| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which country occupies and administers about 80% of the African territory of Western Sahara? | Morocco | 70%
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| What is the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony? | Hanover | 40%
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| Which city in Virginia is home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency? | Langley | 40%
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| In 1400, who became the first poet to be buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey? | Geoffrey Chaucer | 30%
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| Which of the seven heavenly virtues is said to counteract the deadly sin of gluttony? | Temperance | 30%
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| Up to and including the 2026 games in Milano Cortina, how many gold medals have Great Britain won at the Winter Olympics? | 15 | 20%
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| In which year was John Paul II elected pope? | 1978 | 20%
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| Which chemical element has the symbol Sb? | Antimony | 20%
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| Marlee Matlin became the first deaf actress to win an Oscar for her leading role in which 1986 film? | Children of a Lesser God | 20%
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| In Norse mythology, who is the wife of the Thor? | Sif | 20%
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| The plot of which novel by Edgar Allan Poe involves a caretaker who becomes fixated by the eye of the old man he takes care of? | The Tell-Tale Heart | 20%
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| Which mountain in Spain is the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees? | Aneto | 10%
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| What is the birth name as the artist known as Cher? | Cherilyn Sarkisian | 10%
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| Who had UK Number One's with 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' and 'The Masses Against the Classes' | Manic Street Preachers | 10%
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| Which Briton won the Vuelta a España cycling race in 2018? | Simon Yates | 10%
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| What was the name of Marilyn Monroe's first husband who she married in 1942? | James Dougherty | 0%
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| The chemist Joseph Priestley is largely credited for the discovery of which element? | Oxygen | 0%
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| Who presented BBC Radio 2 Pick of the Pops from 2016 until 2023? | Paul Gambaccini | 0%
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| Who was the Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 until 2022? | Scott Morrison | 0%
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| Without the suffix 'sphere', what are the 5 layers of the Earth's atmosphere going outwards from the surface layer? | Tropo Strato Meso Thermo Exo | 0%
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