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General Knowledge of Varying Difficulty

These questions from the General Knowledge series have been answered to date by the percentages below. How many can you answer?
The tough answers from 0 to 13% come from JoeRainford's Extremely Hard series
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100
In what city would you find the Eiffel Tower?
Paris
99
What "unsinkable" ship sank in April 1912?
RMS Titanic
98
Which country's flag is a white rectangle, with a red circle in the centre?
Japan
97
What does an octopus spray when threatened?
ink
96
In what country would you find the headquarters of Ferrari?
Italy
95
What is the tallest type of land animal?
giraffe
94
In which US state would you find Disney World?
Florida
93
What is Mexico's currency?
peso
92
Who was almost totally deaf when he wrote his ninth and final symphony?
Ludwig van Beethoven
91
What usually has three leaves, but in about 1/5000 cases has four or more?
clover
90
What stimulant did Coca-Cola contain before 1903?
cocaine
89
What does a predator hunt?
prey
88
Who orders martinis "shaken, not stirred"?
James Bond
87
What is a female deer called?
A doe
86
What does the U in SCUBA stand for?
Underwater
85
Which boxing weight class starts with W?
Welterweight
84
What type of animal appears on the Ferrari logo?
horse
83
What organ is foie gras made from?
liver
82
What weapon does Luke Skywalker wield?
lightsaber
81
What is the name of Apple's web browser?
Safari
80
What was the unflattering nickname of Queen Mary I of England?
Bloody Mary
79
Who did Eva Braun marry on 29 April 1945?
Adolf Hitler
78
In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?
mining
77
What trilogy can be described as a quest to return unwanted jewellery?
The Lord of the Rings
76
Who is the main character of "The Hunger Games" series?
Katniss Everdeen
75
What stone provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Rosetta Stone
74
What is the last name of Australian actors Chris, Liam, and Luke?
Hemsworth
73
A group of generic birds is called a flock. What do you call a group of crows?
A murder
72
What is the world's most-visited museum?
The Louvre
71
What singer had two hit songs whose titles started with "Like a"?
Madonna
70
What is the most points one can score with a single dart throw?
60
69
What body part is the Norse god Odin missing?
An eye
68
How many syllables does a haiku have?
17
67
Who suggested a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?
Mary Poppins
66
Who was the lead actor in the "Bourne" series?
Matt Damon
65
Who was the first person to see the moons of Jupiter?
Galileo Galilei
64
Which element of the Periodic Table is known in Latin as argentum?
silver
63
What sea do Denmark, Finland, and Estonia all border?
Baltic Sea
62
What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?
cumulonimbus
61
What voice range is lower than baritone?
bass
60
What gentle shark is the largest species of fish?
Whale Shark
59
What ancient Hindu text could be described as a sex manual?
Kama Sutra
58
In what year did the United States celebrate its bicentennial?
1976
57
Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?
Aries
56
What country traditionally produces port wine?
Portugal
55
What country does a Sinophile love?
China
54
What type of animal has a head, thorax, and abdomen?
insect
53
Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?
Aristotle
52
What US state did Ray Charles have "on his mind"?
Georgia
51
Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?
The bends
50
Who said "Do or do not. There is no try"?
Yoda
49
What is 5 factorial?
120
48
What did physicist Stephen Hawking write a "brief history" of in 1988?
time
47
What is the name of a volcano, a camera company, and a type of apple?
Fuji
46
Who was Robin Hood's second in command?
Little John
45
If a British or US army captain is promoted, what is their new rank?
major
44
In what type of cell would you find an axon and dendrites?
nerve
43
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
42
According to Dante, what is the worst of the seven deadly sins?
pride
41
Who parodied Adolf Hitler in the movie The Great Dictator?
Charlie Chaplin
39
What is another name for an abattoir?
A slaughterhouse
38
What word in the English language sounds like "segway"?
segue
37
What does the harp represent on the coat of arms of King Charles III?
Ireland
36
What molecule, formula C12H22O11, is commonly used as table sugar?
sucrose
35
Who composed Ride of the Valkyries?
Richard Wagner
34
Who crossed the Rubicon?
Julius Caesar
33
What singer is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?
James Brown
32
What "Wild World" singer changed his name to Yusuf Islam in 1977?
Cat Stevens
31
What part of animal is suet?
fat
30
What M word refers to a decorative tower adjacent to a mosque?
minaret
29
What word means either "a business tycoon" or "a bump on a skiing course"?
Mogul
28
Who is Steffi Graf's husband?
Andre Agassi
27
What is a bandolier designed to hold?
ammunition
26
What is sold at Lloyd's of London?
insurance
25
There are 14 eight-thousanders in the world. Among these 14,
which one is nearest to being a nine-thousander?
Mt Everest
24
What world leader was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires?
Pope Francis
23
What is the Japanese word for freshwater eel?
unagi
22
What director refers to his films as "joints"?
Spike Lee
21
What could Cassandra, Jeremiah, and Paul the Octopus see that most people cannot?
the future
20
Who gets stoned during Hajj?
The devil
19
Among all the cities in the world with a metro population over 1 million people,
which one is last alphabetically?
Zürich
18
In what country would you be most likely to find a polder?
Netherlands
17
What is pulchritude?
beauty
16
Who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais"?
Auguste Rodin
15
What is the name of this typographical symbol: † (hint: a weapon)
dagger
14
Writing out numbers using Roman numerals, which number is alphabetically last?
XXXVIII
13
What is the largest Indian state by area?
Rajasthan
12
Who released their debut album La Voix du bon Dieu, which translates to
Good Lord's Voice, in 1981?
Celine Dion
11
A species of which animal, was found near Folsom Prison, California
and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi after Johnny Cash?
tarantula
10
What is a chorophobe afraid of?
dancing
9
In which US city is the shortest race in the US Horse Racing Triple Crown,
The Preakness Stakes, held?
Baltimore
8
The Bislett Games is an annual track and field held in which city?
Oslo
7
Who became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion in 1971?
Jochen Rindt
6
Which Italian composed Norma, an opera based on Alexandre Soumet's play?
Vincenzo Bellini
5
In the TV Series Thunderbirds, who piloted Thunderbird 4, the submarine
held aboard Thunderbird 2?
Gordon Tracy
4
Who became the first president of India in 1950?
Rajendra Prasad
3
Which mountain in Spain is the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, 3404 m / 11,168 ft high?
Aneto
2
Which driver has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 9 times?
Tom Kristensen
1
Who is the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Elijah
0
How many steps are there on the Eiffel Tower?
1710
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