General Knowledge Quiz #58

Can you answer these random trivia questions?

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First submitted	September 11, 2012
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Question	Answer
A snake is a reptile. What is a frog?	An amphibian
What pop group had its first hit in 1996 with the song "Wannabe"?	The Spice Girls
What organ is responsible for filtering toxins such as alcohol?	Liver
What type of animal is Winnie the Pooh's friend Eeyore?	Donkey
Most of the active holders of this world record will die within 1 year. What is it?	Oldest person
Which of Santa's reindeer has a name that starts with V?	Vixen
What style of embroidery uses a pattern of small X-shaped stitches?	Cross stitch
What is the largest chain of grocery stores in the UK?	Tesco
What bird was the first animal whose extinction was observed by humans as it happened?	Dodo
In what country would you find the city of Timbuktu?	Mali
What doesn't the Sargasso Sea have which nearly every other sea does have?	A shoreline
What are Assam and Ceylon?	Types of tea
What was the name of the volleyball in the movie "Cast Away"?	Wilson
What country does Heineken beer come from?	Netherlands
What ethnic group controls an autonomous region of northeastern Iraq?	Kurds
In what activity were Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer world champions?	Chess
What hormone do diabetics suffer a deficiency of?	Insulin
What story does the phrase "Bah Humbug" come from?	A Christmas Carol
The United Nations has six official languages. Five of them are Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. What is the sixth?	Arabic
What did physicist Stephen Hawking write a "brief history" of in 1988?	Time

Level 59

Dec 6, 2012

I love Tesco!! I used to stop in there all the time for sandwich wraps when I lived in the UK.

+28

Level 83

Feb 17, 2019

As a Brit, it's weird seeing someone get so excited about Tesco.

+12

Level 82

Apr 19, 2019

I feel the same way when my foreigner friends go the US and tell me about the great time they had at WalMart

Level 75

Apr 20, 2019

I'm American but I live in the boonies and I get excited about going to Walmart - and McDonald's, and Sonic, and Walgreen's, and...

Level 73

Mar 6, 2021

Time to move.

Level 67

Jun 12, 2023

The small Tescos are OK if you're a tourist, which I was, but I wouldn't want to regularly use the larger stores. Waitrose is much is nicer, you get treated with respect there.

Level 79

Jun 14, 2023

or disdain, depending on what you look like.

Level 56

Mar 24, 2024

this is just plain weird seeing as Tesco has had shops in Ireland since last century.

Definitely nothing to write home about.

Level 83

Mar 30, 2024

Could be that Irish41 is one of those Americans who think they're Irish.

Level 91

Dec 6, 2012

Ouch. I finally know what it feels like to be on the other side of the "this quiz is too America-centric" argument. I had absolutely no chance of getting (or even taking a guess at) the UK grocery store. Oh well, 19/20 ain't bad.

Level 72

Dec 6, 2012

I remembered it was a short "t" word with an 'o' from just being in London for a couple days. Couldn't get Tesoro out of my mind, though. So close. Agree that it's not "general knowledge." Great trivia, though!

Level 25

Dec 7, 2012

I'm from the UK and Tesco wasn't my first answer, I thought it was Asda!

Level 68

Jun 4, 2023

I also guessed Asda

Level 77

Jun 5, 2023

I guessed Sainsbury

+15

Level 25

Dec 7, 2012

It's not any less general knowledge than similar USA based questions that regularly appear in these quizzes though.

Level 27

Jun 13, 2016

Tesco is present in a bunch of countries, not only in the UK.

What's funny is that I'm so used to the site being US-centric that I typed "walmart" twice before reading the question again. I wouldn't even know Walmart if it wasn't for this site :D

Level 68

Apr 1, 2017

Hey, I typed in Coles. Then I realise that's Australia...

Level 59

Apr 6, 2018

Asda is a WalMart company.

Level 67

Apr 10, 2024

not originally though, only recently, the company existed 50 years already before it was acquired by walmart,

Level 74

Apr 10, 2019

but walmart is one of the most famous and rich retailers in the WORLD

Level 82

Mar 22, 2021

I've shopped at Tesco locations in Saudi Arabia and Romania before, I'm sure, probably among other places. Both Tesco and Wal*Mart are entirely valid questions on a general knowledge quiz.

Level 61

Dec 6, 2012

I have discovered that my geography isn't as good as I thought- I was trying to fit Timbuktu onto the wrong continent! Ooops.

Other than that not to bad.

Level 44

Feb 8, 2015

i thought it was in India... LOL Fail on my part.. I had a brain fart

Level 69

Mar 5, 2016

I had Africa at least, but I was *sure* it was way further to the north, like in Libya or Morocco.

Level 61

Aug 13, 2018

Same here. I typed practically every nation north of Mali before getting to it.

Level 35

Dec 17, 2012

15/20.

