General Knowledge Quiz #52 - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Question	Answer	% Correct
What type of flag indicates surrender?	White flag	97%
In what country was Adolf Hitler born?	Austria	93%
What is the central religious text of Islam?	Quran	90%
From what original language are the Romance languages derived?	Latin	89%
Which chess piece can only move diagonally?	Bishop	83%
What element is commonly found inside thermometers?	Mercury	83%
In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?	Mining	78%
Who famously had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?	Cleopatra	76%
What civilization sacrificed thousands of people every year, placing their skulls in racks known as Tzompantli?	The Aztecs	63%
Who was the lead singer of Nirvana?	Kurt Cobain	61%
What type of animal is also known as a sea cow?	Manatee or Dugong	60%
What country invented bank accounts that had numbers, not names?	Switzerland	56%
Who directed three of the four highest-grossing movies of all time?	James Cameron	55%
What was the deadliest battle in the American Civil War?	Battle of Gettysburg	51%
What palace is famous for its hall of mirrors?	Palace of Versailles	47%
Bruxism is something painful that people do in their sleep. What is it?	Grinding teeth	46%
Name one of the two majority-Muslim countries that are part of NATO.	Albania / Turkey	45%
Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?	The Moon	45%
Who is the namesake of two continents?	Amerigo Vespucci	31%
What book by Joseph Conrad was the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now"?	Heart of Darkness	21%