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Question	Answer	% Correct
What Irish novelist and poet is best known for Ulysses (1922)?	James Joyce	64%
What is the country whose only border is with South Africa?	Lesotho	64%
What Nobel Prize hasn't been awarded 19 years since its creation, more times than any other Nobel Prize?	Nobel Peace Prize	62%
What is the name of the anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat-inspired character with a red bow?	Hello Kitty	49%
How do you call a male singer with a voice intermediate between tenor and bass?	Baritone	38%
Who is the Romanian gymnast who became the first in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal?	Nadia Comăneci	26%
Who was the scientist and Augustinian abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno that is considered the founder of the modern science of genetics?	Gregor Mendel	23%
What is another name for the chemical element Tungsten?	Wolfram	21%
What is the prefix with the meaning “round about, around,” found in Latin loanwords?	Circum-	17%
What animal is a medium-sized, burrowing, anteater nocturnal mammal native to Africa and the only living species of the order Tubulidentata?	Aardvark	13%
Who was the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or for her acclaimed film The Piano (1993)?	Jane Campion	13%
What territorial overseas collectivity of France is situated near Newfoundland?	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	13%
What is the NBA team that plays its home games at the United Center?	Chicago Bulls	11%
Who is the Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring in Roman mythology?	Flora	9%
Who was the South African singer and civil rights activist, nicknamed Mama Africa, best known for the song Pata Pata?	Miriam Makeba	6%
What is the country that the Alaouite dynasty has been ruling since 1667?	Morocco	4%
Who is the eleventh managing director of the IMF - International Monetary Fund (5 July 2011 - Present)?	Christine Lagarde	2%
What country has the city of Putrajaya as its federal administrative centre?	Malaysia	2%
What was was the largest Asian war in the 20th century?	Second Sino-Japanese War	2%
Who is recognized to be the first known woman mathematician in history and credited with writing three major treatises on geometry, algebra and astronomy?	Hypatia of Alexandria	0%