Statistics for AK’s General Knowledge A-Z #17

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
H – late singer Whitney, or how those heading for the Moon addressed NASA	Houston	97%
D – explorer/pirate Sir Francis, or Canadian rapper who was Spotify’s most-streamed artist in the 2010s	Drake	95%
S – pop singer Taylor (“Shake It Off”), or the author Jonathan (“Gulliver’s Travels”)	Swift	94%
J – a mechanical device used to raise an object, or first name of actor Black (“The School of Rock”)	Jack	93%
N – ballet by Tchaikovsky with dolls, toy soldiers and a Mouse King with multiple heads	Nutcracker	91%
C – a body part, or something in which a pirate might put a treasure (not a body part in this case)	Chest	89%
K – he had a dream	Martin Luther King	89%
U – a number in Italian, or a card game with cards such as “Wild,” “Skip,” “Draw Two” and “Reverse”	Uno	87%
F – Fred and Wilma who have a pet dinosaur	The Flintstones	86%
A – 1979 science fiction horror film and the disgusting creature eventually killed by Ellen Ripley	Alien	84%
O – since 1896, nothing can prevent this event from taking place regularly, except World Wars and Covid-19	Olympic Games	84%
Q – in 007 films, the head of the research and development division of the British Secret Service	Q	78%
Z – the capital of Croatia	Zagreb	78%
M – possibly the greatest football (soccer) player that lived, first name Diego	Maradona	76%
E – what customers most likely do at Europe’s oldest still working company, St. Peter Stiftskulinarium (founded 803 CE)	Eat	75%
G – Seinfeld’s best friend, or someone numbered III who was declared insane (although speaking nonsense for 58 hours might today just be called “politics”)	George	72%
R – robbery in Dutch, or where the fiddler is in the musical	Roof	71%
I – the first country to have a female president followed by another female president	Ireland	70%
V – the French “Father of Science Fiction”, who predicted submarines and Moon landing (but going to the centre of the Earth remains science fiction)	Jules Verne	58%
T – first name of Sir Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web	Tim	56%
B – the largest city on the Indochinese Peninsula	Bangkok	55%
L – country with a name that means “light stone”	Liechtenstein	52%
P – from Volcan Baru, the highest point of this country, you can see the sun rise over the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic	Panama	51%
W – what Sumerians invented – and the rest is history (literally)	Writing	49%
X – action film starring Vin Diesel as a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy	xXx	48%
Y – first name of Canadian author Martel who wrote the Man Booker Prize winning novel “Life of Pi”	Yann	21%