General Knowledge - Very Difficult XXVI

The name of which hero’s alter ego came from combining the names of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce and the American revolutionary “Mad” Anthony Wayne?

Many health officials recommend pregnant women and children avoid eating bigeye tuna due to its high content of which element?

On which musical instrument does the player force wind through a tube known as a blowstick?

In what country might you find the Pictish people in the early Middle ages?

What famous person did Gavrilo Princip assassinate?

What event did the above assassination instigate?

The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Russo-Japanese War and a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting in the Spanish-American War?

In a single year (1819), which poet composed six of his famous odes, including “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

Opposing Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans, which actor sent activist Sacheen Littlefeather to reject the Oscar for best actor in 1973?

In which US state, home to the largest Amish population in the U.S., does the Department of Transportation publish a Horse and Buggy Driver’s Manual?

Home to the most millionaires in the U.S., which state instituted a tax on income over $1 million that is used to fund mental health services?

On the U.S. one-dollar bill, an eagle represents war and peace by holding an olive branch in its right talon and what in its left?

In 1969 Walter Cronkite broadcast for 27 out of 30 consecutive hours covering which event?

Eventually spreading to the U.S., the Cosa Nostra is a criminal organization that rose to power in the early 1800s on which island?

Smallest country by both land and population - with a population of only about 500 and an area of only 120 acres.

Which country is named for a Venezuelan freedom fighter who liberated it from Spain?

The largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

Which word is derived from the name of a mythic Greek king whose afterlife punishment is to be forever near food and drink he cannot reach?

According to Greek mythology, Prometheus angered Zeus by stealing which item and giving it to humans?

The metals of antiquity are the seven metals which humans had identified and found use for in prehistoric times in Africa, Europe and throughout Asia and were the several metals known to humanity before the 13th century. They are; gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, mercury and ____.

The Egyptian god who was the god of the dead, mummification, and the afterlife, and is often depicted as a jackal or a man with a jackal head.

The Egyptian Goddess known for her magic, healing, and role as a protector of women and children, and was also the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. Often depicted with wings.

The Egyptian Goddess, she was revered as a protector of the home, fertility, and good health. Often depicted with the head of a cat and the body of a woman.

Officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

Also called scaly anteaters because of their preferred diet, these animals are the most trafficked mammal in the world—with demand primarily in Asia and in growing amounts in Africa—for their meat and scales.

Which animal’s incisors have iron enamel, making them stronger than those of many other rodents?

With the largest wingspan among existing birds, which animal can glide for several hundred miles without a single wing flap?

The title of which TV show is based on a reference book first published in 1858 and it today on its 42nd edition?

In 1993 the International Astronomical Union approved the naming of asteroids for John Cleese, Eric Idle, and the other four members of which comedy troupe?

Although it is composed of more than 7,000 islands, half of which country’s population lives on its largest island, Luzon?

Today, the existing communist states in the world are in China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea (DPRK) and ____

In what country would you find the Chin people?

An anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, the _____ rebellion.

The flag of which country is known in its homeland as “A Auriverde,” meaning “the golden-green”?

Originally developed in the 1960s by the British company Hawker Siddeley, the first fighter jet capable of vertical liftoff and landing was named for which bird?

Home to NATO headquarters and the Council of the European Union, which city is often called “the capital of Europe”?

A traditional men’s top in western Africa, which garment became a popular fashion choice among members of the Black Power movement in the 1960s?

The three countries with the largest areas of tropical rainforest are Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and _______

The top three countries with the most oil reserves are Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and ______

What did Matthew Webb become the first person to swim across, in 1875?