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%	clue	answer	% Correct
100	In what city would you find the Eiffel Tower?	Paris	100%
99	What "unsinkable" ship sank in April 1912?	RMS Titanic	99%
98	Which country's flag is a white rectangle, with a red circle in the centre?	Japan	97%
94	In which US state would you find Disney World?	Florida	96%
95	What is the tallest type of land animal?	giraffe	95%
97	What does an octopus spray when threatened?	ink	95%
93	What is Mexico's currency?	peso	95%
90	What stimulant did Coca-Cola contain before 1903?	cocaine	94%
92	Who was almost totally deaf when he wrote his ninth and final symphony?	Ludwig van Beethoven	93%
96	In what country would you find the headquarters of Ferrari?	Italy	92%
89	What does a predator hunt?	prey	92%
91	What usually has three leaves, but in about 1/5000 cases has four or more?	clover	91%
82	What weapon does Luke Skywalker wield?	lightsaber	88%
86	What does the U in SCUBA stand for?	Underwater	87%
84	What type of animal appears on the Ferrari logo?	horse	86%
81	What is the name of Apple's web browser?	Safari	86%
88	Who orders martinis "shaken, not stirred"?	James Bond	82%
87	What is a female deer called?	A doe	81%
80	What was the unflattering nickname of Queen Mary I of England?	{Bloody} Mary	81%
79	Who did Eva Braun marry on 29 April 1945?	Adolf Hitler	80%
83	What organ is foie gras made from?	liver	80%
72	What is the world's most-visited museum?	The Louvre	79%
68	How many syllables does a haiku have?	17	77%
74	What is the last name of Australian actors Chris, Liam, and Luke?	Hemsworth	77%
75	What stone provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?	{Rosetta} Stone	77%
73	A group of generic birds is called a flock. What do you call a group of crows?	A murder	74%
65	Who was the first person to see the moons of Jupiter?	Galileo Galilei	74%
58	In what year did the United States celebrate its bicentennial?	1976	73%
63	What sea do Denmark, Finland, and Estonia all border?	Baltic Sea	70%
77	What trilogy can be described as a quest to return unwanted jewellery?	The Lord of the Rings	70%
69	What body part is the Norse god Odin missing?	An eye	69%
71	What singer had two hit songs whose titles started with "Like a"?	Madonna	69%
64	Which element of the Periodic Table is known in Latin as argentum?	silver	69%
61	What voice range is lower than baritone?	bass	68%
60	What gentle shark is the largest species of fish?	{Whale} Shark	67%
59	What ancient Hindu text could be described as a sex manual?	Kama Sutra	65%
67	Who suggested a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?	Mary Poppins	65%
76	Who is the main character of "The Hunger Games" series?	Katniss Everdeen	64%
85	Which boxing weight class starts with W?	{Welter}weight	64%
62	What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?	cumulo{nimbus}	63%
56	What country traditionally produces port wine?	Portugal	63%
55	What country does a Sinophile love?	China	61%
70	What is the most points one can score with a single dart throw?	60	60%
43	Who invented dynamite?	Alfred Nobel	60%
53	Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?	Aristotle	59%
54	What type of animal has a head, thorax, and abdomen?	insect	57%
49	What is 5 factorial?	120	56%
66	Who was the lead actor in the "Bourne" series?	Matt Damon	56%
57	Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?	Aries	55%
52	What US state did Ray Charles have "on his mind"?	Georgia	52%
50	Who said "Do or do not. There is no try"?	Yoda	52%
34	Who crossed the Rubicon?	Julius Caesar	51%
41	Who parodied Adolf Hitler in the movie The Great Dictator?	Charlie Chaplin	48%
42	According to Dante, what is the worst of the seven deadly sins?	pride	45%
36	What molecule, formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, is commonly used as table sugar?	sucrose	45%
48	What did physicist Stephen Hawking write a "brief history" of in 1988?	time	45%
38	What word in the English language sounds like "segway"?	segue	44%
37	What does the harp represent on the coat of arms of King Charles III?	Ireland	43%
30	What M word refers to a decorative tower adjacent to a mosque?	minaret	43%
35	Who composed Ride of the Valkyries?	Richard Wagner	41%
51	Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?	The {bends}	40%
32	What "Wild World" singer changed his name to Yusuf Islam in 1977?	Cat Stevens	37%
47	What is the name of a volcano, a camera company, and a type of apple?	Fuji	37%
29	What word means either "a business tycoon" or "a bump on a skiing course"?	Mogul	37%
15	What is the name of this typographical symbol: † (hint: a weapon)	dagger	36%
45	If a British or US army captain is promoted, what is their new rank?	major	36%
25	There are 14 eight-thousanders in the world. Among these 14, which one is nearest to being a nine-thousander?	Mt Everest	34%
46	Who was Robin Hood's second in command?	Little John	33%
44	In what type of cell would you find an axon and dendrites?	nerve	33%
23	What is the Japanese word for freshwater eel?	unagi	33%
31	What part of animal is suet?	fat	31%
33	What singer is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?	James Brown	31%
24	What world leader was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires?	Pope Francis	31%
21	What could Cassandra, Jeremiah, and Paul the Octopus see that most people cannot?	the future	30%
28	Who is Steffi Graf's husband?	Andre Agassi	29%
39	What is another name for an abattoir?	A slaughterhouse	27%
27	What is a bandolier designed to hold?	ammunition	26%
17	What is pulchritude?	beauty	26%
18	In what country would you be most likely to find a polder?	Netherlands	26%
20	Who gets stoned during Hajj?	The devil	25%
26	What is sold at Lloyd's of London?	insurance	23%
16	Who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais"?	Auguste Rodin	22%
22	What director refers to his films as "joints"?	Spike Lee	21%
19	Among all the cities in the world with a metro population over 1 million people, which one is last alphabetically?	Zürich	21%
14	Writing out numbers using Roman numerals, which number is alphabetically last?	XXXVIII	20%
78	In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?	mining	17%
10	What is a chorophobe afraid of?	dancing	13%
13	What is the largest Indian state by area?	Rajasthan	13%
9	In which US city is the shortest race in the US Horse Racing Triple Crown, The Preakness Stakes, held?	Baltimore	9%
12	Who released their debut album La Voix du bon Dieu, which translates to Good Lord's Voice, in 1981?	Celine Dion	6%
4	Who became the first president of India in 1950?	Rajendra Prasad	6%
8	The Bislett Games is an annual track and field held in which city?	Oslo	5%
7	Who became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion in 1971?	Jochen Rindt	4%
6	Which Italian composed Norma, an opera based on Alexandre Soumet's play?	Vincenzo Bellini	4%
3	Which mountain in Spain is the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, 3404 m / 11,168 ft high?	Aneto	3%
5	In the TV Series Thunderbirds, who piloted Thunderbird 4, the submarine held aboard Thunderbird 2?	Gordon Tracy	3%
11	A species of which animal, was found near Folsom Prison, California and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi after Johnny Cash?	tarantula	3%
1	Who is the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina?	Elijah	2%
0	How many steps are there on the Eiffel Tower?	1710	1%
2	Which driver has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 9 times?	Tom Kristensen	1%

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