AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #28 - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 438 times
The average score is 18 of 26

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
A – in Hinduism, the incarnation of a deity; the word is also familiar from gaming and from the highest-grossing movie ever	Avatar	88%
Q – a state in north-eastern Australia	Queensland	88%
M – metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg; the only element that has been named after a Roman god	Mercury	87%
Z – The Twilight ____, TV series that first started in 1959	Zone	87%
D – author of On the Origin of Species who, as a young man, spent five productive years travelling around the world on HMS Beagle	Charles Darwin	86%
H – is “hætte” in Danish, or Robin in Sherwood	Hood	84%
I – a religious painting, or something on a computer screen which performs some function when clicked	Icon	80%
L – TV series that started with a plane crash, or what you’ve done to that lovin’ feelin’, according to the Righteous Brothers	Lost	80%
F – car that got its name from Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino	Fiat	77%
N – a brief respite, or, if preceded by “kid”, refers to a crime	Nap	76%
C – to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground, or Radiohead’s first hit	Creep	73%
R – machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically	Robot	72%
U – in poker, the player sitting in the first-to-act position is said to be _____ the gun	Under	72%
B – country whose capital Porto Novo is just 40 mins by car from Nigeria	Benin	69%
G – movie trilogy The Naked ___, where detective Frank Drebin saves the day after making a complete fool of himself	Gun	69%
S – Stephen King novel that you perhaps shouldn’t be reading if you’re working as a winter caretaker in an isolated hotel	The Shining	69%
J – capital city that was known as Batavia until 1942	Jakarta	68%
Y – the holiest day of the year in Judaism, also known as the Day of Atonement	Yom Kippur	66%
P – Robert who is best known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, or one of the four eukaryotic kingdoms of life	Plant	63%
V – first name of Nabokov, Russian-born author of Lolita	Vladimir	63%
T – Disney-Pixar film that is L'Histoire de jouets in French	Toy Story	60%
O – young noblewoman who pursued Hamlet but ended up going bonkers and drowning	Ophelia	56%
X – a king of the First Persian Empire, grandson of Cyrus the Great	Xerxes I	51%
W – baseball legend Ted, or a Formula One racing team	Williams	47%
K – first name of French football star Mbappé	Kylian	43%
E – a dormant volcano in Europe that is 833 m higher than Mont Blanc	Elbrus	33%