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General Knowledge Quiz #119

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What is the most famous anatomy textbook of all time?
Gray's Anatomy
What is the medical name for the windpipe?
Trachea
What gladiator famously led a slave revolt against Rome?
Spartacus
What two-letter mantra is often uttered at yoga studios?
Om
What was the first city to host the Summer Olympics three different times?
London
What toxic fish is called fugu in Japan?
Pufferfish
What country did the U.S. support in its war against Iran in the 1980s?
Iraq
What are Ursa Major, Andromeda, and Crux?
Constellations
What activity are Davos, Aspen, and Whistler famous for?
Skiing
"Sasha" is a nickname for what common male name, starting with A?
Alexander
What does a Cochlear implant help a person do?
Hear
What type of animal can be distinguished from seals by its large front flippers
and the presence of visible ear flaps?
Sea Lion
What is the only element of the periodic table that starts with the letter X?
Xenon
What was the richest country in the world in 1700, due to its lucrative spice trade?
Netherlands
What sea did God part for Moses so that the Israelis could flee Egypt?
Red Sea
What road did Robert Frost take that made all the difference?
The Road Less Traveled
What type of art does the English artist Banksy specialize in?
Graffiti
Who can issue an decree known as a bull?
The Pope
There are 3 countries recognized by JetPunk that are not members of
the United Nations. Name any of the three.
Kosovo | Taiwan |
Vatican City
What book does the phrase "Who is John Galt" come from?
Atlas Shrugged
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Level 92
Feb 27, 2015
Somewhat disappointed to see John Galt so low. A long book, but well worth the read.
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Level 54
Mar 3, 2015
Ewww, gross.
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Level 84
Mar 11, 2015
Books are gross?
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Level 74
Mar 25, 2015
That one is.
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Level 42
May 14, 2015
Never heard of him or his book.
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Level 59
Oct 19, 2017
Ditto
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Level 63
Oct 19, 2017
Atlas Shrugged is a great book if you are right wing conservative and believe poor people get what they deserve. Not for me, thank you.
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2021
Not written by a he. Otherwise, agree with all the grossed out folks. Tiresome book.
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Level 92
May 19, 2016
I'll just say this: If you never try to understand the other point of view, you're sure to never be effective in working with them. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Level 58
Nov 13, 2016
Well named, Plattitude.
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Level 67
Oct 19, 2017
It's also, at least in my view, a pretty bad book on narrative terms. Rand is about as subtle as a sledgehammer with her philosophy, and it just gets in the way of the story. I have read and enjoyed books that espouse views with which I disagree, but the theme should always be an organic outgrowth of a compelling story. The Fountainhead always puts its storytelling second to its merciless bellow that we should be thankful there are rich and powerful people to keep the world moving forward. It's distracting, and it gets tiresome real fast.
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Level ∞
May 7, 2020
Are conservatives the new liberals? It's been a little shocking in the last decade to see liberals calling for suppression of free speech, and openly mocking their working-class inferiors. Meanwhile, it has been conservatives who are more often than not calling for an open expressions of ideas and for sympathy towards the working class. (I'm talking about the intellectual world here, not Trump).

Although this might just be a reaction to my living in Seattle where I'm pretty sure the last Republican died sometime in the 1990s.

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Level 89
May 10, 2020
Funny how it's always people defending turgid and irrelevant 'thinkers' like Ayn Rand or Jordan Peterson who say this. Nobody is obligated to read a 1,000 page screed, just as you're not obliged to wade through Das Kapital to have an opinion on communism.

There are actual libertarian philosophers who are worth reading, like Robert Nozick, but for some reason people fixate on Rand - I suspect because her writing isn't intellectually demanding (owing chiefly to a lack of any intelligent ideas).

We can all challenge ourselves to aim a little higher in our reading.

