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Which U.S. state has the highest cost of living index?

• Oklahoma
• Mississippi
• Hawaii
• Kansas

Hawaii has the highest cost of living index in the US, with 184, which is significantly higher than any other state in the country. The state with the lowest cost of living index is Mississippi, with a score of 85. Other states with relatively high costs of living include California, New York, and Massachusetts. On the other hand, states with lower costs of living include Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Source: Wise Voter

What holds the record for the most expensive thing ever built?

• Canada's Confederation Bridge
• The Stuart Hughes Gold Yacht
• International Space Station
• Hong Kong Int. Airport

The most expensive man-made object ever created doesn’t even reside on planet Earth. It’s in space. The International Space Station ranks in the Guinness World Records as the most expensive thing ever created, at $150 billion to develop and build. According to CNBC, the space station costs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $4 billion a year to operate.

Source: USA Today

What is the most expensive fish one can eat?

• Mackerel
• Catfish
• Bluefin Tuna
• Tilapia

Bluefin tuna is prized in various raw fish or sushi dishes and can sell for a great deal of money in Japan. In fact, in 2019, a 600-pound specimen sold for an astonishing $3 million, or about $5,000 per pound. More typically, though, it goes for about $200 a pound in Japan and between $20 and $40 per pound in America. Part of the reason for the expense is the taste. It has a distinctive flavor, and many people consider it to be the tastiest kind of tuna there is. Its popularity led to overfishing by commercial fishing fleets. It’s also a popular game fish and is highly sought after by fishermen worldwide, becoming a rare fish to find. The rarity of this larger fish is the other reason for the expense. Given the high rate of overfishing, it’s likely that bluefin prices are only going to keep rising in the future.

Source: Ventured

Which of these famous diamonds is believed to be cursed?

• Shah Diamond
• Stuart Diamond
• Centenary Diamond
• Hope Diamond

Over its 350-year history, the Hope Diamond has become one of the most famous cursed diamonds. After being stolen and recut, it is said to have contributed to the downfall and death of its owners. Discovered in India in 1673, it was originally a 115-carat blue diamond. Its owners included King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. In 1839, the stone was purchased by Henry Diamond Hope for which it was named. Upon his untimely death, his family sold it to pay off his gambling debts. Jeweler Wilhelm Fals acquired the natural diamond, and soon after his son killed him, took the stone, and later committed suicide. That didn’t scare off the young heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean who purchased the cursed diamond. But buyer beware: She faced unimaginable loss, including the deaths of her son at age 9 and daughter at age 25. Not to mention that after her husband left her, she went mad and died.

Source: Natural Diamonds

What expensive material is famously stored in Fort Knox?

• Platinum
• Palladium
• Gold
• Silver

The gold vault at Fort Knox is perhaps the most famous and mysterious depository of precious metals in the world. Few people have ever seen the inside of the vault, and even fewer have had the chance to touch the gold. The gold is kept in a huge underground chamber, and the entrance is guarded by armed soldiers. The gold is also protected by state-of-the-art security systems, including motion detectors, cameras, and alarms.

Source: GMR Gold

Which luxury jewelry brand is named in the title of a classic movie?

• Tiffany's
• Piaget
• Swarovski
• Cartier

Tiffany & Co. (colloquially known as Tiffany's) is a high-end luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The retailer has been mentioned in various works, most notably in the title of the 1958 Truman Capote novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's", adapted as the 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer.

Source: Wikipedia

Which item, often used in jewelry, forms inside an oyster?

• Gold
• Emerald
• Platinum
• Pearl

An oyster can slightly open the two valves of its shell to let in water. Water brings oxygen to the gills. The oyster feeds on bits of food that the water brings with it. Pearls form when a bothersome object, such as a grain of sand or a small fish, enters the area between the oyster’s shell and its mantle. The oyster protects itself from the object by wrapping it in many layers of a smooth substance called nacre, forming a pearl. Pearls come in different colors, but no one knows exactly how pearls develop their color.

Source: Britannica

How much money did the Titanic cost?

• $20.5 million
• $7.5 million
• $26 million
• $14 million

Titanic's construction cost $7.5 million ($200 million with inflation). The White Star Line's Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, starting in 1909, with construction taking three years. With a whopping 3 million rivets, weighing 46,000 tons, and measuring 882 feet, 8 inches—the distance of more than four city blocks—Titanic was created with the labor of some 3,000 workers.

Source: HISTORY

What precious metal marks a 50th anniversary or jubilee?

• Platinum
• Bronze
• Silver
• Gold

The celebration of wedding anniversaries dates back to Roman times when husbands gave their wives a silver wreath for 25 years of marriage, and a gold wreath for 50 years. Twentieth-century commercialism then led to the addition of more gifts to represent color and names for other years. By the 1930s there was a material or symbol representing the year as a gift suggestion for the first year and milestone years such as 10th, 20th, 25th, and 50th. Over the years more were added and the gift list was updated and modernized by various American and British greeting card companies.

Source: Cake Toppers

Which U.S. bill is traditionally the most expensive to produce?

• $1
• $20
• $100
• $5

The Federal Reserve decides how many bills are to be printed in its Currency Budget and then these bills are printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). Of course, the cost of printing is nowhere near the actual value, but it is still significant. Smaller denominations are generally less expensive to print because of fewer security features. For example, the $5 bill has two watermarks while the $10, $20, and $50 bills add color-shifting ink to the list of security features. The $100 bill includes a watermark, a 3-D security ribbon, a new color shifting feature (“the Bell in the Inkwell”), and a color-shifting ink, according to the Fed.

Source: Investopedia

To which industry is the term "haute couture" associated?

• Architecture
• Fashion
• Photography
• Cookery

Haute couture is the creation of impeccable, custom-fitted high-end fashion design that today is partially constructed by hand and often utilizes other handmade, one-of-a-kind embellishments, notions, and trimmings. "Couture" translates literally from French as dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and is also used as a common abbreviation of haute couture and can often refer to the same thing in spirit. "Haute" translates literally to "high".

Source: Wikipedia

Which was the most expensive film ever to win an Oscar?

• The Lord of the Rings
• Gladiator
• Titanic
• Avatar

The first movie to break the world record as the most expensive film was Titanic in 1997, with a $200 million budget. But the most expensive film to ever win an Oscar is Avatar, with a production budget of $237 million in 2009. The title for the most expensive movie, however, belongs to the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, with a 300 million budget in 2003. Unfortunately, it didn’t win any of the 5 Oscars nominations it got.

Source: Film Lifestyle

Which expensive spice is made from crocus flowers?

• Turmeric
• Ginger
• Cumin
• Saffron

There’s a good reason saffron is so expensive. Saffron threads are the stigmas found in the center of the Crocus sativus, a purple flower in the Iris family that’s better known as the saffron crocus. There are only three of the orange-yellow stigmas in each flower, which means it takes a lot of flowers to make a little bit of saffron. Each pound of saffron contains between 15 and 20 thousand stigmas.

Source: Reader's Digest

What musician allegedly has the world's most expensive birth certificate?

• Bruce Springsteen
• Paul McCartney
• Bob Dylan
• Mick Jagger

In March 1997, the world’s most expensive original birth certificate was auctioned off in Tokyo, for a sum of $84,146. This birth certificate belonged to Sir Paul McCartney, the English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer who was known worldwide as a member of the band, The Beatles. The certificate states Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942, at 107 Rice Lane, to James McCartney a “center lathe turner” and Mary Patricia McCartney, of 10, Sunbury Road, Liverpool.

Source: DOB From Age