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What is the capital city of France?

Paris
Bordeaux
Marseille
Lyon

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What field of entertainment do the Grammys give out awards for?

Television
Film
Dance
Music

Super!

Doh! 🤬

What is the main language spoken in the country of the Netherlands?

Dutch
French
German
English

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Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Pablo Picasso
Claude Monet
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent van Gogh

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What type of stone is the Taj Mahal made out of?

Limestone
Brick
Marble
Granite

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What war did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand initiate?

World War II
World War I
The Vietnam War
The Gulf War

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People with what blood type are considered universal donors?

O+
B
AB
O-

Sensational!

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In what year was the wreckage of the Titanic discovered?

1913
1974
1957
1985

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What sense is the olfactory cortex part of the brain associated with?

Sight
Touch
Hearing
Smell

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What famous book by Rachel Carson is credited with increasing our understanding of ecology by detailing how bird populations are impacted by pesticides?

The End of Nature
An Inconvenient Pesticide
The Lorax
Silent Spring

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Nope, sorry. 😢

What did throwing an apple at someone mean in ancient Greece?

A person was rude
You are hungry
A marriage proposal
A person looks hungry

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What did Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov's dogs do every time they heard a metronome?

Barked
Salivated
Ran in circles
Peed

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What is the official name of Earth's moon?

Titan
Ganymede
Moon
Luna

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What condition do you have if you have a fear of long words?

Nephophobia
Onomatophobia
Word Length Discomfort
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

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Hmm, I don't think so. 😔

When license plates first came out in New York (and several other places), what did the letters on them signify?

The city in which the vehicle was permitted to drive in
The company that manufactured the vehicle
$Can You Pass This General Knowledge Quiz That Gets Progressively Harder With Each Question? The vehicle owner\'s initials$ The vehicle owner's initials
The name of the car