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General Knowledge Quiz #134

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What is the world's most famous outlaw motorcycle club?
Hell's Angels
What material can be "vulcanized"?
Rubber
What girl group had eight #1 hits in the UK between 1996 and 1998?
The Spice Girls
Where would you be most likely to find a Gideons Bible?
In a Hotel
Who is also known as Jove?
Jupiter
What type of books are eligible to receive a Newbery Medal?
Children's Books
What city is known for pastries, coffee, and classical music?
Vienna
What singer has an alter ego named Sasha Fierce?
Beyoncé Knowles
What is played at Roland Garros?
Tennis
What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?
Platypus
Echidna
What does the H stand for in H-Bomb?
Hydrogen
What video game, created by Notch, is the best-selling PC game of all-time?
Minecraft
In the show Doctor Who, what does the Doctor's time machine look like from the outside?
Police Box
What city's catacombs contain the bones of over six million people?
Paris
What ancient city was located near present-day Tunis?
Carthage
What is the names for small mounds of snow on ski hills?
Moguls
What is the name for a system of law based on Islamic texts?
Sharia
What metro area's largest city is Quezon City?
Manila
In Hawaiian legend, what is Pele the goddess of?
Fire / Volcanoes
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Level 92
Jul 6, 2015
So usually the picture is an additional hint, often to the first answer, but this time I'm stymied. Is the biking group in the much-maligned 1%?
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Level ∞
Jul 6, 2015
They are. But it's a different much-maligned 1%.
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Level 84
Jul 10, 2015
1%'ers basically advertise that they operate outside of the law. Most other MCs wear a 99% patch indicating that they are just a law-abiding group of folks that like to ride.
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2015
Clearly you need to watch Beyond the Law.
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Level 67
Nov 29, 2015
What exactly is a Gideon's Bible? I would much rather wait for the Jetpunk community to tell me than to look it up myself, because I am a self-proclaimed lazy sod.
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Level 70
Nov 29, 2015
It's a bible placed by the Gideons (Christian group).
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Level 75
Nov 29, 2015
Gideons International is an evangelical Christian group best known for giving away bibles. They place them in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, prisons, and they give them to college students, military personnel, and veterans.
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Level 67
Nov 29, 2015
Thanks, in the end, all I had to do was ask.
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Level 75
Jul 1, 2016
You knew that many of us here are always happy to show others how smart we think we are.
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Level 88
Aug 6, 2019
And others will always point out it's a bible in the Google Hotel.
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Level 75
Feb 8, 2021
I always used to love reading Gideon's bibles because they have a biblical text (can't remember which book/chapter/verses) translated into dozens of languages at the beginning.

I'd spend ages reading the different languages and looking at the different alphabets...

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Level 61
Feb 12, 2021
I only know thanks to lyrics of "Rocky Raccoon"
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Level 71
Feb 8, 2021
I think it's one of those things that only Americans will know. Anyone who has been in a hotel in America has probably seen one, but I'm guessing they are rare overseas.
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Level 63
Dec 25, 2023
They're not! I've stayed in many hotels around western Europe, and Gideon Bibles are very common.
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Level 77
Nov 29, 2015
Am I the only one who, for the Doctor Who question, first tried "smaller"?
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Level 66
Nov 29, 2015
I am genuinely shocked more people didn't get Minecraft, considering the cultural phenomenon it is.
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Level 75
Nov 29, 2015
Sorry, but I never heard of the game or Notch, but I did know echidna thanks to Millie from the 2000 Olympics.
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Level 83
Sep 19, 2017
I was quite startled that it was the best-selling game. It wasn't high on my list of guesses.
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Level 82
Dec 5, 2017
I just know Minecraft (or WoW etc) exists, never noticed it as a cultural phenomenon, unlike Mario, or LOTR or whatever, that is hard to escape even if you've never watched/played it.
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Level 65
Jul 11, 2023
I am genuinely shocked the answer wasn't pac-man or pong.
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Level 79
Nov 29, 2015
Apparently, Pele is NOT the Hawaiian goddess of football.
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Level 41
Nov 29, 2015
Yeah, i did type in football....
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Level 62
Sep 20, 2018
Me too...!
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Level 92
Nov 30, 2015
See, now I'm trying to create a Football Pantheon to replace the Olympians. Pele's vying for Zeus' spot, Ronaldo for god of beauty, Beckham for god of diving...
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Level 84
Jan 14, 2016
Pele would be the god (not goddess) of football, and he's Brazilian, not Hawaiian.
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Level 75
Jul 1, 2016
There are a lot of do's and don'ts in Hawaii to keep from incurring the wrath (and curse) of Pele. Don't carry home rocks or sand, do give her flowers or gin, don't pick certain flowers, and don't try to take pork across the Pali Highway (it's reminiscent of her old boyfriend who was part man, part pig, and after a bad breakup they agreed to stay on their own sides of the island).
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2021
I typed in "soccer" :)
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Level 77
Jun 26, 2017
Please accept "spiny anteater" as an answer for echidna. They are the same thing.
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Level 65
Jan 11, 2019
For the doctor who I tried smaller first.. surprised that wasnt it, realised they meant the actual thing, so tried: phonebooth phonecell, police booth, police phonebooth etc even phonebox I believe... none of them work... and I believe some of them definately should.
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Level 84
Nov 16, 2020
Phone booth was the obvious one for me that I was surprised didn't work.
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Level 74
Feb 11, 2021
Indeed. Phone booth doesn't work but telephone booth. Perhaps phone booth could be added as a type-in?
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Level 57
Mar 17, 2021
I'm glad I typed telephone booth instead of phone booth. What the hell is a "police box".
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Level 66
Jan 15, 2023
It was like a phone box, but with a direct line to the police station, and coppers could sit in there filling out reports. Used by the police or the general public to call the police station.

