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General Knowledge Quiz #85

Answer these random trivia questions.
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First submittedSeptember 21, 2013
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Answer
What South American city has the best-known Carnival celebration?
Rio de Janeiro
What type of factory do Oompa Loompas work in?
Chocolate
What is the strongest bone in the human body?
Femur
What would you find in a menagerie?
Animals
What Japanese food is slices of raw fish, without rice?
Sashimi
What is another name for Ireland's Great Famine?
Irish Potato Famine
What sport can you practice at a driving range?
Golf
What symbolized God's covenant with Noah?
Rainbow
What medical board game features body parts such as "Charley Horse" and "Spare Ribs"?
Operation
In the original Nintendo Entertainment System, what game often came on the
same cartridge as Super Mario Bros?
Duck Hunt or
Track & Field
What is the term for a set of three movies or novels?
Trilogy
What TV chef co-authored "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"?
Julia Child
In terms of sleep, what does REM stand for?
Rapid Eye Movement
What military skill were men between the ages of seventeen and sixty required by law
to practice in England in the 1500s?
Archery
What is the name for a room where military personnel eat?
Mess Hall
Anemia can be caused by a deficiency of what dietary mineral?
Iron
What brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves?
Trombone
In what country was papyrus invented?
Egypt
What did the titan Saturn do to his children?
He devoured them
Advanced question warning! Writing out numbers using Roman numerals,
which number is alphabetically last?
XXXVIII
OldSailor
+1
Level 90
Dec 10, 2013
Typically sailors eat in a mess, but ships do not have rooms, they have spaces. Soldiers have rooms in their buildings, but they eat in chow halls. Considering how bad civilians usually butcher military terminology, this is pretty good!
nettybet
+17
Level 75
Dec 10, 2013
Soldiers eat in mess halls - at least in Britain.
choosegoose
+10
Level 43
Mar 28, 2014
And Australia
SuperAhmedMan
+5
Level 65
Oct 25, 2019
And USA
DKCtheSecond
+3
Level 50
Jan 11, 2021
Sailors eat in the galley, soldiers eat in the mess hall.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 56
Mar 14, 2024
A galley is the kitchen on a ship or aircraft
RAFhatter
+2
Level 50
Jun 15, 2021
in the uk sailors eat in the Galley. Soldiers and Airmen eat in the mess. Colloquially, soldiers often refer to it as the cookhouse.
richiesyxx
+3
Level 72
Feb 3, 2022
Surely the food is cooked in the galley, not eaten?
tiben1
+5
Level 58
Dec 26, 2013
It wasn't just chocolate at Wonka's, candy factory should be accepted.
Riddlerontheroof
+33
Level 12
Jul 28, 2014
It's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory not Charlie and the Candy Factory
hirsutebodkin
+3
Level 58
Oct 25, 2019
It's still a chocolate factory
TheCrusher
+15
Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
Fun fact: everything that comes after a question mark in a URL can be removed without compromising its validity. And it is far more enjoyable to the eye. :)
Nachtschicht
+2
Level 58
Apr 9, 2024
"Everything that comes after a question mark in a URL" are parameters which can mean all sorts of things. They often decide, what content you see on the site, so, if you dont want to see the startpage or an error page, you should leave them in the link.
tom88
+7
Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
That depends on what the info after the question mark is, in many cases it may not matter, but it's often used for things like anchoring to a specific point on the webpage or sending querying information so it's very possible to get some undesired behaviour if your just removing all of the url params without knowing what they are.
Sifhraven
+6
Level 67
Apr 4, 2020
Or just make it a link like this, just use basic html code. This link goes to the same site

it is not hard, never used it before this site (usually there are buttons that do it for you ;)) but in a couples of minutes you ve learned how to link, underline, make italic, or bold or small and makes paragraphs (so you don't have massive blocks of texts which are unpleasant to read) and other stuff.

Sifhraven
+4
Level 67
Apr 4, 2020
For those not wanting to look it up, what I did is <.a href = here I put the long link I copied from the original comment> here you type what you want to call the link, and you end with <./a> Without the . points/dots/periods

so in short <.a href=link>name you want<./a> again without the dots.

FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Dec 2, 2021
Technically but it should be consistent with the actual title, which is chocolate
Stauf00
+3
Level 53
Jul 10, 2015
It's also referred to as a Chow Hall (US Army Vet)
quizwhizz
+4
Level 67
May 23, 2016
I thought the woman in the carnival picture was Beyoncé lol..
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Dec 2, 2021
low key same
Sulps
+6
Level 56
May 23, 2016
And then there's me telling numbers and numerals apart which caused me to wonder why "X" and "V" do not work.
SMFlex
+2
Level 51
Feb 5, 2024
I started with that, but then realized it was wrong and just typed the most x’s, then the highest number I could, which got me to the right answer.
JoeCrouchMMA
+3
Level 60
May 23, 2016
Some of the comments here are just hilarious. Great quiz btw
DeusCaritasEst
+5
Level 55
May 23, 2016
I know. I almost always look over the comments after I finish the quiz because they're usually either informative, amusing, or confusing.
matt78
+5
Level 34
May 23, 2016
It took me a little while to figure out the roman numerals question. Great question. Kudos to those who got it correct.
ander217
+6
Level 75
May 26, 2016
I love any question which makes me think - especially when I finally get the answer before time's up.
Swanbabe
+1
Level 38
Dec 12, 2016
Wtf is with the menagerie answer though. I tried birds, exotic birds, rare birds... i think i did exotic animals, but i didn't think to just go animals. I think that's the second time that's got me!
hirsutebodkin
+1
Level 58
Oct 25, 2019
you'll be thinking of an aviary
JoeyTheSeal
+1
Level 12
Feb 5, 2017
I actually really enjoyed the advanced question! It made sense when you think about it...

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Npredella
+2
Level 48
Jul 6, 2017
Thirty-eight should be accepted as write-in for XXXVIII imo
spoonpilot
+1
Level 40
Feb 27, 2019
agree 38 should be accepted, or at least make it plainer that the answer is required to be given in roman numerals
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 9, 2019
Okay, 38 will work
TenThousand
+2
Level 76
Jul 10, 2019
Despite the "advanced question" warning, cool to see that 60% are getting the roman numeral question.
tralalalalala
+1
Level 47
May 6, 2018
The question was excellent. It made me think a lot.
oweifdhskxn
+2
Level 34
Jul 25, 2018
...still don't understand why it isn't xxxix...
DENCRO
+9
Level 50
Aug 17, 2018
We all hope you're joking. For your sake, not ours.
Scodge
+1
Level 67
Apr 14, 2024
Sometimes I forget that people are this unnecessarily rude. What's the point?
RobNobody
+2
Level 77
Jun 11, 2023
Because "V" comes after "I" in the alphabet.
KTo288
+11
Level 47
May 16, 2019
typed in Australia, thought I'd spelt it wrong, so typed it in again a couple of different ways. Looks at question again and see that it wants to know where papyrus originally come from and not the platypus.
xplosiv9
+1
Level 56
Oct 29, 2019
hahaha especially since it asked where it was invented
PapaFurchetta
+2
Level 91
May 6, 2021
I had a similar issue with the question regarding what you would find in a menagerie. I read "meringue" instead of "menagerie." I was typing in eggs, sugar, etc.
WanderingWalrus
+4
Level 78
Jul 9, 2019
Technically men in England are still required to practice archery. The law was never repealed. The law stipulates that the practice must be for at least two hours and under the supervision of the local curate
OfficerDibble
+6
Level 80
Jul 10, 2019
Huh. I do not know my local curate (if there is one), and now I feel I'd better avoid him. I have a lot of catching up to do.
PitifulExcuse
+2
Level 56
Mar 14, 2024
Sadly not true. Seems the law was repealed in the 19th century and in case there was any doubt a further law tidying things up in the 60s made it absolute.

