Not-So-General Knowledge Quiz - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
In what month in 1745 did Bonnie Prince Charlie, against his will, halt his invasion of England at Derby and retreat back to Scotland?	December	80%
What is the second-largest city in Massachusetts as of 2021?	Worcester	30%
Who was Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 2009-2019?	Carol Ann Duffy	10%
Under what assumed name does Éowyn ride to war in The Return of the King?	Dernhelm	10%
What, supposedly, was the last word Napoleon ever spoke?	Joséphine	10%
What doomed Shakespearean monarch proclaims in defiance: "Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king"?	Richard II	10%
What was the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's famous 1936 lecture on Beowulf?	Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics	0%
Where is Daphne du Maurier's story "The Birds" set?	Cornwall	0%
Who was the last heuy tlatoani of the Mexica?	Cuauhtémoc	0%
Whose lines are these: "Read history: so learn your place in Time/And go to sleep: all this was done before"?	Edna St. Vincent Millay	0%
Who was Baldr's son according to Snorri Sturluson?	Forseti	0%
What is the translation of "Resurgam," the Latin motto of the city of Portland in Maine?	I will rise again	0%
What is the typical French translation of "Der Tod und das Mädchen"?	La jeune fille et la mort	0%
Whom did Plato call the "tenth Muse"?	Sappho	0%
What is beauty, according to Julian Morrow?	Terror	0%
Where is Isle La Motte?	Vermont	0%