Statistics for General Knowledge #13

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which large cat, native to Africa and Iran, is said to be the fastest land mammal?	Cheetah	95%
François Mitterrand is the longest serving President of which country?	France	89%
Honshu is the largest & most populous of the 6,852 islands of which country?	Japan	89%
Which UK Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953?	Winston Churchill	89%
In Greek mythology, who was the god of the dead and king of the underworld?	Hades	84%
Liebfraumilch is a style of semi-sweet white from which European country?	Germany	79%
In which year did the Battle of Hastings take place?	1066	74%
What is the chemical symbol for the element Lead?	Pb	74%
Which country singer was sometimes nicknamed ‘The Man In Black’?	Johnny Cash	68%
Which director made cameo appearances in forty of his films, his first such appearance being in The Lodger (1927) and his last being in Family Plot (1976)?	Alfred Hitchcock	63%
Which Brit won the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in 2013 and 2016?	Andy Murray	63%
Which fourteenth century English poet and author wrote The Canterbury Tales?	Geoffrey Chaucer	63%
Arrival, Ring Ring and Voulez-Vous were all 1970s albums for which music act?	ABBA	47%
Who composed the English-language oratorio Messiah, first performed in 1742?	George Frideric Handel	47%
The TV series The Wire depicted various aspects of life in which US city?	Baltimore	32%