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Level 74
May 10, 2020
It's amusing that someone would call Ayn Rand irrelevant (turgid, maybe), but ridiculous that same person would call Jordan Peterson irrelevant. Whether you like him or not, Peterson is completely relevant, selling millions of copies of his books and packing audiences worldwide. Many people who don't like him, in my experience, get all their (very biased) information about him via Buzzfeed.
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Level 76
Jul 13, 2020
Cool, just Justin Bieber's album sales make him relevant to music.
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2021
Haha I love it. Jordan Peterson, the Justin Bieber of philosophers. So apt.
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Level 74
Aug 24, 2021
Fun Fact: after a lifetime of denigrating people who relied on Social Security and Medicare, when she needed them she took both. Rand was a bad writer AND a hypocrite.
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Level 63
Oct 19, 2017
If you were recommending one Ayn Rand book, which would it be?
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2017
the fountainhead. granted i've only read two of her books (that and anthem) but i was quite fond of fountainhead.
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Level 61
Jul 13, 2020
Anthem. It's short and has a theme everyone can get behind whether or not they are a fan of Ayn Rand.
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Level 67
Oct 19, 2017
Great if you're a self-absorbed high schooler, I guess. As you get older, you realize that everyone makes huge sacrifices, and stop worshipping the lucky (ie the rich)
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Level 63
Mar 30, 2018
Most successful people, including the rich, make their own luck.
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Level 76
Dec 19, 2018
Most rich people are born rich.
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Level ∞
May 7, 2020
In America, the vast majority of millionaires are self-made. While everyone's wealth is partially dependent on their upbringing, their connections, and society at large, it is simply not true that most rich people inherit their money. I'd highly recommend reading The Millionaire Next Door which is an eye-opening examination of how most rich people got that way. Hint: Doctors, lawyers, and small business people are the vast majority. Try telling a millionaire plumber (and there are many) that they didn't earn their money. She might knock you over the head with her wrench.
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Level 82
May 9, 2020
Well leftist thought goes deeper than that and I don't think in Europe concentrates so much on inheritance. Maybe inherited connections. Like why are some professions valued so much compared to others. Why does a CEO get a bonus when fired and others can't take a sick leave etc. Thanks for suggestion.
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Level 68
Oct 16, 2020
"Millionnaires" is a pretty diverse and thus rather useless category nowadays. A house can easily be worth a million dollars, and it is true that some people achieve that through hard work, but if you own a house that's worth a million and not a lot else, you're a lot closer to the middle class than you are to the actually very rich. What percentage of hundred millionnaires are "self-made"? What percentage of billionnaires (including the apparently very "self-made" Kylie Jenner)? If you inherit a million and end up with a billion, are you "self-made"? I think what's more to the point is that even if you actually start from nothing and end up very rich, nobody does it alone. You're still a product of your upbringing, the system in which you live, the opportunities afforded you by education, infrastructure such as roads and security, inventors and innovators that came before you, and the people who work for you and whose work generates your profits.
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Level 68
Oct 16, 2020
Of course talent, drive and ambition play a role, but I would argue that that role is immensely exaggerated, and for a reason: because it allows those with talent, drive, and ambition, to accaparate absolutely insane sums of money, while others, who are not that different from them, live in abject poverty.
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Level 84
Apr 2, 2019
In my experience, 98% of people who say they hate the John Galt book....have never actually read it.
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Level 85
Mar 16, 2015
less taken?
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Level 73
May 5, 2015
You can't rewrite his poem to fit your preferred answer.
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Level 82
Oct 19, 2017
Good point, although I, too, said less taken. I'm not much of a poem reader.
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Level 46
Apr 21, 2018
When you run a search for "The Road Less Taken" you get a couple of articles and a whole bunch that default to "... Not Taken;" per a search, "The Road Not Taken" first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in August 1915.
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Level 49
May 5, 2015
Considering the poem is called "The Road Not Taken", variations of that should also be accepted.
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Level 88
May 5, 2015
Yes. I tried all variations of not taken and started thinking I had the wrong poem.
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Level 63
Oct 19, 2017
I tried "gone down." No luck.
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Level 67
Oct 19, 2017
But the questions asks which road Frost *took that made all the difference,* not what the name of the poem is. The line is "I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He doesn't take the road not taken. That's why it's...the road not taken.

What's more, the distinction is crucial with this poem because, despite what 90% of people seem to believe, the poem is not about being yourself, but is about resigning yourself to the reality that there are no second chances, and that every decision you make can radically alter the course of your life. It's called "The Road Not Taken" because it's a reflection on choices made and paths not taken, and how they affect every step you take afterward. If you treat the road less traveled (which the speaker takes) and the road not taken (which the speaker doesn't take...obviously) as the same, the poem loses all meaning.

