| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What Irish novelist and poet is best known for Ulysses (1922)? | James Joyce | 66%
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| What Nobel Prize hasn't been awarded 19 years since its creation, more times than any other Nobel Prize? | Nobel Peace Prize | 64%
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| What is the country whose only border is with South Africa? | Lesotho | 62%
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| What is the name of the anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat-inspired character with a red bow? | Hello Kitty | 48%
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| How do you call a male singer with a voice intermediate between tenor and bass? | Baritone | 42%
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| Who is the Romanian gymnast who became the first in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal? | Nadia Comăneci | 30%
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| What is another name for the chemical element Tungsten? | Wolfram | 26%
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| Who was the scientist and Augustinian abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno that is considered the founder of the modern science of genetics? | Gregor Mendel | 24%
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| What is the prefix with the meaning “round about, around,” found in Latin loanwords? | Circum- | 18%
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| What animal is a medium-sized, burrowing, anteater nocturnal mammal native to Africa and the only living species of the order Tubulidentata? | Aardvark | 14%
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| Who was the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or for her acclaimed film The Piano (1993)? | Jane Campion | 14%
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| What territorial overseas collectivity of France is situated near Newfoundland? | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 14%
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| What is the NBA team that plays its home games at the United Center? | Chicago Bulls | 12%
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| Who is the Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring in Roman mythology? | Flora | 10%
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| Who was the South African singer and civil rights activist, nicknamed Mama Africa, best known for the song Pata Pata? | Miriam Makeba | 8%
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| What is the country that the Alaouite dynasty has been ruling since 1667? | Morocco | 6%
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| Who is the eleventh managing director of the IMF - International Monetary Fund (5 July 2011 - Present)? | Christine Lagarde | 4%
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| What country has the city of Putrajaya as its federal administrative centre? | Malaysia | 4%
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| What was was the largest Asian war in the 20th century? | Second Sino-Japanese War | 4%
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| Who is recognized to be the first known woman mathematician in history and credited with writing three major treatises on geometry, algebra and astronomy? | Hypatia of Alexandria | 2%
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