General Knowledge Trivia for Masochists #4 - Statistics

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Geography & Language	The third largest cities in Venezuela and Spain share what name?	Valencia	83%
Sports & Games	Who were the men's English Premier League champions every year from 2018 to 2024 except for the 2019-2020 season where they finished in second place, 18 points behind Liverpool?	Manchester City	76%
Movies & TV	Ashgar Farhadi, Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi are all award-winning filmmakers from what country?	Iran	66%
Miscellaneous	For its logo, Versace has historically used the face of what mythological individual who is not exactly known for her beauty?	Medusa	63%
Miscellaneous	What high-performance automobile company, despite its Italian name, was founded in the Alsace region of France? It released its last model in 1950 until it was bought in 1987 after which it produced its Veyron and Chiron models.	Bugatti	61%
Food & Drink	Unlike a stromboli, which is usually a cylindrical shape, what Italian folded-pizza has a crescent shape and comes from a word meaning "stocking" or "trouser"?	Calzone	60%
Sports & Games	What teleporting, black Minecraft creature is generally neutral but will aggro if looked directly at?	Enderman	57%
History	What was the title of the de-facto ruler of Japan between 1185 and 1868 except for the Sengoku and Kamakura periods?	Shogun	53%
Geography & Language	Dating back to the 7th century, when it was known as Ragusa, what Adriatic Sea port has emerged as a popular tourist destination after significant recovery efforts in the 1990s?	Dubrovnik	51%
Geography & Language	What is the westernmost currently spoken language in the Austronesian language group? It is one of the two official languages of a large island near Africa?	Malagasy	50%
STEM	What was the nickname given to Joseph Merrick, an Englishman with an unknown set of deformities that may have been Proteus syndrome? A 1977 play and a 1980 movie were both based on his life.	The Elephant Man	50%
STEM	The sartorius is the longest muscle in the body. What muscle is the largest?	Gluteus Maximus	48%
Arts & Lit	What word fills the blank in the three books: The ___ Stallion (Farley, 1941); ___ Like Me (Griffin, 1961); and ___ Water (Oates 1992).	Black	47%
World Culture	In a 1992 book, Gary Chapman describes five ways that romantic partners express affection. These have been dubbed the five love languages. Name any of the five.	Words of Affirmation..	47%
World Culture	"dance fighting" is one way to describe what Afro-Brazilian martial art form that dates back to the late 18th century?	Capoeira	46%
Food & Drink	Known for its Chickenjoy Fried Chicken and its Yumburger, what Philippines origin fast-food restaurant with an insect mascot has grown to over 1600 locations mostly over east and southeast Asia?	Jollibee	44%
History	What American executive order changed the legal status of 3.5 million people on January 1, 1863?	Emancipation Proclamation	43%
Music	The title of what Nena song came from seeing objects looking like UFOs arising from a West Berlin Rolling Stones concert in 1982?	99 Luftballons	42%
Movies & TV	The competition show "American Ninja Warrior" was mostly inspired by a late 80s Japanese show called "___'s Castle"? Who was the comedian who owned this castle?	Beat Takeshi	38%
World Culture	Kesh, Kangha, Kara, Kacchera and Kirpan are colloquially known as the five Ks of what religion?	Sikhism	36%
Movies & TV	Ayo Edebiri's best-known role is as Syd Adamu, a young chef who joins The Original Beef of Chicagoland in what Hulu TV series?	The Bear	36%
Sports & Games	The winning team of the NFL is presented with a trophy named after what Green Bay Packer's coach?	Vince Lombardi	36%
Movies & TV	Prince Akeem from Zamunda pretends to be a poor student in New York City in what 1988 comedy?	Coming to America	35%
STEM	The arithmetic mean of a set of N numbers is their sum divided by N. What term is used for the Nth root of the product of the numbers in the set?	Geometric Mean	35%
STEM	ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) was a humanoid robot first created in 2000 by what company known more for its products that use wheeled (or non-humanoid) mobility?	Honda	35%
History	Clara Petacci was killed by partisans during the execution of what man who was her lover?	Benito Mussolini	34%
