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In Barry Lyndon, which director famously used specially modified lenses developed for NASA to film candlelit scenes.
Stanley Kubrick
Which number is the only positive integer equal to the sum of the factorials of its digits?
145
Which pitcher threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
Don Larsen
What is the largest island in the world?
Greenland is the largest island in the world.
Which Roman dictator crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC?
Julius Caesar
Which 1973 film by Kaneto Shindo shares its title with the Buddhist concept of “the naked island”.
Hadaka No Shima ”The Naked Island”
Which theorem states that every polynomial equation with complex coefficients has at least one complex root?
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Which tennis player won the 1969 calendar-year Grand Slam?
Rod Laver
Who created the first telescope?
Galilieo Created the first telescope.
The Magna Carta was signed during the reign of which English king?
King John
Where does the quote, “Why so serious?” Come from?
It comes from ”Batman, The Dark Knight”
Which number, approximately 2.71828, is the base of the natural logarithm?
e
Which boxer retired with a professional record of 49–0 and was nicknamed “The Rock?”
Rocky Marciano
Which element has the highest melting point of any pure metal?
Tungsten
Which Mongol ruler founded the largest contiguous empire in history?
Genghis Khan
Which film featured the quote, “I see dead people.”?
The Sixth Sense
Which irrational constant, approximately 2.5029, appears in the study of period doubling and chaos theory?
The Feigenbaum constant
The ”Black Sox“ scandal centered on which World Series?
The “Black Sox scandal centered on the 1919 World Series.
Which language isolate is spoken primarily in northern Spain and southwestern France?
Basque
The Thirty Years’ War ended with which 1648 peace agreement?
Peace of Westphalia
The first feature film to win Best Picture while containing no spoken dialogue was which 2011 French film?
The Artist
Named after a Swiss mathematician, which conjecture states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes?
The Goldbach’s Conjecture
Which Formula One driver won a record seven World Drivers’ Championships, a mark later matched by Lewis Hamilton?
Michael Schumacher
Which moon of Neptune, named after a Greek giant, rotates in a retrograde orbit and is believed to be a captured Kuiper Belt object?
Triton
Which Chinese philosopher wrote the Analects?
Confucius