Extremely Hard General Knowledge #75

Answer these DIFFICULT random trivia questions.
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In which year was the first non-electric gas-lit traffic lights installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London?
1868
Which country's national flag consists of green with an orange-coloured eagle above a rectangular block of a red, a black, and an orange vertical stripe?
Zambia
Which English science-fiction writer is best known for works such as The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos?
John Wyndham
Used to produce detailed 3-dimensional images of the inside of the body, what does PET in PET scan stand for?
Positron Emission Tomography
What was the name of the singer who won Britain's Got Talent in 2024?
Sydnie Christmas
Who is the only U.S. President to also serve as the Director of the CIA?
George H. W. Bush
What is the pen name of Madeleine Wickham, an English author best known for her best-selling Shopaholic series?
Sophie Kinsella
Currently held by Tom Brady, what is the highest career NFL Regular Season passing yards?
89,214 yards
Which Latin phrase which is commonly used in law practice directly translates to "by the fact itself"?
Ipso facto
Which Canadian band composed and performed the theme tune to The Big Bang Theory?
Barenaked Ladies
The international unit for electrical inductance, symbolized by the letter H, is named after which American physicist?
Joseph Henry
What is the name of the body of the water located in Istanbul that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forms one of the continental boundaries between Asia and Europe?
Bosporus Strait
Who has been the lead singer for Depeche Mode since their formation in Essex in 1980?
David Gahan
Which female tennis player won the US Open in 1990 becoming the first Argentinian woman to win a grand slam, she also finished as runner up in Wimbledon in 1991?
Gabriela Sabatini
Who starred as Alicia Florrick in all seven series of the political drama series The Good Wife from 2009 to 2016?
Julianna Margulies
Which Egyptian pharaoh, often regarded as the greatest of the New Kingdom, was the third rule of the Nineteenth Dynasty and had an estimated reign of 66 years?
Ramesses II
What is the name of the interplanetary space probe which was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015?
New Horizons
Who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Miracle Worker (1962) and was nominated an additional 4 times including for her role in The Graduate (1967)?
Anne Bancroft
In Greek Mythology, what was the name of the sea nymph who was the mother to the Greek hero Achilles?
Thetis
What is the name of the condiment made by Tunisian Jews that is made by cooking down spinach in lots of oil?
Pkaila
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2 Comments
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Level 61
Oct 3, 2024
1868!!

Radio 4 Extra are putting on a dramatisation of The Day of the Triffids at the weekend....... I'm not sure if you can hide behind the sofa from the radio though

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Level 68
Jan 28, 2026
Please make Ramses II a possible spelling. It is most common.