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| Now extinct bird native to Mauritius. | Dodo Bird | 87%
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| To have conscious awareness while asleep is called _____ Dreaming. | Lucid | 73%
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| The galaxy which the Milky Way will collide with in 4.5 billion years. | Andromeda | 47%
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| Article of clothing given to the winner of The Masters golf tournament. | Green Jacket | 47%
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| This airship caught fire in 1937 resulting in 35 deaths. | Hindenburg | 47%
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| Jeanne Louise Calment is a French woman known for achieving this incredible feat. | Oldest Human | 47%
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| Large medieval machine used to fling a heavy object. | Trebuchet | 47%
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| The first speculative bubble. A period in the 1630s Netherlands called ______ mania. | Tulip | 47%
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| Strenuous ski run designated for experienced skiers. | Black Diamond | 40%
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| This family was an Italian banking dynasty emerging in 15th century Florence. | Medici | 40%
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| "The fool”, “Temperance”, and “The hanged man” make up a few of these. | Tarot Cards | 40%
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| Philosophical concept of a superior human being proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche. | Ubermensch | 40%
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| What is the phrase, "I came, I saw, I conquered" in original Latin? | Veni, Vidi, Vici | 40%
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| Modern day peninsula where the asteroid that struck the dinosaurs likely landed. | Yucatan | 40%
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| Ego ____ is a phenomenon arising from the use of psychedelic drugs leading to a transcendence of the self. | Death | 33%
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| Artist Gustav Klimt used this unorthodox material when creating works from his later period. | Gold | 33%
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| Impossible to untie knot which Alexander The Great cut with a sword. | Gordian Knot | 33%
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| What Swedish filmmaker’s works include Persona, Wild Strawberries, and The Seventh Seal? | Ingmar Bergman | 33%
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| What volcanic eruption in 1883 was the loudest ever recorded at 310 decibels? | Krakatoa | 33%
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| Mythological symbol depicting a serpent swallowing its own tail. | Ouroboros | 33%
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| Known as the greatest movie never made, director Alejandro Jodorowsky failed to adapt this sci-fi classic. | Dune | 27%
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| The most valuable company of all time (taking account of inflation). | Dutch East India Company | 27%
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| Animal used as a croquet mallet in "Alice in Wonderland". | Flamingo | 27%
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| ______ Death is the way in which the universe will end. | Heat | 27%
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| What is the name of the traditional Scottish strength event established around 2000 BC? | Highland Games | 27%
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| Digital computers use bits, quantum computers use ______. | Qubits | 27%
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| Buddhist term for an endless cycle of rebirth. | Samsara | 27%
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| Game engine created by Epic Games. | Unreal Engine | 27%
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| The most painful insect sting ranked on the Schmidt pain scale. | Bullet Ant | 20%
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| Chrysippus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who died from laughter at a joke he made after seeing this animal eating figs. | Donkey | 20%
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| Nickname of Beethoven's third symphony. | "Eroica" | 20%
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| Kurt Gödel's ________ theorems proved that a complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics is impossible. | Incompleteness | 20%
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| Center of a black hole. | Singularity | 20%
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| What band was Lionel Richie a part of? | Why do you know that, loser! | 20%
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| Name of the iconic default computer wallpaper of Microsoft Windows in the early 2000s. | Bliss | 13%
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| The idea that it's likelier for a single brain with memories to come into existence than an entire universe. | Boltzman Brain | 13%
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| Co-creator of cubism along with Pablo Picasso. | Georges Braque | 13%
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| Famous two-dimensional set in the complex plane that exhibits an intricate fractal pattern from a simple recursive definition. | Mandelbrot Set | 13%
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| Imaginary location in one’s mind to store images that correspond to different types of information. | Memory Palace | 13%
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| What is the point on Earth of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude colloquially called? | Null Island | 13%
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| Famous chess game where Paul Morhpy defeated a German duke and French aristocrat in 1858. | Opera Game | 13%
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| What is the first line spoken in Hamlet? | "Who's there?" | 13%
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| What is Sleeping Beauty's original name? | Briar Rose | 7%
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| Name either type of non-Euclidean geometry. | Hyperbolic or Elliptic | 7%
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| The tallest vertical cliff face at 5,495 feet. | Mount Thor | 7%
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| This mega-tall skyscraper features a giant mass damper at its top | Taipei 101 | 7%
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| What is the name of the Russian archipelago east of Svalbard in the Arctic? | Franz Josef Land | 0%
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| Bloated world record holder in the Zercher Shrugs exercise. | Kyriakos Grizzly ⚓ | 0%
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| At 16,700 ft, this is the highest altitude city in the world with a significant year-round population. | La Rinconada, Peru | 0%
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| What was the original name of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher? | Rijndael | 0%
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