| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The largest sects in Islam are Sunny and Shiitake | Sunni and Shiite | 100%
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| Queen Victoria is the longest serving British Monarch to date | Elizabeth II | 77%
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| World War II officially began when Germany invaded Austria in September, 1939 | Poland | 77%
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| Australian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Siberia was the catalyst for WWI | Austrian, Serbia | 69%
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| Among dwarf planets, Pluto is the largest | Correct | 69%
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| The British crown passes to the oldest child of the monarch, regardless of gender | Correct | 69%
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| In 2013, scientists at CERN confirmed they had found the Higgs Boson or "Jesus Particle" | God Particle | 62%
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| The UN has been grappling on how to handle the Iraqi refugee crisis after the Iraqi Civil War broke out in 2011 | Syrian | 54%
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| In June 2016, France voted to leave the UN | UK, European Union | 54%
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| Among dwarf planets, Eris is the most massive | Correct | 46%
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| Mesopotamia was located in the region called the fruitful valley | Fertile Crescent | 46%
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| The Soviet reaction to NATO was the Munich Agreement among East Germany and other Soviet Satellite states | Warsaw Pact | 46%
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| Gautama Buddha is believed to be the ninth avatar of the god Vishnu in Hinduism | Correct | 38%
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| In the film, On Golden Pond, Jane Fonda stars opposite her husband Henry Fonda | Father | 38%
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| In 2015, an executive order ruled gay marriage legal nationwide in the US | Supreme Court decision | 38%
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| Lisa Kudrow went on to star in the sitcom Cougar Town after Friends | Courtney Cox | 31%
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| Malcolm X was a prominent member and spokesperson for the Black Panther Party | Nation of Islam | 31%
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| E.B White wrote the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy as fan fiction of the Hunger Games | E.L. James, Twilight | 23%
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| Elizabeth II took on the title Queen of England after her father Edward VIII passed | Queen of the United Kingdom, George VI | 8%
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| First place contestants on X Factor UK, One Direction went on hiatus after member Niall left the group | Third, Zayn | 8%
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