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General Knowledge Quiz #73

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedApril 3, 2013
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What country is famous for its fjords?
Norway
What is the official London residence of the British monarch?
Buckingham Palace
What fluttering objects do vexillologists study?
Flags
Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?
The Bends
What does Santa leave in the stockings of naughty children?
Coal
What was the name of the generation that came of age during WWI, including
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Lost Generation
Off what country's shores would you find the Great Barrier Reef?
Australia
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who appeared in cameos in over two dozen comic book movies?
Stan Lee
What singer's six children are named Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy,
Estere, and Stelle?
Madonna
What movie did the song "A Whole New World" come from?
Aladdin
What weapon does Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle use?
Nunchucks
What country is Saxony a part of?
Germany
According to Greek legend, who opened the box that contained all the world's troubles?
Pandora
What is missing from this group of four: Indiana, Iowa, Illinois?
Idaho
In the equation 9/5 C + 32 = F, what does C stand for?
Celsius
Josip Broz Tito is sometimes called a benevolent dictator. What country did he rule?
Yugoslavia
What did Steve Fossett use to travel around the world in 2002?
Balloon
Starting in Hong Kong and digging directly through the center of the Earth,
in what country would you emerge?
Argentina
What word is the most common synonym of the word "corsair"?
Pirate
buck1017
+2
Level 77
Jun 6, 2013
Finally got 100% on a general knowledge quiz.
arewethereyet421
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Level 14
May 14, 2015
65% ( 13/20)
interopia
+2
Level 85
Jul 21, 2015
only missed Corsair
BlackLab
+3
Level 65
Feb 3, 2019
Thought it was a hair dryer
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Jun 7, 2019
I thought it was a cheesy car.
Froststar101
+2
Level 74
Apr 28, 2021
I kept thinking of Corvair
panscedar
+1
Level 68
Aug 9, 2015
I just finished watching Torchwood. I really should have gotten Argentina.
evacooper
+1
Level 51
Dec 6, 2015
really, why? i havent finished season 4 yet. dont remember any reference but i am taking my time with that show...
cesareandraistlin
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Level 27
Dec 6, 2015
Oh my god, my head was full of Doctor Who and i wrote "Pandorica"...
Arp2600
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Level 86
Jun 5, 2019
A corsair is a privateer, a pirate with a license from a country to attack and loot enemy ships. Not quite a synonym thus.
blizzrd33
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Level 79
Jun 5, 2019
Just depends from whose perspective you look at the pirate.
Arp2600
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Level 86
Jun 9, 2019
Well, they were considered as combatants, and could even be prisoners of war...
fromaj
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Level 70
Jun 8, 2019
and it accepts privateer
Arp2600
+5
Level 86
Jun 9, 2019
That's good, but it should be the main answer ;).
martay
+5
Level 70
Aug 3, 2019
Licensed or not, if a ship appears that then robs you of everything at gunpoint, they're pirates. The aggrieved party would say you're trying to put lipstick on a pig.
YantheMan
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Level 66
Mar 26, 2022
A privateer is really just a legal pirate, like how an "assassin" is a murderer with a specific job. Doesn't change the base thing.
giommaso
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Level 72
Jan 16, 2024
So, the issue for me is to consider them synonyms.

A corsair is a pirate, in some way, but a pirate is not a corsair, and "synonym" means that the two words are interchangeable.

It's like saying that "square" and "rectangle" are synonym. Definitely a square is just a rectangle with all sides with the same length, but one could not use the word to describe any rectangle.

FadKrashmor
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Level 71
Apr 13, 2020
I thought "buccaneer" would be a good answer.
driehoek25
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Level 66
Jan 14, 2024
They are still pirating ships
gerobach
+1
Level 75
Jun 18, 2019
Argentina?!
Djilas
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Level 82
Jul 6, 2019
Benevolent dictator? How many people do you have to kill to become a malevolent dictator?
Dimby
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
I think he's considered benevolent because it was comparatively better than other communist countries and he managed to navigate the waters of European Cold War politics extraordinarily well for his people. He made sure that Yugoslavia didn't become a puppet state for the USSR.
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 68
Aug 2, 2019
Dang, I wrote numchucks.
ahertzy
+1
Level 77
May 14, 2023
can you accept "numchucks"?
dagthegnome
+1
Level 77
Aug 2, 2019
Buckingham is not the monarch's official London residence. That is still St. James's palace.
MUFC7
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Level 69
Aug 2, 2019
No, it isn't. Queen Victoria was the last monarch to reside there.
dagthegnome
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Level 77
Aug 7, 2019
The primary residence is different. St. James' Palace is still the monarch's official London residence, which is how the question is phrased.
Kalleanon
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Level 66
Jul 22, 2021
Wrong. Victoria officially made Buckingham Palace the official London residence in 1837, according to the official web site of the British Royal Family.
eaglesfan6
+3
Level 55
Aug 2, 2019
Nunchuck, singular?
RobNobody
+2
Level 76
Aug 2, 2019
That's just a stick.
determinedtobeatthis
+1
Level 68
Aug 3, 2019
Haha! One of those six names is not like the others...
roleybob
+3
Level 75
Aug 7, 2019
Which are you thinking and why?

To me, each of those 6 names are not like the others...

DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 84
Nov 12, 2019
Buckingham Palace....sounds like the venue for a fancy Pig Rodeo.
redsplat
+2
Level 74
Dec 10, 2019
Yep. Interesting fact: fancy pig rodeo is the collective noun for royals.
Yanni47
+1
Level 77
Mar 16, 2020
With "fluttering objects", I tried all kinds of airborne animals. Had a good laugh when I saw what the answer was.
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 67
Jun 14, 2023
I could have sworn it was butterfly
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 1, 2021
I somehow got Argentina after quite a bit of guessing
Dimby
+3
Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
Did anyone else guess literally every country in the Americas before Argentina?
HappyQuizzer
+2
Level 67
Jan 7, 2023
Yes Hong Kong is further north than I thought
aloepottt
+1
Level 48
Dec 5, 2022
Can you accept heaven for the Hong Kong question?
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 67
Jun 14, 2023
I got Lost.
Chump772
+1
Level 55
Sep 4, 2023
Accept bens without the d?
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