| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Who is the French queen guillotined during the Revolution? | Marie Antoinette | 80%
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| What is the largest non-polar desert? | Sahara | 78%
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| What is the Greek epic predecessor to Homer’s Odyssey? | Iliad | 60%
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| What is the Pre-Columbian empire with Machu Picchu? | Inca | 60%
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| What is the longest river in Asia? | Yangtze | 47%
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| Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales? | Chaucer | 45%
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| Who is the surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory? | Dalí | 40%
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| Who is the Byzantine emperor who codified Roman law? | Justinian | 27%
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| What is the capital of Bhutan? | Thimphu | 27%
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| What is the name of the scientific study of fungi? | Mycology | 24%
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| Who is the first woman elected head of a Muslim-majority country? | Benazir Bhutto | 18%
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| What is the ancient writing system using wedge-shaped characters? | Cuneiform | 15%
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| Who is the Russian novelist who wrote The Brothers Karamazov? | Dostoevsky | 15%
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| What is the quantum particle with no electric charge? | Neutrino | 11%
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| What is the only sea without coasts? | Sargasso | 11%
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| What is the process causing stars to emit light? | Nuclear fusion | 9%
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| What is the name of the Treaty ending the Thirty Years’ War? | Westphalia | 9%
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| What is the term for a group of ravens? | Unkindness | 7%
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| What is Michelangelo’s sculpture depicting Moses? | Moses | 5%
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| What is an active volcano in Indonesia that erupted in 1815? | Tambora | 5%
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| What is the enzyme breaking down hydrogen peroxide? | Catalase | 4%
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| What is the Latin name for the common fig? | Ficus Carica | 2%
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| What is the term for Earth’s magnetic field reversal? | Geomagnetic reversal | 2%
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| What is the name of a fear of vegetables? | Lachanophobia | 2%
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