Answer: Marie Curie
2. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
3. What element does the chemical symbol Au stand for?
Answer: Gold
4. What is the sign directly opposite Scorpio in the zodiac?
Answer: Taurus
5. Who wrote the classic American novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston
6. The shooting of whom, in 1914, started World War I?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mercury
8. What is the highest-grossing Broadway show of all time?
Answer: The Lion King
9. What New York City bar was the location of a 1969 uprising credited as sparking the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement?
Answer: The Stonewall Inn
10. What are the first 22 cards in a tarot deck called?
Answer: The Major Arcana
11. What was the name of the possessed hotel in Steven King’s novel (and movie) The Shining, based on the real-life Stanley Hotel in Colorado?
Answer: The Overlook Hotel
12. What is the capital of India?
Answer: New Delhi
13. Which two states in the U.S. share the most borders with other states?
Answer: Tennessee and Missouri
14. What is the more popular name for the portrait officially titled “La Gioconda,” painted in Florence in 1503?
Answer: The Mona Lisa
15. At a restaurant, you’ll see deer meat on the menu under what name?
Answer: Venison
16. The author of the best-selling, four-part book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, now an HBO series, famously publishes their works under what pseudonym?
Answer: Elana Ferante
17. Where was the hottest-ever temperature on Earth recorded, per the World Meteorological Organization?
Answer: Death Valley, California (where it hit 134 degrees Fahrenheit in July 1913)
18. Who holds the record for the most wins in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program category?
Answer: RuPaul
19. What was the first book published by Jane Austen?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility
20. Which two countries have the longest shared international border?
Answer: Canada and the U.S.
21. What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Sochi, Russia
22. What is the longest running Broadway show?
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera, which finally closed in April 2023 after a record 13,981 performances
23. What is the human body’s largest organ?
Answer: Skin
24. What year was the first iPhone released?
Answer: 2007
25. What’s the (extremely metal) name for a group of crows?
Answer: A murder of crows
26. What are the first names of the four main characters in Golden Girls?
Answer: Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche
27. What is the longest above-water mountain range?
The Andes
28. What year did Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services?
Answer: 2007
29. How many feet are in a yard?
Answer: Three
30. How many bones do sharks have?
Answer: Zero!
31. What is the deadliest mammal?
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