General Knowledge - Very Difficult XXIV

Which movie star was given his name after kicking while inside his mother’s womb as she looked at art in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery?

Commonly associated with the sixth chakra, a _____ is traditionally worn on the forehead.

The process of one cell duplicating its chromosomes to create two identical daughter cells is called what?

What marine creature has the largest eye of any animal, measuring around 27 centimeters (11 inches) in diameter, roughly the size of a soccer ball?

What animal has the largest eyes of any land animal, with each eye measuring about 5 centimeters (2 inches) across, roughly the size of a billiard ball?

A link between Europe and Asia, which city served as the capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires?

The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, and _____ (hint, think Pacific Ocean).

About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and _________.

The only country that begins with O

The capital of the above country

About 200 miles north of Mount Kilimanjaro, the second highest mountain in Africa shares its name with which country, where it is located?

The snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria are found in what African country?

There are roughly 12.6 million barrels of aging bourbon in which U.S. state—a quantity more than double the state’s population?

An animal at the top of the food chain that has no natural enemies, such as a lion, an owl, or an orca, is known as what type of predator?

A condition often afflicting rock stars - causes ringing in the ears.

The 1922 film Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation of which classic work of fiction published in 1897?

Worth an estimated $28 billion due to his country’s oil reserves, Haji Hassanal Bolkiih Muʿizzaddin Waddaulah has been better known by which title Sultan of ______ since 1967.

Teen star Linda Blair fractured her spine while thrashing around her character’s bedroom during her performance in which 1973 acclaimed horror movie? The _______.

Which actor had a high-school job as a caddy at an Illinois golf club years before starring in the 1980 film Caddyshack?

In 1989 an unidentified person, now commonly called Tank Man, stood in the way of a column of tanks near which location?

What celestial object was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015?

In 2016 the U.S. Mint made gold coins featuring Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of which organization? The _____ _____ service.

Which city planted tens of thousands of palm trees in the lead-up to the 1932 Olympics?

Never actually achieved, the process of transmuting base metals into gold is known as what?

Fahrenheit and Celsius scales are numerically equal at -__ degrees. This means that -__°C is the same as -__°F