General Knowledge - Very Difficult VII

The Nazis took over the Vemork Norsk Hydro Plant in _____ in 1940, which was the only facility in the world that could mass-produce heavy water, which was needed within the creation of nuclear fission.

At Night all Blood is Black is a novel by French author David Diop published in 2018. It tells the story of Alfa Ndiaye and his adopted brother Mademba Diop who are from ______ and are fighting in World War I.

Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita) were the attacks on _____ by Italy and Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which was was followed by the German invasion in April 1941.

A German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition and totalitarianism.

A leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. He is primarily known for being a principal architect of the Holocaust. He committed suicide in British custody on 23 May 1945.

An officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Fled to Argentina after the war, captured by Mosad and executed in Jerusalem in 1962.

Paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.

The ______ School was founded in 1923 at Goethe University Germany. The Institute for was home to a group of scholars who developed critical theory, a way of thinking that applies Marxism to society and philosophy.

Dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America. Begins with T.

Glucosinolates are sulfur-containing chemicals found in cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, and mustard, that give these plants their _____ taste and pungent smell

The lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere in direct contact with the Earth's surface

The ____lion, also known as the Atlas lion, is a lion subspecies that is now extinct in the wild: When they went extinct. The exact date of the Barbary lion's extinction is unknown, but the last recorded wild Barbary lion was likely killed in Morocco in 1922 by a French colonial hunter.

The exact date of the Atlas lion's extinction is unknown, but the last recorded wild Barbary lion was likely killed in ______in 1922 by a French colonial hunter.

A flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.

Neanderthals lived during the Middle _______ era, which lasted from about 300,000–35,000 years ago. However, the earliest known Neanderthal-like fossils are around 430,000 years old

Muktuk is a popular inuit food, it is made from raw _____

There is one confirmed Norse settlement in modern day Canada, L'Anse aux Meadows in ________. A ruined stone and sod building at Tanfield Valley on Baffin Island may have been a medieval Norse home.

_______ is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. One of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas, it's known for its rugged, remote terrain of glaciers and frozen tundra sheltering polar bears, reindeer and Arctic foxes.

The Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested, with a yield of 50 megatons of TNT. The Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961 over the Arctic island of Novaya _____

The ________ event occurred in 1908, is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric times.

The ____, whose autonym is Apsáalooke also spelled Absaroka, are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana.

The ______, also known as the Diné, are the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. Their Nation Reservation covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, is the largest reservation in the country.

The ______ are an indigenous people who lived in towns along river valleys in what is now parts of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama

The ____ are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

The ______ Army of National Liberation is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.

______ is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. The region's administration state has adopted an an officially secular polity, with direct democratic ambitions based on democratic confederalism and libertarian socialism, promoting decentralization, gender equality, environmental sustainability.