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General Knowledge Quiz #37

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedJune 21, 2012
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Answer
What country is the island of Rhodes a part of?
Greece
What unit is used to measure the height of a horse?
Hands
Which element of the Periodic Table is known in Latin as Argentum?
Silver
What type of grass can grow to over 40 meters in height, and can grow more than
1 meter in a single day?
Bamboo
What is the last name of brothers Fidel and Raúl?
Castro
In what country would you find the cities of Zaragoza and Valladolid?
Spain
What book is about a girl from "District 12"?
The Hunger Games
What is the Islamic equivalent to the Red Cross?
Red Crescent
In "Back to the Future Part II", what future year did Marty McFly travel to?
2015
What is the last name of the tennis player whose first name is a planet?
Williams
What weapon is used for jousting?
Lance
What bay lies between India and Indochina?
Bay of Bengal
What can have a forecastle, a head, and a hold?
a Ship
It's near Mount Kilimanjaro, it's the second tallest mountain in Africa, and it's named
for a country. What is it?
Mount Kenya
What vitamin precursor causes carrots to be orange?
Beta-Carotene
What mostly-dead language was used to write the Hindu Vedas?
Sanskrit
What series of children's books was created by A. A. Milne?
Winnie-the-Pooh
What record label recorded The Supremes and The Jackson 5?
Motown
Who plays at Old Trafford?
Manchester United
Fill in the blank: Diwali is the Indian festival of ____.
Lights
JustJoshing
+4
Level 64
Nov 8, 2012
Only 31% know that Manchester United play at Old Trafford!? How weird!!!
buck1017
+20
Level 77
Aug 1, 2013
i'd say that's pretty good since this is an American website. I don't know if the Brits or Aussies would necessarily know who plays at Lambeau Field.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 82
Jul 7, 2014
I don't know either one.
DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 84
Nov 8, 2019
One's known as "The Theatre of Dreams" and the other's known as "The Frozen Tundra". :-)
eric29cocoanuts
+4
Level 77
Jul 7, 2014
Well Old Trafford sounded British to me so I answered Shakespeare....he might have played there! So I'm guessing it's not a theater, then? Who knew?? Why don't you tell me who plays at Gillette Stadium!
TanithEdgley
+2
Level 36
Aug 12, 2014
Patriots.
Froststar101
+1
Level 74
May 9, 2018
Got'em.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 9, 2018
I was about to type something similar. Soccer/football didnt even occur to me. Or any sport btw. Was indeed thinking of plays/theater maybe music or even opera
Algernon
+3
Level 72
Aug 25, 2018
QM, didn't allow any of my answers as type ins so I had to hold my nose and type the correct answer.
SundarIsaacs
+2
Level 59
Dec 9, 2018
Cricketers. Sigh...
GobbyP
+13
Level 22
Jan 30, 2013
Lancashire county cricket club also play at a ground called old trafford. It is about 1km south of the football ground.
JediGrandmaster
+10
Level 61
Aug 3, 2018
My thought exactly. Which is why I answered Lancashire first as a joke
OfficerDibble
+9
Level 80
Aug 15, 2018
I tried Lancashire too - a perfectly correct answer - before giving in to the inevitable.
ConradBrunstrom
+1
Level 79
Dec 1, 2020
Ditto
ruftytufty
+8
Level 79
Oct 9, 2018
Me too. Anything to avoid typing Man U..
Giorgi94
+8
Level 56
Jan 14, 2019
Anything to avoid it, yet you took the time to type it again in the comment section. I think you're secretly enjoying it!
Thesquare
+1
Level 49
Nov 22, 2023
So indeed do the English national cricket team.
mightythor
+1
Level 66
May 24, 2014
Allow "horse hands" for "hands" please.
buck1017
+9
Level 77
Jun 23, 2014
but...but...horses have hooves...
coro
+3
Level 58
Nov 13, 2016
No. The measurement went by human hands.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Aug 16, 2018
Time waster.
Goomaster7
+2
Level 67
Jun 1, 2014
More people know Back to the Future than Winnie the Pooh. Seriously depressed face.
kalbahamut
+13
Level 82
Jul 7, 2014
Plenty of people know about Winnie the Pooh they just don't know the name of the author.
Arp2600
+2
Level 86
Jul 27, 2014
Back to the future indeed deserves to be more well known than Winnie the pooh :p.
ander217
+5
Level 75
Dec 9, 2018
I couldn't remember the year so I just started with 2000 and started quickly typing numbers until I got it. I remembered A.A. Milne from my old Children's Authors card game - it was my least favorite card game when I was young, (coming far behind Old Maid and War) but at least it helped me on this one.
