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General Knowledge Quiz #147

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedMarch 8, 2016
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Question
Answer
What type of leaf is stereotypically used to cover up nudity?
Fig Leaf
You would address a king by saying "Your Majesty". How would you address the pope?
Your Holiness
What type of machine is also known as a one-armed bandit?
Slot Machine
What is both a golf term and slang for an enemy plane?
Bogey
What was the central meeting place of ancient Rome?
Forum
What country's highest recorded temperature is just 87 °F (30.5 °C),
the lowest of any country?
Iceland
What country does Häagen-Dazs ice cream come from?
United States
What word means "fancy party" in English and "evening" in French?
Soirée
What actress has adopted children from Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam?
Angelina Jolie
What fictional barbarian was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Conan
What city in England is named for the place where oxen waded across the river Thames?
Oxford
Stalactites grow down from the top of cave. What grows up from the floor of a cave?
Stalagmites
What is the term for a person who eats no meat except for seafood?
Pescetarian
What is the name for a lounge where performers wait before going onstage?
Green Room
What rock musician famously bit the head off a bat while onstage?
Ozzy Osbourne
What Barry Manilow song was about a club that was the "hottest spot north of Havana"?
Copacabana
What would you find in an ossuary?
Bones
What country contains most of the Hindu Kush mountains?
Afghanistan
What are the first five words of a "Hail Mary" prayer?
Hail Mary,
full of grace
What is German for "good day"?
Guten Tag
plattitude
+4
Level 92
Mar 8, 2016
Misread the clue, and was guessing every version of cemetary, graveyard, mausoleum, crypt, etc. I could think of.
CaritasInVeritate
+1
Level 91
Mar 8, 2016
Same here!
plattitude
+9
Level 92
Jun 13, 2016
I shouldn't take these early in the morning, this time I misread the Schwarzenegger clue as 'What fictional librarian..." Needless to say, nothing was coming to mind.
Swanbabe
+2
Level 38
Feb 2, 2017
Hahaha that's hilarious
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 86
Aug 5, 2018
Music Man reboot, starring Ahnold as Marian the Librarian!
plattitude
+1
Level 92
Jan 22, 2022
🎼 I fought thugs in the hills

But I never loved their screaming

No I never enjoyed it at all

Til there was you...🎶

sillie
+1
Level 77
Mar 9, 2016
Isn't "the evening" in French just "le soir" ? --- Googled, read explanations and I still wouldn't fully agree with soiree = evening, but I guess you *could* say it that way too.
Arp2600
+1
Level 86
Mar 12, 2016
"soir" and "soirée" are basically synonyms.
coeurdechoeur
+2
Level 79
Dec 30, 2016
What foulyz said is right. There are a few other pairs in French that work the same way: matin and matinée (morning), jour and journée (day), an and année (year).
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Apr 5, 2017
No, they are not. Soir means evening in French, whereas soiree means an event.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 68
Oct 22, 2020
Yeah, they're basically synonyms. If you want the actual difference, although most French people don't even know it, it is that "soir" is the neutral term which just means evening, whereas "soirée" suggest something that lasts for all or a good portion of said evening. For instance: if you're going to meet someone this evening, you would say "à ce soir", but if you're going to spend the evening together, you'd say "nous passons la soirée ensemble".
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 55
Apr 3, 2024
that's a very clear explanation. Thank you,
sumguy
+8
Level 84
May 1, 2021
An awful lot of people who don't speak French have strong opinions about this.

"le jour" means "the day", but you say "bonne journée" ("[have a] good day") as goodbye during the day. "le soir" means "the evening", but you say "bonne soirée" ("[have a] good evening") as goodbye during the evening. "le matin" is "the morning", and "bonne matinée" is "[have a] good morning". (The question could also have been 'What word means an "early performance" in English and "morning" in French' for that one.)

Matin, jour, and soir are masculine and refer to the time of day, whereas matinée, journée, and soirée are feminine and refer to the passage of time. "soirée" is kind of like "the whole evening" whereas "soir" refer to this particular moment in time.

French is strange and confusing, but suffice it say that soir and soirée both mean "evening", though the correct one to use depends on the situation.