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Level 55
Oct 19, 2017
The line should be included verbatim in the question with quotation marks so the quiz taker knows what the question is looking for.
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Level ∞
May 7, 2020
Added more variations.
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Level 57
May 5, 2015
Obviously that anatomy textbook is not very famous. Only 54%, and in the bottom 5 answers.
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Level 75
May 5, 2015
I was surprised to see it so low, considering the name of the popular US TV show, "Grey's Anatomy" is a play on the medical textbook's name.
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Level 47
Oct 19, 2017
I thought Gray's Anatomy was purely a TV show. Guess I was wrong.
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Level ∞
Aug 22, 2017
So you're saying there's an anatomy textbook that more than 54% of people would know?
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Level 67
Oct 19, 2017
I had the same thought. The fact that 54% of people can identify a single anatomy book is surprising.
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Level 65
May 21, 2020
Most famous and very famous is not the same, at all.

the most famous song of my neighbour would only be known by a few, her direct family and a handfull of people that went to see her perform and can actually stand it (I sometimes flee the house, when my headphones aren't enough to block it out, it sounds like alternating of a cat being murdered and someone trying to make glass burst).

She must have a most popular song but only a few would know it.,

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Level 27
Oct 19, 2017
I tried at least five different variatons of "Sobotta's Atlas", "Sobotta Atlas", "Sobotta Anatomy Atlas", etc. Never knew that Gray's Anatomy was anything other than a TV show.
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Level 62
Oct 20, 2017
I tried Ibn Sina's "Canon of Medicine" first... although that probably isn't strictly speaking about anatomy and nor would it be the most familiar to modern audiences, I suppose.
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Level 63
Mar 30, 2018
I'm not as well informed as most people here, but I've been aware of Gray's (though I thought it was "Grey's") Anatomy. My daughter's an RN and she's married to Dr. Ding-Dong, so maybe that's it.
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Level 75
Jul 14, 2020
The book was written by Henry Gray. The TV character is Meredith Grey.
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Level 75
May 5, 2015
Good quiz. I like a good mix of questions, and the fact that I missed eight means I've learned something new today. Thanks.
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Level 75
Sep 9, 2015
Graffiti isn't a type of art, it just means that it has been created illicitly in a public place. It doesn't even necessarily need to be art.

