Statistics for General Knowledge Quiz #145

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Question	Answer	% Correct
If women are XX, what are men?	XY	96%
What was the first year of the 19th century?	1801	92%
Who is Sherlock Holmes's sidekick?	Dr. John Watson	86%
What magazine was started by Hugh Hefner?	Playboy	83%
What type of plant do shamrocks come from?	Clover	78%
Who was famously born in Stratford-upon-Avon?	William Shakespeare	76%
In what country would you find a kibbutz?	Israel	72%
What was the name of Michael J. Fox's character in "Back to the Future"?	Marty McFly	65%
What was first seen at Lowell Observatory in 1930?	Pluto	62%
Who were known as the "Fab Four"?	The Beatles	57%
What is a common word that means "tempest"?	Storm	54%
What has the chemical formula NH₃?	Ammonia	43%
Who invented the saxophone?	Adolphe Sax	42%
Who is the richest resident of Metropolis?	Lex Luthor	42%
Of the 5 founding members of OPEC, what is the only one that isn't in the Middle East?	Venezuela	42%
Who defeated Boris Spassky in a 1972 chess showdown?	Bobby Fischer	38%
What unit of currency can be divided into 100 kopeks?	Ruble	38%
What well-defended country has enough nuclear blast shelters to accommodate 100% of its population?	Switzerland	34%
Who wrote a series of detective books for adults using the pen-name Robert Galbraith?	J.K. Rowling	33%
What bisexual English poet wrote "Don Juan" and "She Walks in Beauty"?	Lord Byron	23%