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General Knowledge Quiz #91

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What is the name of the pirate flag?
Jolly Roger
In what country are German, French, and Italian all official languages?
Switzerland
What city hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Vancouver
What "wonder drug" was discovered by Alexander Fleming?
Penicillin
If you cross the river Styx, where are you?
Hades
What is Japan's national sport?
Sumo wrestling
Who painted "The Old Guitarist" during his blue period?
Pablo Picasso
Who lived by the sea in a land called Honah Lee?
Puff the Magic Dragon
What plant is used to make opium?
Poppy
Who directed "Beetlejuice" and "Edward Scissorhands"?
Tim Burton
In what religion can you use an e-meter to get "clear" and eventually
become an Operating Thetan?
Scientology
On what river's west bank would you find the West Bank?
River Jordan
In painting, what type of animal is typically used to represent the Holy Ghost?
Dove
What country heats most of its buildings with geothermal energy?
Iceland
What Frankish king was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" on Christmas in 800 AD?
Charlemagne
What actress was on the cover of the first issue of Playboy?
Marilyn Monroe
In musical terms, what is the opposite of forte?
Piano
Who was the most notorious member of the Ba'ath party?
Saddam Hussein
What country contains the peninsula of Attica?
Greece
Who did Delilah betray?
Samson
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Level 28
Mar 11, 2014
if you cross the river styx youre not in hades. hades was the god of the underworld, tartarus would be more appropriate
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Level 92
Mar 11, 2014
No. The underworld, ruled by Hades and also referred to by his name, was where all the dead went. Tartarus was an area within the underworld somewhat analogous to the Christian hell, in that it was a place of suffering for the wicked, but it also was the prison of the Titans.
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Level 82
Mar 11, 2014
what plat's said. The place and its landlord are synonymous.
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Level 19
Mar 11, 2014
It depends on the River Styx if you are talking greek or roman. I thought it would be considered roman and you would wind up in Heresy the sixth circle of hell after crossing Styx in Wrath, the fifth circle. I related it to Inferno of the Divine Comedy.
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Level 44
Mar 11, 2014
The Devine Comedy is just fanfiction.
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Level 82
Aug 20, 2017
@FractalDoom

great succint explanation :D

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Level 73
Jul 7, 2016
For the sake of simplification, you could also call that "Hell" or "Greek Hell", that would be a great way to let people know that they think about the right thing when they try to type it...
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Level 45
Sep 6, 2016
I thought Greek Hell was the European union :0
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Level 82
Aug 20, 2017
No, it's not hell. Everyone's afterlife continued in the Underworld.
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Level 58
Dec 6, 2019
it depends on which side of the river you are crossing
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Level 44
Sep 18, 2023
Tried this but not the obvious Hades!
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Level 63
Mar 11, 2014
I kept reading the question as "What's Japan's official airport" in stead of "sport". I was kicking myself for not being able to remember the other airport in Tokyo other than Narita, now I'm kicking myself for not being able to read.
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Level 56
Sep 5, 2016
Haneda. :-P
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Level 55
Jan 14, 2015
Japan's national sport is baseball.
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Level 73
Sep 5, 2016
Sorry Larry...but Sumo is THE national sport. Baseball might have more fans, but Sumo is considered by the Japanese to be their national sport due it's origins being from Japan and not imported.
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Level 72
Sep 6, 2016
Yup. Just asked around the office. A bunch of Japanese school teachers agree. It is sumo.
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Level 84
Jun 24, 2015
I'm pretty embarrassed that my first thought for who Delilah betrayed was Tom Jones. I got the answer eventually, but it took me a little while!
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Level 67
Dec 6, 2019
Hahaha, got a good laugh out of this, and you're not wrong!
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Level 58
Dec 6, 2019
me too, i was disappointed it was not an optional answer.
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Level 17
Nov 21, 2015
I was embarrassed that I was going to get them wrong but I didn't get them wrong 12 seconds remaining phew. when I do it next time I am not going to think about the answers I will just copy the question and if I was saying baseball then I would of guessed it because I am not japanese
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Level 87
Jul 9, 2016
The Jolly Roger is the most common known pirate flag but not "the pirate flag". There are many pirate flags, just about each pirate ship had its own. That would suggest it is the only flag pirates displayed which is certainly untrue.
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Level 55
May 12, 2017
I thought the Jolly Roger was the name of Captain Hook's ship and the generic pirate flag was the "skull and crossbones."

