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Hint	Answer
What is the capital of both the United Kingdom and England?	London
What playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?	William Shakespeare

What reptile is commonly mistaken for a crocodile?	Alligator


What flying device can be referred to as a "chopper"?	Helicopter



What coding language shares its name with a family of snakes?	Python




In the Marvel film franchise, who plays the Norse god Thor?	Chris Hemsworth





What unit of speed is equal to about 1.151 miles per hour?	Knot






In what Islamic holy city can the Kaaba be found?	Mecca







What American Founding Father famously shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?	Patrick Henry








What is the name of Edvard Munch's most famous painting?	The Scream









The Chicago Tribune erroneously claimed that Thomas E. Dewey defeated which U.S. President?	Harry S. Truman










In what European country are video game companies Supercell and Rovio based?	Finland











Which actress has won the most Oscars?	Meryl Streep












The Disney movie Frozen was loosely based off "The Snow Queen" by which Danish author?	Hans Christian Andersen













What state university's mascot is the Crimson Tide?	Alabama














What food is Nathan's most famous for?	Hot Dogs















After presenting his findings to the Catholic Church, Galileo was given what 15-letter punishment?	Excommunication
















What process that starts with D does a protein undergo when exposed to unnatural temperature or pH?	Denaturization

















What is the most common collective term for a group of owls?	Parliament


















The two events in a biathlon are cross-country skiing and what?	Rifle Shooting



















What river runs through Kyiv?	Dnieper




















Which geographic era in Earth's history was the first and the longest by far?	Precambrian





















In poetry, what metrical foot is constituted by one unstressed and one stressed syllable?	Iamb






















At 92 feet below sea level, which Asian capital has the lowest elevation in the world?	Baku























The New York Jets supposedly "saved" the Super Bowl by defeating what no-longer-existing Baltimore team in Super Bowl III?	Colts
























What is the largest city in Cameroon?	Douala

























On the sitcom The Simpsons, who voices Homer Simpson?
	Dan Castellaneta

























What is the first number that contains a C when spelled out?	Octillion



























What does the D stand for in LDPE and HDPE?	Density




























What is the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia?	Hohhot





























Rubies and sapphires are both varieties of what mineral?	Corundum






























Alpha Centauri is the closest star to The Sun. What star is second closest?	Barnard's Star































What movie starring Clark Gable was the first to win all of the "Big Five" Academy Awards?	It Happened One Night
































What is the middle portion of the small intestine called?	Jejunum

































What hypothetical theory for the end of the universe is the opposite of the Big Bang?	Big Crunch


































What Surgeon General, in 1964, was the first person to suggest that smoking could be bad for your lungs?	Luther Terry



































What is the Polish variant of the name John?	Janek




































What does an ophidiophobe fear?	Snakes





































What tiny exclave of Angola provides most of the country's oil?	Cabinda






































The model who portrayed Mona Lisa had what actual last name?	Gherardini







































Hibernation is sleeping for long periods during the winter. What is it called during the summer?	Aestivation








































What chemist is often credited with founding the field of stoichiometry?


	Antoine Lavoisier






































What word can be synonymous with "catastrophe" but comes from the Ancient Greek word for "revelation"?




	Apocalypse





































What type of fermented shark is the national dish of Iceland?



	Hakarl







































What is the full name of the pesticide DDT?	Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane












































What northern city hosted the fencing events during the 1952 Summer Olympics?	Espoo













































What type of Ancient Roman wind chime would often be decorated with phallic designs?	Tintinnabulum














































The two animals that appear on Croatia's coat of arms are a goat and what smaller animal?	Marten















































Abraham Lincoln was shot watching the play Our American Cousin, which was written by what playwright?

	Tom Taylor














































The six types of quarks in particle physics are up, down, top, bottom, charm, and what other type?	Strange