% | Question | Answer | % Correct |
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98 | What is the currency of the United Kingdom? | Pound Sterling | 99%
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100 | What is the capital city of the United States? | Washington D.C. | 99%
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99 | On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live? | Nile | 98%
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96 | Who is the current president of Russia? | Vladimir Putin | 98%
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97 | What is the main export of Qatar? | Oil / natural gas | 95%
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93 | What Turkish empire was dissolved in 1923? | Ottoman Empire | 93%
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94 | What is the German word for Germany? | Deutschland | 91%
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92 | What French museum is the most visited in the world? | Musée du Louvre | 91%
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90 | What is the most sacred animal in hinduism? | Cow | 89%
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91 | What nickname is often used when referring to Japan? | Land of the {Rising} {Sun} | 88%
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89 | What British islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982? | Falkland Islands | 85%
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84 | Who was the first leader of communist China? | Mao Zedong | 83%
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86 | What is Sweden's all-time bestselling musical act? | ABBA | 82%
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83 | What dog breed is named for a Mexican state? | Chihuahua | 82%
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95 | What major falls are located on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border? | {Victoria} Falls | 82%
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82 | What greek island was home to the Minoan civilisation? | Crete | 81%
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79 | What peninsula comprises both Spain and Portugal? | Iberia | 81%
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85 | What germanic language is mainly spoken in South Africa? | Afrikaans | 80%
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88 | What is the most populous city in Quebec? | Montreal | 79%
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87 | What was the DR Congo known as, from 1971 to 1997? | Zaire | 77%
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73 | What ice cream ingredient is Madagascar's top export? | Vanilla | 75%
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81 | What religious leader was born in southern Nepal around 480 BC? | Buddha | 72%
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78 | What colombian drug lord was "worth $30 billion"? | Pablo Escobar | 71%
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76 | What Korean martial art is an Olympic sport? | Taekwondo | 71%
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72 | What dictator was born in Georgia as Ioseb Besarionis dzе Djugashvili? | Joseph Stalin | 68%
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71 | What is Italy's tallest volcano? | Mount Etna | 68%
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80 | What dictator killed 20% of Cambodia's population in the 1970s? | Pol Pot | 68%
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77 | What ballroom dance in 3/4 time is emblematic of Vienna? | Waltz | 68%
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56 | What was the profession of the current Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky prior to his election in 2019? | Comedian | 66%
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68 | Who is Switzerland's most famous tennis player? | Roger Federer | 62%
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75 | What is Ireland's main airline company? | Ryanair | 61%
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74 | Who is undoubtedly Denmark's most famous fairy tale writer? | Hans Christian Andersen | 60%
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70 | What word is defined as the support of a Jewish state in the Holy Land? | {Zion}ism | 59%
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67 | What major river forms the border between Thailand and Laos? | Mekong | 57%
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63 | Who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland? | {Erik} the Red | 53%
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69 | What type of tree is depicted on the flag of Lebanon? | Cedar | 52%
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66 | What is the word for a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses, like Panama for instance? | Isthmus | 52%
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62 | What stinky fruit is banned in Singapore's subway? | Durian | 50%
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48 | What is the act of throwing someone out of a window called? (It famously happened in Prague in 1419 and 1618) | Defenestration | 46%
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58 | What neozelandese mountain climber became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953? | Edmund Hillary | 46%
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60 | What infamous dictator was known as "The Butcher of Uganda"? | Idi Amin | 46%
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65 | What 2006 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio tackles the issue of diamond trade during the civil war in Sierra Leone? | Blood Diamond | 45%
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51 | What famous resort town is located at the eastern tip of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic? | Punta {Cana} | 44%
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59 | What is the most populous city in the Philippines? | {Quezon} City | 43%
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61 | What region of Sudan has known a genocide in the 21st century? | Darfur | 42%
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50 | What is the national gemstone of Australia? | Opal | 42%
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55 | What legendary sailor of the seven seas was said to live in Iraq? | Sinbad | 42%
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45 | What ruler of the Mali Empire is often (inaccurately) said to be the richest person in history? | Mansa {Musa} | 41%
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57 | What conquistador invaded the Inca Empire? | Francisco Pizarro | 38%
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53 | What strait separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland Chile? | Strait of {Magellan} | 37%
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52 | Who has been the President of Belarus since 1994? | Alexander Lukashenko | 35%
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64 | What acronym was North Macedonia also known as until 2019? | FYROM | 32%
