| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| U.S. golfer | Tiger Woods | 84%
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| Current North Korean leader | Kim Jong Un | 76%
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| U.S. President between 2016 and 2020 | Donald Trump | 74%
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| U.S. President between 2008 and 2016 | Barack Obama | 73%
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| Magical book series-turned-franchise | Harry Potter | 72%
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| Lead singer of Nirvana | Kurt Cobain | 71%
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| North European country that experiences a great deal of volcanic activity | Iceland | 70%
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| Vampiric book series-turned-franchise | Twilight | 69%
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| U.S. singer whose career started as a child (1958-2009) | Michael Jackson | 65%
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| U.S. rapper, producer, and third ex-husband of Kim Kardashian (b. 1977) | Kanye West | 61%
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| Social media website eventually superseded by Facebook in popularity | Myspace | 61%
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| Japanese media franchise about animals with special powers aimed at young children | Pokemon | 60%
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| Disturbances in the ground caused by seismic activity | Earthquakes | 59%
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| Location of a 2011 nuclear accident | Fukushima, Japan | 58%
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| Genetically modified organisms (abbreviation) | GMOs | 58%
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| Director of films such as "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial", the Indiana Jones trilogy, and more recently, "West Side Story" | Steven Spielberg | 58%
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| Anti-government protests and uprisings that took place in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain | Arab Spring | 56%
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| Animated superhero with an environmentalist message | Captain Planet | 55%
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| The victim of said police brutality | Rodney King | 55%
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| Character the above played for eleven years | Iron Man | 53%
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| Nickname given to the process of the U.K. leaving the E.U. | Brexit | 52%
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| U.S. country-turned-pop singer (b. 1989) | Taylor Swift | 52%
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| A.I.-generated likenesses of one person superimposed over another | Deepfakes | 51%
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| Civil disturbances in response to four police officers being acquitted of police brutality (1992) | LA riots | 49%
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| Location of 1999 high school shooting | Columbine | 48%
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| U.S. basketball player and star of "Space Jam" (b. 1963) | Michael Jordan | 48%
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| Former U.S. swimmer (b. 1985) | Michael Phelps | 48%
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| 2016 sci-fi horror Netflix TV series starring Winona Ryder and David Harbor | Stranger Things | 46%
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| U.K. Prime Minister between 2019 and 2022 | Boris Johnson | 45%
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| Victim of police brutality whose death sparked a series of international protests (1973-2020) | George Floyd | 45%
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| International Islamic terrorist group also known as Islamic State | I.S.I.S. | 45%
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| Child actor who made a comeback in the 2000s after years of substance abuse and legal troubles | Robert Downey Jr. | 43%
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| Domestic terrorist attack in South Central U.S. state | Oklahoma City bomb | 42%
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| Shorthand for the terrorist attacks that took place on 11th September 2001 | 9/11 | 41%
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| U.S. basketball player and star of "Space Jam: A New Legacy" (b. 1984) | LeBron James | 41%
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| Location of 2020 munitions explosion that killed 218 | Beirut, Lebanon | 40%
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| Location of 2012 elementary school shooting | Sandy Hook | 40%
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| The two candidates for the U.S. presidency (2000) | George W. Bush and Al Gore | 39%
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| Nickname of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (1942-2023) | Unabomber | 39%
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| Far-right conspiracy theory movement | QAnon | 37%
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| 2006 album by My Chemical Romance | The Black Parade | 36%
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| Generic name for U.S. military campaigns against the Middle East | War on Terror | 35%
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| Music festival held in New York that attempted to replicate the 1969 original (1999) | Woodstock | 34%
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| Domestic terrorist attack at a high-profile running event (2013) | Boston Marathon bombing | 33%
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| Former actress, current Duchess of Sussex | Meghan Markle | 33%
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| South African businessman and Grimes's ex-partner (b. 1971) | Elon Musk | 32%
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| Nickname given to six-year-old boy who was the subject of a hoax involving an inflatable object | Balloon Boy | 31%
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| U.S. agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 | Monsanto | 28%
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| Container ship that blocked the Suez Canal (2021) | Ever Given | 27%
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| Name of said superhero | Batman | 26%
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| Dubai skyscraper climbed by Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" | Burj Khalifa | 25%
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| 2020 true crime documentary miniseries | Tiger King | 25%
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| Princeton graduate who would later go on to co-found Amazon (b. 1964) | Jeff Bezos | 24%
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| U.S. state whose electric grid failed after an unusual snowstorm (2021) | Texas | 24%
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| Tennis-playing sisters (b. 1980 and 1981) | Venus and Serena Williams | 23%
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| Assassinated Japanese former prime minister (1954-2022) | Shinzo Abe | 22%
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| Fraudulent luxury music festival co-founded by Ja Rule | Fyre Fest | 21%
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| 5ft 2in U.S. musician who originally sang "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1958-2016) | Prince | 21%
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| U.S. quarterback who took the knee to protest police brutality (b. 1987) | Colin Kaepernick | 20%
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| Borderline animated sci-fi film directed by James Cameron (2009) | Avatar | 19%
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| Name used to describe the increase in the global average temperature and its effects on the environment | Climate change | 19%
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| One-word Nintendo action-adventure franchise that started in the 1980s | Metroid | 19%
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| Critically endangered horned animal native to Africa | White rhino | 19%
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| Longest-reigning British monarch and longest-reigning female monarch (1926-2022) | Elizabeth II | 18%
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| Numbers on the named jerseys of the above | 23, 45 | 17%
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| Virginia resident whose wife cut off his penis after years of domestic abuse | John Bobbitt | 16%
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| Name given to the contrast between the lack of conclusive evidence of aliens and the apparently high likelihood of their existence | Fermi paradox | 15%
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| Major sign of climate change that affects the Arctic Circle | Melting ice caps | 15%
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| African-American boy with a toy gun shot dead by police officer (2002-2014) | Tamir Rice | 14%
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| Collection of marine debris also known as the Pacific trash vortex | Great Pacific Garbage Patch | 11%
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| Period of military conflict in the Middle East which ended in 2021 | War in Afghanistan | 11%
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| U.S. actor best known for playing a well-known superhero (b. 1951) | Michael Keaton | 9%
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| African-American woman found hanged in a jail cell three days after being arrested for a traffic violation (1987-2015) | Sandra Bland | 9%
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| Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, used to treat anxiety and depressive disorders (abbreviation) | SSRIs | 8%
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| The Opportunity (or "Oppy") and Spirit are examples of this type of machinery | Mars rover | 6%
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| Tesla is a creator of these | Self-driving cars | 6%
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| Singer of Blink-182 and AVA and proponent of existence of extraterrestrial life | Tom DeLonge | 6%
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| Name given to potential problems with computer calendar storage at the turn of the millennium | Y2K problem | 5%
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