A quick search on the internet will give you all the gory details.

mschiesser
+2
Level 91
Jul 9, 2019
Iron is a metallic element, not a mineral.
Berney
+1
Level 80
Jul 11, 2019
Metals can be minerals - the typical classification of a mineral is that it should be possible to find it naturally in native form. Native (Telluric) iron can be found on earth, almost exclusively in Greenland.
POOCH
+2
Level 72
Jul 11, 2019
If it's not animal or vegetable...
roleybob
+4
Level 75
Jul 25, 2019
This has come up in other quizzes before - for a long while in ancient Rome, writing 40 as XXXX and 9 as VIIII was perfectly acceptable so XXXXVIIII should be accepted, if not the only answer. I have a photo or two of architectural engravings on buildings in Rome showing these longer forms
Walacama
+2
Level 81
Oct 25, 2019
I know it was originally IIII and VIIII, but I've never heard of the XXXX. By the time I realized the answer to the question I ran out of time, but I wouldn't have used the long form. Great question though. (Edit) The wonders of the internet, and wasting most of my morning instead of doing work, I see IIII, XXXX, CCCC, XXIIII, LXXIIII, CCCCLXXXX, VIIII, LXXXX, and DCCCC were also used. Okay, no more rabbit holes today. Seriously.
Moos1005
+1
Level 84
Mar 23, 2021
The issue is that there generally weren't strict rules in Roman times on how to write the numbers. The question should just clarify that it talks about the modern convention.
Dimby
+1
Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
We also didn't use to have the concept of zero. Doesn't mean that our quizzes have to reflect that.
kaderschaufel
+3
Level 71
Aug 30, 2019
Accept thigh bone for femur?
supermusic
+1
Level 69
Oct 28, 2019
Agreed!
interopia
+2
Level 85
Oct 25, 2019
Hmm... looks like Mario Brothers was actually the advanced question!
Tolp
+1
Level 53
Feb 20, 2024
In Sweden it wasnt any of those, here it was the game Ice Climber
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Oct 25, 2019
I thought you could practise motor racing at a DRIVING range because motor racing involves DRIVING.
tom88
+1
Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
That would be a racetrack, but it's a fair mistake, english can be pretty dumb. like how we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway. The term driving range comes from a golfer driving the ball (taking a long shot with a club that has a large head)
TheCrusher
+1
Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
Surprised by the low percentage of the NES question. Everybody had one in the late 80s! And that orange gun was pretty iconic. I remember the springy sound it made when you pulled the trigger...
Walacama
+1
Level 81
Oct 25, 2019
Mine was not orange, it was gray and white. I forget when they changed it to orange.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Apr 4, 2020
I was around in the late 80s, but never had one. I did have a commodore 64 in the early 90s though. With games on cassete ;)
brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Apr 9, 2024
Probably a higher percentage of quiz takers than you think weren't even around in the 80s.
Carry
+1
Level 63
Nov 25, 2019
Oh wow, I would've never gotten that. Operation is called Dr. Bibber (something like Dr. Shiver) where I live.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Apr 4, 2020
Yup could not think of the english version, I assumed it was also dr something (to do with shaking)
Pookminstamum
+1
Level 65
May 27, 2023
'You're the Doctor, collecting all the pay!'
Dylanplex
+1
Level 95
Mar 20, 2020
I finally got more than just 14 on my first try this time. I got 18!
olit
+2
Level 38
May 2, 2020
I think the Roman numerals question needs some clarification. Maybe you could specify that you mean 'which one-word number'? Personally I was thinking surely it's just an infinite stream of Xs - but maybe that was just me being stupid so I apologise if so!
pieceofcheese87
+2
Level 21
Sep 12, 2021
Roman numerals don't work like that, after 30 (XXX), it becomes 40 (XL) as opposed to XXXX. Hence, you can't have a stream of X's at the start of a number longer than 3.
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Oct 11, 2020
Sashimi is actually not necessarily fish. I've had some delicious horse sashimi in Tokyo!
Algernon
+2
Level 72
Mar 30, 2021
Bleeping hell, that one is miles tougher than the rest. I’ve done all but a handful of the quizzes in this series (great series BTW QM) and I scored 4 less in this one than in any other.

Julia Child is a US tv personality who never made it across the pond. That question is all but impossible for those of us who aren’t American and are under a certain age.

