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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Which desert, located in northern Chile, is the driest nonpolar desert in the world?	{Atacama} Desert	58%
How long is each stump in cricket?	{28} inches	46%
Which is the second largest city in Finland by population?	Tampere	34%
In Greek Mythology, who was married to Eurydice and known as the greatest musician of all time?	Orpheus	32%
In phonetics, what name is given to a consonantal sound produced by the abrupt obstruction of airflow in the throat such as t, k, and b?	Plosive	28%
Who became the Chancellor of Germany in May 2025, representing the CDU?	Friedrich Merz	26%
In which year did the first episode of Coronation Street air, with an episode written by creator Tony Warren?	1960	24%
Which band, which had 2 UK Number Twos in 1979 with "Cool for Cats" and "Up the Junction", was Jools Holland a member of?	Squeeze	22%
Which Chinese animated film series consists of two films, the second being the highest grossing animated film of all time, about a heroic figure destined to either save or destroy the world?	Ne Zha	17%
Which Dutch philosopher's works include On Free Will and The Praise of Folly?	Erasmus	13%
In 1970, who became BBC Radio 1's first female presenter, and was the longest-serving broadcaster in the station's history?	Annie Nightingale	11%
Which element on the periodic table, with an atomic number 72, has a name derived from the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered?	Hafnium	10%
Which comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan involves a love triangle between Josephine, Ralph, and Sir Joseph?	H.M.S. Pinafore	6%
Who won the 2025 Snooker World Championship, becoming the first Chinese man to win the tournament	Zhao Xintong	5%
Who has "Gone to Sea", in the name of an 18th century North East English folk song, theorized to be based on a County Durham MP around at the time?	Bobby Shaftoe	4%
Who won consecutive Best Supporting Actor Oscars for roles in All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977)?	Jason Robards	4%
Which cheese, sometimes informally described as a "mild feta", is named after a town in Mexico?	Cotija	3%
Which English novelist wrote Orbital, which follows astronauts on a space station, and won the 2024 Booker Prize?	Samantha Harvey	3%
Who was the first black woman to serve as a Cabinet minister and first black woman to lead a university in the United Kingdom?	Valorie Amos	3%
SSL is the cryptographic protocol which allowed secure communication over the Internet until replaced by TLS in 1999, what does the initialism SSL stand for?	Secure Sockets Layer	1%

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