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Which of these films has won most Academy Awards? The Lord of the Rings, West Side Story, Gone with the Wind, Slumdog Millionaire.
Answer: The Lord of the Rings.
Q152: What famous ocean liner sank in 1912?
Answer: Titanic.
Q200: "Ich liebe dich" means "I love you" in which language?
Answer: German.
In which year did Lithuania gain independence from the USSR?
Answer: 1990.
Q201: The word latte means "milk" in which language?
Answer: Italian.
Which female gymnast won 3 golds and a silver at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Olga Korbut.
What is the Latin term for the phylum in the animal kingdom which roughly means 'jointed foot'?
Answer: Arthropoda
Which country is closest to the Canary Islands?
Answer: Morocco
Q110: The world capital cities of Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest all lie along what river in Europe?
Answer: The Danube.
Deglutition is the scientific term for what common bodily function?
Answer: Swallowing.
What does a thermometer measure?
Answer: Temperature.
What fruit floats because 25% of its volume is air?
Answer: Apple.
Who came up with the theory of evolution?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
What is the little dot above a lowercase "i" or "j" called?
Answer: A tittle.
Q194: What kind of animal is Falkor/Fujur in The Neverending Story?
Answer: A dog-like Chinese luck dragon.
Q217: What is the largest religious monument in the world, located in Cambodia?
Answer: Angkor Wat.
Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What is the administrative capital city of South Africa?
Answer: Pretoria (Cape Town is the legislative capital, while Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.)
Q45: When was Earth Day (April 22) first celebrated?
Answer: 1970
Q218: The Mariana Trench, the deepest in the world, is located in which ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean.
The opera Aida was commissioned in 1869 to mark what event?
Answer: The opening of the Suez Canal
What is the longest river in Asia?
Answer: Yangtze River.
What is the smallest country by land area in Asia?
Answer: Maldives
Q111: How many states are there in Australia?
Answer: 6.
Which city is home to the headquarters of Amazon?
Answer: Seattle.
Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages of which island nation?
Answer: Sri Lanka.
Which is the only country in Africa with a Spanish-speaking majority?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea
Q220: The red supergiant star Betelgeuse belongs to which constellation?
Answer: Orion the Hunter.
What is the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape called?
Answer: Event Horizon.
Q163: What is the name of the process by which RNA is synthesized from a DNA template?
Answer: Transcription.
Q221: What is the only country that displays the Bible on its national flag?
Answer: The Dominican Republic.
Which two countries are connected by the Karakoram Pass?
Answer: China and India.
From which novel is this quote: "I am one of the few honest people I have ever known"?
Answer: The Great Gatsby.
Who wrote Flowers for Algernon?
Answer: Daniel Keyes.
Q165: Who won the Nobel Physics Prize for his discovery of the neutron in 1935?
Answer: James Chadwick.
Who was the first female athlete to win six Olympic gold medals?
Answer: Allyson Felix
Q227: What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell's Animal Farm?
Answer: Napoleon.
Q42: Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?
Answer: John Milton
Q38: Which Asian country is the second largest coffee producer in the world?
Answer: Vietnam
Q228: "Peter and the Wolf" is a musical composition by which Russian composer?
Answer: Sergei Prokofiev.
Q46: What is the name of the famous clock tower in London that is often referred to as "Big Ben"?
Answer: The Elizabeth Tower
Q186: What is the name of Harry Potter's pet owl?
Answer: Hedwig.
The album "Bleach" was the debut studio album by what rock band?
Answer: Nirvana.
Q43: What year was the first dictionary published?
Answer: 1604
Q134: In the TV show "The Simpsons," Marge decided to sell what snack food?
Answer: Pretzels.
Q231: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Amy Winehouse all died at what age?
Answer: 27 years old.
Where were some of Eugene Shoemaker's ashes sent to in 1997?
Answer: On the moon. (He is the co-discoverer of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.)
The Tower of London is famously "guarded by" which kind of bird?
Answer: Ravens.
Q232: What was the name of Alexander the Great's horse?
Answer: Bucephalus.
Q50: Of the 13 commonly accepted vitamins, all except which vitamin are present in an egg?
Answer: Vitamin C
In the human body, what is the hallux?
Answer: The big toe.
Q144: Who painted The Scream in 1893?
Answer: Edvard Munch.
Q185: What Latin American singer was in charge of the Super Bowl halftime show in 2026?
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Answer: Bad Bunny
David Crane and Marta Kauffman created 'Friends,' but how many episodes of the show were released?
Answer: 236.
Q133: Who introduced potatoes into Ireland?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh.
Q40: Under which river does the Queensway road tunnel run?
Answer: River Mersey
Who did Brian Johnson take over from as the lead singer of AC/DC after they died in 1980?
Answer: Bon Scott.
Q143: "All the world's a stage" originates from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: As You Like It.
Who played the Joker in Batman (1966), the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics?
Answer: Cesar Romero.
Which artist went nearly blind during his lifetime?
Monet or Degas.
The ancient Egyptian symbol "Ouroboros" depicts a serpent eating what?
Answer: Its own tail.
Which Dutch scientist was the first to see single-celled organisms under a microscope?
Answer: Antoine van Leeuwenhoek.
What does the Greek root "bio" mean?
Answer: Life.