General Knowledge - Very Difficult IV

What is 6 in Roman numerals?

The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of _____

Palermo is the largest city of what Mediterranean island?

A Korean sugar based candy made popular by the Netflix show Squid Game

A pickled cabbage dish eaten in Korea

A predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia

A compound that comes from three amino acids. This is found mostly in your body's muscles as well as in the brain. Most people get this through consumption of seafood and red meat, though at levels far below those found in synthetically made in supplements.

Anna ____, a 1878 Novel by Leo Tolstoy

Haji ____, a lesser known novella written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912.

8 ÷ 2 × 9 - 5 + 12

Swashbuckler is a term that dates back to the 16th century. It is a compound of two words. Firstly, of "swash" (archaic: to swagger with a drawn sword) and "buckler" (a small ____).

The period in Japan that lasted about 14,000 years, from around 11,000 BC to 300 BC. The ____ people lived in small communities and made pottery, bows and arrows, and fishing tools.

The period in Japan that lasted from around 300 BC until 250 AD. The ____ people developed new pottery styles, improved carpentry and architecture, and began growing rice in paddy fields.

The period in Japan that lasted from around 300 AD to 552 AD. The ____ period is known for the keyhole-shaped burial mounds, or kofun, built for the ruling class.

The period in Japan that lasted from around 552 AD to 710 AD. The _____ people improved their pottery, developed iron working, and began cultivating rice.

Ayatollah is an honorific title for high-ranking _____Shia clergy.

In Iran, there have been two supreme leaders, or Ayatollahs since the 1979 revolution. They are Ruhollah Khomeini, who ruled from 1979 until his death in 1989 and Ali _____ who has ruled since.

Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan (______ Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northwestern Iran.

Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan (____ Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq.

Syrian Kurdistan or Western Kurdistan (______ Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of North-East Syria.

Turkish Kurdistan or Northern Kurdistan (______ Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of North-East Turkey.

Bashar Assad came into power in 2000 and was overthrown in December 2023. He came to power after the death of his father ___ Assad, who himself had come to power in 1971.

Assad was not even suppose to become the leader of Syria, he only became a contendor for becoming the President after his brother Bassel died in a ____ in 1995.

Before becoming the President of Syria, Assad lived in London, married an English-Syrian woman ophthalmologist and was a , an ___ doctor.

The lunar surface is covered in lunar dust and marked by mountains, impact craters, their ejecta, ray-like streaks, rilles and, mostly on the near side of the Moon, by dark _____ ("seas"), which are plains of cooled lava.

In planetary science, planetary ________ is the process by which the chemical elements of a planetary body accumulate in different areas of that body, due to their physical or chemical behavior (e.g. density and chemical affinities).

A chemical element; it has symbol K and atomic number 19.

A zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around our planet by our planet's magnetosphere _________ radiation belt.

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about __ times the diameter of Earth.