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Crowd-Sourced General Knowledge #12

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Last updated: January 23, 2019
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What type of mustard is named after a city in France?
Dijon
What disease is abbreviated TB?
Tuberculosis
What country does feta cheese come from?
Greece
What type of creature was never known to have more than 750 legs until ones
with over 1000 legs were discovered in 2021?
Millipede
Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion
What Belgian city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1920?
Antwerp
Muhammad was born in Mecca. Where did he die?
Medina
What 39 year old became, in 2017, the youngest person ever to be elected
President of France?
Emmanuel Macron
Where would you find the medulla oblongata?
In the brain stem
Who wrote the "Goldberg Variations" and the "Brandenburg Concertos"?
J. S. Bach
What company's mascot is a man who is made of tires?
Michelin
What real-life person was the subject of the movie "The Theory of Everything"?
Stephen Hawking
What is the only state in New England that doesn't border the ocean?
Vermont
What was the name of the American plan to rebuild Europe following WWII?
Marshall Plan
Who was the POTUS in the year 1999?
Bill Clinton
Who won Academy Awards for portraying a disabled Irishman, a violent
oil baron, and an American President?
Daniel Day-Lewis
What Orwellian reality show has aired over 500 seasons in more than
60 different countries?
Big Brother
What country is sometimes referred to as a "province of China" by the United Nations?
Taiwan
What animal's German name, Nacktschnecke, means literally "naked snail"?
Slug
What "Mr. Tambourine Man" singer was the first musician ever to be awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature?
Bob Dylan
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Level 51
Feb 1, 2018
Aced it with 2:24 remaining. A fun quiz.
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Level 60
Feb 1, 2018
Big Brother aires as Bigg boss in India.
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Level 75
Feb 1, 2018
Too easy
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Level 57
Feb 1, 2018
Rabindranath Tagore. 1913. Dylan was 2nd.
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Level 72
Aug 6, 2019
Cool! I had never heard of him but just read the wikipedia article on him. He's definitely a musician who won the nobel prize in literature, he also wrote stories though, so I wonder if the prize was given to him because of his literary writing and not because of his musical writing. The article didn't seem to say either way, but that could be a reason why he wouldn't count for this question.
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Level 49
Feb 2, 2018
Liked this
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Level 57
Aug 4, 2019
Accept hindbrain for the medulla question??
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Level 43
Aug 4, 2019
Funky cold medina
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Level 56
Aug 4, 2019
Macron has stepchildren older than himself. Just thought I might add this here.
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Level 35
Aug 4, 2019
extremely french
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Level 82
Aug 4, 2019
Saw an interesting documentary recently suggesting that Muhammad may have been born in Petra, not Mecca. Made a pretty good case, IMO.
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Level 65
Aug 4, 2019
No Robert Zimmerman for the Poet Laureate?
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Level 41
Apr 12, 2020
I got Bach trying to type in "The Bachelor".
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Level 59
Oct 2, 2022
and along came the Michelin man
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Level 71
Dec 28, 2023
Nunc est bibendum.
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Level 59
Feb 23, 2023
a millipede with 1000 legs has been found. It's even in the JetPunk facts.
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Level 59
Feb 23, 2023
Therefore the quiz must be updated.
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Level ∞
May 22, 2023
Updated!