Statistics for General Knowledge 5

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who was the first female aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic?	Amelia Earhart	81%
How many pieces of art did Van Gogh sell while he was alive?	1	79%
What country has the longest coastline?	Canada	77%
What US sitcom has twin sisters Phoebe and Ursula Buffay?	Friends	75%
What colour is Absinthe?	Green	73%
What is the tallest type of tree?	Redwood	65%
Which tennis open is played on plexicushion courts?	Australian	56%
What disease is the nursery rhyme Ring a ring a roses originally about?	Black death	54%
Who wrote Treasure Island?	Robert Louis Stevenson	52%
What is the largest sea on the moon?	Sea of Tranquility	50%
The piano makes sounds by hitting the strings inside it with mallets, but what is the name of a similar looking instrument that plucks the strings?	Harpsichord	44%
Which knighted individual is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?	Sir Tim Berners-Lee	29%
What was the world's fastest steam train?	Mallard	8%
What are the first 3 digits of the mathematical constant e?	2.72	6%
As champagne cannot be used what beverage is instead sprayed by those on the podium at the bahrain and abu dhabi grand prix?	Rosewater	6%