Answer: Janie
9. The shooting of whom, in 1914, started World War I?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
10. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mercury
11. What is the highest-grossing Broadway show of all time?
Answer: The Lion King
12. Who is commonly credited with throwing the first brick at Stonewall in 1969, beginning an uprising that became a major turning point for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S.?
Answer: Marsha P. Johnson
13. What are the first 22 cards in a tarot deck called?
Answer: The Major Arcana
14. 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
15. What is the capital of India?
Answer: New Delhi
16. Which two states in the U.S. share the most borders with other states?
Answer: Tennessee and Missouri
17. At a restaurant, you’ll see deer meat on the menu under what name?
Answer: Venison
18. What country has the national language with the longest alphabet?
Answer: Cambodia (their national language, Khmer, has 74 characters!)
19. What is the pseudonym for the author of the best-selling, four-part book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, now an HBO series?
Answer: Elena Ferrante
20. What is the name of the ship that rescued Titanic passengers hours after the ship went down?
Answer: The Carpathia
21. Where is recognised as the location of the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, per the World Meteorological Organization?
Answer: Death Valley, California
22. On what network did RuPaul’s Drag Race premiere in 2009?
Answer: Logo TV
23. What was the first book published by Jane Austen?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility
24. Which two countries have the longest shared international border?
Answer: Canada and the U.S.
25. What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Sochi, Russia
26. What is the longest-running Broadway show?
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
27. What is the human body’s largest organ?
Answer: Skin
28. What year was the first iPhone released?
Answer: 2007
29. What’s the (extremely metal) name for a group of crows?
Answer: A murder of crows
30. What are the first names of the four main characters in Golden Girls?
Answer: Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche
31. What is the longest above-water mountain range?
The Andes
32. What year did Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services?
Answer: 2007
33. How many feet are in a yard?
Answer: Three
34. How many bones do sharks have?
Answer: Zero!
35. What is the deadliest mammal?
Answer: The hippo
36. What is the deadliest insect?
Answer: The mosquito
37. What country was the Marxist revolutionary figure Che Guevara born in?
Answer: Argentina
38. What is the capital of Singapore?
Answer: Singapore (it’s an island city-state)
39. What is the word for the weather event also called a winter hurricane?