Statistics for General Knowledge Quiz 197

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What instrument did Ray Charles play?	Piano	89%
Campania is a region in which country?	Italy	67%
What city's original name meant "to the Monks" when translated from German?	Munich	63%
What was the name of the Space Shuttle that fatefully broke apart in 1986?	Challenger	59%
What British soap opera is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield?	Coronation Street	56%
Beginning with L, what word means to conceal the origin of money?	Launder	56%
What type of building might have been built on a motte?	Castle	48%
Box, Crown, and Cosmic are examples of what marine creature?	Jellyfish	48%
Wade-Giles is a romanization system for which Asian language?	Mandarin Chinese	48%
What peoples would be most likely to attend a Powwow?	Native Americans	41%
What is the largest urban area in the Mojave Desert?	Las Vegas	37%
Associated with 19th century technology, where would one find a signal box building?	Railway tracks	37%
In baseball, who stands behind the catcher? (Hint: the term is also used tennis)	Umpire	37%
What is the vegetable okra often called? (Hint: sounds like a biscuit)	Lady's fingers	19%
What American environmentalist and author wrote The End of Nature and Deep Economy?	Bill McKibben	7%