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What is the capital of both the United Kingdom and England?
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London
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What playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
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William Shakespeare
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What reptile is commonly mistaken for a crocodile?
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Alligator
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What flying device can be referred to as a "chopper"?
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Helicopter
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What coding language shares its name with a family of snakes?
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Python
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In the Marvel film franchise, who plays the Norse god Thor?
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Chris Hemsworth
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What unit of speed is equal to about 1.151 miles per hour?
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Knot
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In what Islamic holy city can the Kaaba be found?
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Mecca
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What American Founding Father famously shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
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Patrick Henry
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What is the name of Edvard Munch's most famous painting?
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The Scream
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The Chicago Tribune erroneously claimed that Thomas E. Dewey defeated which U.S. President?
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Harry S. Truman
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In what European country are video game companies Supercell and Rovio based?
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Finland
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Which actress has won the most Oscars?
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Meryl Streep
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The Disney movie Frozen was loosely based off "The Snow Queen" by which Danish author?
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Hans Christian Andersen
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What state university's mascot is the Crimson Tide?
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Alabama
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What food is Nathan's most famous for?
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Hot Dogs
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After presenting his findings to the Catholic Church, Galileo was given what 15-letter punishment?
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Excommunication
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What process that starts with D does a protein undergo when exposed to unnatural temperature or pH?
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Denaturization
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What is the most common collective term for a group of owls?
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Parliament
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The two events in a biathlon are cross-country skiing and what?
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Rifle Shooting
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What river runs through Kyiv?
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Dnieper
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Which geographic era in Earth's history was the first and the longest by far?
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Precambrian
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In poetry, what metrical foot is constituted by one unstressed and one stressed syllable?
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Iamb
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At 92 feet below sea level, which Asian capital has the lowest elevation in the world?
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Baku
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The New York Jets supposedly "saved" the Super Bowl by defeating what no-longer-existing Baltimore team in Super Bowl III?
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Colts
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What is the largest city in Cameroon?
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Douala
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On the sitcom The Simpsons, who voices Homer Simpson?
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Dan Castellaneta
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What is the first number that contains a C when spelled out?
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Octillion
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What does the D stand for in LDPE and HDPE?
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Density
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What is the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia?
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Hohhot
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Rubies and sapphires are both varieties of what mineral?
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Corundum
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Alpha Centauri is the closest star to The Sun. What star is second closest?
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Barnard's Star
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What movie starring Clark Gable was the first to win all of the "Big Five" Academy Awards?
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It Happened One Night
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What is the middle portion of the small intestine called?
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Jejunum
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What hypothetical theory for the end of the universe is the opposite of the Big Bang?
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Big Crunch
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What Surgeon General, in 1964, was the first person to suggest that smoking could be bad for your lungs?
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Luther Terry
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What is the Polish variant of the name John?
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Janek
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What does an ophidiophobe fear?
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Snakes
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What tiny exclave of Angola provides most of the country's oil?
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Cabinda
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The model who portrayed Mona Lisa had what actual last name?
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Gherardini
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Hibernation is sleeping for long periods during the winter. What is it called during the summer?
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Aestivation
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What chemist is often credited with founding the field of stoichiometry?
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Antoine Lavoisier
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What word can be synonymous with "catastrophe" but comes from the Ancient Greek word for "revelation"?
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Apocalypse
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What type of fermented shark is the national dish of Iceland?
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Hakarl
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What is the full name of the pesticide DDT?
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Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
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What northern city hosted the fencing events during the 1952 Summer Olympics?
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Espoo
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What type of Ancient Roman wind chime would often be decorated with phallic designs?
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Tintinnabulum
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The two animals that appear on Croatia's coat of arms are a goat and what smaller animal?
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Marten
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Abraham Lincoln was shot watching the play Our American Cousin, which was written by what playwright?
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Tom Taylor
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The six types of quarks in particle physics are up, down, top, bottom, charm, and what other type?
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Strange
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-44-closest-stars-and-how-they-compare-to-our-sun/
Alpha Centauri is actually a binary star, so that technically bumps Barnard's down to fourth place.
Perhaps the wording should just be changed to "which star is next closest"?
Could "estivation" be accepted alongside British "aestivation", and "Jan" for the Polish equivalent of John?
Biathlon question does not accept: shooting, rifle, target shooting, plinking, sharpshooting, or marksmanship.
Heck, I knew proteins being messed up was called “denaturing” but I tried that, denaturation, denature, etc. I even looked it up, but the accepted answer didn’t even work.
Same with biathlon. I tried shooting, sharpshooting, riflery, all of which should’ve worked but didn’t!
Likewise with “estivation” which only accepts the much less used British spelling.
Please change it, it’s an excellent quiz but held back by so silly a reason