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General Knowledge Quiz #129

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What great ape can only be found in Indonesia and Malaysia?
Orangutans
Who wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
William Shakespeare
What language does the word "futon" come from originally?
Japanese
What did Peter Carl Fabergé famously make?
Fabergé Eggs
What part of a human cell has its own DNA - separate from human DNA?
Mitochondria
What is usually the largest muscle in the human body?
Gluteus Maximus
What number is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes?
Googol
In what country, according to stereotype, might someone say "Opa",
and then smash a plate?
Greece
During what dance do you put your left foot in, your left foot out, and shake it all about?
Hokey Pokey
What animal was Indiana Jones afraid of?
Snakes
What arcade game involves an amphibian trying to cross a busy street?
Frogger
What type of pie is made with ground lamb and mashed potatoes?
Shepherd's Pie
What species of deer is commonly found north of the Arctic Circle?
Reindeer
Who composed "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"?
J.S. Bach
What word often appears between unidentified and object?
Flying
Starting in Moscow, what's the southernmost city you could drive to?
Cape Town
What is the term in tennis for when a serve hits the net and then falls into the service court?
Let
In calculus, what is the opposite of a derivative?
Integral
Who had a child with Kurt Cobain?
Courtney Love
What was the name of the nine Greek goddesses who personified
literature, science, and the arts?
The Muses
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Level 74
May 5, 2015
how about orang or orangs for organutans?
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Level 81
Aug 14, 2020
How about you just spell the word
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Level 83
Nov 19, 2020
I've seen them referred to as just 'orangs', although it might have been in French.
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Level 68
Dec 14, 2020
I've never heard them referred to as "orangs" in French, and I have some living right down the street of my apartment in Paris!
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Level 83
Mar 19, 2021
^to be fair it was in a book written in the 1860s
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Level 63
Sep 21, 2015
Antiderivative not accepted for the opposite of a derivative?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiderivative

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Level 86
Aug 10, 2020
Yes, that or primitive is really the opposite of a derivative by definition. The fact that it is equal to an integral is a theorem (in fact, the "fundamental theorem of calculus").
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Level 75
Apr 15, 2022
That's what I tried
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Level 75
Sep 21, 2015
The largest muscle in human body is the sartorius muscle ;)
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Level 71
Sep 24, 2015
The Longest, not the largest (heaviest, bulkiest)
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Level 74
Dec 26, 2016
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell
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Level 58
Feb 11, 2017
And also The Unburnt Queen of the Andals, Queen of Meereen, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons and Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea.
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Level 34
Mar 24, 2018
hey guys - in the UK the song is known as the "hokey cokey", not "pokey" - may be worth adding it in? I was trying all variations like "am I going mad?"
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Level ∞
Mar 25, 2018
Yes, you are losing your mind. "Hokey cokey" would have worked.
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Level 81
Dec 1, 2020
When the guy that wrote the Hokey Pokey died they had trouble getting him in the coffin - because they had to put his left foot in ....
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Level 71
Apr 8, 2021
and it isn't 'hanky panky' which i first tried! I don't know where that came from!
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Level 86
Nov 21, 2018
I know Bach is a great composer, but Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is incredibly dull. We had to play it every day as a warmup in band class, and by the end of that year, I was ready to punch Bach in his stupid Baroque face.
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Level 92
Aug 11, 2020
Blasphemy! That's one of the most sublime pieces of music ever.... though maybe not if being played by HS band students.
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Level 75
Nov 30, 2020
Imagine how your band teacher must have felt.
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Level 55
May 24, 2019
I also tried Easter eggs for the Faberge question, I have not heard of them being called Faberge eggs
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Level 85
Aug 9, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabergé_egg
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Level 45
Aug 21, 2019
I am Greek and I am pretty sure we never say "Opa" before drinking. Perhaps when dancing a solo dance like zeibekiko. "Yamas" (Γεια μας - "here's to our health") is more correct for drinking.
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2020
Does the QM mean Ochi, or Oxi, or ohi, or even Οχι?
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Level 75
Aug 10, 2020
Couldn't spell gluteus for the life of me. I tried lots of variants, but always with an "i" instead of the "e".
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Level 79
Nov 22, 2022
Same, tried glutius maximus but no dice.
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Level 81
Aug 14, 2020
Anybody else impressed that 73% of people knew that Cobain had a baby with Courtney Love?
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Level 79
Sep 16, 2020
Dismayed?
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Level 67
Nov 30, 2020
Why? That was major news in the 90s, and the theory that Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain has been bounding around the internet forever. On top of that, Kurt Cobain is a monumental figure in pop music. Even my mom knows who he is. I don't think she could name another rock star that peaked after 1980.
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Level 72
Oct 21, 2020
honestly, for the tennis one I typed in the first tennis term which popped in my head before I read the rest of the question - which happened to be "love." I was pleasantly surprised when the answer worked for a different question.
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2020
Why? She was his only well-known romantic partner, and they were a very high-profile couple.
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Level 79
Aug 18, 2020
The Hokey Pokey is called the Okey Cokey in the UK
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Level 58
Feb 2, 2021
I also live in the UK and it's definitely Hokey Cokey
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Level 79
Sep 16, 2020
Could you accept 'buttock' for gluteus maximus?
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Level 81
Nov 2, 2020
I've been puzzled by the largest muscle question, since I've learned long time ago that m. quadriceps femoris is the largest one in human body. It is sometimes considered to represent a group of four different muscles, yet, since they all have one tendon, it is more often considered to be one single muscle. I really think the gluteus maximus answer is wrong, and that quadriceps should be at least an accepted, if not the only answer.
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Level 56
Nov 5, 2020
Actually "futon" originally comes from Chinese. If you'd dropped "originally" in the question Japanese would be correct.
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Level 69
Nov 30, 2020
Port Elizabeth is a South African city that is slightly further south than Cape Town, though obviously not as well known. :)
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2020
Also, if you were going from Moscow due south, the last possible city you'd come across would be more likely in Mozambique, before you hit the Indian Ocean.
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Level 65
Dec 1, 2020
The clue didn't specify that you had to be traveling due south. All it specified was the southernmost city that you can drive to from Moscow.
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Level 79
Nov 22, 2022
This should be fixed, although Port Elizabeth was renamed in 2021 and is now Ggeberha.
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Level 52
Nov 30, 2020
Perhaps clarify that “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is referring to the play and not the work by Mendelssohn? (Or Britten’s opera, I guess)
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Level 70
Nov 30, 2020
it does say who "wrote" and not who "composed"
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Level 57
Nov 30, 2020
Crossy Road for the amphibian one?
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Level 70
Dec 24, 2020
I feel like "orangoutang" should be accepted.
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Level 66
Feb 12, 2021
Please accept more misspellings for mitochondria.
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Level 75
Apr 15, 2022
Accept anti derivative for opposite of derivative please.