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Luke lost which of his hands in a fight with Darth Vader?
His right hand.
Who is the lead singer of the band U2?
Bono
What famous Egyptian landmark is located near Cairo?
Pyramids of Giza
What’s the chemical symbol for gold?
Au - from the Latin word aurum.
What software development hosting company has an Octocat for the logo?
Github
The code in The Matrix comes from what kinds of food recipes?
Sushi
Which city is often referred to as the birthplace of jazz?
New Orleans, Louisiana.
In which city would you find the famous Petronas Twin Towers?
Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia.
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest, with its summit at 8,848.86 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level, making it the highest point from Earth's surface to the geoid (sea level).
What was the name of the first computer?
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.
Who directed the 1975 thriller Jaws?
Steven Spielberg
Which singer was the only solo musician to have a #1 hit in every year of the 1990s?
Mariah Carey
Which waterfall system in Venezuela is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
Angel Falls
What planet is closest in size to Earth?
Venus's diameter (12,104 km) is only about 638 km less than Earth's (12,742 km).
In what decade was the internet created?
The Internet started in the 1960s as a way for government researchers to share information.
What is the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
South Korean thriller Parasite
What is the stage name of the artist whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye?
The Weeknd
What is the name of the world's highest navigable lake located in the Andes?
Lake Titicaca
What is the deepest part of the ocean?
The deepest part of the ocean is the Challenger Deep, located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, near Guam.
Who launched the very first website?
British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
What was the name of the ship in Alien?
The Nostromo
What is the best-selling album of all time?
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Which Chinese landmark served as the imperial palace for over 500 years?
Forbidden City (or Palace Museum) in Beijing.
What is the heaviest internal organ in the human body?
The heaviest internal organ in the human body is the liver, weighing about 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs) on average, making it the body's largest solid internal organ, though the skin is the overall heaviest organ.
Who was the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician from the 1840s, who wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's theoretical Analytical Engine and recognised that computers could do more than just calculate numbers.