General Knowledge - Very Difficult XXIII

Including Miranda, Desdemona, and Ophelia, most of Uranus’s known moons are named for characters in which author’s works?

The treaty that ended World War I was signed in the famed Hall of Mirrors of which city’s palace?

Treaty of Vereeniging, signed on May 31, 1902, in Pretoria brought an end to the second?

Which word best describes a person who is just beginning to learn a new trade? Neo____

The Hungarian ____ is the official currency of Hungary. Its name stems from the city of Florence, where gold coins called florentinus were minted from 1252.

The currency in Romania is the Romanian ___.

Ebrahim Rasool, the ambassador to which African country was expelled from the US after a row with Donald Trump's government in March 2025?

Which actor owns several aircraft, including a 1946 P-51 Mustang fighter that he flew in Top Gun: Maverick?

In which U.S. city can visitors tour the Neon Boneyard featuring signs from bygone hotels like the Riviera and Stardust?

With the tradition starting in 1987, which beverage is usually dumped on the winning head coach during the Super Bowl?

The ____ Coon is a large domesticated cat breed. One of the oldest and largest natural breeds in North America

The site of the Wright brothers’ first flight, Kitty Hawk is a town on the more than 175-mile-long Outer Banks island chain off the coast of which state?

The Great Pyramid of ____ also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "constructed mountain"), is a complex located in _____, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the world, as well as the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today.

A typical Roman helmet was called a ____. Some ____ were topped with a crest, which could be made of horsehair and was sometimes dyed red.

In 1775, to support arming the Virginia militia for war with Great Britain, Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or ____ __ _____"

With a name derived from a Greek word meaning “I burn,” which mountain is an active volcano on the island of Sicily?

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of ____. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it is often regarded as the first civilization in Europe.

A technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. The Creation of Adam, a detail in the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo is one such example.

The name of which bone can be traced back to the Latin verb meaning “to chew”?

Publisher McGraw-Hill was sued for a 1970 book that claimed which woman faked her death in 1937 and assumed the name Irene Bolam?

Decorated with its flag’s checkerboard pattern, which country’s 10-, 20-, and 50-cent coins feature Nikola Tesla?

Which animal has oval-shaped blood cells that enable it to retain the 30 gallons of water it can drink in one sitting?

Platypuses and echidnas are monotremes, which are the only mammals to do what?

Purchased by the United States in 1898 through the Treaty of Paris, which country achieved independence in 1946?

An element that is used in batteries and electronics. Found in abundance in the eastern part of the Democratic of the Congo. Control over mines, mining this element, has led to an increase in conflict and instability in the region.