89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Great Barrier Reef research station is operated by the Australian Museum?
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Lizard Island Research Station
Which German knight and poet composed the medieval Arthurian romance Parzival?
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
Which chivalric order was founded in 1317 by King James II of Aragon?
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Order of Montesa
Which 1385 battle secured Portugal’s independence from a Castilian invasion?
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Battle of Aljubarrota
Which 1396 battle saw an Ottoman army defeat a large European Crusader force near the Danube?
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Battle of Nicopolis
Which English knight defeated the French at the 1356 Battle of Poitiers while serving as captain of the English army?
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Edward the Black Prince
Which medieval knight wrote the memoir known as The Life of Saint Louis?
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Jean de Joinville
Which medieval chivalric order was founded by Emperor Sigismund in 1408?
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Order of the Dragon
At which 1097 battle did First Crusade forces defeat a Seljuk army near Dorylaeum?
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Battle of Dorylaeum
Which medieval military order was founded in Portugal in 1162 and later became known as the Order of Aviz?
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Order of São Bento de Avis
Which Amazon Rainforest bird is the national bird of Guyana?
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Hoatzin
Which Amazonian fish is commonly called the tambaqui and has powerful teeth adapted for crushing seeds?
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Colossoma macropomum
Which explorer is credited with naming the Amazon River after encountering Indigenous female warriors in 1541?
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Francisco de Orellana
Which Amazon Rainforest monkey is famous for using stones to crack open hard nuts?
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Bearded capuchin
Which highway, begun in 1970, cuts across Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest from east to west?
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Trans-Amazonian Highway
Which Amazonian river is the world’s largest blackwater river by volume?
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Negro River
Which Spartan king was the father of Leonidas I?
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Anaxandridas II
What 464 BCE earthquake helped trigger a major helot revolt against ancient Sparta?
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The Sparta earthquake
What was the main port of ancient Sparta?
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Gytheion
Which Spartan king succeeded Leonidas I after the Battle of Thermopylae?
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Pleistarchus
What was the ancient Mesopotamian law collection associated with King Lipit-Ishtar called?
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Code of Lipit-Ishtar
At which battle did Cyrus the Great defeat Croesus of Lydia around 547 BCE?
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Battle of Thymbra
Which ancient Persian empire was ruled by the Arsacid dynasty from about 247 BCE?
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Parthian Empire
At which battle did Parthian forces defeat the Roman army of Marcus Licinius Crassus in 53 BCE?
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Battle of Carrhae