Also, the underworld in Greek mythology is called Tartarus. Hades is the God of the underworld. As time went on people would say that when you die you get "sent to Hades" and soon the God and his realm were interchangeable.

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Level 59
Apr 19, 2018
Spelling Argh Charlemagne not nge
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Level 91
Aug 11, 2019
Scientology a religion?
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Level 57
Aug 12, 2019
Cult would be more accurate
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Level 29
Dec 6, 2019
Is there an actual difference between religion and cult? Is scientology something different just because they use the innovative approach of a scifi story instead of the widespread fantasy tales?
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Level 68
Oct 11, 2020
Of course there is a difference! The weird stuff I believe in is a religion. The weird stuff you believe in is a cult. Very very different.
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Level 74
Aug 12, 2019
Pyramid scheme more accurate still. Caveat emptor.
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Level 84
Aug 21, 2019
Sadly, their aggressive litigious approach led to them being classified as an official religion in the US in 1993. Ridiculous, as they are able to take advantage of non-profit status for tax purposes. Read a couple books about people who escaped from their clutches and it's compelling and scary stuff.
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Level 75
Dec 6, 2019
Yep, like any other religion - it's ridiculous that any of them are given tax breaks
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Level 67
Dec 6, 2019
There is no difference between Scientology and any other religion except that Scientology is newer.
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Level ∞
Jan 5, 2024
I propose a simple test. Only religions more than 500 years old should be given tax breaks.

If you can stick with it for 500 years with no tax breaks all power to you!

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Level 81
Nov 11, 2019
Why doesn't just 'Hussein' count?
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Level ∞
Nov 11, 2019
It does count.
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Level 47
Dec 6, 2019
There is also a Ba'ath party in Syria, and I would argue that at this point Bashar al-Assad is just as notorious as Saddam
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Level 44
Dec 6, 2019
Exactly. I first tried Assad and when I saw it wasn't accepted, I understood that they meant the Iraqi party.
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Level 61
Dec 6, 2019
It depends where you are when you cross the River Styx. If you're already in Hades when you cross you'd end up in Greece somewhere 🤪
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Level 82
Dec 6, 2019
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave
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Level 61
Dec 7, 2019
Unless you're Odysseus.
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Level 76
Jun 8, 2022
Or Orpheus. Or Heracles. Or Theseus.
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Level 57
Dec 8, 2019
Am amazed Ba'ath party leader is least known answer. How quickly memories fade! (and I should know😙)
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Level 82
Dec 9, 2019
Yeah, it's pretty surprising. Though I wonder if people are trying Assad now.
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Level 65
Jul 6, 2023
Oxymoron "Ba'ath" party
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Level 69
Dec 8, 2019
"most notorious" is very subjective.
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Level 66
Apr 27, 2021
I'm doing the full General Knowledge run and I don't know if it's just some bias of mine but there seem to be a lot of these quizzes where one of the answer is "scientology". * puts on a tinfoil hat *
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Level 37
Mar 14, 2022
Or Marilyn Monroe or Edenezer Scrooge, Right? Although I'm not completely complaining because I always get those answers right at least.
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Level 66
Aug 24, 2022
Crossing the Styx, I tried inferno, purgatorio, and paraiso. None of t hose worked, so I tried Greece and that worked.
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Level 77
May 25, 2023
Jetpunk loves questions about Scientology :)
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Level ∞
Jan 5, 2024
I just searched. There are 4,540 questions in this series.

Of those questions, 5 reference Scientology.