72921 Intermediate Trivia Questions
72921 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What type of armored wagon did Leonardo da Vinci design with blades on its wheels?
Answer
Scythed chariot
What flying-machine concept did Leonardo da Vinci design with large flapping wings?
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An ornithopter
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s rotating aircraft concept called?
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Aerial screw
Who is the only resident Ditto initially meets in Pokémon Pokopia?
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Tangrowth
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s fantasy novel published in 1956?
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Till We Have Faces
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s science-fiction trilogy beginning with Out of the Silent Planet?
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The Space Trilogy
What book collected C.S. Lewis’s wartime radio talks?
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Mere Christianity
What pen name did C.S. Lewis use for poetry?
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Clive Hamilton
What English nickname is often used for a quinceañera celebration?
Answer
Sweet fifteen
What Spanish name is often used for the quinceañera’s male attendants?
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Chambelanes
What Spanish phrase commonly names the religious thanksgiving Mass held for a quinceañera?
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Misa de acción de gracias
What symbolic quinceañera ceremony traditionally involves replacing flat shoes with high heels?
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The changing of the shoes
At which 2008 film festival did Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Pandora’s Box win the Golden Shell?
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San Sebastián International Film Festival
In the 2009 film Avatar, which moon is named Pandora?
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Polyphemus
What was the name of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis, when the ruble collapsed and the government defaulted on domestic debt?
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Russian financial crisis
On what date did Japan’s Nikkei 225 reach its all-time peak before the asset-price crash?
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December 29, 1989
What was the name of China’s major equity-market turmoil that began after the Shanghai Composite peaked in June 2015?
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2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence
What event caused U.S. stock markets to plunge nearly 1,000 points on May 6, 2010?
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2010 Flash Crash
What nickname was given to the sharp U.S. stock-market decline of May–June 1962?
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Kennedy Slide
What was the name of the 1720 English speculative collapse involving the South Sea Company?
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South Sea Bubble
When did recording begin for Metallica's 1991 album, commonly called The Black Album?
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October 6, 1990
Which music-video director made Metallica's 1991 video for “The Unforgiven”?
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Matt Mahurin
Where did Metallica primarily record the album known as The Black Album?
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One on One Recording Studios
Which planned operation targeted the Kanto Plain near Tokyo in the proposed invasion of Japan?
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Operation Coronet
Who signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender for the Japanese government?
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Mamoru Shigemitsu