| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What is the most famous invention of Alexander Graham Bell? | Telephone | 96%
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| What is the only country in the world whose name in English begins with the letter O? | Oman | 80%
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| In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated? | Dallas | 75%
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| How many squares are there on a chess board? | 64 | 73%
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| What is the Highest Grossing single film in history | Avatar | 69%
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| What is the third most populous country? | United States of America | 63%
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| What was the city of St Petersburg known as in the Soviet Union? | Leningrad | 61%
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| Juan Perón was president of Argentina how many times? | Twice | 61%
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| What was Osama Bin Laden’s original nationality? | Saudi Arabian | 59%
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| The 1984 Brighton Hotel Bombing was an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate whom? | Margaret Thatcher | 44%
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| Traditionally, caviar was the roe of which fish? | Sturgeon | 42%
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| What is the Latin phrase said to have been uttered by Julius Caesar which translates as “I came, I saw, I conquered”? | Veni Vidi Vici | 37%
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| What type of instrument is the “Mighty Wurlitzer”? | Organ | 34%
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| What is traditionally made by a cooper? | Barrels | 32%
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| What country won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest? | Sweden | 32%
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| The Penny Black was the first ever modern example of what? | Postage Stamp | 27%
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| Who served as the UN Secretary General before Ban Ki-Moon? | Kofi Annan | 25%
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| Whose head is featured on the back of a Bank of England £10 note? | Charles Darwin | 12%
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| Which country was formed as a result of the 1922 Lateran Treaty? | Vatican City State | 4%
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