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IQuiz 1
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| South Korean boxer who died in 1982 fighting Ray Mancini, prompted change from 15 to 12 rounds | Kim Duk-koo |
| Enemy of a dragon in medieval literature | Ichneumon |
| Japanese wrestler known as Father of Puroresu, murdered in 1963 | Rikidozan |
| Japanese word for someone with obsessive interests, eg anime or manga | Otaku |
| Buddha's wife | Yasodhara |
| Buddha's only son | Rahula |
| Polish hammer thrower considered best female ever | Anita Wlodarczyk |
| Cuban female hammer thrower, World Champion in 2001, 2003, 2005, Olympic gold in 2008 | Yipsi Moreno |
| Wife of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Silvia |
| Wife of Philippe of Belgium | Mathilde |
| Husband of Margrethe II of Denmark | Henrik |
| Wife of Willem-Alexander of Netherlands | Maxima |
| Wife of Harald V of Norway | Sonja |
| Colours top to bottom of Armenia's flag | Red, blue, orange (all horizontal) |
| Frenchman credited with discovery of greenhouse effect | Joseph Fourier |
| Scottish chemist who discovered and named acid rain | Robert Angus Smith |
| Island that is disputed between USA and Haiti | Navassa Island |
| Dumpling dish that is national dish of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia | Pierogi (or varenyky) |
| Nahuatl term for king or ruler | Tlatoani |
| Last Aztec emperor, was executed by Cortes | Cuauhtemoc |
| President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019 | Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
| First President of Algeria (1963 to 1965) | Ahmed Ben Bella |
| World's largest tropical forest national park - in northern Brazil | Tumucumaque Mountains National Park |
| First Native American to receive electoral vote for US President (2016) | Faith Spotted Eagle |
| Largest department of Paraguay | Boqueron |
| Volcano that erupted in 1912 in Alaska | Novarupta |
| Volcano in DR Congo described as Africa's most active | Nyamuragira |
| Start and end point of Grand Canal in China | Beijing, Hangzhou |
| Israel prize since 1978 given for agriculture, arts, chemistry, maths, medicine and physics | Wolf Prizes |
| American prize since 1945 given in medical science, called America's Nobels | Lasker Awards |
| A variety of brandy from Cyprus | Zivania |
| The Three Great Gardens of Japan | Kenroku-en, Kairaku-en, Koraku-en |
| World's biggest wholesale fish and seafood market | Tsukiji Market, in Tokyo |
| Spanish holiday in which men dressed as the devil jump over babies | El Salto del Colacho |
| Major Indian tyre manufacturer, Carla Bruni is heiress | Ceat |
| Swedish village famous for ice hotel each year | Jukkasjarvi |
| Composer of opera Ruslan and Lyudmila | Mikhail Glinka |
| Ancient Hawaiian martial art of bone breaking and joint dislocation | Lua (full name: Kapu Kuialua) |
| Finnish company known for their orange-handled scissors | Fiskars |
| Famous plot against Nero in 65 AD | Pisonian conspiracy (by a Roman Senator called Piso) |
| Name given to the study of ligaments | Desmology |
| Computer program that "solved" draughts in 2007, ie. no human can ever beat it | Chinook |
| Peruvian volcano that erupted in 1600, had massive effect on Earth's climate | Huaynaputina |
| Swedish clogs, equivalent to Japanese geta | Traskor |
| Second largest city of Oman | Salalah |
| The largest of Oman's 11 governorates | Dhofar |
| Polish composer (1933 - 2010) of Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | Henryk Gorecki |
| Japanese inventor (and Ig Nobel Prize winner) of the karaoke machine | Daisuke Inoue |
| Chinese badminton player and men's doubles legend - has fastest smash ever at 332km/h | Fu Haifeng |
| Main square of Marrakesh | Jemaa el-Fna |
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