| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Which of the following landlocked countries is entirely contained within another country? | Lesotho | 76%
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| In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from? | Peru | 76%
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| Which of these U.S. presidents appeared on the television series Laugh-In? | Richard Nixon | 50%
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| Which one of the following men does not have a chemical element named for him? | Isaac Newton | 41%
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| Who did artist Grant Wood use as the model for the farmer in his classic painting "American Gothic"? | His dentist | 39%
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| Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"? | Moth | 39%
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| "Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what? | Finding shapes in clouds | 38%
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| Who delivered the less two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's two-minute Gettysburg Address? | Edward Everett | 36%
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| What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.? | N | 31%
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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 | 30%
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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 | 27%
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| Which one of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party? | William | 22%
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| Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas? | Edith Wilson | 17%
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| The most-watched TV episode of all time, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired at 8:30 on February 28, following what sitcom? | Alice | 16%
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| Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation? | Philippines | 15%
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