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General Knowledge Quiz #51

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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In what modern-day country was the Viking settlement of Vinland located?
Canada
Who is the world record holder for the men's 100m and 200m sprints?
Usain Bolt
Who won't you like when he's angry?
The Incredible Hulk
What country did the U.S. blockade in 1962 after the Soviet Union tried
to put nuclear missile bases there?
Cuba
Who angered many people when he said "we're more popular than Jesus now"?
John Lennon
What did Peter Piper pick a peck of?
Pickled peppers
What disease has been on the brink of eradication for several years, with new cases
now only appearing in Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Polio
What animal is thought to have been domesticated in what is today
Kazakhstan around 3000 BC?
Horse
What comes in tapioca, figgy, and chocolate varieties?
Pudding
Who is the main character of "The Hunger Games" series?
Katniss Everdeen
What make of car was used as a time machine in "Back to the Future"?
DeLorean
What is the English translation of this Morse code: · · · – – – · · ·
SOS
What 46 meter tall object did France give to the United States in the 1880s?
The Statue of Liberty
If two's company, what is three?
A crowd
Who takes the Hippocratic Oath?
Doctors
What part of an automobile measures distance traveled?
Odometer
Which retailer sells its famous Birkin bag for at least $11,000 – but makes it extremely
difficult to buy to create an artificial sense of scarcity?
Hermès
What species are also known as killer whales?
Orcas
In what movie did an upside down Tobey Maguire kiss Kirsten Dunst?
Spider-Man
What political group was responsible for killing about 25% of the population of
Cambodia in the late 1970s?
Khmer Rouge
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Level 77
Oct 4, 2012
The double world record holder could also be Florence Griffith-Joyner.
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Level ∞
Oct 4, 2012
Added "men's" to the question.
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Level 79
Oct 4, 2012
Who won't you like when he's angry...all i could think of was Mr. T
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Level 20
Oct 5, 2012
Haha. Me too! lol
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Level 77
Jan 20, 2015
I pity the fool(s).
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Level 63
Oct 4, 2012
Bruce banner should be acceptable for the Hulk. The Hulk already IS angry, it is Bruce Banner who says you won't like him when he's angry, as it will lead to him becoming the Hulk.
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Level 44
Nov 26, 2012
Agreed, as I think would Sheldon. :)
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2015
Bruce Banner will work now.
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Level 88
Oct 3, 2018
Well, what about David Banner?
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Level ∞
May 16, 2023
Save time by only typing last names.
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Level 78
Nov 12, 2021
Yep, in the series.
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Level 28
Aug 4, 2023
L
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Level 70
Oct 4, 2012
Hmm. Seems like they aren't counting individual grapes, because I can eat more of those in one sitting than I eat bananas in a year
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Level 44
Nov 26, 2012
I don't think the question says in one sitting.
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2012
lol grapes! Could include raisins too! Good quiz, I think you want Republican instead of Republic.
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Level ∞
Oct 6, 2012
Fixed. Thanks.
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Level 2
Oct 5, 2012
who you wouldnt like when angry needs clarification aswell becasue although the hulk is obvious, a quote from the game league of legends is dont make the yeti angry, you wont like him when hes angry refferring to the yeti that nunu rides
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2019
Pretty sure that the League of Legends quote is a direct reference to the Incredible Hulk quote.
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Level 76
Jun 9, 2022
If it's obvious, then why does it need clarification? Sounds contradictory.
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Level 69
Feb 3, 2015
"Who won't you like when he's angry?" definitely needs clarification. There are thousands of real and fictional persons I wouldn't like when they are angry
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Level 82
Feb 3, 2015
How many of them have the cliche catch phrase: "don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
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Level 75
Jan 4, 2016
Probably most mothers of teenagers.
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Level 92
Feb 3, 2015
It is interesting how ...---... has come to mean exclusively SOS. That same sequence can also be read as 3B, V7, VGI, VZE, IAGI, EIMNI, or a handful of other combinations.
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2019
Not really. Morse code has a very specific timing, based around the length of sending a single dot. One dash is the length of three dots. Each dot or dash within a letter is separated by a space of one dot duration. Letters of a word are separated by a space of three dots' duration, and words are separated by seven dots' duration.

When typing or writing Morse code, you would have to use spaces to replicate those separations. Thus, writing ...---... (which, admittedly, the quiz above did as well, and it's wrong there too) is meaningless in Morse code, exactly because it could be parsed out any number of ways. SOS would more properly be written ... --- ..., while 3B would be ...-- -..., VGI would be ...- --. .., IAGI would be .. .- --. .., etc.

I mean, I know people won't really be confused with the clue as it is, because SOS is pretty much the only Morse the general public knows, but to be really accurate there should be more space between those Morse letters.

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Level 92
Apr 15, 2019
@MarlowePI, what you said about spacing is absolutely true for sending letters. However, the distress sequence is always sent without the spacing. This is generally helpful, so if I message my brother in Uruguay "You owe me 350 pesos," he knows it isn't really an emergency.

This no-spacing is generally noted by overscoring, so my original post should have noted that SOS can be written as V7, etc.

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Level 88
Feb 3, 2015
The cow question is incorrect. Cows are generally female cattle. Veal is from calves, not cows.
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Level 71
Aug 17, 2015
When a cow has a baby it is a calf, the meat from a calf is Veal. By the way, a Cow is always a female.
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2018
It's commonly used for any cattle. C.f. mad cow disease
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2019
Okay but "cattle" is plural. What do you call a single, individual "cattle" if you don't know its sex?
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Level 81
Mar 5, 2019
cattle beast
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Level 56
Aug 14, 2020
domesticated bovine?
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Level 84
May 17, 2023
I wish the 'language gurus' would just allow the word cattle to be used as both singular and plural. We already have this situation for other animals; e.g., 'moose' and 'deer,' which are the standard terms for both singular and plural.
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Level 71
Aug 14, 2023
There are no "language gurus", language happens from usage. Be the change! Use "cattle" in the singular.

