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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.K. Rowling

What was J.K. Rowling’s original surname before she married Neil Murray?

Answer

Rowling

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• J.K. Rowling

In what year was British author J.K. Rowling born?

Answer

1965

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, who destroys the One Ring?

Answer

Gollum

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture later published as an influential essay on Old English literature?

Answer

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic specialty at Oxford before he became a literary celebrity?

Answer

Philology

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

What is the name of the ancient city destroyed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s First Age story The Fall of Gondolin?

Answer

Gondolin

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

Which Tolkien language is spoken by Galadriel and other high elves in The Lord of the Rings?

Answer

Quenya

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

How old is Bilbo Baggins at the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring?

Answer

111

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• J.R.R. Tolkien

Which poem did J.R.R. Tolkien lecture on in his famous 1936 essay Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics?

Answer

Beowulf

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the world's most valuable company by market capitalization in 2007 after surpassing General Electric?

Answer

PetroChina

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was the first to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization after Amazon crossed the same threshold in 2018?

Answer

Microsoft

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the first U.S. company to reach a $2 trillion market cap during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Answer

Apple

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