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The Horrific Hundred – Unreasonably Hard Trivia - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 889 times
- The average score is 17 of 100
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What country experienced the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century? | Japan | 78%
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| What is the smallest independent state on the African mainland? | The Gambia | 64%
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| What ancient law code is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world? | Code of Hammurabi | 60%
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| In what film did the character HAL 9000 first appear? | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 52%
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| The phrase “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” originates from which film? | Jaws | 51%
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| The U.S. version of The Office is set in which Pennsylvania city? | Scranton | 50%
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| The Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) was led by a man who claimed to be the brother of whom? | Jesus Christ | 42%
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| Who “wants a cracker” in a Nirvana song? | Polly | 42%
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| The process of nixtamalization, crucial to Mesoamerican cuisine, chemically enhances what grain? | Corn | 41%
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| Who was the first emperor of a unified China? | Qin Shi Huang | 41%
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| What filmmaker directed Pan’s Labyrinth and later won Best Director for The Shape of Water? | Guillermo del Toro | 39%
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| What artist is known for drip painting techniques using enamel paint? | Jackson Pollock | 38%
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| Which African lake other than Lake Tanganyika lies within the boundaries of four different countries? | Lake Chad | 38%
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| The concept of the “state of nature” as a pre-political human condition is most famously associated with which philosopher’s Leviathan? | Thomas Hobbes | 37%
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| Which 2013 indie game by Lucas Pope requires players to inspect passports in a fictional Eastern-bloc nation? | Papers, Please | 36%
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| What modernist canvas, born from a European civil war, transforms the image of a town’s destruction into a monochrome scream? | Guernica (by Picasso) | 35%
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| The 1982 film Blade Runner was based on which Philip K. Dick novel? | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 31%
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| What (arguably dead) principle describes the empirical trend of doubling of transistor counts roughly every two years | Moore's Law | 31%
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| What 19th-century mathematician wrote the first algorithm intended for machine execution, predating any physical computer? | Ada Lovelace | 30%
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| The Maasai people of East Africa traditionally mix cow’s milk with what for ceremonial drinking? | Cattle blood | 30%
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| Who created the Discworld comic-fantasy series beginning with The Colour of Magic? | Terry Pratchett | 30%
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| What modern Japanese author wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, known for surreal blending of the everyday and the fantastic? | Haruki Murakami | 29%
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| Name one of the three only legal opening moves in chess that allows a player’s opponent to checkmate on their second move. | f3 or f4 or g4 | 28%
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| What NFL franchise was the first to win five Super Bowls? | San Francisco 49ers | 28%
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| Which country hosted the first FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991? | China | 22%
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| Which Byzantine emperor codified Roman law into the Corpus Juris Civilis (regnal number required)? | Justinian I | 22%
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| What is the world’s largest inland delta, found in Botswana? | Okavango Delta | 22%
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| What material, discovered accidentally in 1938 by Roy Plunkett, is known for its extreme chemical inertness and low friction? | Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) | 21%
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| What team sport was only held in the Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1920? | Tug of war | 21%
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| What is the name of a spherical molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms? | Buckminsterfullerene / C₆₀ fullerene | 20%
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| Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France founded which modern ideological tradition? | Conservatism | 19%
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| Aquinas’s “Five Ways” are arguments for what? | The existence of God | 19%
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| What is the name of the third of the Three Tenors (who isn’t Luciano Pavarotti or José Carreras)? | José Plácido Domingo Embil | 18%
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| What is the formal decision-making body of the European Union’s executive branch? | The European Commission | 18%
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| Which French novelist’s unfinished work from 1913 is structured around involuntary memory and social decay? | Marcel Proust | 17%
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| What uprising in India began after soldiers were issued cartridges rumored to be greased with animal fat? | The Sepoy Rebellion (Indian Rebellion of 1857) | 17%
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| Antonio Gramsci used what term for the cultural dominance by which ruling classes maintain power? | Cultural hegemony | 16%
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| What is the third-tallest mountain in the world after Everest and K2? | Kangchenjunga | 16%
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| Which U.S. Supreme Court case established judicial review in 1803? | Marbury v. Madison | 16%
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| What is the Polish name for the trade-union movement that emerged in Gdańsk in 1980? | Solidarność | 16%
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| What narrow body of water separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa, thus connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden? | Bab-el-Mandeb Strait | 15%
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| The first transistor ever built at Bell Labs in 1947 used what semiconducting material, before silicon became standard? | Germanium | 15%
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| What 20th-century philosopher coined the phrase “existence precedes essence”? | Jean-Paul Sartre | 15%
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| Which mountain range forms the natural boundary between Iran and Iraq? | Zagros Mountains | 15%
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| What 20th-century composer employed a 12-tone “tone row” technique first codified in his Suite for Piano, Op. 25? | Arnold Schönberg | 14%
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| The Mexican sauce mole poblano traditionally includes what two main ingredients? | Chocolate, chili peppers | 14%
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| What Italian architect designed the dome of Florence’s cathedral, considered the first great engineering achievement of the Renaissance? | Filippo Brunelleschi | 14%
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| Which writer imagined a universe structured as an endless archive of hexagonal rooms, each containing every possible permutation of text? | Jorge Luis Borges | 14%
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| Which 1955 conference in Indonesia marked the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement’s precursor? | The Bandung Conference | 14%
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| Which economist and philosopher authored The Road to Serfdom (1944)? | Friedrich Hayek | 13%
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| In Popper’s philosophy of science, what criterion distinguishes scientific theories from non-scientific ones? | Falsifiability | 12%
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| Which Indian epic poem, traditionally attributed to Valmiki, tells the story of a prince’s exile and his quest to rescue Sita? | Ramayana | 12%
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| Which Mughal emperor commissioned the Peacock Throne? | Shah Jahan | 12%
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| In the Hebrew Bible, which book begins with the line “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”? | Ecclesiastes | 11%
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| What form of Javanese court music features metallophones, gongs, and drums tuned in sléndro or pélog scales? | Gamelan | 11%
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| In Indian classical music, what term describes a melodic framework similar to a mode, governing improvisation and composition? | Raga | 11%
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| In baseball, what statistical measure is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats? | Slugging percentage | 11%
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| In sumo wrestling, what title is given to the sport’s highest rank, held by only a few wrestlers at any time? | Yokozuna | 11%
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| Which country uses the currency called the Nakfa? | Eritrea | 10%
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| What 1994 Hong Kong crime drama directed by Wong Kar-wai features a melancholy cop and inspired later Western neo-noir romances? | Chungking Express | 9%
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| In Japanese etiquette, placing chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice is avoided because it resembles what? | Funeral incense offerings | 9%
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| The “basic structure doctrine,” limiting constitutional amendments, originated in the jurisprudence of which country? | India | 9%
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| Which African nationalist leader coined the concept of Ujamaa as part of his vision of African socialism? | Julius Nyerere (Tanzania) | 9%
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| The phrase “God is dead” first appeared in which of Nietzsche’s works? | The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft) | 9%
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| Which explorer led the first circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan’s death? | Juan Sebastián Elcano | 8%
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| What scientist is the transition between the Earth’s crust and mantle named after? | Andrija Mohorovičić | 7%
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| What mammalian hormone, produced mainly in adipose tissue, regulates energy balance by inhibiting hunger? | Leptin | 7%
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| Which Egyptian novelist became the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1988)? | Naguib Mahfouz | 7%
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| In Aristotle’s Metaphysics, what term denotes “the study of being qua being”? | Ontology | 7%
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| In orbital mechanics, the general term for the point in an orbiting satellite’s trajectory closest to the central body is called what? | Periapsis | 7%
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| The 1994 Rwandan genocide was triggered by the assassination of which national leader? | President Juvénal Habyarimana | 7%
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| The stage musical Hamilton was based on a biography by which historian? | Ron Chernow | 7%
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| What is the term for the smallest addressable unit of data storage on a magnetic hard disk? | Sector | 7%
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| In Islamic culture, the pre-dawn meal eaten before the daily fast during Ramadan is called what? | Suhur | 7%
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| The staple dish injera is a sour flatbread made primarily from what cereal grain? | Teff | 7%
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| What is the penalty signal in handball for egregious unsportsmanlike conduct involving disqualification and a written report? | Blue card | 6%
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| What Renaissance artist’s The Tempest has baffled interpreters for centuries with its stormy landscape and ambiguous human figures? | Giorgione | 6%
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| What is the largest tributary river in the world by water discharge? | Madeira River | 6%
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| Who was the first woman ever elected head of government in modern history (in 1960)? | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | 6%
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| The traditional Japanese tea ceremony derives from what Zen concept emphasizing transience and imperfect beauty? | Wabi-sabi | 6%
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| What is the Pinyin word for the Chinese festival which marks the lunar new year with the giving of red envelopes (hongbao)? | Chūnjié | 5%
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| Which Shakespeare play, one of his least performed, blends Roman politics, British legend, and themes of mistaken identity and reconciliation? | Cymbeline | 5%
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| Who was the first player in NBA history to record a quadruple-double officially recognized by the league? | Nate Thurmond | 5%
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| Which French composer’s Modes de valeurs et d’intensités is regarded as a precursor to total serialism? | Olivier Messiaen | 5%
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| The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism culminate in what practical teaching? | The Eightfold Path | 5%
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| What is the central prayer and declaration of Jewish faith beginning “Hear, O Israel”? | The Shema | 5%
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| What Stoic concept refers to the rational order permeating the universe? | Logos | 4%
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| What is the name of the United Nations Command military post located 400 m south of the southern boundary of the Korean Demilitarized Zone? | Camp Bonifas | 3%
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| What property of superconductors is characterized by the complete expulsion of magnetic fields? | Meißner-Ochsenfeld effect | 3%
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| Which 20th-century American choreographer developed the “chance” method of composition in dance, paralleling John Cage’s music? | Merce Cunningham | 3%
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| In flamenco, what is the term for the rhythmic hand-clapping accompaniment? | Palmas | 3%
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| Who was the first athlete to win gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics? | Eddie Eagan | 2%
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| Which composer’s Sinfonia (1968) for eight voices and orchestra quotes Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Samuel Beckett, among others? | Luciano Berio | 2%
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| Which Korean music/narrative theater form requires two performers, the singer (sorikkun) and the drummer (gosu)? | P'ansori | 2%
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| In what province, part of a country whose name means “land of many waters,” are the Kaieteur Falls located? | Potaro-Siparuni | 2%
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| In Islamic jurisprudence, what term refers to analogical reasoning used to derive legal rulings? | Qiyas | 2%
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| Who is the only male tennis player to have won each Grand Slam title at least twice in both singles and doubles? | Roy Emerson | 2%
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| Which fictitious treaty about pufferfish, inserted as a prank by the Green Party in Hessen, Germany in 1984, went unnoticed in official records for years? | The Shanghai Fugu Agreement | 2%
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| In Andean highland ritual, coca leaves are offered to which mountain spirits believed to guard communities? | Apus | 1%
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| What is the name of the South African Zulu choral tradition in which male choirs sing homophonically in rhythmic unison? | Mbube | 1%
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