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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World

Which canal links the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?

Answer

Panama Canal

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World

Which country contains the ancient city of Timbuktu, once a major centre of Saharan scholarship?

Answer

Mali

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World

Which mountain is the tallest in the world measured from sea level?

Answer

Mount Everest

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• House M.D.

In House M.D., which body part is Gregory House famous for walking with a cane?

Answer

Right leg

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• House M.D.

What is the title of the House, M.D. episode featuring the patient known as “The Jerk”?

Answer

“The Jerk”

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which Renaissance scholar helped popularize the “Pandora’s box” wording?

Answer

Erasmus

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which asteroid, discovered in 1858, was named 55 Pandora after the mythological woman?

Answer

55 Pandora

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In which year did the English phrase “Pandora’s box” first appear in recorded usage, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

Answer

1579

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, what quality remained inside the jar after the lid was replaced?

Answer

Hope

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which ancient Greek work, besides Works and Days, contains Hesiod’s account of Pandora?

Answer

Theogony

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what did Pandora release when she lifted the jar’s lid?

Answer

Evils

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, what container did Pandora open to release the world’s troubles?

Answer

A jar

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