16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which English-born designer is often called the 'father of haute couture'?
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Charles Frederick Worth
Which Italian designer introduced the vivid colour 'shocking pink' in 1937?
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Elsa Schiaparelli
Which Spanish couturier was called 'the master of us all' by Christian Dior?
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Cristóbal Balenciaga
What poetic meter of five iambic feet per line was famously used by Shakespeare?
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Iambic pentameter
What branch of linguistics is the study of meaning in language?
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Semantics
Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?
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John Milton
Who compiled "A Dictionary of the English Language", published in 1755?
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Samuel Johnson
What 45-letter word names a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust?
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
As a boy, Elton John won a junior scholarship to which London music institution?
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Royal Academy of Music
In which town in Middlesex, England was Elton John born?
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Pinner
Which Elton John song from the film Rocketman won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2020?
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(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again
What was the title of Elton John's 1969 debut studio album?
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Empty Sky
What is the name of the deepest known point in the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench?
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Challenger Deep
What is the name of the boundary that separates the Earth's crust from the mantle?
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Mohorovičić discontinuity
In which layer of the Earth is the planet's magnetic field generated?
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Outer core
What geometric shape best describes the Earth, being slightly flattened at the poles?
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An oblate spheroid
What scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals?
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The Mohs scale