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THE ACTUAL HARDEST QUIZIZZ EVER

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What geothermal Icelandic site has the same name as a 1980 movie?

a)

Xanadu

b)

The Shining

c)

Heaven's Gate

d)

The Blue Lagoon

2.

Which European country technically shares a border with Brazil, because one of its “overseas departments” does?

a)

Germany

b)

Belgium

c)

France

d)

Great Britain

3.

What company piloted a chicken-flavored nail polish?

a)

Church's Chicken

b)

KFC

c)

Popeyes

d)

Mary Brown's

4.

In printing, it’s the color black. In chemistry, it’s potassium. In baseball, it’s a strikeout. Which letter is it?

a)

K

b)

R

c)

T

d)

X

5.

Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton share what distinction among U.S. presidential candidates?

a)

They lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote

b)

They won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote

6.

What Scottish poet’s works inspired the book titles Of Mice and Men and Catcher in the Rye?

a)

Robert Louis Stevenson

b)

Robert Burns

c)

James Hogg

d)

Walter Alva Scott

7.

What Indian mausoleum was called a “teardrop… on the cheek of time” by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore?

a)

Tomb of Cyrus

b)

The Taj Mahal

c)

Tomb of Jahinger

d)

Humayun's Tomb

8.

In a 2010 study, people found more mistakes when they marked essays with a pen of what color?

a)

Blue

b)

Red

c)

Green

d)

Black

9.

What actor said, “If you had been a public figure since the time you were a toddler… maybe you too would value privacy above all else”?

a)

Leonardo DiCaprio

b)

Jodie Foster

c)

Shirley Temple

d)

Daniel Radcliffe

10.

Which has more landmass: Antarctica or Canada?

(a)  

11.

What princess was traditionally called Badr al-Budur before Disney renamed her?

a)

Belle

b)

Anna

c)

Jasmine

d)

Ariel

12.

In Swedish, a skvader is a rabbit with what unusual feature?

a)

Wings

b)

Glasses

c)

Leotard

d)

Giant Hands

13.

Makeup artist Joanna Balkin says she needed 40 bottles of sunscreen per month to protect what 1990s TV show’s cast from sunburns?

a)

Law & Order

b)

Beverly Hills, 90210

c)

Dawson's Creek

d)

Baywatch

14.

In 2017, the site Bachtrack.com determined the 10 most performed ballets in the world. What composer gave us three of them, including the first?

a)

Léo Delibes

b)

Sergei Prokofiev

c)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

d)

Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer

15.

The three actors who starred as Magneto, Iron Man and Doctor Strange have all played what other character?

a)

James Bond

b)

Basil Fawlty

c)

Ebenezer Scrooge

d)

Sherlock Holmes

16.

So far, which has been the only FIFA World Cup host not to make it out of the group stage?

a)

Sweden

b)

Mexico

c)

United States

d)

South Africa

17.

Worldwide, which is the most commonly transplanted organ from living donors?

a)

Kidney

b)

Colon

c)

Stomach

d)

Gallbladder

18.

What city elected Sadiq Khan, its first mayor from an ethnic minority, in 2016?

a)

Liverpool, England

b)

Greater London, England

c)

Birmingham, England

d)

Manchester, England

19.

The “Tina” in Tina Fey is short for what name?

a)

Albertina

b)

Valentina

c)

Bettina

d)

Stamatina

20.

Who allegedly wrote the song “Golden Years” for Elvis Presley but ended up recording it himself?

a)

Elton John

b)

Van Morrison

c)

David Bowie

d)

Marvin Gaye

21.

Who’s the only athlete who ever lit the cauldron for an Olympics and then won a gold medal at those same games?

a)

Midori Ito

b)

Cathy Freeman

c)

Wayne Gretzky

d)

Usain Bolt

22.

What French entertainer, activist and secret agent had a pet cheetah named Chiquita?

a)

Jacques Tati

b)

Josephine Baker

c)

Maurice Chevalier

d)

Edith Piaf

23.

Which country’s flag features an eagle eating a snake?

a)

Mexico

b)

Dominica

c)

Guam

d)

Mozambique

24.

Russia is the world’s largest country (by area), and its largest city (by population) is its capital. What’s the next ­largest country for which this is the case?

a)

Canada

b)

China

c)

Brazil

d)

Argentina

25.

Who dedicated Atlas Shrugged to both her husband and her boyfriend?

a)

Flannery O’Connor

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Ayn Rand

d)

Margaret Atwood

26.

The kiwi fruit is native to New Zealand.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

In 2016, a Pizza Hut in Dar es Salaam delivered to the top of what mountain, thus setting a record for the highest-elevation pizza delivery?

a)

Manaslu

b)

Denali

c)

Fuji

d)

Kilimanjaro

28.

What international retail chain got its start in Älmhult, Sweden, and runs a museum dedicated to its history there?

a)

H&M

b)

Tesco

c)

IKEA

d)

Uniqlo

29.

Which event has the longer-distance world record: men’s discus throw or women’s discus throw?

a)

Men's Discus Throw

b)

Woman's Discus Throw

30.

What writer with a highfalutin reputation used jokes about passing wind in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and Othello?

a)

Christopher Marlowe

b)

Henry Howard

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Thomas Middleton

31.

What singer was born in Havana in 1957, the daughter of a bodyguard employed by dictator Fulgencio Batista?

a)

Selena

b)

Jennifer Lopez

c)

Celia Cruz

d)

Gloria Estefan

32.

Although it freed itself from the United States in 1946, what nation’s Independence Day celebrates its declaration of independence from Spain in 1898?

a)

Mexico

b)

The Philippines

c)

Argentina

d)

Guatemala

33.

If you order “murgh” from the menu at an Indian restaurant, what meat will you get?

a)

Chicken

b)

Beef

c)

Duck

d)

Venison

34.

What country’s land is mostly on an island, although most of its people live on a peninsula across the South China Sea?

a)

Malaysia

b)

Indonesia

c)

Thailand

d)

Papa New Guinea

35.

Gioachino Rossini’s last opera was produced in 1829, complete with Swiss alphorns. What was it?

a)

The Marriage of Figaro

b)

Don Giovanni

c)

The Barber of Seville

d)

William Tell

36.

Which of the following is not a sub-atomic particle?

a)

Hadron

b)

Boson

c)

Muon

d)

Scion