Statistics for General Knowledge of Varying Difficulty

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  • This quiz has been taken 57 times
  • The average score is 53 of 100

Answer Stats

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100In what city would you find the Eiffel Tower?Paris
100%
99What "unsinkable" ship sank in April 1912?RMS Titanic
98%
94In which US state would you find Disney World?Florida
96%
95What is the tallest type of land animal?giraffe
96%
97What does an octopus spray when threatened?ink
96%
98Which country's flag is a white rectangle, with a red circle in the centre?Japan
96%
92Who was almost totally deaf when he wrote his ninth and final symphony?Ludwig van Beethoven
96%
90What stimulant did Coca-Cola contain before 1903?cocaine
93%
93What is Mexico's currency?peso
93%
80What was the unflattering nickname of Queen Mary I of England?{Bloody} Mary
91%
96In what country would you find the headquarters of Ferrari?Italy
91%
82What weapon does Luke Skywalker wield?lightsaber
91%
89What does a predator hunt?prey
91%
91What usually has three leaves, but in about 1/5000 cases has four or more?clover
89%
84What type of animal appears on the Ferrari logo?horse
89%
86What does the U in SCUBA stand for?Underwater
89%
79Who did Eva Braun marry on 29 April 1945?Adolf Hitler
87%
88Who orders martinis "shaken, not stirred"?James Bond
85%
81What is the name of Apple's web browser?Safari
85%
72What is the world's most-visited museum?The Louvre
85%
65Who was the first person to see the moons of Jupiter?Galileo Galilei
83%
83What organ is foie gras made from?liver
83%
87What is a female deer called?A doe
80%
74What is the last name of Australian actors Chris, Liam, and Luke?Hemsworth
80%
71What singer had two hit songs whose titles started with "Like a"?Madonna
78%
60What gentle shark is the largest species of fish?{Whale} Shark
78%
75What stone provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?{Rosetta} Stone
76%
58In what year did the United States celebrate its bicentennial?1976
74%
56What country traditionally produces port wine?Portugal
74%
64Which element of the Periodic Table is known in Latin as argentum?silver
74%
68How many syllables does a haiku have?17
72%
73A group of generic birds is called a flock. What do you call a group of crows?A murder
72%
85Which boxing weight class starts with W?{Welter}weight
72%
63What sea do Denmark, Finland, and Estonia all border?Baltic Sea
70%
67Who suggested a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?Mary Poppins
70%
77What trilogy can be described as a quest to return unwanted jewellery?The Lord of the Rings
70%
43Who invented dynamite?Alfred Nobel
65%
61What voice range is lower than baritone?bass
65%
41Who parodied Adolf Hitler in the movie The Great Dictator?Charlie Chaplin
65%
62What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?cumulo{nimbus}
65%
52What US state did Ray Charles have "on his mind"?Georgia
65%
70What is the most points one can score with a single dart throw?60
63%
69What body part is the Norse god Odin missing?An eye
63%
59What ancient Hindu text could be described as a sex manual?Kama Sutra
63%
66Who was the lead actor in the "Bourne" series?Matt Damon
63%
49What is 5 factorial?120
61%
53Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?Aristotle
61%
54What type of animal has a head, thorax, and abdomen?insect
61%
76Who is the main character of "The Hunger Games" series?Katniss Everdeen
61%
55What country does a Sinophile love?China
57%
34Who crossed the Rubicon?Julius Caesar
54%
48What did physicist Stephen Hawking write a "brief history" of in 1988?time
54%
57Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a ram?Aries
52%
37What does the harp represent on the coat of arms of King Charles III?Ireland
52%
50Who said "Do or do not. There is no try"?Yoda
52%
30What M word refers to a decorative tower adjacent to a mosque?minaret
48%
25There are 14 eight-thousanders in the world. Among these 14,
which one is nearest to being a nine-thousander?
Mt Everest
48%
42According to Dante, what is the worst of the seven deadly sins?pride
48%
32What "Wild World" singer changed his name to Yusuf Islam in 1977?Cat Stevens
46%
35Who composed Ride of the Valkyries?Richard Wagner
46%
28Who is Steffi Graf's husband?Andre Agassi
43%
47What is the name of a volcano, a camera company, and a type of apple?Fuji
43%
46Who was Robin Hood's second in command?Little John
43%
29What word means either "a business tycoon" or "a bump on a skiing course"?Mogul
43%
51Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?The {bends}
43%
36What molecule, formula C12H22O11, is commonly used as table sugar?sucrose
41%
15What is the name of this typographical symbol: † (hint: a weapon)dagger
39%
39What is another name for an abattoir?A slaughterhouse
35%
26What is sold at Lloyd's of London?insurance
35%
33What singer is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?James Brown
35%
45If a British or US army captain is promoted, what is their new rank?major
33%
18In what country would you be most likely to find a polder?Netherlands
33%
20Who gets stoned during Hajj?The devil
33%
31What part of animal is suet?fat
30%
24What world leader was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires?Pope Francis
30%
38What word in the English language sounds like "segway"?segue
30%
21What could Cassandra, Jeremiah, and Paul the Octopus see that most people cannot?the future
30%
23What is the Japanese word for freshwater eel?unagi
30%
27What is a bandolier designed to hold?ammunition
28%
44In what type of cell would you find an axon and dendrites?nerve
28%
16Who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais"?Auguste Rodin
26%
17What is pulchritude?beauty
26%
22What director refers to his films as "joints"?Spike Lee
26%
14Writing out numbers using Roman numerals, which number is alphabetically last?XXXVIII
24%
19Among all the cities in the world with a metro population over 1 million people,
which one is last alphabetically?
Zürich
17%
10What is a chorophobe afraid of?dancing
15%
78In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?mining
15%
13What is the largest Indian state by area?Rajasthan
13%
9In which US city is the shortest race in the US Horse Racing Triple Crown,
The Preakness Stakes, held?
Baltimore
9%
12Who released their debut album La Voix du bon Dieu, which translates to
Good Lord's Voice, in 1981?
Celine Dion
7%
8The Bislett Games is an annual track and field held in which city?Oslo
7%
6Which Italian composed Norma, an opera based on Alexandre Soumet's play?Vincenzo Bellini
7%
3Which mountain in Spain is the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, 3404 m / 11,168 ft high?Aneto
4%
5In the TV Series Thunderbirds, who piloted Thunderbird 4, the submarine
held aboard Thunderbird 2?
Gordon Tracy
4%
7Who became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion in 1971?Jochen Rindt
4%
11A species of which animal, was found near Folsom Prison, California
and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi after Johnny Cash?
tarantula
4%
0How many steps are there on the Eiffel Tower?1710
2%
1Who is the patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina?Elijah
2%
4Who became the first president of India in 1950?Rajendra Prasad
2%
2Which driver has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 9 times?Tom Kristensen
2%

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