mrputter
+2
Level 81
Apr 9, 2022
@divantilya No. Absolutely incorrect. Soirée in french has nothing intrinsically to do with an event. Sumguy has it right.
blinky
+2
Level 58
Jan 29, 2017
I got it from "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)" and figured that it must be soiree.
danvan
+2
Level 44
Jun 13, 2016
I was wondering if you could include "pokie" for slot machine, this is the Australian term. The Brits might also appreciate "Fruit machine" although I haven't yet checked to see if that works or not.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jun 13, 2016
Added a bunch of type-ins for that one
Sterref10
+1
Level 48
Jun 13, 2016
I tried typing in many different spellings of pescatarian, such as peskatarian and peskitarian, would it be possible to have these spellings accepted as I knew what the answer was, but just couldn't spell it?
irish41
+1
Level 59
Jun 13, 2016
Ugh, stupid Haagen-Dazs.
mwt137
+7
Level 59
Jun 13, 2016
And after naming every country in Northern Europe, I will never forget where Haagen-Dazs ice cream comes from...
ChaosQuizzer
+1
Level 22
Jun 13, 2016
You should accept John Osbourne because that's Ozzy's actual name.
FlickerP
+2
Level 72
Jun 21, 2021
But even his family would have typed in Ozzy as the answer
duckwantbread
+4
Level 64
Jun 13, 2016
Well today I learned the Barry Manilow song isn't called 'Coco Cabana'.
MooseGoose
+1
Level 25
Jun 14, 2016
You're not alone.
natnat
+1
Level 25
Apr 8, 2020
and i tried almost everything from "her name was Lola" over "she was a showgirl" to "his name was Rico" and so on..... only the obvious did not want to come into my mind...
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 84
May 1, 2021
Hilarious! Reminds me of my mom. She was notorious for hearing bizarre lyrics in songs. ("I believe in miracles Malcolm"; "Undercover angel, midnight fantasy Tennessee", etc.)
nhamil3225
+1
Level 48
Jun 15, 2016
I wonder if I'm the only one who got the Hail Mary question because of Bare: A Pop Opera
Yanni47
+1
Level 77
May 20, 2017
Either this is not about the Copacabana in Rio, or there is another town called Havana in Brazil, because the geography in that lyric doesn't make sense otherwise.
dunkinggandalf2
+3
Level 68
Oct 22, 2020
Yeah, that confused me too, at first. It turns out it's about a nightclub called Copacabana in New York City, which is famously north of Havana!
camus
+2
Level 78
Jun 21, 2021
Goodfellas has a famous scene where the characters enter the Copacabana nightclub.
MayaB
+1
Level 73
Jun 5, 2018
Damn I tried Ozzy but didn't type Osbourne. I don't know why I thought that just Ozzy will be accepted. I guess 12:45AM is the wrong time for quizzes.
joeythelemur
+1
Level 84
Apr 30, 2021
Ozzy worked for me.
JohnJoe4444
+1
Level 72
Mar 3, 2019
Bandit is a word often used for enemy planes - it's also a golf expression, a description of a golfer who plays of a much higher handicap than his/her ability warrants - he/she then has an advantage when it comes to competitions
sumguy
+1
Level 84
May 1, 2021
80% of people knew that Häagen-Dazs is American??? I would have guessed all of the other 195 countries before I tried the US.
Djilas
+3
Level 82
May 1, 2021
I didn't quite know it but had a hunch it's a trick question
AnnikaKim
+2
Level 62
Jun 21, 2021
USA is probably the most asked country in Jetpunk. If you don't know something, try USA---it usually fits somewhere. :) (Only this time I tried "green" for the golf term and accidentally got the lounge question right.)
FlickerP
+1
Level 72
Jun 21, 2021
I tried Netherlands, Denmark and a couple of others in that area before realising that it could well be USA. I was more surprised that three quarters got pescetarian, a term I have never heard of and which my spellcheck is trying to get me to alter right here
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
Jun 21, 2021
My friend refers to herself as a "vegaquarian."
Temp190
+1
Level 66
Nov 12, 2023
It was a Polish family and they wanted something that sounded European, so they sat around the dinner tables throwing in suggestions until they came up with the name.
Lemondance
+2
Level 67
Jun 21, 2021
I can't believe the Angelina Jolie one I missed ended up being the most-gotten answer
kevlarkev
+4
Level 62
Jun 22, 2021
Your Popeness isn't a thing?
sumguy
+1
Level 84
Sep 21, 2021
It should be.
Temp190
+1
Level 66
Nov 12, 2023
Well it would be right if that is how you would address him. The question should more accurately be written, "How should one correctly address the Pope?" or even, "How should you address the pope?" Only you can answer for what you would do.
Squiddy
+1
Level 32
Jun 25, 2021
This one was really tough, thanks!
Jonty84
+1
Level 47
Aug 30, 2021
Thats annoying, for Ossuary, bones crossed my mind, probably due to having heard the word "osseous" but I dismissed it, cost me a clean sweep 20/20!
mrputter
+1
Level 81
Apr 9, 2022
Huh. "Your eminence" and "your grace" came to me long, long before I eventually hit on "your holiness."

Was going to suggest they could be accepted as type-ins before I checked out the Wikipedia page on Ecclesiastical titles and discovered that... apparently not.

Guess I've just been watching too many movies. 😆

On the other hand, that same page suggests that "your excellency" might be valid? In the sense that that's the title used for a bishop, and the Pope is technically the Bishop of Rome. But I'm also willing to accept that I'm totally wrong and an actual Catholic would look at me like I'd grown a second head...

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