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This quiz has been taken 166 times
The average score is 51 of 100

Answer Stats

%	clue	answer	% Correct
100	In what city would you find the Eiffel Tower?	Paris	100%
99	What "unsinkable" ship sank in April 1912?	RMS Titanic	99%
94	In which US state would you find Disney World?	Florida	97%
95	What is the tallest type of land animal?	giraffe	96%
97	What does an octopus spray when threatened?	ink	96%
98	Which country's flag is a white rectangle, with a red circle in the centre?	Japan	96%
93	What is Mexico's currency?	peso	95%
92	Who was almost totally deaf when he wrote his ninth and final symphony?	Ludwig van Beethoven	94%
90	What stimulant did Coca-Cola contain before 1903?	cocaine	93%
96	In what country would you find the headquarters of Ferrari?	Italy	93%
89	What does a predator hunt?	prey	93%
91	What usually has three leaves, but in about 1/5000 cases has four or more?	clover	92%
82	What weapon does Luke Skywalker wield?	lightsaber	89%
84	What type of animal appears on the Ferrari logo?	horse	86%
86	What does the U in SCUBA stand for?	Underwater	86%
81	What is the name of Apple's web browser?	Safari	85%
80	What was the unflattering nickname of Queen Mary I of England?	{Bloody} Mary	83%
88	Who orders martinis "shaken, not stirred"?	James Bond	82%
87	What is a female deer called?	A doe	80%
79	Who did Eva Braun marry on 29 April 1945?	Adolf Hitler	80%
83	What organ is foie gras made from?	liver	79%
72	What is the world's most-visited museum?	The Louvre	78%
74	What is the last name of Australian actors Chris, Liam, and Luke?	Hemsworth	77%
75	What stone provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?	{Rosetta} Stone	76%
68	How many syllables does a haiku have?	17	75%
65	Who was the first person to see the moons of Jupiter?	Galileo Galilei	75%
58	In what year did the United States celebrate its bicentennial?	1976	74%
73	A group of generic birds is called a flock. What do you call a group of crows?	A murder	74%
71	What singer had two hit songs whose titles started with "Like a"?	Madonna	71%
77	What trilogy can be described as a quest to return unwanted jewellery?	The Lord of the Rings	70%
60	What gentle shark is the largest species of fish?	{Whale} Shark	70%
67	Who suggested a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?	Mary Poppins	69%
69	What body part is the Norse god Odin missing?	An eye	68%
63	What sea do Denmark, Finland, and Estonia all border?	Baltic Sea	67%
61	What voice range is lower than baritone?	bass	67%
64	Which element of the Periodic Table is known in Latin as argentum?	silver	65%
59	What ancient Hindu text could be described as a sex manual?	Kama Sutra	63%
85	Which boxing weight class starts with W?	{Welter}weight	63%
62	What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?	cumulo{nimbus}	62%
76	Who is the main character of "The Hunger Games" series?	Katniss Everdeen	62%
43	Who invented dynamite?	Alfred Nobel	61%
53	Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?	Aristotle	60%
56	What country traditionally produces port wine?	Portugal	60%
70	What is the most points one can score with a single dart throw?	60	59%
57	Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?	Aries	57%
55	What country does a Sinophile love?	China	57%
66	Who was the lead actor in the "Bourne" series?	Matt Damon	57%
54	What type of animal has a head, thorax, and abdomen?	insect	56%
52	What US state did Ray Charles have "on his mind"?	Georgia	55%
49	What is 5 factorial?	120	54%
50	Who said "Do or do not. There is no try"?	Yoda	51%
34	Who crossed the Rubicon?	Julius Caesar	49%
41	Who parodied Adolf Hitler in the movie The Great Dictator?	Charlie Chaplin	48%
42	According to Dante, what is the worst of the seven deadly sins?	pride	44%
48	What did physicist Stephen Hawking write a "brief history" of in 1988?	time	44%
37	What does the harp represent on the coat of arms of King Charles III?	Ireland	43%
36	What molecule, formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, is commonly used as table sugar?	sucrose	43%
38	What word in the English language sounds like "segway"?	segue	41%
30	What M word refers to a decorative tower adjacent to a mosque?	minaret	40%
35	Who composed Ride of the Valkyries?	Richard Wagner	40%
51	Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?	The {bends}	39%
32	What "Wild World" singer changed his name to Yusuf Islam in 1977?	Cat Stevens	38%
29	What word means either "a business tycoon" or "a bump on a skiing course"?	Mogul	38%
15	What is the name of this typographical symbol: † (hint: a weapon)	dagger	37%
45	If a British or US army captain is promoted, what is their new rank?	major	37%
47	What is the name of a volcano, a camera company, and a type of apple?	Fuji	36%
46	Who was Robin Hood's second in command?	Little John	35%
25	There are 14 eight-thousanders in the world. Among these 14, which one is nearest to being a nine-thousander?	Mt Everest	34%
31	What part of animal is suet?	fat	33%
33	What singer is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?	James Brown	32%
44	In what type of cell would you find an axon and dendrites?	nerve	32%
21	What could Cassandra, Jeremiah, and Paul the Octopus see that most people cannot?	the future	31%
28	Who is Steffi Graf's husband?	Andre Agassi	30%
24	What world leader was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires?	Pope Francis	30%
23	What is the Japanese word for freshwater eel?	unagi	30%
27	What is a bandolier designed to hold?	ammunition	25%
39	What is another name for an abattoir?	A slaughterhouse	25%
17	What is pulchritude?	beauty	25%
26	What is sold at Lloyd's of London?	insurance	24%
18	In what country would you be most likely to find a polder?	Netherlands	24%
20	Who gets stoned during Hajj?	The devil	24%
16	Who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais"?	Auguste Rodin	23%
22	What director refers to his films as "joints"?	Spike Lee	22%
19	Among all the cities in the world with a metro population over 1 million people, which one is last alphabetically?	Zürich	19%
14	Writing out numbers using Roman numerals, which number is alphabetically last?	XXXVIII	18%
78	In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?	mining	16%
10	What is a chorophobe afraid of?	dancing	11%
13	What is the largest Indian state by area?	Rajasthan	11%
9	In which US city is the shortest race in the US Horse Racing Triple Crown, The Preakness Stakes, held?	Baltimore	9%
4	Who became the first president of India in 1950?	Rajendra Prasad	5%
12	Who released their debut album La Voix du bon Dieu, which translates to Good Lord's Voice, in 1981?	Celine Dion	4%
7	Who became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion in 1971?	Jochen Rindt	4%
8	The Bislett Games is an annual track and field held in which city?	Oslo	4%
6	Which Italian composed Norma, an opera based on Alexandre Soumet's play?	Vincenzo Bellini	4%
3	Which mountain in Spain is the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, 3404 m / 11,168 ft high?	Aneto	3%
1	Who is the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina?	Elijah	3%
5	In the TV Series Thunderbirds, who piloted Thunderbird 4, the submarine held aboard Thunderbird 2?	Gordon Tracy	3%
11	A species of which animal, was found near Folsom Prison, California and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi after Johnny Cash?	tarantula	2%
0	How many steps are there on the Eiffel Tower?	1710	1%
2	Which driver has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 9 times?	Tom Kristensen	1%