30 questions – General Knowledge – B - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Clue	Answer	% Correct
First name of "Die Hard" star Willis	Bruce	82%
Nickname of the Indian film industry	Bollywood	81%
Country that was the birthplace of singer Rihanna	Barbados	75%
Early Disney animated movie in which Thumper is a friend of the title character	Bambi	71%
The country most associated with the speaking of Flemish	Belgium	71%
New wave band whose lead singer is Debbie Harry	Blondie	66%
Name of either a small white whale or a huge sturgeon farmed to produce caviar	Beluga	63%
Capital of Queensland, Australia	Brisbane	61%
Alloy of copper and tin	bronze	56%
Generic term (originally coined by O. Henry to describe Honduras) for a small dictator-led state whose economy depends on a single commodity	{banana} republic	54%
Country at the north of the Bay of Bengal, between India and Myanmar (Burma)	Bangladesh	54%
Field of the arts in which Mikhail Baryshnikov became famous	ballet	52%
German state associated with a famous Berlin “Gate” and also a series of concertos by J.S. Bach	Brandenburg	49%
Middle name (under which she published) of the English children's writer and illustrator born Helen Potter in 1866	Beatrix	48%
Word for Bologna smoked sausage that also means nonsense	baloney	41%
"Glam Rock" icon – lead singer of T. Rex – who died in a road accident in 1977, aged 29	Marc {Bolan}	39%
Unaccompanied singing style typically employed in a men's quartet	barbershop	37%
First name of British philosopher Russell who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950	Bertrand	33%
Two-word slang term for temporary impotence due to heavy drinking	{brewer's} droop	30%
Crimean War battle that lends its name to a type of protective headwear	Balaclava	29%
7-letter word that's similar in meaning to yokel, hick or country cousin	bumpkin	29%
Another word for a prickly shrub such as a blackberry bush	bramble	28%
World’s largest ice-cream shop franchise	Baskin-Robbins	25%
American patriotic song that begins “Mine Eyes have seen the Glory…”	Battle Hymn of the Republic	19%
Capital of Madhya Pradesh, India, where in 1984 thousands died when lethal gases leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant	Bhopal	16%
Now-sunken island with lighthouse at Cape Cod; or London’s famous fish market	Billingsgate	16%
2005 movie that made Ang Lee the first Asian ever to win an Oscar as Best Director	Brokeback Mountain	15%
Medical term that means relating to the arm	brachial	10%
Title of the Broadway musical about the life of singer-songwriter Carole King	Beautiful	6%
Surname of the Peter who directed "What’s Up Doc?" and "The Last Picture Show"	Bogdanovich	5%