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1
In which country was printing invented?
Italy
Germany
China
Australia
2
Which entrepreneur founded Adidas and provided shoes for Jesse Owen to win the long jump in 1936?
Adolf Dassler
Howard Hughes
Professor Adidas
Adam Dasch
3
What is the world's largest body of fresh water?
Loch Ness
Lake Superior
Lake Baikal
Lake Victoria
4
What are the only 3 countries to have competed in all modern summer Olympic Games?
Greece, USA, UK
Greece, Italy, France
Narnia, Atlantis, Lilliput
Greece, Australia, UK
5
Vodka is the Russian diminutive of the word for what?
water
wine
The Volga
fire
6
What was the first city to reach a population of one million?
London
Athens
Beijing
Rome
7
Which two men claimed to have invented calculus?
Leonhard Euler and Carl Gauss
Euclid and Pythagoras
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz
Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes
8
Which rodent is called “nature’s ottoman” as a host of bird, monkeys, and rabbits can perch or lay on their back?
hippopotamus
beaver
guinea pig
capybara
9
What is the secret identity of Diana Prince?
Cat Woman
Agatha Christie
Mata Hari
Wonder Woman
10
What was the music in the space station docking scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey? (
think spinning dancers
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Pen Pineapple Apple Pen by Pikotaro
The Blue Danube by Strauss
Across the Universe by the Beatles
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
11
Which novel begins, "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12
Which country invented the blackbox flight recorder?
Russia
Australia
USA
Japan
13
What colour is the blackbox flight recorder?
black
white
blue
orange
14
Who was the Time magazine Man of the year for 1938?
Charlie Chaplin
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
15
What is the highest selling album of all time?
Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Back in Black by AC/DC
Thriller by Michael Jackson
21 by Adele
16
Which was the first country to allow women to vote and also stand for election?
USA
New Zealand
Australia
France