| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What Russian-American author had the initials VN? | Vladimir Nabokov | 42%
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| Who had a horse named Bucephalus and a best friend named Hephaestion? | Alexander the Great | 36%
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| Complete the line of poetry: "water water every where ...." | Nor any drop to drink | 34%
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| What does the V in EVOO stand for? (hint: cooks should know) | Virgin | 33%
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| What, according to cliché, does nature abhor? | A vacuum | 32%
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| What is it called when a speculator buys nearly the entire supply of a commodity, causing prices to skyrocket? | {Corner}ing the market | 28%
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| A Corvette is a sports car made by Chevrolet. What is a corvette, uncapitalized? | A type of {ship} | 27%
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| What is lysergic acid commonly known as? | LSD | 27%
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| In hip hop lingo, what is scrilla? | Money | 27%
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| Name one of the two most common minerals in the Earth's crust. | Feldspar / Quartz | 26%
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| What word means "an idea that spreads like a gene"? | Meme | 25%
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| What can be made using the Bessemer process? | Steel | 24%
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| What is a sapphire with an asterism known as? | A {star} sapphire | 21%
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| What would you buy at an automat? | Food | 21%
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| What edible root can fetch high prices in China if it is shaped like a person? | Ginseng | 20%
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| What is either something you wear or the container which holds the cards in blackjack? | Shoe | 18%
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| What ancient philospher's "Analects" include one of the earliest formulations of the Golden Rule? | Confucius | 16%
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| What last name did Prince Harry use during his military career? | Wales | 16%
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| In seven countries, more than 10% of the population speaks Russian as a first language. What is the only one that was not a part of the Soviet Union? | Israel | 13%
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| What machine was patented by Luigi Bezzera of Milan in 1902? | Espresso machine | 10%
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