Statistics for Interesting Facts Multiple Choice #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was rated the #1 guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine?	Jimi Hendrix	85%
Who was both the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person of any gender to win twice?	Marie Curie	82%
What is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world?	Lake Baikal	74%
The largest island in the United States is Hawaii, also known as what?	The Big Island	73%
What squid is thought to be even larger than the giant squid?	The colossal squid	71%
Mark Twain was born two weeks after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835 and died one day after it returned how many years later?	75	65%
What does that squid have the largest of any mammal?	Eyes	65%
What city is not named for a figure from Greek mythology, but for an ancient Celtic tribe?	Paris	65%
Technically, Manila is not the most populous city in the Philippines. What neighboring municipality is?	Quezon City	65%
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on what day in 1826?	July 4	55%
Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Who did?	Yasser Arafat	50%
The United States is older than Germany. Germany did not become a unified country until what year?	1871	48%
How many prisoners were inside the Bastille when it was stormed during the French Revolution?	7	45%
Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a person who was born in what country?	Japan	44%
The only U.S. presidents to run unopposed were George Washington and who?	James Monroe	30%