Carry
+4
Level 63
Jan 30, 2019
I did the same thing. Only I started at 2018 and went backwards because I remembered not to long ago they said it was the year where Marty McFly travelled to.
tom88
+2
Level 72
Aug 1, 2019
I always just remember it's 30 years either way for the first two movies. In the first movie they went back from 1985 to 1955, then in the second, they went forward from 1985 to 2015. The third movie goes back 100 years to 1885 and is obviously the worst in the trilogy
Freestatebear
+1
Level 85
May 14, 2023
A large part of the disparity can be attributed to time frame. The BTTF franchise is more current than Pooh, which dates back to the 1920's.
TenThousand
+7
Level 76
Oct 4, 2014
Please also accept Lancashire for Old Trafford - it is the Lancashire team's home ground in the County Championship, England's premier cricket competition.
sillie
+1
Level 77
Oct 14, 2014
If it wasn't for Hunger Games, I'd have full points. Does that mean I'll have to read that?
loonapick
+2
Level 49
Jan 30, 2015
The Red Crescent is not Islamic. It operates in Islamic countries, but is neutral.
BlackLab
+1
Level 65
Jun 22, 2015
Lance. Never heard of it, so I had to look it up. Now I know the difference between a Lance, Spear, Javelin and Pike.
graeme68
+6
Level 32
Feb 8, 2017
There are 2 Old Trafford Grounds in Manchester, about 1km apart. One is where Manchester United Football (Soccer) team play their home games and one where Lancashire Cricket Club play. So the question should read "Which English Soccer Team Play their home games at Old Trafford"
sillie
+2
Level 77
Aug 15, 2018
That's giving it away.
morcaca
+2
Level 59
Dec 1, 2020
If you don't know the answer, the clue isn't going to help you. If you know that Lancashire County Cricket Club plays at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, you probably know that Manchester United also plays at a ground called Old Trafford.
bkemp2001
+1
Level 61
Mar 2, 2018
Sometimes, it helps if you read the questions.
Froststar101
+4
Level 74
May 9, 2018
Just sometimes, though.
JohnnyWishbone
+4
Level 63
May 16, 2018
Lancashire County Cricket Club also play at Old Trafford. The question doesn't specify which sport you are referring to.
Quizmaster
+20
Level ∞
Aug 15, 2018
Going to leave it as so people have something to whine about.
OfficerDibble
+7
Level 80
Aug 15, 2018
Thanks QM, a genuine service to us Brits.
mrnafe
+12
Level 82
Aug 15, 2018
Is there anywhere we can queue whilst we whine?
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 89
Aug 16, 2018
You could just wing it. Or whinge it. I wish the English had the internet during World War 2. We would've saved a lot of money when we couldn't stand all their whingeing about nothing.
TenThousand
+3
Level 76
Aug 17, 2018
Dan' starring of football and cricket quizzes is running 53-to-1 in favour of the former, so his defence of blocking correct answers from his unfavorite sport is unsurprising.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Dec 9, 2018
You could always have some Manchester cheese with your whine. (Since it's an American cheese it should pair well.)
mrnafe
+8
Level 82
Dec 9, 2018
American cheese is rank with anything, definitely worth whining about ;)
jonf
+2
Level 69
Dec 14, 2018
I think this is one of the best GK quizzes. Maybe I'm biased because I think it's the only one where I have gotten 100% on the first try...
Chris19
+2
Level 51
Apr 13, 2019
I am pretty certain the height of horses is most commonly measured in metres and centimetres. The answer "metre" or "meter" was not accepted, though.
tom88
+1
Level 72
Feb 4, 2020
I'm pretty certain that you are wrong and "hands" or "horse hands" is the correct answer
Chris19
+2
Level 51
Nov 4, 2023
Just checked it; Wikipedia says that in English-speaking countries, hands and inches are "often" used as units to measure the height of a horse. It seems the rest of the world does not do that.
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 68
Oct 8, 2020
I'm pretty sure that in most of the world, it is indeed measured in meters and centimeters. Americans will measure with anything to avoid learning the metric system. I'm just suurprised that they don't measure the height of horses in cheeseburgers or something.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 67
Jul 28, 2021
I thought of Motown right when I gave up
Ertaeth
+3
Level 68
Dec 2, 2021
Zaragoza, Coahuila and Valladolid, Yucatán are both cities in Mexico. Bothe Mexico and Spain should be accepted.
JackintheBox
+3
Level 79
May 17, 2023
I tried 'cubits' for the measurement question!
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