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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What is the capital of both the United Kingdom and England?	London	100%
What reptile is commonly mistaken for a crocodile?	Alligator	99%
What flying device can be referred to as a "chopper"?	Helicopter	99%
What playwright wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?	William Shakespeare	99%
In what Islamic holy city can the Kaaba be found?	Mecca	84%
In the Marvel film franchise, who plays the Norse god Thor?	Chris Hemsworth	71%
What coding language shares its name with a family of snakes?	Python	67%
What is the name of Edvard Munch's most famous painting?	The Scream	67%
The Disney movie Frozen was loosely based off "The Snow Queen" by which Danish author?	Hans Christian Andersen	59%
Which actress has won the most Oscars?	Meryl Streep	49%
What unit of speed is equal to about 1.151 miles per hour?	Knot	45%
What river runs through Kyiv?	Dnieper	43%
In what European country are video game companies Supercell and Rovio based?	Finland	43%
What state university's mascot is the Crimson Tide?	Alabama	39%
The Chicago Tribune erroneously claimed that Thomas E. Dewey defeated which U.S. President?	Harry S. Truman	39%
After presenting his findings to the Catholic Church, Galileo was given what 15-letter punishment?	Excommunication	33%
At 92 feet below sea level, which Asian capital has the lowest elevation in the world?	Baku	32%
What American Founding Father famously shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?	Patrick Henry	32%
What food is Nathan's most famous for?	Hot Dogs	30%
What is the most common collective term for a group of owls?	Parliament	28%
In poetry, what metrical foot is constituted by one unstressed and one stressed syllable?	Iamb	26%
What is the largest city in Cameroon?	Douala	25%
The two events in a biathlon are cross-country skiing and what?	Rifle Shooting	22%
What hypothetical theory for the end of the universe is the opposite of the Big Bang?	Big Crunch	21%
What tiny exclave of Angola provides most of the country's oil?	Cabinda	21%
The New York Jets supposedly "saved" the Super Bowl by defeating what no-longer-existing Baltimore team in Super Bowl III?	Colts	21%
The six types of quarks in particle physics are up, down, top, bottom, charm, and what other type?	Strange	21%
Which geographic era in Earth's history was the first and the longest by far?	Precambrian	18%
What word can be synonymous with "catastrophe" but comes from the Ancient Greek word for "revelation"?	Apocalypse	16%
What does the D stand for in LDPE and HDPE?	Density	16%
What is the first number that contains a C when spelled out?	Octillion	14%
What is the middle portion of the small intestine called?	Jejunum	12%
What does an ophidiophobe fear?	Snakes	12%
What process that starts with D does a protein undergo when exposed to unnatural temperature or pH?	Denaturization	9%
What is the Polish variant of the name John?	Janek	9%
The two animals that appear on Croatia's coat of arms are a goat and what smaller animal?	Marten	9%
Abraham Lincoln was shot watching the play Our American Cousin, which was written by what playwright?	Tom Taylor	9%
What northern city hosted the fencing events during the 1952 Summer Olympics?	Espoo	8%
What is the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia?	Hohhot	8%
What movie starring Clark Gable was the first to win all of the "Big Five" Academy Awards?	It Happened One Night	8%
What chemist is often credited with founding the field of stoichiometry?	Antoine Lavoisier	7%
Alpha Centauri is the closest star to The Sun. What star is second closest?	Barnard's Star	7%
Rubies and sapphires are both varieties of what mineral?	Corundum	7%
On the sitcom The Simpsons, who voices Homer Simpson?	Dan Castellaneta	7%
Hibernation is sleeping for long periods during the winter. What is it called during the summer?	Aestivation	5%
What type of fermented shark is the national dish of Iceland?	Hakarl	5%
What is the full name of the pesticide DDT?	Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane	3%
The model who portrayed Mona Lisa had what actual last name?	Gherardini	3%
What Surgeon General, in 1964, was the first person to suggest that smoking could be bad for your lungs?	Luther Terry	3%
What type of Ancient Roman wind chime would often be decorated with phallic designs?	Tintinnabulum	3%