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54 | What major city in Senegal shares its name with a city in Missouri? | Saint-Louis | 32%
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46 | Who established Taiwan after fleeing mainland China in 1949? | Chiang Kai-shek | 31%
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36 | What holiday does Kazakhstan celebrate on January 7? | Christmas | 31%
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44 | What slogan appears on the Brazilian flag? | {Ordem} e Progresso | 30%
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47 | What region of northern Tanzania is known for its wildebeest migration? | Serengeti | 29%
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40 | What is the largest island in Yemen? | Socotra | 29%
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41 | What Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959? | Fulgencio Batista | 26%
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42 | What hungarian piano virtuoso composed "Hungarian Rhapsody"? | Franz Liszt | 25%
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39 | What former footballer is currently the president of Liberia? | George Weah | 24%
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49 | What island of the Solomon Islands was the site of a WWII battle? | Guadalcanal | 24%
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25 | What region of Papua New Guinea overwhelmingly voted to become independent in 2019? | Bougainville | 23%
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38 | What is the most commonly spoken mother tongue in Jamaica? | Jamaican {Patois} | 22%
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31 | What city, technically the second-biggest in Moldova, is the capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria? | Tiraspol | 22%
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35 | Major ocean bay in Venezuela, incorrectly called a "lake" | Maracaibo | 21%
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34 | Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution? | Toussaint Louverture | 21%
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32 | What river do the Paraguay and Uruguay rivers both join? | Paraná | 20%
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43 | What is the main ethnic group of Laponia? | Sámi | 20%
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28 | What word, starting with J, is the official ideology of North Korea? | Juche | 19%
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37 | What radical socialist party ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990? | Sandinista | 17%
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33 | What warlord born in Uzbekistan in 1336 has led conquests which have killed an estimated 5% of the world's population? | Timur | 17%
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23 | What mountain in Ecuador is the tallest in the world, if measured from the center of the Earth? | Chimborazo | 15%
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30 | What was the colonial name of Benin? | Dahomey | 15%
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19 | What is the biggest port on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia? | Dammam | 15%
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27 | What belgian painter said that a representation of a pipe isn't a pipe? | René Magritte | 15%
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26 | What tributary of the Danube flows through Belgrade in Serbia and forms parts of the border between Bosnia and Croatia? | Sava | 15%
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22 | What is the two-letter country code for Algeria? | DZ | 14%
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20 | What mountain range, starting with Z, spans across Iran? | Zagros | 13%
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24 | What supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago in Indonesia, nearly causing humans to become extinct? | Lake {Toba} | 12%
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9 | On what island does Nassau (the capital of the Bahamas) lie? | New Providence | 12%
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29 | What Mozambique-born footballer was known as the "Black Panther"? | Eusébio | 11%
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18 | What ancient kingdom located in northern Somalia was an essential trading partner of ancient Egypt? | Land of {Punt} | 11%
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16 | What Ethiopian city was the center of an empire from 100 to 940 AD? | Aksum | 10%
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13 | What european species of wild cattle went extinct in Poland in 1627? | Aurochs | 10%
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17 | What white flower is a national symbol of Pakistan? | Jasmine | 8%
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12 | What is the currency of Mongolia? | Tögrög | 8%
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21 | What does Honduras mean in spanish? | Depths | 7%
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4 | What tiny man-made island is shared by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia? | Passport Island | 7%
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11 | What is the name of the Palace in which the Pope resides? | {Apostolic} Palace | 6%
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3 | What part of Earth's crust comprises Guyana and its neighbours? | Guyana {Shield} | 6%
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8 | What Formula 1 pilot died during the qualifications of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, just one day before Ayrton Senna? | Roland Ratzenberger | 6%
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14 | What female name is given to the northernmost point in mainland Africa, located in Tunisia? | Cape {Angela} | 5%
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7 | What is the most populous city in Trinidad-and-Tobago? | Chaguanas | 5%
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15 | What norwegian figure skater won 3 gold medals at the Olympics? | Sonja Henie | 5%
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10 | Who delivers eggs in Lithuania, in addition to the Easter Bunny? | Easter Granny | 4%
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6 | What city was the capital of Bhutan until 1955? | Punakha | 3%
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5 | What archipelago consisting of two hundred small forested islands is the only UNESCO World Heritage of Palau? | {Rock} Islands | 3%
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2 | What is the name given to the carnival that takes place in Grenada? | {Spice}mas | 3%
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1 | What kingdom encompassed the territory of modern-day Kosovo before it was conquered by the Roman Empire in 28 BC? | Dardania | 2%
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