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General Knowledge: Hard Mode

No warm-up, no mercy, no cheap points. Twenty questions built to beat you — most people stall somewhere around halfway.

🧠 General Knowledge hard 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which element has the chemical symbol W?
  • Which is the only sea on Earth with no land coastline?
  • How many bones are there in a typical adult human body?
  • Select ALL of these countries that are landlocked.
  • Who painted the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights?
  • Iceland has no native mosquito population.
  • The Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, ended which conflict?
  • Is Mount Everest's summit the point on land farthest from the centre of the Earth?
  • Which letter appears in no US state name at all?
  • Which river flows through the centre of Baghdad?
  • Which novel opens with the line "Call me Ishmael"?
  • Which mineral sits at number 1 on the Mohs hardness scale?
  • Which composer wrote the work known as the Unfinished Symphony?
  • Triton, a large moon that orbits in the opposite direction to its planet's spin, circles which planet?
  • Select ALL of these elements that are noble gases.
  • Select ALL of these languages usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
  • The Hundred Years' War lasted longer than a hundred years.
  • Venus spins on its axis in the opposite direction to most planets.
  • Is a peanut botanically a nut?
  • The Volga, Europe's longest river, empties into which body of water?