72921 Intermediate Trivia Questions
72921 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What water-lifting machine did Leonardo da Vinci design using a helical screw inside a tube?
Answer
Archimedes’ screw
What humanoid machine did Leonardo da Vinci design around 1495 for entertainment and display?
Answer
Mechanical knight
What is the name of Beyoncé’s character in the animated film Epic?
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Queen Tara
What was Beyoncé's first acting role?
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Which index reached 38,915.87 at the peak of Japan’s 1989 market bubble?
Answer
Nikkei 225
Which 1720 French speculative bubble collapsed after the Mississippi Company’s shares soared?
Answer
Mississippi Bubble
Which investment strategy was widely blamed for amplifying selling during the 1987 Black Monday crash?
Answer
Portfolio insurance
Which 1997 Asian financial crisis stock exchange suffered a one-day fall of about 15% on October 28?
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Hong Kong Stock Exchange
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 novel about a pilgrim traveling through a symbolic landscape?
Answer
The Pilgrim’s Regress
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s informal Oxford literary group?
Answer
The Inklings
Which C.S. Lewis book tells the story of four siblings who visit Narnia?
Answer
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s autobiography about his conversion and childhood imagination?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis novel begins his Space Trilogy with the philologist Elwin Ransom?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which book by C.S. Lewis collects his BBC broadcasts explaining Christian belief?
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Mere Christianity
What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harry Potter short story collection?
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
What is J.K. Rowling’s middle initial said to stand for?
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Kathleen
Which order did Queen Elizabeth II appoint J.K. Rowling to in 2001?
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Order of the British Empire
Which is the longest song on Metallica's The Black Album?
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My Friend of Misery
What race is the climactic event in Pixar’s Cars 3?
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The Florida 500
What is the name of the spy agency in Pixar’s Cars 2?
Answer
C.H.R.O.M.E.
Which Dragon invested in the GripIt plasterboard-fixing company on Dragons' Den?
Answer
Deborah Meaden
Which original Dragons' Den investor founded the holiday business Red Letter Days?
Answer
Rachel Elnaugh
Which Assassin's Creed game is set primarily in 9th-century Norway and England?
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla