Don Juan" and "She Walks in Beauty"? | Lord Byron | 29%
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| What 1961 movie featured the song "Moon River"? | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 28%
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| What is the military rank of a one-star general? | {Brigadier} general | 28%
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| What article of clothing (a baggy dress) is spelled with 4 u's? | Muumuu | 28%
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| Whose famous "last theorem" was proposed in 1637 and finally proved in 1995? | Pierre de Fermat | 28%
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| Who proposed to employ the guillotine as a more humane method of execution? | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | 26%
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| What grammatical error have I committed if I join two independent clauses with a comma | Comma {splice} | 25%
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| In 1982, the Philips company invented the jewel case. What is a jewel case designed to hold? | A compact disc | 22%
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| What prefix is the opposite of the prefix "eu"? | Dys | 17%
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| What brand of perfume by Calvin Klein attracts jaguars and other large cats? | Obsession | 12%
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