Not a thing anymore, obviously.

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Level 65
Jan 11, 2019
And wow jupiter only 19% :o shame on you people

(and yes, expecting a comment now not to shame people just because they didnt know something. And "im sure you dont know stuff others do" but I mean this is not about a popular book or soccerplayer or anything that people 20 years from now will have forgotten. Like I dont know most popular lipgloss...)

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Level 84
May 28, 2019
And how exactly is "Jove" relevant to anything today? And for what it's worth, 90% of people are correctly answering the girl group question, which was more than 20 years ago. So apparently people still do remember.
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Level 66
Feb 8, 2021
I tried "Jay-Z", wasn't sure how his nickname was spelled...
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Level 88
Aug 6, 2019
Yeah, it's about an obscure alternate term for a god no one has worshipped in 1,700 years in a society that vanished off the face of the Earth 1,500 years ago.

Imagine knowing something pertinent to life over that.

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Level 66
Feb 8, 2021
Anyone with a passing interest in space has probably heard of the jovian system, jovian moons or jovian planets. Possibly all three. I'm surprised someone on a quiz site would be mocking people for knowing things.
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Level 77
Feb 8, 2021
Uh... the Romans didn't vanish off the face of the earth. They slowly integrated with other peoples around them, but the people who live in central Italy today are still ethnically similar to the "Romans". Not only that, but it's not like the Roman culture just vanished as soon as they were conquered.
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Level 65
Feb 8, 2021
Pompous berk.
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2021
@sifhraven I can understand your point for many questions on here, but not for the one about "jove". If you do a quick Google search, you get many results, but nothing mentioning anything about Jupiter without doing more digging. So I think 19% is probably a fair representation of how little the general public knows about that word.
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Level 47
Aug 30, 2021
The only knowledge I have of the word "Jove" is an expression my Grandfather comes out with; "By Jove".
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Level 65
Jul 11, 2023
Oh! Thou wishes to feast on the appendage of a humble ovine.

Listen, you freak. We don't all watch Frasier, ok?

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Level 59
Jun 12, 2019
Fun fact: Minecraft is now just the best selling game of all time on all consoles, not just PC.
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Level 63
Oct 1, 2019
It is common knowledge that Gideons' Bibles are mostly found in HOSPITAL bedside tables. Please add this as an also acceptable answer.
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Level 69
Nov 23, 2020
In what country? In the US we have many public hospitals where Bibles would not fly, and I have read there have been all sorts of battles in the UK over them. Hotels, however, tend to be free(r) of such criticism and that’s the only place I’ve seen Gideon’s Bibles in a long time. (And I spend more time in hospitals that I do hotels!)
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2021
Actually in the US, most hospitals do have accessible Bibles as well as a chapel.
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Level 54
Nov 11, 2019
"What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?"

Echidnas are also known as spiny anteaters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna"

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Level 68
Oct 17, 2020
There are actually three mammals that can lay eggs: the platypus, the echidna, and the easter bunny. Next time, please do your research!
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Level 50
Feb 8, 2021
How about "phone booth" for the Dr Who question?
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Level 68
Feb 8, 2021
The motorcycle gang is actually called "Hells Angels" with no apostrophe after Hell.
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Level 57
Feb 8, 2021
Almost typed "soccer" for the last one
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Level 71
Feb 8, 2021
Well, I guess Ferb was wrong about platypuses being the only egg-laying mammals.
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Level 45
Feb 9, 2021
You forgot kiwis lay eggs too.
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Level 24
Mar 24, 2022
But they’re not actually mammals
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Level 57
Mar 17, 2021
Who is Jove... Come on.

Maybe rephrase it to "What Roman god was only known as 'Jove'?"

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Level 73
Oct 9, 2021
Phone booth should be a type in for police box, but do what you want, its your quiz.
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Level 73
Jul 19, 2022
It's actually "Hells Angels", not "Hell's Angels". The Hells Angels are aware of the apostrophe issue. They're sticking with Hells Angels. I wouldn't argue with them about it.
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Level 45
Jun 26, 2023
Should really accept Carthago. It's even the Latin spelling.