A better answer for Banksy would be stencilwork, or change the question

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Level 88
May 9, 2020
Vandalism should be an accepted answer.
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Level 76
Jul 13, 2020
vAnDaLiSm
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Level 62
Jul 13, 2020
not vandalism if it actually takes talent.
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Level 68
Oct 16, 2020
Talent is irrelevant. If it's on someone else's property, and you haven't asked that someone for permission, it's pretty much vandalism.
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Level 75
Feb 4, 2021
That doesn't mean it's not art - they are not mutually exclusive
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Level 82
Aug 7, 2021
I thought the answer should be mural.
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Level 66
Jan 15, 2023
Or even Political artwork really
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Level 56
Apr 20, 2023
Any creativity that allows one to express themselves, whether using the medium of food, stage or paint, yes even spray paints is in fact art. Whether is a legally allowed in the place that the art is created is irrelevant...it's still art. And street art can be some of the most creative art I've seen, and as someone who loves to create things through art, I know that I am NOT talented enough to create something nearly as intricate as what graffiti artists can produce. Respect
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Level 95
Jan 31, 2017
Athens has also hosted the games 3 ties (there was a special one hosted there in 1906 to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first modern Olympic games, on top of 1894, and 2004)
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Level 82
May 9, 2020
It was removed from official list (and Chamonix added), so it doesn't count, just like antipopes don't count nowadays as popes
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Level 38
Jul 13, 2020
Also, technically, the question doesn't specify 'modern' olympics, so wouldn't Olympia be a valid answer, as all the ancient olympics were held there?
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Level 72
Jul 14, 2020
Also also, weren't the first olympics held in 1896?
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Level 70
Feb 6, 2017
Technically, the Robert Frost road was not less traveled...
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Level 58
Oct 19, 2017
@jboes99 what do you mean?
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Level 58
Oct 19, 2017
You should accept downhill skiing as I suspect Aspen etc. are that well known for their skiing (cross country) activities.
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Level 65
Oct 22, 2017
I thought banksey was anonymous. If so, how do we know he is English, and not welsh, Irish or Scottish?
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Level 82
May 9, 2020
Left enough clues and it was figured out who it is anyway.
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Level 62
Jul 13, 2020
people think he's a dude named Robin Gunningham, who resides in bristol.
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Level 81
Dec 12, 2017
I couldn't get Sir Davos Seaworth out of my head when I read that question. I kept thinking those were people's names. Facepalm.
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Level 62
Jan 29, 2019
You should allow more for the Robert Frost one, I tried less trodden, less chosen and less taken and didn’t get it it’s difficult to remember it exactly
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Level 28
May 15, 2019
when did andromeda become a constellation instead of a galaxy
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Level 82
May 17, 2019
The Andromeda Galaxy is so called because, from our perspective, it is located in the constellation of Andromeda.
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Level 88
Jul 5, 2019
You should accept "me" or "I did" for Spartacus.
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Level 65
Jul 10, 2023
Nah, it would have been "I am Spartacus".
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Level 51
Apr 6, 2020
Is "Gray's Anatomy" really that famous? Outside the English-speaking world, the book is hardly known (though there seems to be a TV series with a similar name).
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Level 65
May 23, 2020
I had never heard of it either and only vaguely aware that there is a tv show called that. I know it is about doctors, that's it. Only recently found out it was named after the book, very likely from this website. (only place I am on the internet for nowadays, and subsequently sometimes finding out more about a subject)
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Level 83
Jun 22, 2020
English-speaking world? More like the USA
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Level 61
Jul 13, 2020
Yep. Very famous in the US and on US web sites.
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Level 72
May 19, 2020
I don't dispute allowing it - it was the answer I gave - but surely 'The Road Not Taken' must be the most incorrect type-in on Jetpunk? Made me laugh anyway.
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Level 75
Jul 14, 2020
Why? It's the name of the poem, so it doesn't seem an unreasonable answer to me.
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Level 72
Jul 27, 2020
Because if Robert Frost took 'The Road Not Taken', then it wouldn't really be 'The Road Not Taken', would it? (As I say, I'm not disputing it being allowed, just thought it was quite funny).
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Level 76
Jul 13, 2020
No need to change the question. But the location the writer(s) of Exodus meant by 'Yam Suph', the body of water crossed by Moses, is not certain. The identification with the Red Sea is only traditional.
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Level 64
Jul 13, 2020
In other words Netherlands was the richest country in the world because they pillaged and oppressed African and Asian countries while destroying their economies and way of life, just like the UK, France, Portugal, and Spain did.
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Level 61
Jul 14, 2020
yep. That's how winners do it.
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Level 68
Oct 16, 2020
Watch out, Quizmaster is going to tell you that a country's wealth is "self-made"!
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Level 65
Jul 13, 2020
I feel like that preview pic was intentionally cropped to look like a different type of "organ" other than the heart.
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Level 88
Dec 2, 2020
It made me do a double take...;)
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Level 72
Jul 14, 2020
Just wondering: why do you give the S in the constellations answer? Seems unnecessary...
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Level 75
Jul 17, 2020
How on earth did we get Sasha from Alexander???
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2021
It's a little clearer with the spelling Aleksander, which is another transliteration of the name. Get rid of everything except the stressed syllable ("sa") and add "sha," which is a diminutive suffix in Russian. Voilà, Sasha. Speaking of which, Quizmaster please add "Aleksander" as an accepted type-in :)
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Level 41
May 25, 2023
In Russian, at some point form "Aleksasha" existed, which is a necessary middle step
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Level 66
Jan 15, 2023
I read the Iran question as Iraq, and I was confused that Iran wasn't working as an answer... I eventually tried Oman, which got me another answer lol, but never realised my original mix-up!..
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Level 56
Apr 20, 2023
Larynx should also be accepted for "trachea"
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Level 62
Nov 17, 2023
Hmm, need more type-ins? I tried pretty much every variation except the right one.

mm, um, hm, im, ym, nm, mn, etc, etc.