99949 Intermediate Trivia Questions
99949 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which two scientists described the double helix structure of DNA in 1953?
Answer
Watson and Crick
Which amendment to the US Constitution gave American women the right to vote in 1920?
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Nineteenth Amendment
Who commanded the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944 and later became US president?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which conflict between North and South Korea began in 1950?
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Korean War
Who piloted the Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927?
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Charles Lindbergh
Which British monarch was crowned at Westminster Abbey in a 1953 coronation?
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Elizabeth II
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which country had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?
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The Soviet Union
Which general led the Nationalists to victory in the Spanish Civil War, ending in 1939?
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Francisco Franco
Which German city hosted the 1936 Summer Olympic Games?
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Berlin
What peace treaty officially ended World War I in 1919?
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Treaty of Versailles
What canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans opened in 1914?
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The Panama Canal
Which affordable automobile did Ford begin mass-producing in 1908?
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The Model T
What Russian royal family was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
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The Romanovs
What deadly influenza pandemic spread worldwide in 1918?
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Spanish flu
Who became the first man to travel into space in 1961?
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Yuri Gagarin
What is the name for the study of the origin and history of words?
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Etymology
The abbreviation 'etc.' is short for which Latin phrase?
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Et cetera
What is the standard three-word order of a basic English sentence?
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Subject verb object
What is the collective term for the words 'I', 'you', 'he', 'she', 'it', 'we', and 'they'?
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Personal pronouns
What famous last words of The Dark Tower series also began the series?
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
When Roland finally climbs the steps of the Dark Tower and climbs to the top, what does he find?
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The tower creates a time loop and sends him back to the beginning
At the beginning of Wolves of the Calla, the townsfolk first approach Roland and his group in the country outside town. How does Roland convince them that they are truly gunslingers?
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He tosses several plates in the air for Jake to shoot down
What is the name of the dog-like creature that befriends Jake Chambers and follows the group through their journey?
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Oy, the Billy Bumbler