16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan lies southeast of the Aral Sea?
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Kyzylkum Desert
Which desert of northern Chile contains the Chuquicamata copper mine?
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Atacama Desert
Which Australian desert was called the Arunta Desert on older maps?
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Simpson Desert
Which Argentine cold desert is also called the Patagonian Steppe?
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Patagonian Desert
Which desert in Oman is also known as Wahiba Sands?
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Sharqiya Sands
Which Sahara region in southern Algeria is nicknamed the Land of Terror?
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Tanezrouft
Which Australian orchid genus includes species that flower entirely underground?
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Rhizanthella
What is the common name of the orchid Dendrophylax lindenii?
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Ghost orchid
Which plant was the first to flower and produce seeds in space?
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Arabidopsis
What clade name is used for flowering plants?
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Angiosperms
Which flowering plant genus was named to honor Michel Bégon?
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Begonia
What is the floral emblem of Hong Kong?
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Hong Kong orchid tree
What is the scientific genus of the common foxglove?
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Digitalis
Which critically endangered brown bear subspecies lives in Italy's central Apennines?
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Marsican brown bear
Which subfamily of bears contains the giant panda?
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Ailuropodinae
What extinct bear species is commonly called the cave bear?
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Ursus spelaeus
Which museum displays the stuffed bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh?
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New York Public Library
Which bear is the state animal of Louisiana?
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Louisiana black bear
Which panda subspecies is named for China's Qinling Mountains?
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Qinling panda
Which extinct bear genus includes the giant short-faced bear?
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Arctodus
What bone forms the giant panda's false thumb?
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Sesamoid bone
Which glowworm species lights the Waitomo Glowworm Caves in New Zealand?
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Arachnocampa luminosa
Kents Cavern is in which English seaside town?
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Torquay
Which Texas cave was discovered by four college students in 1960?
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Natural Bridge Caverns
On which Greek island is the Cave of the Apocalypse?
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Patmos
Which Slovak cave is famous for rare aragonite formations and was discovered in 1954?
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Ochtinská Aragonite Cave
Which French cave is known in caving history as the first cave deeper than 1,000 meters?
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Gouffre Berger
Bruniquel Cave's broken-stalagmite structures are dated to about how many years ago?
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176,500 years
Which cave site in Laos served as Pathet Lao headquarters during the Laotian Civil War?
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Viengxay caves
Which Harvard residential house was Mark Zuckerberg living in when he launched Facebook?
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Kirkland House
Which author has four Newbery Honors and one Medal, for five total citations?
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Meindert De Jong
Which Armstrong Sperry novel won the 1941 Newbery Medal?
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Call It Courage
Which 1928 Newbery Medal winner was written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji?
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Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Which book won the 1953 Newbery Medal, with 'Charlotte's Web' named an Honor Book?
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Secret of the Andes
What name remains on the bronze Newbery Medal despite sponsor changes?
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Children's Librarians' Section
Which award did the American Library Association add in 1937 for picture-book artists?
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Caldecott Medal
Which author won both a Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in 1968?
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E. L. Konigsburg
What is the only atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean?
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Rocas Atoll
Which atoll group did HMS Beagle survey to support Darwin's reef theory?
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Keeling Islands
Which extinct coral order is known as horn corals?
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Rugosa
Which order includes black corals?
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Antipatharia