Music	Starchild, Demon, Space Ace and Catman were some of the personas of what band that was one of the most successful in the late 70s and was active until 2023?	KISS	34%
STEM	What measurement of the concentration of a chemical species is defined as the number of moles of a solute per liters of solution?	Molarity	32%
Sports & Games	Players hold a stick called a camán and try to score with a ball called a sliotar in what Gaelic game that is called Camogie when played by women?	Hurling	29%
Food & Drink	In 1998 McDonald's released a limited time sauce, sometimes called Szechuan sauce, as a promotion for what film? The sauce was reintroduced in 2018 after appearing on Rick and Morty.	Mulan	27%
Miscellaneous	What Brazilian model, the second highest paid in 2021, has a last name that is the same as a major world city?	Adriana Lima	26%
Miscellaneous	The only fish in the genus Melangogrammus shares its name with what Belgian comic captain?	Haddock	26%
History	According to Tacitus, who led the Iceni in a revolt in 60 CE after her recently deceased husband's will was ignored and the Romans abused her and her daughters?	Boudica	25%
STEM	What nickname is given to a sphere of plutonium and gallium created during the development of the atomic bomb and which caused the death of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotkin from radiation poisoning?	Demon Core	23%
Sports & Games	"El Chueco" and "El Maestro" are two nicknames of what South American Formula One driver who won five world championship titles in the 1950s?	Juan Manuel Fangio	22%
Music	What term describes rock music with obscured vocals and heavily distorted sound? The name arose from when a music exec noticed Russell Yates of the band Moose reading lyrics off of a paper on the ground during a performance.	Shoegaze	22%
Geography & Language	What Mongolic language is spoken in and around the Lake Baikal region and gives it's name to a Russian republic that is on the east side of the lake?	Buryat	21%
Food & Drink	What is the name for pounded meal traditionally made from cassava, plantains and cocoyams that is common in West African cuisine?	Fufu	21%
Movies & TV	Pongo and Perdita are the two adults in what title group? The 1956 source novel also included adults Missis and Prince.	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	21%
Geography & Language	Located on the Prime Meridian and created by the Akosombo Dam on the same-named river, what is the largest artificial reservoir in the world?	Lake Volta	20%
STEM	"Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me" is a mnemonic developed by Annie Jump Cannon to describe the order in her classification of what?	Stars	20%
Geography & Language	Appearing in a famous photograph what is the largest island of the Volcano islands, a subset of the Nanpo islands?	Iwo Jima	19%
Sports & Games	The wicket in cricket is composed of three stumps and two of what object that rest on top of the stumps?	Bails	18%
Arts & Lit	What word for an incredibly intelligent individual derives from a supervillain first introduced in 1958 who would shrink cities to preserve them in his quest to acquire all knowledge? (He could have just done these quizzes instead)	Brainiac	18%
Geography & Language	Supposedly the birthplace of Kim Jong Il, what stratovolcano sits on the border of North Korea and China and is the highest peak on the Korean peninsula?	Mount Paektu	18%
Movies & TV	Sci-fi Captain Malcolm Reynolds, and police consultant Richard Castle are the two most prominent roles by what actor?	Nathan Fillion	18%
Food & Drink	Italian for "short shot" what word describes a highly concentrated espresso which uses half the usual amount of water?	Ristretto	18%
Arts & Lit	The city of North Tarrytown in New York officially renamed itself to what in 1996 after a work of literature written some 170 years prior?	Sleepy Hollow	18%
STEM	Named after an ancient Greek mathematician, what word describes a polynomial equation where all coefficients are integers?	Diophantine	17%
World Culture	What is the chinese name of the National College Entrance Examination which was taken by over 13 million students in 2025?	Gaokao	17%
History	A "trap" which war breaks out when a new rising power threatens an existing power is named after what Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War?	Thucydides	17%
