General Knowledge Trivia Questions

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What year was the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) founded?

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1996

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As its chemical symbol of Hg indicates, what liquid-at-room-temperature metallic element was once known as "hydrargyrum"?

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Mercury

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A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

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Life of Pi

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How long was the Hundred Years' War?

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116 years

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Where was the 1st Disneyland outside of the United States?

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Tokyo

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Located at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an administrative division of which country?

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India

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Rome's Cloaca Maxima was an early example of what infrastructure project that makes cities a whole lot more livable?

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Sewer System

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In which state was Spiro Agnew investigated for corruption? Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York

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Maryland

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Who led the USSR from 1917-1922?

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Vladimir Lenin

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Which classic novel deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and in particular the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff?

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Wuthering Heights