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Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 95

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  1. Q1Type the answer

    Which city’s Golden Gate Bridge was painted “International Orange” to stand out in the fog?

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    ✓San Francisco, whose famous bridge was nearly painted with yellow and black stripes.

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  2. Q2Multiple choice

    Which Disney film features the song “Hakuna Matata”?

    • The Lion King
    • The Jungle Book
    • Aladdin
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    ✓The Lion King, where the phrase is Swahili for roughly “no worries”

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  3. Q3Type the answer

    Which US president resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal?

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    ✓Richard Nixon, still the only US president ever to resign.

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  4. Q4Multiple choice

    Kimchi, spicy fermented cabbage, is the national dish of which country?

    • South Korea
    • Japan
    • China
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    ✓South Korea, where kimchi even flew to space with the country’s first astronaut in 2008.

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  5. Q5Type the answer

    Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record came in which running event?

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    ✓The 100 metres, run in Berlin in 2009 at an average of over 37 km/h.

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  6. Q6Type the answer

    Which language do most Brazilians speak as their mother tongue?

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    ✓Portuguese, thanks to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas splitting the New World with Spain.

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  7. Q7Multiple choice

    On which planet does a single spin on its axis take longer than one orbit of the Sun?

    • Venus
    • Mercury
    • Neptune
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    ✓Venus, which spins so slowly that one rotation outlasts its trip round the Sun.

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