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Actually Good General Knowledge

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Center of a black hole.
Singularity
Now extinct bird native to Mauritius.
Dodo Bird
To have conscious awareness while asleep is called _____ Dreaming.
Lucid
Strenuous ski run designated for experienced skiers.
Black Diamond
What is the name of the traditional Scottish strength event established in 2000 bc?
Highland Games
Large medieval machine used to fling a heavy object.
Trebuchet
Modern day peninsula where the asteroid that struck the dinosaurs landed
Yucatan
Jeanne Louise Calment is a French woman known for achieving this incredible feat.
Oldest Human
Digital computers use bits, quantum computers use ______.
Qubits
This family was an Italian banking dynasty emerging in 15th century Florence.
Medici
The first speculative bubble. A period in the 1630s Netherlands called ______ mania.
Tulip
Impossible to untie knot which Alexander The Great cut with a sword
Gordian Knot
"The fool”, “Temperance”, and “The hanged man” make up a few of these.
Tarot Cards
Mythological symbol depicting a serpent that swallows its own tail
Ouroboros
Article of clothing given to the winner of the Masters golf tournament.
Green Jacket
Chrysippus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who died from laughter at a joke he made after seeing this animal eating figs.
Donkey
The galaxy which the Milky Way will collide with in 4.5 billion years
Andromeda
Artist Gustav Klimt used this unorthodox material when creating works from his later period.
Gold
The most painful insect sting ranked on the Schmidt pain scale.
Bullet Ant
Ego ____ is a phenomenon arising from the use of psychedelic drugs leading to a transcendence of the self.
Death
This airship caught fire in 1937 resulting in 35 deaths
Hindenburg
What is the point on Earth of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude colloquially called?
Null Island
Kurt Gödel's ________ theorems proved that a complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics is impossible
Incompleteness
Nickname of Beethoven's third symphony
"Eroica"
What volcanic eruption in 1883 was the loudest ever recorded at 310 decibels?
Krakatoa
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What is the first line spoken in Hamlet?
"Who's there?"
Name of the iconic default computer wallpaper of Microsoft windows used in 2000.
Bliss
Name either type of non-Euclidean geometry.
Hyperbolic or Elliptic
What band was Lionel Richie a part of?
Why do you know that, loser!
The most valuable company of all time (taking account of inflation).
Dutch East India Company
This mega-tall skyscraper features a giant mass damper at its top
Taipei 101
Game engine created by Epic games
Unreal Engine
Co creator of cubism along with Pablo Picasso.
Georges Braque
Animal used to play croquet in "Alice in Wonderland"
Flamingo
Famous chess game where Paul Morhpy defeated a German duke and French aristocrat in 1858
Opera Game
Buddhist term for endless cycle of rebirth
Samsara
The tallest vertical cliff face at 5,495 feet
Mount Thor
What is the phrase, "I came, I saw, I conquered" in original latin
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Known as the greatest movie never made, director Alejandro Jodorowsky failed to adapt this sci-fi classic
Dune
Philosophical concept of a superior human being proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ubermensch
Imaginary location in one’s mind to store images that correspond to different types of information
Memory Palace
Famous two-dimensional set in the complex plane that exhibits an intricate fractal pattern from a simple recursive definition
Mandelbrot Set
At 16,700 ft, this is the highest altitude city in the world with a significant year-round population.
La Rinconada, Peru
What Swedish filmmaker’s works include Persona, Wild Strawberries, and The Seventh Seal?
Ingmar Bergman
What is the name of the Russian archipelago east of Svalbard in the Arctic?
Franz Josef Land
What is Sleeping Beauty's original name?
Briar Rose
The idea that it's likelier for a single brain with memories to come into existence than an entire universe
Boltzman Brain
What was the original name of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher?
Rijndael
Bloated world record holder in the Zercher Shrugs exercise
Kyriakos Grizzly ⚓
______ Death is the way which the universe will end
Heat
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Dimby
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Level 77
Mar 11, 2024
Interesting quiz. I gave up because some questions are too specific in the answer you're looking for. I tried extreme age etc. for Calment, entropy for the end of the universe, and I believe you mispelled the knot. Your quiz says I'm a loser, though, so what do I know? :)
BullcutYT
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Mar 11, 2024
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