Malbaby is wrong above, though: a cow isn't always female. A female bovine (or some other animals) is one (or even the primary) definition, but it also refers to just any domesticated bovine, of either sex.

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Level 84
Nov 7, 2019
I use the terms "cow" and "mother-in-law" interchangeably.
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Level 33
Jun 19, 2017
Only knew the 7 stone weakling question thanks to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

'A weakling, weighing 98 pounds, got sand in face when kicked to the ground'.

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Level 66
May 1, 2018
When I saw "cow calf" I was thinking the back of a cow leg. Couldn't figure out what that part was called, like a rump or rib roast.
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Level 65
Feb 2, 2019
+1 me too. need to call it calve or something else.
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Level 87
Mar 31, 2022
me 3. D'oh!
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Level 71
Sep 29, 2018
Why is 'Milometer' ingrained in my memory, I always try that before odometer?
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Level 59
Mar 1, 2019
That's the term used in Britain mostly (certainly what it was called when I was growing up).
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2019
Also from Britain and "odometer" isn't really a word in my vocabulary! I recognise it if I see it but I've never heard it used here.
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Level 72
Apr 28, 2020
Also from Britain, and have always called it "odometer".
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Level 66
Mar 1, 2019
In most of the world is it a kilometermeter?
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Level 67
Mar 1, 2019
mileage counter or kilometric counter could be accepted, no?
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Level 32
Mar 2, 2019
I grew up with it being 'Pickled Peppercorns'
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Level 66
May 2, 2023
Doesn't scan with the extra syllable though
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Level 40
Mar 5, 2019
Hmm, I’ve always called it a milometer - never heard of an odometer
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Level 26
Mar 9, 2019
Took the quiz, failed miserably but was prompted to actually watch "The Hunger Games", didn't like it but vaguely remembered the hero's name, took the quiz again a couple of weeks later, typed in "Katliss Everdeen", failed, typed in "Everdeen", succeeded. Remain cueless about pudding, though...
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Level 51
Apr 14, 2019
Doctors don't generally take the Hippocratic Oath anymore.
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Level 29
Nov 6, 2019
Accept Katnis with one s. When do you see it written in the films?
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Level 90
Apr 28, 2020
Someone turned the films into a series of books.
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Level 59
Dec 30, 2020
someone turned the books into movies

the books came out in 2008 2009 and 2010

and the movies came out in 2012 2013 2014 and 2015

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Level 90
Aug 2, 2021
I hope that by the time you double your level, you learn to spot sarcasm.
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Level 76
Jun 9, 2022
XD
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Level 76
May 16, 2023
The credits? Pretty sure she's listed first.
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Level 59
Dec 30, 2020
omg i love the hunger games as you can probably tell by my username
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Level 20
Feb 5, 2021
I finally did it. After 51 quizzes I have gotten 20/20. A bunch of close calls and it took me right up to the wire with the popularity question but I did it.
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Level 79
Mar 22, 2021
Typed "Beatles" and obviously didn't get the answer and then moved on to try a whole bunch of other options without reading the question properly. Doh.
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Level 79
May 26, 2021
Super surprised only 43% of people knew odometer. I thought that was really common knowledge, even outside of the US. Guess I was mistaken lol.
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Level 64
Jul 7, 2021
You were mistaken. In the UK it's a milometer or mileometer. Odometer sounds like something that measures how much your car smells when you've eaten too many takeaways in it
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2021
pretty sure your manual will say odometer if you still have it
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Level 75
Sep 30, 2021
I put 'peppered pickles'

*face-desk*

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Level 69
Jun 22, 2022
I typed "doctors" but I think it accepted "doctor", so the next question the s was at the beginning of what I typed and it changed the meaning of the word to something I did not intend :)
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Level 77
Dec 20, 2022
Got the badge again! Now I’ll have to keep an eye out for all 100 quizzes!
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Level 76
May 16, 2023
Typo in the third question: "where country"
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Level 77
May 16, 2023
My wife complimented me for not answering the handbag question correctly.
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Level 65
May 16, 2023
I just redid this quiz after the reset. Question 4 appears to have a typo: "Where country did the U.S. blockade...."
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Level ∞
May 16, 2023
Fixed
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Level 68
May 16, 2023
Nice quiz! Could you accept milometer, the British name, as well as odometer please?
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Level ∞
May 17, 2023
Okay
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Level 87
May 16, 2023
It's BIRKIN bag, not Birken. I'm therefore guessing you don't have one. :)
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Level ∞
May 17, 2023
Fixed. And you are correct. I don't own a Birkin bag or other Veblen goods.
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Level 73
Aug 14, 2023
Ooooh, this is such a good trivia question/answer!!
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Level 53
Aug 13, 2023
I think Red Khmer should be accepted for Khmer Rouge, it's a common translation of the group in English.
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Level 62
Aug 14, 2023
Agree. Also, in the Morse code question it would be more accurate to ask what it is in Latin letters, not in English. It is SOS in any language that uses Latin letters.
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Level 68
Mar 21, 2024
I love horse pudding! Yum!
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Level 66
Mar 22, 2024
I generally don't like anyone when they are angry... why would I like someone negative and mean??

Ok an angry kitty could still be cute ( but I would probably feel sad for it, because it would only be angry if something was bothering it) and in sommmee cases maybe a little kid. But only when it remains at grumpy (not agressive) and not for any spoilt reason.

Like when a 2 year old tries to does something (open a door on a spring then turn around to pick something up, turn back and the door is closed again.