| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| _____ smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel announces the election of a new pope | White | 92%
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| There are exactly ____ documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating | Zero | 90%
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| ____ mining and ____ pollution have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy, even accounting for the people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Coal | 81%
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| 38% of people in _______ have the family name Nguyễn | Vietnam | 81%
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| Martin Van Buren was the only U.S. President whose first language was not English. He grew up speaking _____ | Dutch | 77%
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| Old Jonathan is the oldest known living animal. He is a Seychelles giant ________ who is at least 190 years old | Tortoise | 74%
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| Nearly 25% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named ____ | Mary | 73%
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| ___ _______ was once home to the giant moa, a flightless bird that could rise to a height of 12 feet and could weigh up to 600 pounds | New Zealand | 71%
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| Between 2000 and 2022, _____ energy production in the U.S. increased by about 30% per year – a total increase of over 29,000% | Solar | 71%
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| Fortune cookies were invented in the ______ ______ by a person who was born in Japan | United States | 70%
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| The catacombs of _____ hold the remains of over 6 million people | Paris | 65%
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| ______ never won a Nobel Peace Prize | Gandhi | 60%
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| ______ in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans | Tigers | 57%
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| Charleston is not the capital of South Carolina. It is, however, the capital of ____ ________. | West Virginia | 53%
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| Frederick the Great, king of _______, was an example of an "enlightened despot", a non-democratic leader who nevertheless works on behalf of the people | Prussia | 51%
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| The sum of all the numbers on a ________ wheel is 666 | Roulette | 50%
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| Kowloon Walled City, a former settlement in ____ ____, once housed 50,000 people in an area of less than 0.03 square kilometers | Hong Kong | 47%
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| The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce _____, is the largest aircraft ever to fly | Goose | 39%
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| Hanlon's razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ________" | Stupidity | 35%
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| CBGB, in New York City, is a music club whose name stands for "country, bluegrass, and blues". Ironically, it was ____ music that made the club famous. | Punk | 24%
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