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- Which country was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the United States?	Played 69 times Difficulty: 0% got it correct. User rating (0.39): good
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- Which of the following cities is NOT located next to the Mississippi River?	Played 412 times Difficulty: 71% got it correct. User rating (0.24): good
- Golfers from the same small country of less than two million people dominated the world of professional golf in 2010 and 2011, with Graeme McDowell winning the 2010 U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy winning the 2011 U.S. Open, and Darren Clarke winning the 2011 British Open. These three great golfers are all natives of which country?	Played 406 times Difficulty: 58% got it correct. User rating (0.23): good
- The symbol of three golden balls is traditionally found outside which type of business?	Played 393 times Difficulty: 83% got it correct. User rating (0.34): good
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- The Pugwash Conferences have been taking place since 1957. Which problem is this group mainly concerned with?	Played 236 times Difficulty: 34% got it correct. User rating (0.26): good
- A crampon is a device most commonly used in which of the following activities?	Played 232 times Difficulty: 81% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by surface area. However, which other African lake is the continent's largest by volume?	Played 240 times Difficulty: 54% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- Which animal lacks eyelids?	Played 203 times Difficulty: 52% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- Which country became the first to formally abolish military forces, when it adopted a constitution in 1949 forbidding a standing military?	Played 165 times Difficulty: 25% got it correct. User rating (0.36): good
- Which author started a novel with the line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Thirteen"?	Played 251 times Difficulty: 66% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- The Gulf of Sidra (or Sirte) borders which country?	Played 226 times Difficulty: 41% got it correct. User rating (0.26): good
- The word "heretic" comes to us from the Greek "hairetikos", which means what?	Played 170 times Difficulty: 15% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- The Kuril Islands lie between which two countries?	Played 204 times Difficulty: 64% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 reward offered in 1919 to the first person to do what?	Played 199 times Difficulty: 61% got it correct. User rating (0.3): good
- Which Hollywood actress was married five times, but never for longer than five years at a time, and once explained her unsuccessful love life by saying, "Men go to bed with Gilda, but they wake up with me"?	Played 233 times Difficulty: 62% got it correct. User rating (0.28): good
- The characters of Benedick and Beatrice get married to each other at the end of which Shakespearean play?	Played 183 times Difficulty: 29% got it correct. User rating (0.26): good
- The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, which it called Sputnik, into space in 1957. What does the word "Sputnik" mean?	Played 162 times Difficulty: 22% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- Who was the first player to win nine regular season Most Valuable Player awards in any of the four major North American team sports of baseball, football, basketball and hockey?	Played 221 times Difficulty: 54% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- Mirror writing is a form of writing in reverse, so that the writing appears normal when reflected in a mirror. Which famous person wrote his personal notes using mirror writing?	Played 225 times Difficulty: 84% got it correct. User rating (0.35): good
- Which American Civil War general, when asked if he would run for president, made the famous statement, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."?	Played 241 times Difficulty: 48% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- Birling is a sport more commonly called what?	Played 247 times Difficulty: 60% got it correct. User rating (0.27): good
- Many British ships, like the Titanic, have "RMS" in front of their name. What does the "M" stand for?	Played 181 times Difficulty: 11% got it correct. User rating (0.23): good
- Soca, a musical style whose name was derived from a combination of soul and calypso, was developed in the 1970s in which country?	Played 279 times Difficulty: 58% got it correct. User rating (0.28): good
- The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches merged in 1957 to form which Protestant denomination?	Played 278 times Difficulty: 38% got it correct. User rating (0.16): average
- Which is the northernmost city in Africa?	Played 187 times Difficulty: 26% got it correct. User rating (0.28): good
- The 1987 film "Barfly" starred Mickey Rourke as an alcoholic writer. His role was based on which real-life writer?	Played 159 times Difficulty: 22% got it correct. User rating (0.18): average
- Aqaba is the only seaport for which Middle Eastern country?	Played 237 times Difficulty: 39% got it correct. User rating (0.23): good
- Woody Allen's 1977 Oscar-winning film "Annie Hall" was made with the working title "Anhedonia". What does this Greek word mean?	Played 248 times Difficulty: 51% got it correct. User rating (0.38): good
- The great artist Pablo Picasso had three periods of his career which were described by different colors. Which is *not* one of those three periods?	Played 185 times Difficulty: 28% got it correct. User rating (0.34): good
- The great mare Zenyatta, winner of nineteen straight horse races until losing in her twentieth and last race, was named after the album "Zenyatta Mondatta", which was the third album for which rock group?	Played 267 times Difficulty: 53% got it correct. User rating (0.24): good
- Which territory narrowly rejected independence in votes held, under United Nations auspices, in both 2006 and 2007?	Played 178 times Difficulty: 8% got it correct. User rating (0.17): average
- The first meeting in combat of ironclad warships took place in March of 1862 when the Monitor and the Merrimack did battle during the U.S. Civil War. What was the result of this memorable battle?	Played 177 times Difficulty: 30% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connects which two bodies of water?	Played 269 times Difficulty: 71% got it correct. User rating (0.29): good
- Which was the last of the former Soviet republics to declare its independence?	Played 223 times Difficulty: 61% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- "The Hurt Locker", winner of the Oscar for best picture in 2010, portrayed United States soldiers operating in which country?	Played 216 times Difficulty: 44% got it correct. User rating (0.23): good
- Which country contains the world's first jaguar preserve?	Played 167 times Difficulty: 20% got it correct. User rating (0.29): good
- Pentecost, sometimes called the birthday of the Christian church, literally means what?	Played 238 times Difficulty: 62% got it correct. User rating (0.32): good
- "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" is a phrase which originated in which war?	Played 172 times Difficulty: 8% got it correct. User rating (0.31): good
- Lorena Ochoa dominated her sport for three years and then in 2010 announced her retirement. In which sport did Ochoa participate?	Played 260 times Difficulty: 47% got it correct. User rating (0.19): average
- Three of the following economists won the Nobel Prize in Economics in the twentieth century. Which one is the exception?	Played 191 times Difficulty: 27% got it correct. User rating (0.29): good
- Only one of the following great writers ever won a Nobel Prize. Which one?	Played 186 times Difficulty: 17% got it correct. User rating (0.24): good
- Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, was a native of which Scandinavian country?	Played 247 times Difficulty: 34% got it correct. User rating (0.33): good
- The famous scene in which Jimmy Cagney smashed a half grapefruit into the face of Mae Clark took place in which film?	Played 210 times Difficulty: 35% got it correct. User rating (0.25): good
- A woman washing Jesus with expensive oil is a story found in all four of the Christian gospels, and in all four accounts it is mentioned that there was an objection to using money for this purpose. Which gospel names a specific person who objected?	Played 194 times Difficulty: 26% got it correct. User rating (0.22): good
- The Danube River flows through Budapest, and was the boundary between the cities of Buda and Pest prior to their unification in 1873. The Danube also flows through three other European capital cities. Which is *not* one of these three cities?