Interesting Facts Quiz #1 - Statistics

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Fact	Answer	% Correct
People from ____ are known as Muscovites	Moscow	86%
Only 7 prisoners were inside the _______ when it was stormed during the French Revolution	Bastille	83%
Marie Curie was both the first woman to win a _____ ____ and the first person of any gender to win twice	Nobel Prize	79%
Mark Twain was born two weeks after the appearance of ______'_ _____ in 1835 and died one day after it returned 75 years later	Halley's Comet	61%
The colossal _____ has the largest eyes of any animal	Squid	59%
Lake ______ is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world	Baikal	56%
Ceres is the largest ________ in the solar system. For fifty years, it was considered to be the eighth planet.	Asteroid	54%
In the story "The Sign of Four", Sherlock Holmes was a frequent drug user who injected a seven percent solution of _______	Cocaine	51%
____ _. ___________ was the first person to have a net worth in excess of $1 billion USD. His company, Standard Oil, had a monopoly on the U.S. oil industry.	John D. Rockefeller	48%
Some people have claimed that the CIA plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro using an exploding ____	Cigar	44%
________ _____ is the daughter of actor Jon Voight	Angelina Jolie	43%
In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is known as the ________ War	American	40%
The Greek island of Santorini was devastated by a huge volcanic eruption around 1600 BC. Some people think this eruption inspired the myth of ________.	Atlantis	40%
Technically speaking, Alaska is both the westernmost and the easternmost U.S. state. Some of the ________ Islands are so far west that they extend into the Eastern Hemisphere.	Aleutian	33%
Of all the people in the Bible, __________ had the longest life span: 969 years	Methuselah	31%
All people of European or Asian descent have some ___________ DNA	Neanderthal	29%
The official name of _______ is Krung Thep Maha Nakhon	Bangkok	27%
According to some people, Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" was written as an alternate soundtrack to the movie "___ ______ __ __". The band denies it.	The Wizard of Oz	19%
The only U.S. presidents to run essentially unopposed were George Washington and _____ ______	James Monroe	16%
_____'s Law states that number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 12–24 months	Moore's	14%

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