Level 27

Mar 4, 2013

i would never of thought of TESCO?!?! maybe ASDA or Morrisons

Level 32

May 11, 2015

Tesco is by far the largest, followed by Sainsburys, then Morrisons and Asda...

Level 59

Apr 6, 2018

what happened to Lidl?

Level 82

Mar 24, 2020

As a non-Brit, Tesco was definitely my first guess. I don't even remember seeing Morrisons or Asda while in the UK. If Tesco hadn't worked, I'd have tried Sainsbury's then would be out of guesses.

I looked it up, out of interest, and 2018 market share of the top 5 was:

1. Tesco - 27.4

2. Sainsbury's - 15.4

3. ASDA - 15.3

4. Morrison's - 10.3

5. Aldi - 7.6

Frankly I am surprised ASDA is so close to Sainsbury's, as I'm fairly sure I've never seen or heard of them, but perhaps I have and am just forgetting.

Level 73

Mar 6, 2021

I guessed Sainsbury first. Realized it had to be Tesco when that wasn't right. Not a Brit but I used to spend a lot of time in London. Sure miss those days.

Level 64

Dec 1, 2021

You might not have noticed Asda as much because Sainsburys and Tesco do "local" shops which are smaller shops on the high street selling their products. Asda don't do those as far as I know so unless you live near one of their big supermarkets you probably won't see them most of the time (same for Morrisons and Aldi).

Level 91

Feb 27, 2015

I was really, really hoping that 'stuffed' would work for Eeyore.

Level 82

May 11, 2015

I stayed at the Waldorf Astoria last time I was in New York but missed that question...

Level 43

May 11, 2015

I tried 'former provinces of British India' for Assam and Ceylon...my bad

Level 66

May 29, 2020

Yep, British Ceylon was never part of British India.

Level 83

Mar 10, 2017

Technically only type 1 diabetics have an insulin deficiency, type 2 diabetics have plenty of it but they're insensitive to it so it doesn't really help

Level 53

Apr 15, 2021

This is true, and the question ought to be changed to reflect that.

Level 67

Jun 4, 2019

struggle that Wilson is more known than the answers that scored less

Level 77

Apr 18, 2021

Let's see... Viper? Uh... Vapid? I give up... Vixen? That's actually kind of weird.

Level 62

Jun 18, 2021

Hmm, 98% knew the alcohol-related question and only 46% the tea question. Should one be worried?

Level 67

Jul 30, 2021

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Level 74

Jun 3, 2023

Could you maybe accent "land border" or something? I tried a few different things but couldn't come up with shoreline.

Also, what about "oldest alive" or "old age" or something? I tried things like that too.

Thanks

Level 78

Jun 3, 2023

I had the same problem.

Level ∞

Jun 3, 2023

Yes, added more type-ins!

Level 95

Jun 8, 2023

Yesssss, same here - I tried land, border, surrounding countries. IDK why I couldn't think of coast, beach or shore.

Level 65

Jun 3, 2023

For the Sargasso Sea question I tried "land," "beaches," "edges," and then I gave up.

Level 74

Jun 3, 2023

Same. I tried almost those exact same terms, as well as others. Also, Bermuda borders the western part of the Sargasso, and Bermuda is almost nothing but shoreline; so, I'm not certain the question or the answer are quite accurate.

Level ∞

Jun 4, 2023

Beach will work now. I also added land boundary as a type-in. However, land and edge aren't correct. The Sargasso Sea does have an edge, and no seas have land.

The currently accepted type-ins are shore, coast, beach, land border, land boundary, and land boundaries.

Level 88

Jun 4, 2023

Beaches? Land? Land boundaries? I never did get shoreline...

Level 68

Jun 4, 2023

Got 9/20.

Level 84

Jun 4, 2023

How was the extinction of the dodo "observed as it happened"? No one realized that it was going extinct. No one noticed that it had gone extinct. Some people thought it was a myth that it had ever existed! The dodo was discovered while Mauritius was uninhabited, and disappeared unnoticed, probably finished off by invasive species while there were no humans on the island.

I thought you were referring to the well-known story of the passenger pigeon, which went extinct before the world's eyes. There were 3 to 5 billion of them, and they were rapidly hunted to extinction between 1870 and 1890. The last wild pigeon was shot in 1900, and the last captive died in 1914. That extinction was observed as it happened. The extinction of the dodo was not.

Level 69

Jun 6, 2023

Wait aren't there islands on Sargasso Sea? That would give it a shoreline, or am I miss-interpreting something?

Since shorelines is just defined as: "the line along which a large body of water meets the land", so shorelines with islands should also count?

Level 79

Jun 14, 2023

Yes, isn't Bermuda technically in the sargasso Sea?

Maybe the answer should be more specifically "a land boundary'?

What do you think QM?

Level 79

Jun 14, 2023

Also, do not accept Holland.

Level 79

Oct 1, 2023

I tried 'Away' for the volleyball question.

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