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A marathon pays $256 to the winner, half as much to second place, half as much as second to third place, and so forth. Juan came around the final corner to see the fourth place runner, Massimo, limping to the finish line. Juan pushed as hard as he could and passed him right before finishing the race. How much did Juan win? | $32 | 70%
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Who was the last Tsar of Russia? | Nicholas II | 58%
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What is the largest desert in northern Africa? | The Sahara | 57%
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A ball-and-socket joint can rotate and move sideways and forward and backwards. This is because they have a mostly round ball that fits in the concave part of another bone. How many ball-and-socket joints do humans typically have? | 4 | 49%
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What fantastical people did Gulliver meet in his travels? | Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians | 46%
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Where did the English head of state reside throughout most of the 20th century? | London | 46%
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Who is the "shrew" in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"? | A grumpy and unmarried older sister | 43%
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How many strikes can you get in a normal 10-frame game of 10-pin bowling? | 12 | 42%
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How many strikeouts can a pitcher get in a nine-inning Major League Baseball game? | An infinite number | 38%
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The meteor that caused a mass extinction event 180 million years ago also created what geographic feature? | A meteor most certainly did not cause a mass extinction 180 million years ago | 36%
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What musical genre is a portmanteau of "rock and roll" and "hillbilly"? | Rockabilly | 36%
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Imagine you have two + signs on a horizontal plane (++). Imagine that you can rotate them and extend their arms as far as you wish. Rotate and extend the + signs in a configuration that forms as many triangles as possible. How many triangles can be made? | 3 | 33%
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What type of blood do arteries carry in healthy adult humans? | Depends on which artery | 33%
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In terms of official languages, are there more people who speak Pakistani or Ethiopian? | They have exactly the same number of speakers | 30%
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What colour’s wavelength is closest to purple’s wavelength on the spectrum of visible light (i.e., in a rainbow)? | Purple is not a colour in the visible spectrum | 29%
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Imagine that you have a rigid glass sphere filled with helium. When released, it floats in place at shoulder height, neither rising nor sinking. What would happen to the glass sphere if you removed some of the helium gas with a vacuum, such that no outside air got in? | It would float higher | 22%
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How many times did Henry VIII legally marry? | Three times | 19%
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How many vowels are in the following phrase: “Sorry, I have not been to town.”? | 11 | 6%
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