| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| In what month in 1745 did Bonnie Prince Charlie, against his will, halt his invasion of England at Derby and retreat back to Scotland? | December | 82%
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| What is the second-largest city in Massachusetts as of 2021? | Worcester | 36%
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| Who was Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 2009-2019? | Carol Ann Duffy | 18%
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| Under what assumed name does Éowyn ride to war in The Return of the King? | Dernhelm | 18%
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| What, supposedly, was the last word Napoleon ever spoke? | Joséphine | 18%
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| What doomed Shakespearean monarch proclaims in defiance: "Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king"? | Richard II | 18%
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| What was the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous 1936 lecture on Beowulf? | Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics | 9%
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| Where is Daphne du Maurier's story "The Birds" set? | Cornwall | 9%
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| Who was the last heuy tlatoani of the Mexica? | Cuauhtémoc | 9%
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| Whose lines are these: "Read history: so learn your place in Time/And go to sleep: all this was done before"? | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 9%
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| Who was Baldr's son according to Snorri Sturluson? | Forseti | 9%
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| What is the translation of "Resurgam," the Latin motto of the city of Portland in Maine? | I will rise again | 9%
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| What is the typical French translation of "Der Tod und das Mädchen"? | La jeune fille et la mort | 9%
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| Whom did Plato call the "tenth Muse"? | Sappho | 9%
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| What is beauty, according to Julian Morrow? | Terror | 9%
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| Where is Isle La Motte? | Vermont | 9%
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