| Category | Prompt | Answer | % Correct |
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| WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY | The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died two days before Elizabeth’s 15th birthday | Catherine Parr | 40%
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| INVENTIONS | Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful | Velcro | 36%
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| WORLD LITERATURE | Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" | Arabian Nights | 32%
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| AFRICAN SURNAMES | Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas," is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991 | Greece | 32%
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| FILMS OF THE 1950s | The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn | Sleeping Beauty | 28%
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| COUNTRIES OF AFRICA | Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" | Ivory Coast | 24%
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| USA | These two mayors gave their names to a facility built on a site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler | Hartsfield & Jackson | 12%
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