| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What global sporting event typically takes place every 4 years in both the summer and winter? | Olympics | 98%
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| What planet is closest to the sun? | Mercury | 97%
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| Which famous playwright wrote Hamlet and Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 96%
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| What us the biggest country on Earth? | Russia | 94%
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| Which famous pop-group won Eurovision for Sweden in 1974? | ABBA | 92%
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| Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were prime ministers for which British party from 1997-2010 | Labour | 92%
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| What is the name of the invisible line that splits the Earth into its North and South Hemispheres? | Equator | 90%
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| What telecommunication method was invented by Samuel Morse in 1837? | Morse Code | 83%
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| Which British-run city was handed back to China in 1997? | Hong Kong | 82%
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| Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory on what? | Relativity | 82%
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| 'Under Pressure' was released in 1981 as a collaboration between David Bowie and who? | Queen | 79%
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| Which famous Australian environmentalist was killed by a stingray in 2006? | Steve Irwin | 79%
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| Barack Obama won a Nobel Prize for what in 2009? | Peace | 74%
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| Who directed Jaws and Jurassic Park? | Steven Spielberg | 74%
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| What year was Beatles member John Lennon murdered? | 1980 | 67%
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| What was the former capital city of Japan before Tokyo? | Kyoto | 64%
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| Who has won Wimbledon the most amount of times? | Roger Federer | 64%
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| What was the highest grossing film of the 1990s? | Titanic | 61%
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| On a triangle, the square of what is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides? | Hypotenuse | 55%
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| What is the longest-running soap opera in the world with over 10,000 episodes? | Coronation Street | 49%
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| This famous director is known for Psycho and North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 46%
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| Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer starred in this 1965 film adaptation of a play | Sound of Music | 44%
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| Al Gore lost the 2000 Presidential election by a razor thin vote from which state? | Florida | 43%
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| In 'Back to the Future', Doc expressed his surprise that which actor was the president? | Ronald Reagan | 41%
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| In 'A Christmas Carol', Scrooge is shown what by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? | His Grave | 33%
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| Who founded famous animation studio 'Studio Ghibli' in 1985? | Hayao Miyazaki | 14%
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