General Knowledge - Very Difficult XX

During World War I, which performer gave seminars to U.S. soldiers on how to escape from sinking ships and shackles?

In 1985 the state of Michigan officially declared the voice of which singer, raised on Detroit’s west side, a “natural resource of the state”?

With an average gestation period of about 660 days, which animal has the longest pregnancy of all mammals?

Who crossed the Atlantic on a carbon-friendly sailboat to deliver her “How Dare You” climate activism speech to the UN in 2019?

In 2012 Canadian authorities discovered that thieves had stolen more than 500,000 gallons of which substance, worth $18 million (Canadian)?

Cast members of Star Trek attended the 1976 rollout of which space shuttle, the first produced by NASA?

The Bible teaches us that the original apostles of Jesus were Peter; James; John; Andrew; Philip; Judas Iscariot; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alpheus; Bartholomew; Judas Thaddeus; and ____ ______.

Pink eye, also known as _________, is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the tissue that lines the eyelid and the white of the eye.

A Space Shuttle that exploded on 28th January 1986, breaking apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or simply Tuol Sleng, is a museum chronicling the _______ genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. Some 20,000 people died at this site.

The ear evolved in the ______ period, which was about 100 million years ago. This was after vertebrates transitioned from water to land

Takoyaki, meaning "grilled _______," is a popular Japanese street food consisting of round balls of wheat flour batter filled with ______, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onions, cooked in a special pan and topped with sauce, mayonnaise, and bonito flakes

Dating back to Victorian England, in which game do players use a squidger to shoot small plastic discs into a pot?

The African Copperbelt is a natural region in Central Africa which sits on the border region between northern ______ and the south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

If an athlete needs meniscus surgery, the doctor will operate on which body part?

Mixing combat and music, which martial art was created by enslaved people in Brazil who disguised their fighting techniques as folk dancing?

Which insect is known to build mounds up to 30 feet tall and 80 feet wide, with many chambers dedicated to wood storage?

While the majority of Siberia lies in Russia, a small portion of it is found in which other country?

What country has the highest HIV prevalence rate globally, with almost 26% of the population living with HIV? (hint, Mswati III is the Ngwenyama (King) of this country).

In Nunavimmiutitut, the Inuktitut dialect spoken in Canada's Nunavik region has at least 53 words for _____.

In the colonial era, ____ was Guyana's primary export.

The abbreviation for The Kurdistan Workers' Party, a Kurdish militant political organization formed in 1978 and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949 – May 18, 1973) was a Maoist of what country? He is revered by many today as a symbol of resistance and as an aggregator of the ideas of other major leaders and thinkers in Marxism–Leninism–Maoism being captured by the state in January 1973, and executed in Diyarbakir Prison four months later.

In American football, on 10th Feburary 2025, the ________ _____ defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl

In January 2025, the US TV show, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, did a cross-over episode with _____ _______.

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.