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  1. Where was Alan Shepard when he famously hit two golf balls with a makeshift club?
  2. The world record for the fastest growing plant belongs to what species?
  3. Created by 15-year-old Richard Skrenta in 1982, 'Elk Cloner' was one of the world's first what?
  4. Which 1865 English children's novel by an Oxford University maths don has been translated into 174 languages?
  5. What is the full four word title of The Statue of Liberty?
  6. Which dog breed's name do we get from the Welsh words for 'dwarf' and 'dog'?
  7. Name the most visited museum in the world?
  8. At the equator, would you weigh slightly less, slightly more, or the same as you would at the poles?
  9. Which Post-Impressionist painting depicts a view from an asylum window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence?
  10. Which country has the longest coastline of any country in the world?
  11. What is the collective noun for a group of crows?
  12. According to Guinness World Records, the hottest temperature recorded in the world was in which American state?
  13. The global population surpassed how many billion in 2022?
  14. Josiah Wedgwood’s daughter Susannah was the mother of which famous Briton?
  15. Bananas are radioactive due to containing high levels of what?
  16. Can you name the world's largest structure composed of living entities?
  17. The International Space Station is planned to crash into Point Nemo in 2031? Why Point Nemo?
  18. The origins of the Dalmatian dog can be traced to which country?
  19. Which European country's government banned television on a Thursday until 1987 so residents would get out and socialise instead?
  20. The historical region of Mesopotamia is known as which modern-day country?
  21. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Pharaoh?
  22. What sort of ceremony in Japanese culture is chanoyu?
  23. The olfactory memory refers to the recollection of what?
  24. In English, what is the largest number that has just one syllable?
  25. Which brand of snack food is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid?
  26. In music, a violin bow is usually made with the hair of which animal?
  27. Can you name the only two letters not to appear on the periodic table?
  28. The final episode of which television series was the most-watched television broadcast in American history from 1983 until 2010?
  29. Which musician had a four-octave vocal range partly due to his extra set of teeth?
  30. Where exactly, voted to leave the European Union in 1985 and has never rejoined?


Answers



  1. On the moon
  2. Bamboo
  3. Computer viruses
  4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland)
  5. Liberty Enlightening the World
  6. Corgi (cor (dwarf) and ci (dog))
  7. The Louvre in Paris
  8. Less (due to the Earth's spinning, which generates centrifugal force that counteracts gravity)
  9. The Starry Night (by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh)
  10. Canada
  11. Murder
  12. California (in Death Valley)
  13. 8 billion
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Potassium
  16. The Great Barrier Reef
  17. It's the remotest oceanic location
  18. Croatia
  19. Iceland
  20. Iraq
  21. Khufu
  22. Tea ceremony
  23. Odors and smells
  24. 12
  25. Pringles
  26. Horse-tail hair
  27. J and Q
  28. MASH
  29. Freddie Mercury
  30. Greenland