General Knowledge - Very Difficult VI

During World War II, the Allies attempted to stop the Nazis from developing nuclear weapons by sabotaging the production of _____ water, a key ingredient in nuclear fission reactions

Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov (1940-2006), led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. In his time, he was one of the world's most totalitarian, despotic, and repressive dictators. He promoted a cult of personality around himself and imposed his personal eccentricities upon the country, such as renaming Turkmen months and days of the week to references of his autobiography the _______

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow took over as President of Turkmenistan in 2006. 2nd president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022, when he entered into a power-sharing arrangement with his son, ______the current president.

A mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials used to provide a gentle natural scent, commonly in residential settings.

A Serbian grilled dish consisting of a mixture of spiced minced pork, beef and lamb meat. It is one of the national dishes of Serbia

The Pentateuch (its Greek name, but also known as the Torah by the Hebrews) consists of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and _______

______ was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology. He was described as a god of time, generation, dissolution, abundance, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation.

On 7 January 2025, an earthquake hit Tingri County in the ____ Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead.

In Greek mythology, Achilles' heel is the part of Achilles' body that was left vulnerable after his mother, _____, dipped him in the River Styx to make him almost invulnerable

The visible surface of Jupiter is made up of the uppermost layers of clouds of ammonia and _____

The interior of Jupiter is still a mystery, but scientists think it might have a solid core surrounded by metallic hydrogen and _____

A ____ is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.

A _____is the point in an orbiting body's path when it is closest to the sun.

Wind speeds on Saturn can reach 1,800 kilometres per hour, this is equvilant to ____miles per hour.

The moon formed 4.51 billion years ago, not long after Earth's formation, out of the debris from a giant impact between Earth and a hypothesized Mars-sized body called _____

A chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.

The ozone layer is a region of the _______ that contains a high concentration of ozone and protects life on Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation:

The ozone layer was depleted by chemicals released by industry, mainly

The _______ is the rigid, outermost layer of Earth, made up of the crust and the top part of the upper mantle.

Nikolai Vasilyevich _____ was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt"

Plato was a Greek philosopher around in about 300BC. He opened up a school called the Academy. One of his students, Aristotle, opened a rival academy, called the ____

Platos teacher was called Socrates. He was put to death in 399BC, and was forced to drink ______, a poison.

What is the most famous book written by Plato, that is concerned with democracy andconcerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. The _______

_______ the Cynic or _______ of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism. Lived in a barrel in a market, Alexander the Great upon meeting him called him the greatest living Philosopher.

_______ of Athens was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire.

A chemical element, a noble gas.The Chemical symbol is Xe, and the atomic number is 54.