Geography & Language	Mount Zeus is located on which island of the Cyclades, the largest in area but not the most populous? An attack by Persia in 499 BCE led to the Persian War between Greece and Persia.	Naxos	16%
History	What descendent of Timur born Zahir ud-din Muhammad founded the Mughal empire in 1526 after capturing and losing Samarkand on three separate occasions?	Babur	15%
Music	What biblical figure titles Leonard Bernstein's first symphony? The same name is also given to an amphibian in a 1970 Three Dog Night song.	Jeremiah	15%
Food & Drink	What is the Maori name for Leptospermum scoparium, a tree with nectar that is used to make a namesake honey sometimes called "liquid gold"?	Mānuka	15%
World Culture	What flower represents the "Aloha spirit" of Hawaiian culture as well as being a symbol of the Hindu goddess Kali?	Hibiscus	14%
Music	What Jay-Z album which includes the songs "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" and "Girls, Girls, Girls" is one of his most well regarded despite having a name indicating a rough and unfinished quality?	The Blueprint	14%
Food & Drink	What Dutch beer company is known for its distinctive green bottles with swingtop caps that eliminate the need for a bottle opener?	Grolsch	13%
Miscellaneous	Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is the (translated) subtitle of what Nietzsche work that argues that simplistic black and white moral philosophy is not sufficient?	Beyond Good and Evil	12%
World Culture	What specific event marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar?	Hegira	12%
Miscellaneous	What legendary comedian was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain prize for American Humor in 1998? His numerous achievements include 6 Grammy wins and numerous films with long time collaborator Gene Wilder.	Richard Pryor	12%
Music	What Nigerian came to global recognition after his 2012 "Like to Party"? His 5th album "Twice as Tall" won a Grammy for best world album in 2021	Burna Boy	11%
Music	"Nuages" (clouds) is one of the best known works by what jazz guitarist who went by a Romani nickname?	Django Reinhardt	11%
Music	Diana Ross had to be convinced that what 1980 song of hers would not ruin her career because listeners might think she was gay?	I'm Coming Out	11%
History	The current namesake of the international airport serving Johannesburg, who led the African National Congress between 1967 and 1991?	Oliver Tambo	11%
STEM	The four geologic eons are the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic and what fourth that started around 500 million years ago?	Phanerozoic	11%
Arts & Lit	Celebrated poet Ocean Vuong's 2019 debut novel, written as letters from a Vietnamese-American writing to his illiterate mother is called "On Earth We're" what?	Briefly Gorgeous	10%
Movies & TV	In what 2025 Park Chan-wook black comedy does Man-su decide to kill his competition in order to achieve his desired position in a paper-making company?	No Other Choice	10%
Miscellaneous	A redundancy such as "frozen ice" is an example of what linguistic expression from the Greek for to be in excess?	Pleonasm	10%
Food & Drink	As per its German name, what word describes a rusk that has been "twice baked"?	Zwieback	10%
Music	Tina Snow is the name of an EP and also an alter ego of what American musician?	Megan Thee Stallion	8%
World Culture	What is the name of the eye-shaped amulet, typically handmade from glass, that is common in Turkish culture to ward off the evil eye?	Nazar	8%
Arts & Lit	What is the last name of the brothers Yudhishtra, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, the main characters in the Mahabharata?	Pandava	8%
Food & Drink	What high-tannin Italian wine made from the nebbiolo grape and local to Piedmont is known for often requiring 10 years to soften enough to be drinkable?	Barolo	7%
History	Anawrahta, sometimes considered the founder of the Burmese nation, ruled over what empire from the namesake city on the Irrawaddy from 1044-1077?	Pagan	7%
Miscellaneous	A con man named Harold Hill is the title character in what 1957 Meredith Willson musical?	The Music Man	7%
Sports & Games	What electric railway company is the sponsor of the Tigers, a Japanese baseball team located on the outskirts of Osaka?	Hanshin	6%
Arts & Lit	Samuel Johnson used what Aristotelian word to refer to a group of poets including John Donne and John Cleveland who focused more on spoken quality and less on lyrics?	Metaphysical	6%
