Stats: Trivia by First Letter: 30-second Rush

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What cathedral was home to Quasimodo?	Notre-Dame	77%
What is the capital of Germany?	Berlin	75%
What “-stan” country has a J in it?	Tajikistan	73%
What is the capital of Scotland?	Edinburgh	71%
What city were the Beatles from?	Liverpool	70%
What Chinese concept of two balancing forces is commonly known to Westerners?	Yin and Yang	70%
What type of virus caused a worldwide pandemic in 2020?	Coronavirus	67%
What chemical Element is Au?	Gold	67%
What did Germans generally call a submarine?	Unterseeboot	67%
What Ivy League school is located in Boston?	Harvard	64%
In what city does the Pope reside?	Vatican City	64%
Who famously protects Gotham City?	Batman	63%
What is the Italian term for the "rebirth" of European science and culture?	Renaissance	63%
What bird is usually eaten at Thanksgiving in the USA?	Turkey	60%
What is Saint Paul's twin city?	Minneapolis	58%
Charles Darwin's most famous theory is the Theory of ________	Evolution	56%
What is the second highest mountain on Earth?	K2	56%
What’s that Welsh town with an artificially long name?	Llanfairpwll…	56%
What subnational country’s capital is Cardiff?	Wales	56%
What is the de facto capital of Switzerland?	Bern	55%
Who wrote the Theory of Relativity?	Einstein	55%
What is a straight, sharp punch called in boxing?	Jab	55%
What popular dip is made of mashed chickpeas?	Hummus	53%
What state looks like it should rhyme with Kansas?	Arkansas	50%
In A Christmas Carol, what was Scrooge’s first name?	Ebeneezer	50%
What sequence goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…	Fibonacci	50%
What is the tallest land mammal?	Giraffe	50%
In what country is the Florence	Italy	50%
Annapolis is the capital of what American state?	Maryland	50%
What is Microsoft's productivity suite that includes Word and Excel?	Office	50%
What is Norway's largest city?	Oslo	50%
Who provided James Bond with gadgets at MI6?	Q	50%
What band did Freddie Mercury sing in?	Queen	50%
Where did King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans make their last stand?	Thermopylae	50%
What Norwegian loanword means "narrow inlet of a sea cliff"?	Fjord	45%
What Marvel superhero group includes Cyclops and Wolverine?	X-Men	45%
In what activity at a pub do 3 perfect throws earn 180?	Darts	44%
What Greek letter looks like a triangle?	Delta	44%
What national capital is a holy city in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity?	Jerusalem	44%
What supercontinent existed about 270 million years ago?	pH	44%
What shape has three sides?	Triangle	44%
What is Poland's capital?	Warsaw	44%
What is Australia’s capital?	Canberra	43%
What do you call symbols like these: ?, !, ,, and ;,?	Punctuation	43%
What is Iceland’s capital?	Reykjavik	43%
Which of the Seven Dwarves was probably a narcoleptic?	Sleepy	43%
What is both the world's most populous island, and a slang term for coffee?	Java	40%
What animal did Australian drivers hit over 15,000 times in 2023?	Kangaroo	40%
What is Canada's francophone province?	Quebec	40%
What German automobile company started in 1938?	Volkswagen	40%
What is China’s longest river?	Yangtze	40%
What country is on the Caspian Sea and has the capital Baku?	Azerbaijan	38%
What bird was often used in ornate German clocks?	Cuckoo	38%
What American president was previously a film star?	Ronald Reagan	38%
What is the capital of Sri Lanka?	Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte	38%
What 3-letter abbreviation is the basic building block of genetics?	DNA	36%
What word ends in “-tatious” and means pretentiously fancy?	Ostentatious	36%
What ancient Malian city is often used as an idiomatic stand-in for a far away place?	Timbuktu	36%
What is "jaune" in English?	Yellow	36%
What mountain range runs from Newfoundland to Alabama?	Appalachians	33%
What small country borders Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea?	Djibouti	33%
What American is famous for applying the assembly line to automaking?	Ford	33%
What Babylonian king made some of the first codified laws?	Hammurabi	33%
What major world city was once known as Byzantium?	Istanbul	33%
What was Stalin's first name?	Joseph	33%
What band did the song “Wonderwall”?	Oasis	33%
What is Mongolia’s capital?	Ulanbaataar	33%
What element are humans in search of in Avatar?	Unobtainium	33%
What Marvel superhero group includes Cyclops and Wolverine?	X-Men	33%
What chemical element's "cubic" version sometimes is a stand-in for diamonds?	Zirconium	33%
What James Stewart movie is named for the sensation of being off-balance?	Vertigo	31%
What position is the political leader of individual American states?	Governor	30%
What is the "-ologist" who studies fish?	Ichthyologist	30%
In what city were high-ranking Nazis, such as Goering, put on trial?	Nuremberg	30%
What German loanword term translates to "spirit of the times"?	Zeitgeist	30%
What is Brunei’s capital?	Bandar Seri Begawan	29%
What famous James Joyce novel was published in 1922?	Ulysses	29%
What is “Friday” in French?	Vendredi	29%
What Greek fast food is bits of meat and vegetables on a skewer?	Souvlaki	27%
What is the capital of Peru?	Lima	25%
What is Slovenia’s capital?	Ljubljana	25%
What’s Hermes’ Roman name?	Mercury	25%
What German philosophical nihilist once said, “God is dead.”	Nietzsche	25%
In Guardians of the Galaxy, what type of animal was Rocket?	Raccoon	25%
On what French province's beaches did Allies land on D-Day?	Normandy	22%
Where were the pirates from that took over Captain Phillips’ boat?	Somalia	20%
What good king looked out on the Feast of Stephen?	Wenceslas	20%
What Homeric story is about the Trojan War?	Iliad	18%
What is the formal way to say “excuse me” in French?	Pardonne-Moi	18%
What Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants?	Hannibal	17%
Who is the Dr. Jones who found the Ark of the Covenant?	Indiana Jones	17%
What is either a Genghis Khan capital or Citizen Kane’s estate?	Xanadu	17%
What element is between krypton and radon on the periodic table?	Xenon	17%
Who was post-Soviet Russia's first elected leader?	Yeltsin	17%
What is either a Central American bird or Guatemalan currency?	Quetzal	14%
What is the Greek version of Jupiter?	Zeus	14%
The three R’s (2 of which don't start with R...) are reading, writing, and…	Arithmetic	11%
What temperature scale is just Celsius plus 273 degrees?	Kelvin	11%
What country was created at the same time as India?	Pakistan	11%
Venezuela was once run by dictator Hugo...	Chavez	10%
What South American domesticated camelid is closely related to the Alpaca?	Llama	10%
What male model’s friends died in a harmless little gasoline fight?	Zoolander	9%
What is the symbol for tungsten?	W	8%
Mushrooms and cordyceps are a type of…	Fungus	0%
Who was the primary antagonists in the Smurfs?	Gargamel	0%
What country is spelled with two “Ys” and a “Z”?	Kyrgyzstan	0%
What character was played by Mel Gibson and then Tom Hardy decades later?	Mad Max	0%
What vegetable can fill in the blank to make a capital: ___oussoukro?	Yam	0%
What chemical element rhymes with pink?	Zinc	0%

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