For the Saturn question, is “killed them” not enough? Do we need to specifically state the answer?

blizzrd33
+3
Level 79
Apr 26, 2021
Agree on Julia Child, never heard of her from in Australia.
Dimby
+4
Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
He didn't kill them. They were alive all along and sprang forth after he was killed.
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Jan 27, 2022
Julia Child lived for years, and learned to cook, in France. She was the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to France.

So, as is usually the case with the "How could someone from ____ know the answer to a question about____" you are quite simply wrong.

CMC315
+1
Level 59
Dec 6, 2022
Julia Child never made it across the pond?? What? Might want to research that a bit.
Gorpik
+1
Level 35
Apr 25, 2024
I made a mistake and thought a menagerie held children. Started typing CHILD... and boom, correct answer elsewhere :)
Zenelle
+2
Level 48
Jun 25, 2021
Mario and Duck Hunt were my first ever games, back in the day :)
Liam315
+3
Level 69
Aug 9, 2021
I realise that if you google "strongest human bone," femur will come up, but that's a really tenuous fact, since strength could be measured by different metrics. Temporal bones or mandible could just as easily be the answer, and the neck of the femur in particular is pretty susceptible to fractures especially as people get older. An old lady's neck of femur is waaaaay less strong than her jaw or skull.
CMC315
+2
Level 59
Dec 6, 2022
I don't understand the roman numeral question at all.
partdavid
+2
Level 71
Apr 9, 2024
Roman numerals are written with the letters I, V, X, like this (for the numbers 1-10): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X. That's numerical: if you take those strings of letters and put them in alphabetical order, it's I, II, III, IV, IX, V, VII, VIII--see how the IX is in a different place because it's alphabetically before V?

Extending the logic, and being aware of the fact that Y and Z are not used in roman numerals, it's clear that the last roman numeral alphabetically must start with X; in fact, it must be the number that starts with the maximum number of Xs. So it's got to be thirty-something, because any number greater than thirty (up to infinity or, the maximum value expressable in roman numerals) doesn't start with enough Xs. From there you can figure out which number in the thirties is alphabetically last (XXXVIII).

Ampersandwich
+1
Level 45
Sep 18, 2023
Why is it Thirty Eight for the Roman numerals and not Twenty Two?
InterAlia
+1
Level 75
Apr 7, 2024
Write those out in Roman numerals and then alphabetize them. Then the answer becomes clear
Nyackjohn
+1
Level 78
Oct 31, 2023
For that matter, why isn't Thirty Three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty Eight not correct or Thirty Three Trillion Three Thousand Thirty Eight correct? Let alone Thirty SIX which ends on an "X"? I am tragically baffled by the wording - or frankly, NON-wording of this question. And I was a member of Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Fraternity, but don't get exactly what's looked for.

Yes, a numeral starting with T will be the last letter in the alphabet when listed alphabetically by first letter, so that leaves only the Thirties and Three (since we don't start a number with "thousand or trillion" without a designated amount of that before the word) from there I need more information - alphabetically HOW? Why doesn't Thirty Six, which begins with T and ends with X come alphabetically AFTER Thirty Eight?

Scorebeater
+1
Level 68
Feb 12, 2024
The question explicitly said “Roman numerals”! Also, the Romans didn’t use numerals after the number 3999.
kuteva
+1
Level 44
Nov 9, 2023
"Slide trombone" should be accepted.
leontodon
+1
Level 64
Dec 23, 2023
Accept "bow" and "longbow" for "archery"?
Scorebeater
+1
Level 68
Feb 12, 2024
For Saturn’s children, I put in “eat” as a joke…
jpearson535
+1
Level 67
Apr 7, 2024
Argh! I thought the advanced answer was two because, of course, that's last in English, and then wrote II, which didn't work. I realized my mistake the moment the quiz ended.
orange3472
+1
Level 54
Apr 9, 2024
My first thought was there is no Roman numeral for zero...so then I tried II, 2 and two, and when that didn't work, I thought I must be going crazy lol
Chronikhiles
+1
Level 49
Apr 11, 2024
I get the sense the Nintendo question wasn't GK in the least.
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