| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the capital of both the United Kingdom and England? | London | 100%
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| What playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet"? | William Shakespeare | 98%
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| What reptile is commonly mistaken for a crocodile? | Alligator | 97%
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| What flying device can be referred to as a "chopper"? | Helicopter | 94%
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| In what Islamic holy city can the Kaaba be found? | Mecca | 89%
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| What coding language shares its name with a family of snakes? | Python | 73%
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| In the Marvel film franchise, who plays the Norse god Thor? | Chris Hemsworth | 72%
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| What is the name of Edvard Munch's most famous painting? | The Scream | 71%
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| The Disney movie Frozen was loosely based off "The Snow Queen" by which Danish author? | Hans Christian Andersen | 62%
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| Which actress has won the most Oscars? | Meryl Streep | 54%
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| What river runs through Kyiv? | Dnieper | 50%
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| What unit of speed is equal to about 1.151 miles per hour? | Knot | 44%
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| In what European country are video game companies Supercell and Rovio based? | Finland | 43%
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| The Chicago Tribune erroneously claimed that Thomas E. Dewey defeated which U.S. President? | Harry S. Truman | 40%
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| After presenting his findings to the Catholic Church, Galileo was given what 15-letter punishment? | Excommunication | 39%
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| What state university's mascot is the Crimson Tide? | Alabama | 38%
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| What food is Nathan's most famous for? | Hot Dogs | 34%
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| What is the most common collective term for a group of owls? | Parliament | 32%
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| At 92 feet below sea level, which Asian capital has the lowest elevation in the world? | Baku | 27%
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| In poetry, what metrical foot is constituted by one unstressed and one stressed syllable? | Iamb | 27%
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| What American Founding Father famously shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death!"? | Patrick Henry | 25%
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| What is the largest city in Cameroon? | Douala | 21%
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| The New York Jets supposedly "saved" the Super Bowl by defeating what no-longer-existing Baltimore team in Super Bowl III? | Colts | 18%
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| What does the D stand for in LDPE and HDPE? | Density | 18%
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| The six types of quarks in particle physics are up, down, top, bottom, charm, and what other type? | Strange | 18%
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| The two events in a biathlon are cross-country skiing and what? | Rifle Shooting | 17%
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| What hypothetical theory for the end of the universe is the opposite of the Big Bang? | Big Crunch | 14%
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| What tiny exclave of Angola provides most of the country's oil? | Cabinda | 14%
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| What is the first number that contains a C when spelled out? | Octillion | 13%
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| What word can be synonymous with "catastrophe" but comes from the Ancient Greek word for "revelation"? | Apocalypse | 12%
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| Which geographic era in Earth's history was the first and the longest by far? | Precambrian | 9%
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| What is the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia? | Hohhot | 8%
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| What does an ophidiophobe fear? | Snakes | 7%
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| Rubies and sapphires are both varieties of what mineral? | Corundum | 6%
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| On the sitcom The Simpsons, who voices Homer Simpson? | Dan Castellaneta | 6%
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| What process that starts with D does a protein undergo when exposed to unnatural temperature or pH? | Denaturization | 6%
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| What movie starring Clark Gable was the first to win all of the "Big Five" Academy Awards? | It Happened One Night | 6%
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| What is the middle portion of the small intestine called? | Jejunum | 6%
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| What type of fermented shark is the national dish of Iceland? | Hakarl | 5%
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| What chemist is often credited with founding the field of stoichiometry? | Antoine Lavoisier | 4%
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| What northern city hosted the fencing events during the 1952 Summer Olympics? | Espoo | 4%
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| What is the Polish variant of the name John? | Janek | 4%
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| Hibernation is sleeping for long periods during the winter. What is it called during the summer? | Aestivation | 2%
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| Alpha Centauri is the closest star to The Sun. What star is second closest? | Barnard's Star | 2%
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| The two animals that appear on Croatia's coat of arms are a goat and what smaller animal? | Marten | 2%
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| What is the full name of the pesticide DDT? | Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | 1%
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| The model who portrayed Mona Lisa had what actual last name? | Gherardini | 1%
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| Abraham Lincoln was shot watching the play Our American Cousin, which was written by what playwright? | Tom Taylor | 1%
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| What Surgeon General, in 1964, was the first person to suggest that smoking could be bad for your lungs? | Luther Terry | 0%
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| What type of Ancient Roman wind chime would often be decorated with phallic designs? | Tintinnabulum | 0%
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