General Knowledge - Very Difficult XXI

According to legend, St. Patrick used the three leaves of which plant to symbolize the Christian Trinity?

Although mostly found in Africa, about 600 of which animal can be found in India’s Gir National Park?

Created by the People’s Liberation Army in 1964, “The Little Red Book” contains more than 200 quotations from which leader?

Now a national park, Florida’s Dry Tortugas archipelago was named by Ponce de León for the abundance of which animal he saw there?

Found in tropical areas such as the Florida Everglades, which type of tree can survive in water 100 times saltier than most other plants?

Which cocktail is a variation on a Manhattan, aptly named, as it is made with Scotch instead of American whiskey?

A longtime fan of the “Man of Steel,” Nicolas Cage named his younger son Kal-El, the birth name of which comic hero?

Sometimes called “red gold” because of its high price, which spice requires thousands of crocus flowers to produce a single ounce?

Formed by the asteroid strike thought to have caused dinosaur extinction, the Chicxulub crater is located on which peninsula?

In 1885 Louis Pasteur saved a nine-year-old boy’s life by using infected spinal cords to create the first vaccine for which disease?

A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.

A supreme ruler, especially a monarch - begins with s

In Greek mythology, _______ was the founder and king of Ephyra. He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of death earns him eternal punishment in the underworld, once he dies of old age. The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity

The country that has the most castles in the world, with estimates of around 25,000.

The country which creates the most cars - In 2023, this country produced over 30 million vehicles, which is more than 30% of the world's total.

The Nigerian Civil War, was a conflict between the Nigerian government and the secessionist state of _____. The war lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970. The war resulted in between 500,000 and 2 million civilian deaths from starvation, as well as around 100,000 military casualties.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist who wrote about the Nigerian Civil War in her 2006 novel Half of a _____ ___.

The ______ ______ is a low-lying region in Nigeria where the Niger River drains into the Gulf of Guinea. It's home to some of the world's largest oil deposits.

A person who has strong beliefs and opinions about a particular ideology, and who may be blindly partisan in their support of it.

A 1998 American conceptual psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky about an obsessed paranoid mathematician who finds a mystical number that represents the unspeakable name of God.

Destroyed and rebuilt several times—most recently during World War II—which city is nicknamed Phoenix City for the way it has risen from the ashes?

Since William the Conqueror’s rule in 1066, which have been the two most common first names for British kings, with eight uses each? Henry & ______.

Ancient Egyptians treated acute fevers and skin conditions with which plant, now often used to make soothing teas?

Literally "cave goers", a people mentioned in various locations by many ancient Greek and Roman geographers and historians, including Herodotus (5th century BCE), Agatharchides (2nd century BCE) & Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE). You might call someone this to insult them as being ignorant or brutish

Whole numbers that can be positive or negative, but do not have fractions or decimals.

In geometry, a ______ spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is φ, the _____ ratio. That is, a _____ spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter turn it makes.