| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What was discovered in 1801 and (at the time) considered one of the eight planets of the solar system? | Ceres | 42%
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| What killed about 400 Americans each year in the early 1900s but only about 30 today? | Lightning strikes | 37%
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| Who has been president of El Salvador since 2019? | Nayib Bukele | 36%
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| What was the first country to make currency known as a "Dollar"? | Spain | 36%
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| Who proposed a plan to bulldoze much of Paris, rebuilding it with 18 identical concrete skyscrapers surrounded by parks and wide roads for automobile traffic? | Le Corbusier | 34%
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| A cone has a volume of 1. What is the volume of the cylinder which has the same height and base? | 3 | 33%
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| The two official languages of Pakistan are Urdu and ... | English | 33%
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| Which of these canals is the longest, at around 565 kilometers in length? | Erie Canal | 32%
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| On what island do dragon blood trees live? | Socotra | 32%
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| 13 of Oregon’s 36 counties have voted to secede from Oregon. What state do they wish to join? | Idaho | 31%
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| What is the only country outside of Africa that has a cheetah population? | Iran | 31%
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| Which of these animals is a strict carnivore? | Common dolphin | 30%
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| Which U.S. president had, at one time, an approval rating over 90%? | George W. Bush | 28%
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| What is the most populous island in the United States? | Long Island | 28%
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| What is a factotum? | A jack of all trades | 27%
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| What is the biggest moon in our solar system? | Ganymede | 27%
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| What historical individual’s family tree has been traced for 80 generations – over 2500 years? | Confucius | 26%
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| Who did the Beatles travel to India to meet in 1968? | The Maharishi | 26%
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| What country has over 180 million sheep – by far the most of any country? | China | 24%
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| What equation seeks to calculate the probability of intelligent alien life in the Milky Way? | Drake equation | 24%
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| In 2023, what country set the record for the most crude oil ever produced by a single country in a single year? | United States | 24%
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| Who is Cristiano Ronaldo named after? | Ronald Reagan | 23%
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| Which of these fruits is a "drupe"? | Peach | 22%
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| Who was allegedly a customer of BALCO, the Bay Area Lab Company? | Barry Bonds | 21%
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| What type of tea gets its special flavor from orange peels? | Earl Grey | 21%
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| What did Hungarian-born physicist Edward Teller invent? | The hydrogen bomb | 18%
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| Where are Mount Odin, Mount Thor, and Mount Asgard? | Canada | 17%
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| Where does Hello Kitty live? | London | 17%
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| "The Bund" is a historic waterfront district in what city? | Shanghai | 15%
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| What, according to Ernest Hemingway, happens "gradually and then suddenly"? | Going broke | 9%
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