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General Knowledge Quiz #161

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What modern-day capital is located near the ancient city of Babylon?
Baghdad
What type of light is emitted by a blacklight?
Ultraviolet (UV-A)
Which of the seven dwarfs has a name that means "shy"?
Bashful
What British landmark is guarded by the Yeoman Warders, also known as "beefeaters"?
Tower of London
Which two national capitals start with the letters BEI?
Beijing
Beirut
What number is sometimes approximated by the fraction 22/7?
Pi
What island's population reached a high of 8 million in the 1840s and is still lower today?
Ireland
What C word refers to a person whose body has been enhanced with
robotic or mechanical parts?
Cyborg
What is the common term for a person who is prejudiced against Jewish people?
Antisemite
What series of uprisings rocked the Middle East in 2011?
Arab Spring
What 1985 blockbuster is sometimes abbreviated BTTF?
Back to the Future
What is the superhero alter-ego of Barbara Gordon?
Batgirl or Oracle
What country was once ruled by Robert the Bruce?
Scotland
What is the official language of Iran?
Persian
What region is known in its own language as Bayern?
Bavaria
What European soccer club has won the most Champions League titles?
Real Madrid
Who is the patron saint of romantic love, beekeepers, and epilepsy?
Saint Valentine
What type of plane made its first flight in 1939, and was first used commercially in 1952?
Jet
What is the most populous city on the Atlantic coast of Canada?
Halifax
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Level 77
Jan 17, 2017
Could "antisemitist" also be accepted? With all the other bad spelling that goes around..
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Level 69
Jan 17, 2017
But that's not a misspelling of antisemite; it's a whole different word, and as far as I know, is only the name of a record company.
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Level 57
Feb 13, 2017
But surely antisemitic should be accepted?
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2017
+1 anti-semitic
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Level 75
Feb 13, 2017
Antisemitic is what I tried and when it wasn't accepted I gave up.
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Level ∞
Feb 13, 2017
Antisemitic will work now
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Level 41
Feb 13, 2017
What about anti semitism?
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Level 71
Jan 31, 2017
The Arab Spring rocked north Africa more than the ME, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt all had massive changes. Only really Syria did in the ME.
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Level 56
Feb 13, 2017
Iraq, and Yemen are both having a civil war as well. Lebanon is dealing with the spillover of the Syrian Civil War. Several other countries have had major governmental changes. The Arab Spring most certainly affected the Asian part of the Arab world.
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Level 82
Feb 13, 2017
Between uprisings or protests in Beirut, Oman, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia (all put down, Bahrain's still somewhat ongoing), democratic stirrings in Iran, outright civil war in Yemen, outright civil war and near disintegration of the state in Syria and Iraq, constant fighting in Kurdistan, increased terrorism/political upheavals in Turkey, the formation of Islamic State, and the massive refugee crisis... I'd say that it affected the Middle East *more* than North Africa. Also Egypt is almost always included in the Middle East in addition to being part of North Africa.
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Level 58
Feb 13, 2017
i typed Munich in a flurry of desperation for Bavaria close enough ? negative only miss
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Level 71
Jul 11, 2019
No, Munich is a city, not a region.
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Level 74
May 22, 2017
Most peoples/tribes/cultures in the middle east could be called Semitic, not only Jews
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Level 76
Apr 24, 2018
True, but "anti-semitism" is used to refer to hatred of Jewish people specifically. It's similar to how "homophobia" doesn't mean "fear of sameness."
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Level 68
Oct 23, 2020
Also, a homophone isn't a word that sound gay.
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Level 77
Sep 27, 2021
The term "antisemitism" does not have much to do with the Semitic language group. Wilhelm Marr coined the term to specify that he was racist, but did not judge Jewish people for their religion. Therefore, he promoted antisemitism, meant specifically to express racial disgust towards Jewish people. The reason the term caught on was because it was unpopular in educated circles to discriminate based on religion in the late 1800s. Racial discrimination, on the other hand, was as popular as ever because of the bunk theory of Social Darwinism.
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Level 67
Sep 27, 2021
I thought that the plane question asked for a specific model
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Level 79
Sep 27, 2021
Aarrgghhh, I tried 'passenger jet' instead of jet..
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Level 59
Sep 27, 2021
Scotland isn't a country? I think the wording could be a bit better; even if Scotland was a country then, it isn't now and can be confusing.
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Level 65
Sep 28, 2021
It may be confusing but Scotland is a country. Grand tradition of JetPunk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
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Level 76
Sep 27, 2021
Not accepting the actual number on the Pi one?
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Level 67
May 4, 2023
100%, 2:24, was not expecting that