| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Most of the territory of Turkey, including the capital of Ankara, is located on which peninsula? | Anatolia | 56%
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| Which U.S. President is the only person to have also been a U.S Supreme Court justice? | William H. Taft | 37%
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| In dentistry, an amalgam is an alloy consisting mainly of which metal? | Mercury | 36%
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| What is the name of the cognitive bias, named after the two psychologists who studied it, in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities? | {Dunning-Kruger} effect | 26%
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| Coming from the Latin for "twilight", what term is given to animals that are mainly active during dawn and dusk? | Crepuscular | 22%
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| What are the names of the two French artists who developed the painting technique Pointillism? | Georges Seurat | 20%
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| In the Bible, who was sentenced to death for "spilling his seed into the ground" and is viewed as a cautionary tale against masturbation? | Onan | 17%
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| What is the length of a regulation tennis court? | {78} feet | 15%
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| The Beano is a British comic magazine based in Dundee which was first published in what year? | 1938 | 14%
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| What name is given to the genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family that contains bell and habanero peppers? | Capsicum | 14%
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| Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his roles in both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)? | Fredric March | 11%
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| Which constituency in Cambridgeshire was represented by John Major from 1979 until 2001? | Huntingdon | 10%
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| What was the name of the band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit that had a UK Number One in 1992 with "Stay"? | Shakespears Sister | 8%
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| What is the maiden surname of Anne in the L. M. Montgomery book series Anne of Green Gables? | Shirley | 7%
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| What mythological bird of prey is the national animal of Hungary? | Turul | 6%
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| Which Spanish footballer scored the winning goal in the 2023 Women's World Cup final against England? | Olga Carmona | 5%
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| What is the name of the song by Jimi Jamison that was used as the theme tune to Baywatch in seasons 2 through 10? | I'm Always Here | 4%
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| What are the names of the two French artists who developed the painting technique Pointillism? | Paul Signac | 3%
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| What has been the surname of the Duke of St. Albans since 1684? | Beauclerk | 1%
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| Which actor played Pintel in the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films? | Lee Arenberg | 1%
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