Arts & Lit	Kinsey Millhone is the detective in 24 novels by what author? These 24 novels were all that were written out of a possible 26.	Sue Grafton	6%
Arts & Lit	What is the genre of satirical plays that poke fun at social conventions of an artificial and usually aristocratic society? Masters of the genre include Oscar Wilde, Moliere and Noël Coward.	Comedy of Manners	5%
Geography & Language	Known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, what is the English name for the contested group of islands about halfway between Japan and South Korea and just Southeast of the Ulleung Islands?	Liancourt Rocks	5%
History	After the collapse of the Tang dynasty, the regions of Manchuria and Mongolia were ruled by what dynasty which lasted about 200 years until it was supplanted by the Jin in 1125?	Liao	5%
Miscellaneous	The physicist known as the father of the Indian nuclear program, and the Harvard University postcolonial theorist who has advanced the concepts of Hybridity, Mimicry and Ambivalence share what first and last name?	Homi Bhabha	4%
World Culture	First invented in 1869 in a political cartoon and revived in 1942 as a WW2 action hero, what is the nickname of the fictional lumberjack and national personification of Canada?	Johnny Canuck	4%
Arts & Lit	What 17-18th century Japanese dramatist is known for his bunraku and kabuki works which include "The Courier for Hell" and "The Love Suicides at Amijima"?	Chikamatsu Monzaemon	3%
World Culture	The Bobo Ashanti and The Niyabinghi are two groups of the Rastafari movement. These groups, and several others, are collectively named the what of Rastafari?	Mansions	3%
Movies & TV	Runje, Runme, Runde and Run Run where four of the eponymous brothers who "ran" what Hong Kong film company?	Shaw Brothers	3%
World Culture	With a meaning akin to "power" or "strength" and similar to the idea of mana, what term is used for the gods and spirits of the Maori and Hawaiians?	Atua	2%
Sports & Games	A spin where the figure skater reaches back over their shoulder with one or both hands and holds the blade of one of their skates is named after what Swiss athlete?	Denise Biellmann	2%
Music	Which British violinist of African descent was the original dedicatee of Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata before they had a falling out?	George Bridgetower	2%
Sports & Games	What is the name of the two-masted sailing ship with a taller mainmast? It differs from the yawl by the position of the mizzen mast with respect to the rudder post.	Ketch	2%
Arts & Lit	On the Terrace at Sèvres, showing two women and a man sitting on the painters terrace is an 1880 work by what impressionist? She was not well known in her lifetime possibly because her husband was jealous of her artistic abilities.	Marie Bracquemond	2%
STEM	The term "reparation" in psychology refers to repairs to a damaged mental world was coined by what British psychoanalyst who was influential in child analysis? She was also known for her "theory of splitting."	Melanie Klein	2%
Geography & Language	What is the name of the natural arc that forms the southeastern portion of Hudson Bay? Even though the formation is nearly circular it is thought to have been formed through bending of the crust rather than through crater impact.	Nastapoka Arc	2%
Sports & Games	What two specific cards make a "pinochle" in the game of pinochle and a "bezique" in the game of bezique?	Queen of Spades, Jack of Diamonds	2%
Movies & TV	What Lina Wertmuller film has a title referring to the sisters of the main character, an Italian trying to survive in a German prison camp in WW2?	Seven Beauties	2%
Miscellaneous	What large dog breed is the only one legally used for dogfighting in Japan, and also one of the main sources of dog meat in South Korea?	Tosa	2%
History	Who cofounded the Solidarity movement with Lech Wałęsa, and is often regarded as the "mother of Independent Poland," yet was snubbed for the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize which went to Wałęsa alone?	Anna Walentynowicz	1%
Food & Drink	What cooking term refers to salting vegetables to draw out moisture and soften them before cooking?	Degorge	1%
Movies & TV	"Come See Me in the Good Light" is an Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling the life of what spoken-word poet?	Andrea Gibson	0%

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