Statistics for General Knowledge Quiz #30

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which sign of the Zodiac is also a disease?	Cancer	91%
What was Medusa's hair made of?	Snakes	88%
What started on September 1, 1939?	World War II	88%
What animal are elephants supposedly afraid of?	Mice	84%
Who referred to a ring as "my precious"?	Gollum	80%
In what country would you find the town of Marathon?	Greece	74%
What country is the region Lombardy a part of?	Italy	69%
What is the term for a word or phrase which is spelled the same forwards or backwards?	a Palindrome	62%
What modern-day country contains most of the ancient region of Mesopotamia?	Iraq	62%
What is made at a tannery?	Leather	60%
If you are dining "al fresco", where are you?	Outside	57%
Who was the demon barber of Fleet Street?	Sweeney Todd	47%
Who is the namesake of a Latin American country, a Canadian province, a major river, and two U.S. state capitals?	Christopher Columbus	42%
What town did Superman grow up in?	Smallville	42%
Who led England as Lord Protector from 1653–1658?	Oliver Cromwell	40%
Name a country that is located in the Maghreb.	Algeria \| Libya \| Mauritania \| Morocco \| Tunisia	38%
What word in the English language sounds like "segway"?	Segue	38%
What type of school offers a class called "torts"?	Law School	33%
What is the name of a receptacle designed to be spat into by tobacco chewers?	Spittoon	31%
If I sail on the Neva river past the Hermitage Museum, what city am I in?	St. Petersburg	26%