Statistics for General Knowledge #44

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mosquito-borne infectious illness highly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia.	Malaria	92%
The Octopus and the Horseshoe Crab both have this color blood.	Blue	85%
Mythical King with the ability to turn everything he touched to gold.	King Midas	79%
Modern logarithmic measurement of the magnitude of an earthquake.	Richter Scale	69%
Amanita phalloides, more commonly known as the Death Cap, is a poisonous kind of what?	Fungus	61%
Surrealist artist. Painted the Persistence of Memory.	Salvador Dali	54%
Colorful design pattern, popular in the mid-1960's, printed onto fabric by crumpling up, folding and tying with rubber bands.	Tie-dye	54%
Term given to someone who is an avid gardener or very skilled at botany.	Green Thumb	47%
Languages like Bulgarian and Serbian are based on this alphabetic script.	Cyrillic	43%
Objectivist author of Atlas Shrugged.	Ayn Rand	35%
This doctor, nicknamed Dr. Death, has become synonomous with euthenasia.	Dr. Jacob Kevorkian	32%
"Eating ____" is a colloquial idiom to imply humiliation by admittance of wrongness.	Crow	31%
With over six million copies sold, which band holds the record for best-selling album in Britain's history?	Queen	20%
Term given to a kind of gift exchange, where useful but burdensome possessions are traded between people, often at a party. Also sometimes called a Yankee Swap.	White Elephant	20%
The outdated and discredited pseudoscience based on making measurements of the skull as evidence of behavior and personality.	Phrenology	17%
The set of numbers intimately connected with the golden ratio.	Fibonacci Sequence	14%
In cannibalism, what name is given to human flesh?	Longpig	13%
Which classic comedian and satirist was arrested for vulgarity at least 4 times?	Lenny Bruce	11%
The modern Necktie, specifically the "Cravat," dates back to which country?	Croatia	7%
What bird, once considered a delicacy, is now illegal to eat, in the EU as well as many other countries?	Ortolan Bunting	2%