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Answer
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Center of a black hole.
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Singularity
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Now extinct bird native to Mauritius.
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Dodo Bird
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To have conscious awareness while asleep is called _____ Dreaming.
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Lucid
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Strenuous ski run designated for experienced skiers.
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Black Diamond
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What is the name of the traditional Scottish strength event established around 2000 BC?
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Highland Games
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Large medieval machine used to fling a heavy object.
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Trebuchet
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Modern day peninsula where the asteroid that struck the dinosaurs likely landed.
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Yucatan
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Jeanne Louise Calment is a French woman known for achieving this incredible feat.
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Oldest Human
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Digital computers use bits, quantum computers use ______.
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Qubits
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This family was an Italian banking dynasty emerging in 15th century Florence.
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Medici
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The first speculative bubble. A period in the 1630s Netherlands called ______ mania.
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Tulip
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Impossible to untie knot which Alexander The Great cut with a sword.
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Gordian Knot
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"The fool”, “Temperance”, and “The hanged man” make up a few of these.
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Tarot Cards
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Mythological symbol depicting a serpent swallowing its own tail.
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Ouroboros
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Article of clothing given to the winner of The Masters golf tournament.
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Green Jacket
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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.
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Donkey
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The galaxy which the Milky Way will collide with in 4.5 billion years.
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Andromeda
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Artist Gustav Klimt used this unorthodox material when creating works from his later period.
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Gold
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The most painful insect sting ranked on the Schmidt pain scale.
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Bullet Ant
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Ego ____ is a phenomenon arising from the use of psychedelic drugs leading to a transcendence of the self.
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Death
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This airship caught fire in 1937 resulting in 35 deaths.
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Hindenburg
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What is the point on Earth of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude colloquially called?
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Null Island
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Kurt Gödel's ________ theorems proved that a complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics is impossible.
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Incompleteness
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Nickname of Beethoven's third symphony.
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"Eroica"
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What volcanic eruption in 1883 was the loudest ever recorded at 310 decibels?
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Krakatoa
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What is the first line spoken in Hamlet?
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"Who's there?"
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Name of the iconic default computer wallpaper of Microsoft Windows in the early 2000s.
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Bliss
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Name either type of non-Euclidean geometry.
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Hyperbolic or Elliptic
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What band was Lionel Richie a part of?
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Why do you know that, loser!
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The most valuable company of all time (taking account of inflation).
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Dutch East India Company
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This mega-tall skyscraper features a giant mass damper at its top
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Taipei 101
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Game engine created by Epic Games.
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Unreal Engine
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Co-creator of cubism along with Pablo Picasso.
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Georges Braque
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Animal used as a croquet mallet in "Alice in Wonderland".
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Flamingo
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Famous chess game where Paul Morhpy defeated a German duke and French aristocrat in 1858.
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Opera Game
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Buddhist term for an endless cycle of rebirth.
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Samsara
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The tallest vertical cliff face at 5,495 feet.
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Mount Thor
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What is the phrase, "I came, I saw, I conquered" in original Latin?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici
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Known as the greatest movie never made, director Alejandro Jodorowsky failed to adapt this sci-fi classic.
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Dune
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Philosophical concept of a superior human being proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Ubermensch
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Imaginary location in one’s mind to store images that correspond to different types of information.
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Memory Palace
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Famous two-dimensional set in the complex plane that exhibits an intricate fractal pattern from a simple recursive definition.
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Mandelbrot Set
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At 16,700 ft, this is the highest altitude city in the world with a significant year-round population.
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La Rinconada, Peru
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What Swedish filmmaker’s works include Persona, Wild Strawberries, and The Seventh Seal?
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Ingmar Bergman
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What is the name of the Russian archipelago east of Svalbard in the Arctic?
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Franz Josef Land
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What is Sleeping Beauty's original name?
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Briar Rose
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The idea that it's likelier for a single brain with memories to come into existence than an entire universe.
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Boltzman Brain
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What was the original name of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher?
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Rijndael
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Bloated world record holder in the Zercher Shrugs exercise.
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Kyriakos Grizzly ⚓
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______ Death is the way in which the universe will end.
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Heat
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Kicking myself over a few answers I missed (La Rinconada, Donkey, Lionel Richie (but at least I'm not a loser?) and Boltzman), but overall pretty happy with 38.
Anyway, the one I struggled with the most: Ouroboros. Any chance you could be a bit lenient with alternative spellings? I couldn't remember which vowels were just "o" and which were "ou" and definitely had to try a bunch of different permutations before finally getting it...