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General Knowledge Quiz #172

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What two cities lie on opposite ends of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Moscow
Vladivostok
What is the Portuguese translation of Saint Paul?
São Paulo
What are the three countries whose names start with H?
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Shia is one of the two major branches of Islam. What is the other?
Sunni
What painting is famous for the enigmatic smile of the woman depicted on it?
The Mona Lisa
What word, starting with m, refers to the season of heavy rain in India?
Monsoon
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863?
Abraham Lincoln
On what cape is the city of Cape Town located?
Cape of Good Hope
What is the name of the current dynasty of the British royal family?
House of Windsor
What is the largest species of invertebrate?
Colossal Squid
What place visited by Napoleon is also the title of a song by ABBA?
Waterloo
What can be started by a "casus belli"?
a War
What cryptocurrency could be purchased for $1 in 2011, but was worth
over $50,000 in 2021?
Bitcoin
What country was ruled by 11 leaders with the name Ramses?
Egypt
Other than the sun, what is the nearest star to Earth?
Proxima Centauri
What was Chaucer's first name?
Geoffrey
What three words end the nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down"?
My Fair Lady
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Level 71
Jun 28, 2017
Good GK quiz. nice variety of subjects. No rubbish questions. A chance to learn something as well (casus belli)
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Level 84
Jul 2, 2017
Agreed. Well done.
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Level 74
Jul 8, 2017
Thirded! Great quiz.
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Level 46
May 21, 2018
I learned a lot!
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Level 74
Nov 28, 2021
The geography questions based on memorizations of English spellings of countries names rather than any real, useful knowledge are purely trivial and qualify as "rubbish questions" in my opinion.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2022
Personally, I'm tired of answering Mona Lisa (or Van Gogh, for that matter) questions, and apparently all Napoleon ever did was lose at Waterloo. So yeah, I would consider them somewhat rubbish.
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2017
Wow, I failed mightily on this quiz. Really, 70% of you got Vladivostok correct? I never even heard of the place!
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Level 74
Jul 8, 2017
Been there. That's my excuse.
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Level 65
Jul 24, 2017
Maybe there are a lot of Woody Harrelson fans about?
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Level 74
Jul 24, 2017
The actual name of the Mona Lisa (La Joconde or La Gioconda) should be accepted.
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Level 56
Jul 24, 2017
Mona Lisa is not the name of the painting?!
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Level 54
Jul 24, 2017
In Italian it's la Gioconda
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Level 94
Jul 24, 2017
actually not. at least in Italy and France it is mostly known as "La Gioconda"/"La Joconde".

Mona Lisa is a sort of secondary name, well known as well but not so largely used.

