| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.? | N | 82%
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| In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from? | Peru | 65%
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| Which landlocked country (besides San Marino and Vatican City) is entirely contained within another country? | Lesotho | 59%
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| Which U.S. president appeared on the television series "Laugh-In"? | Richard Nixon | 41%
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| How many cubes does the cube designed by Ernö Rubik consist of? | 26 | 22%
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| What insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"? | Moth | 22%
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| Professor Maathal Wangari won the Nobel Prize for which category? | Peace | 22%
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| Which English King was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine? | Henry II | 21%
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| Which scientific unit is named after an Italian nobleman? | Volt | 18%
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| Copra can be obtained from which fruit? | Coconut | 12%
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| Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic painting "American Gothic"? | His dentist | 12%
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| Which colonial power ended its involvement in India by selling the rights of the Nicobar Islands to the British on October 18, 1868? | Denmark | 11%
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| If you planted the seeds of 'Quercus robur', what would grow? | Oak tree | 11%
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| Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of a district of what world capital? | Baghdad | 9%
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| For ordering his favorite beverages on demand, LBJ had four buttons installed in the Oval Office labeled "coffee", "tea", "Coke", and what? | Fresca | 9%
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| "Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what? | Finding shapes in clouds | 6%
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| Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation? | The Philippines | 6%
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| Who delivered the less famous two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's two-minute Gettysburg Address? | Edward Everett | 5%
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| The most-watched TV episode of all time, the final episode of "M*A*S*H" aired at 8:30 p.m. on February 28, 1983, following what sitcom? | Alice | 4%
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| Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas? | Edith Wilson | 4%
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| Which boxer was famous for striking the gong in the introduction to J. Arthur Rank films? | Bombardier Billy Wells | 3%
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