General Knowledge - Very Difficult XVI

What famous civil rights activist born October 6, 1917 and died March 14, 1977 famously said "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired"?

The highest rank in the British Army, equivalent to a five-star general

The Amethyst Woodstar ________ has the fastest wing beats of any hummingbird, beating its wings up to 80 times per second.

Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in _____ ______ on 10th September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war. The operation aimed to release five British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment who were being held by a militia group known as the "West Side Boys".

In 2008, _______ prepared to file an international lawsuit against Israel for claiming ownership of traditional dishes it believes are originally Lebanese. The president of the _______ Industrialists' Association, Fadi Abboud, accused Israel of "stealing" their cuisine by marketing dishes such as hummus as its own.

Borrowing its name from a Latin term for the Etruscans, the Tyrrhenian Sea lies between Corsica and which country?

The animal called the short-tailed weasel in North America is known by what other name to the rest of the world?

Urticaria, named for a Latin word for stinging nettle plants, are the itchy red bumps associated with what condition?

The only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, who was the first queen of England to reign in her own right and not through marriage?

Bongbong Marcos is the 17th & current leader of the Philippines. He became President in 2022. He is the second child and only son of the 10th President between 1965 to 1986, kleptocrat and dictator ______ ______ and former first lady Imelda Marcos.

Kiss of the _____ ______. A 1976 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig. It depicts the daily conversations between two cellmates in an Argentine prison, Molina and Valentín, and the intimate bond they form in the process. Adapted into a play in 1983 and a film in 2025.

A rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson that tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

A musical with the open song "willkommen" (meaning in German, welcome). Based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Set in the late 1920s Berlin.

A musical set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows teenage Tracy Turnblad's dream to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show.

The Wolfe Tone rebellion was a failed rebellion against the British in 1798, in what country?

A city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of 1.158 million in the city proper.

Whilst Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, its population is only 515,000. The largest city in Scotland, with a population of over 630,000 people is?

Osamu Dazai's No Longer ________, is the Japanese writer's second novel, it tells the story of a depressed, nihilistic young man, Ōba Yōzō, who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.

A 1986 American war film about the Vietnam war, written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Willem Dafoe & Charlie Sheen.

The Mouride brotherhood is a large tariqa (Sufi order) most prominent in ________, with headquarters in the city of Touba, which is a holy city for the order. Adherents are called Mourides, from the Arabic word murīd (literally "one who desires"), a term used generally in Sufism to designate a disciple of a spiritual guide.

Rumors that cartridges for the Enfield rifle were greased with pig and cow fat were a major cause of the Indian Revolt of ____. The rumors offended the religious beliefs of both Hindu and Muslim soldiers, who felt the British did not respect their religion.

Between March and June 2010 a series of volcanic events at Eyjafjallajökull in ______ caused enormous disruption to air travel across Western Europe.

Currency in India.

The ____ franc is the name of two currencies used by 210 million people (as of 2023) in fourteen African countries.

A landlocked African country. The massive Kalahari Desert covers more than 70 percent of this country. Most of the people are Tswana. The country is set to be a staple of security and prosperity in the region.

The Hukbalahap Rebellion of 1942–1954, and the ongoing rebellion of the New People's Army, which began in 1969 are two Communist insurgencies of what country?

Which element on the periodic table is named for the chemist who developed one of the first periodic tables? It is a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element with the atomic number 101 discovered in 1955.

The name of which dish is derived from a Medieval Latin phrase for “ink pot”?

Consisting of nearly one-sixth of the country’s land, which Canadian province is the largest?

Three of King Henry VIII’s six wives shared what first name?

During World War II, the US Marines recruited _____ men in 1942 to develop a code based on their language. These code talkers played a vital role in the war by helping the Allies maintain radio contact on the battlefield.

The Cherokee have tribal-owned land in North Carolina and two reservations in _______.

Closest galaxy to our own.

The largest known star in the universe. It's a red supergiant star in the constellation Scutum, located in the Milky Way galaxy.

The highest peak in South America. At nearly 7,000 m (23,000 ft), it is also the highest peak outside of Asia. It is believed to have the highest death rate of any mountain in South America. You'll find it in Argentina.