| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| If uncontaminated and properly stored, this food does not spoil. | Honey | 69%
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| Elizabethan preachers condemned the use of coal as fuel because they believed it to be … | The devil’s excrement | 69%
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| The hottest planet in our solar system is … | Venus | 69%
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| The first known interracial kiss seen on American network television was on this series. | Star Trek | 63%
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| The last country to outlaw slavery was this one, in 1981. | Mauritania | 50%
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| Big Major Cay, an island in the Bahamas, is known for its … | Swimming pigs | 44%
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| A group of ravens can be known as … | An unkindness | 38%
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| Fossils found on New Zealand’s South Island suggest it was once home to … | Human-sized penguins | 38%
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| What rare phenomenon occurred on 18 February, 1979? | Snow fell in the Sahara Desert | 38%
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| What is the loudest non-crustacean animal on earth? | Sperm whale | 38%
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| In which country have roads been diverted to avoid disturbing communities of elves? | Iceland | 31%
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| A vomitorium was … | A series of entrance or exit passages in an ancient Roman amphitheater | 25%
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| What is a fear of Halloween called? | Samhainophobia | 25%
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| In Florida, it is illegal to … | Sing in public while wearing a swimsuit | 25%
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| The movement of a computer mouse is measured in … | Mickeys | 19%
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| 310 of these items that belonged to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) were auctioned off at Sotheby’s on 4 May 2022. | iPods | 13%
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| What is the controversy surrounding the axolotl, or Mexican walking fish? | How many times it can regenerate the same limb | 6%
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| To whom was the first known Christmas card sent? | King James I of England | 6%
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| The longest commercial in history, running for 14 hours, advertises which brand? | Old Spice | 6%
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| James D. Watson (1928-) became the first person to … | Sell his Nobel prize medal | 6%
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