Miscellaneous
What food did Eric LaPointe each 5 times a week at Siena?
Salmon
What is the scale tornadoes are measured on?
Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF-1 for example)
What famous person killed herself by allowing a venomous cobra to bite her?
Cleopatra
The name "Australia" was formally adopted in which year?
1824
What are the five Great Lakes?
Superior, Ontario, Erie, Michigan, Huron
What is C.J. Stroud's full name?
Coleridge Bernard Stroud IV
Which infectious disease that’s spread to humans by mosquito bites is caused by Plasmodium spp?
Malaria
Who was the first Western explorer to reach China?
Marco Polo
How many years did the Hundred Years' War last between England and France?
116 years
What is the second tallest mountain in the world?
K2
Who was the only person to ever be President and Supreme Court (Chief) Justice? He was also the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game?
President Taft
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What is the only disease in human history to be eradicated?
Smallpox
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
What day was Julius Caesar killed?
March 15 (Ides of March)
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What city does Mount Vesuvius overlook?
Naples, Italy
Americans do what on average 22 times a day?
Open the fridge
There is only one planet in our solar system to spin clockwise, which planet is it?
Venus
Who was the first Democratically elected President of Russia?
Boris Yeltsin
Who was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington on March 30th, 1981?
President Ronald Reagan
Where is The Devil's Sea located?
Pacific Ocean, south of Toyko. Known as the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle", if you drew a line through the Earth from the Bermuda Triangle, the line would come out the other side of the globe at The Devil's Sea
What highly sought-after item of the modern age was created anonymously under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto?
Bitcoin
The term "ctDNA" refers to DNA from cancerous cells that is found in the bloodstream. What does "ct" stand for in this context?
Circulating Tumor
The “Whitechapel Murderer” is the nickname given to which serial killer?
Jack the Ripper
Which empire did Charlemagne rule?
The Holy Roman Empire
What two countries have been at war for decades over the Nagorno-Karabakh region?
Armenia and Azerbaijan