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Level 67
Jul 25, 2017
La Giaconda, or in English, The Jocund (f.); jocund of course meaning joyful, or perhaps more accurately, mirthful - if you buy into the story that she's smiling at the thought of a lover. I, personally, do not.
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Level 55
Jan 14, 2018
Imagine Nat 'King' Cole crooning, "La giaconda, la giaconda, men have named you..."
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Level 68
Oct 28, 2020
Well, the painting is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, or "La Gioconda", because she was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, so all the answers are correct. However, the paiting is more commonly referred to as the Mona Lisa in English, and La Joconde in French, or La Gioconda in Italian. They're all good answers.
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2017
Supported
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Level 83
Jul 24, 2017
I put in Centauri Proxima. A bit harsh not to accept it.
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Level 56
Jul 31, 2017
But Proxima is the classifier, belonging at the front. There are other Centauri stars. You wouldn't say "Centauri Alpha," would you?
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Level 62
Jul 24, 2017
Great quiz, as evidenced by the fairly even spread of correct answers. (Least guessed = 33%) Questions were interesting, fair and wide ranging. Thanks!
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Level 90
Jul 24, 2017
Tapeworms have been known to reach over 100 feet long.
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Level 82
Jul 24, 2017
squids are definitely more massive.
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Level 69
Jan 14, 2018
But not nearly as gross as a 100-foot-long tapeworm. Good god.
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Level 68
Oct 28, 2020
I'm sure you wouldn't say that if you had a colossal squid living inside you.
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Level 71
Dec 13, 2021
Nope, I'm more scared of tapeworms. Squids are natural at least, with body plans that make sense. Tapeworms are just collections of hundreds of reproductive organs that can magically fall off and turn up in your poop, complete with a "head" that's just a giant sucker. It's barely even an animal. It's incredibly unsettling and I wouldn't wish a tapeworm infection on my worst enemy.
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Level 55
Jul 24, 2017
Tour de France done ! Try to find all the winners here !
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Level 55
Oct 7, 2017
Holland would be a country wouldn't it???
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Level 88
Oct 7, 2017
Holland is a)a region of the country called the Netherlands, or b)a city in Michigan. Not a country.
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Level 61
May 24, 2021
Netherlands is a country, the Dutch government actually asked people to stop wrongly mistaking the country of Netherlands for the region of Holland
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2021
Lol after government having used it officially as well. Like the official tourism website holland.nl
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Level 61
May 24, 2021
Netherlands is a country, the Dutch government actually asked people to stop wrongly mistaking the country of Netherlands for the region of Holland
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Level 58
Dec 13, 2021
General Knowledge bonus: In what English county would you find Parts of Holland, including South Holland?

Answer: Lincolnshire

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

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Level 77
Jul 28, 2019
Three countries whose names begin with an H? Helvetia, Hellas and Hrvatski?
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Level 79
Sep 21, 2020
I tried 'red dwarf' for Proxima Centauri 😬
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Level 61
May 24, 2021
First general knowledge quiz I've gotten 100% on!
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Level ∞
Sep 5, 2021
Nice work!
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Level 84
Sep 6, 2021
Sitting at 19/20, I had no idea what "casus belli" was. Guessed a myriad things that "start", like sentence, fire, opera. Then employed my unrivaled expertise in Latin and thought "casus belli" sounded like "Cassius" (as in Clay) and "bell" (which starts a round of boxing). So I guessed "fight"...DING DING! Probably the lamest correct answer I've ever gotten on here.
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Level 95
Sep 6, 2021
Fun general knowledge quiz, as ever.

I have only one suggestion: as the concept of 'nationhood' is a relatively modern invention, and given the fact that the modern state of Egypt might not be considered entirely congruous to 'Ancient Egypt', perhaps it might be better to word the question, 'What civilisation was ruled by 11 leaders with the name Ramses?' Just a thought...

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Level 67
Sep 7, 2021
I always knew the song as "my dear lady". Is this a regional thing? Could it be accepted as a type-in?
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2021
Fairly certain the Lions Mane Jellyfish can grow larger than colossal squid
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Level 70
Dec 13, 2021
Probably a question of mass rather than length.

Colossal squid, while not as long as the Lion's Mane Jellyfish (30 vs 120ft / 9 vs 36m), weighs considerably more (1300 vs 200lb / 590 vs. 90kg).

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Level 60
Dec 13, 2021
Perhaps a bit picky but Napoleon did not visit Waterloo. The village was behind the Allied lines, behind the main ridge, and Napoleon never got as far as the ridge.
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Level 72
Dec 13, 2021
Fact #347 has a typo ("can can").
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Level 65
Dec 13, 2021
I only knew the Chaucer one because of Paul Bettany. I make no apologies.
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Level 55
Dec 16, 2021
- What was Chaucer's first name?

"Leroy"

😆 Needless to say, didn't get that one right

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Level 62
Jan 23, 2022
Cape Town is located on Cape Peninsula. Cape of Good Hope is just the tip of the peninsula, some 50 km from Cape Town.
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Level 68
Mar 1, 2024
19/20, only forgot Haiti.