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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Which southern African country was once called Rhodesia?	Zimbabwe	80%
The Tsushima Strait lies between the Korean peninsula and which other country?	Japan	73%
In which country did the term “bushranger” originate in the 19th century?	Australia	69%
Beijing’s Forbidden City was built during the rule of which Chinese dynasty?	Ming	61%
Who is the youngest person ever to be elected French president?	Emmanuel Macron	52%
Who was US president immediately before Richard Nixon?	Lyndon Baines Johnson	52%
The capital of which Commonwealth country is named after the the “Iron Duke” who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and later served as British prime minister?	New Zealand	44%
What is the stage name of the first musician ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?	Bob Dylan	42%
Which island famous for its fortified wine is dubbed the Pearl of the Atlantic?	Madeira	38%
Which classical composer’s surname is an anagram of “large”?	Sir Edward Elgar	36%
What is the word for 144 or a dozen dozen?	gross	33%
Who wrote the children’s book “Just So Stories”?	Rudyard Kipling	30%
Who was Sir Laurence Olivier’s co-star in the 1957 film “The Prince and the Showgirl”?	Marilyn Monroe	26%
What is the English name of the former record label translated as “La voz de su amo” in Spanish and “La voce del padrone” in Italian?	His Master's Voice (HMV)	24%
What is the first name of Quagmire in the TV cartoon show “Family Guy”?	Glenn	23%
Which internationally influential art school was founded in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 by modernist architect Walter Gropius?	The Bauhaus	12%
What was the former name of New York’s JFK Airport?	Idlewild	10%
Historically, if someone worked as a cordwainer what did they make?	shoes	10%
In which year is Halley’s Comet next due to appear?	2061	7%
Which septuagenarian French singer is often described (by English speakers) as “the biggest rock star you’ve never heard of”?	Johnny Hallyday	6%