| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Planet with the longest day? | Venus | 92%
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| Which battle ended Napoleon’s Hundred Days? | Battle of Waterloo | 81%
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| Largest island nation with no land borders? | Australia | 77%
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| Which country has the longest coastline in Africa? | Somalia | 65%
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| River that carved the Grand Canyon? | Colorado River | 58%
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| Only bird able to fly backward? | Hummingbird | 54%
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| What is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia? | Laos | 54%
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| Year the Soviet ruble collapsed? | 1991 | 46%
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| World’s oldest continuous parliament? | Althing (Iceland) | 35%
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| Heaviest naturally stable element? | Lead | 27%
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| Who wrote De Interpretatione? | Aristotle | 15%
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| What is the easternmost capital city in the world? | Apia (Samoa) | 12%
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| Who coined the term “fractal”? | Benoit Mandelbrot | 12%
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| Main deity of Teotihuacán? | Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) | 12%
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| Which kingdom built the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela? | Kingdom of Ethiopia | 4%
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| What country has the most men (percentage wise) | Qatar | 4%
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| Who wrote The Histories about the Peloponnesian War? | Thucydides | 4%
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| Language with the most phonemes? | !Xóõ (Taa) | 4%
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| Who first proposed the heliocentric model in ancient Greece? | Aristarchus of Samos | 0%
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| Composer of The Unanswered Question? | Charles Ives | 0%
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| Method predicting bond order via MO theory? | Mulliken analysis | 0%
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| What is the highest waterfall in Asia? | Nohkalikai Falls | 0%
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| Which early civilization built the city of Caral? | Norte Chico | 0%
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| Name of a dome's central opening (Roman)? | Oculus | 0%
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| Which empire signed the Treaty of Nystad in 1721? | Russian Empire | 0%
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| Capital of the ancient Mitanni Empire? | Washukanni | 0%
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