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General Knowledge Quiz #148

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What is the Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye?
Aloha
What food can Bugs Bunny often be seen eating?
Carrots
What is the Taj Mahal made of?
Marble
What fictional character frequently went into telephone booths to change outfits?
Superman
What is both a type of herb and an adjective that means "wise"?
Sage
What mosquito-borne virus is thought to have caused an increase in children
born with microcephaly (small heads)?
Zika Virus
What street did demon barber Sweeney Todd live on?
Fleet
What country is spelled Ελλάδα in its native language?
Greece
What happened to Rome in 64 AD, London in 1666, and Chicago in 1871?
a Fire
Only one word in the English language is a definite article. What is it?
The
In the Bible, what city's walls fell after Joshua blew his trumpets?
Jericho
What type of sugar, found in milk, do many people have trouble digesting?
Lactose
What singer famously wore a dress designed to look like a swan?
Björk
What is the world's northernmost megacity, defined as a metropolitan area
with a population over 10 million?
Moscow
And what is the world's southernmost megacity?
Buenos Aires
What style of art was exemplified by Monet and Renoir?
Impressionism
What prison did Andy Dufresne escape from?
Shawshank
Who became the first black Formula One driver in 2007?
Lewis Hamilton
What is a neonate?
a Newborn
What is the 22nd largest state in the U.S. by land area, but the 11th largest
if water area is included?
Michigan
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Level 56
Jun 27, 2016
Hamilton is mixed, not black. His father is black and his mother is white.
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Level 47
Jun 27, 2016
Almost all black Americans are mixed to some degree. Hamilton exhibits phenotypically black characteristics like his dark skin due to his African ancestry and that makes him black.
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Level 65
Jun 27, 2016
Erm, he's not American?
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Level 64
Jun 27, 2016
Surely the argument is that he's as black as he is white?
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2016
everybody is mixed. And race is a social construct. "black" is a somewhat meaningless and incredibly subjective term.
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Level 47
Jun 27, 2016
@svitapeneela Erm, I didn't say he was? Clearly you missed the point of what I said about black americans.
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Level 55
Jun 27, 2016
^ I see how what you said could be understood to mean he was American, i.e., that he was one of the black Americans you were talking about. I hadn't heard of him before today, so I would have assumed the same from your comment. But I also see now how you were using "black Americans" as an example of a similar group to make a point.
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Level 38
Jun 30, 2016
Yeah Instrumental was just giving an example of how phenotypes are categorized. It's not like we break things down to alleles and genotypes when talking about these things. Although maybe that's how racism will go in the future....
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Level 65
May 11, 2017
Surely it's however Lewis describes himself. Either black or mixed race. Anyone know? Either way, I assume everyone in this thread got the right answer.
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Level 88
Jun 13, 2021
He is black.
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Level 81
Sep 5, 2021
Just like Obama right? ;)
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Level 83
Jun 27, 2016
Is it not 'definite' article, rather than 'definitive'?
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Level ∞
Jun 27, 2016
Fixed
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Level 65
Jun 27, 2016
I missed the Will Smith hit b/c my spelling was too formal.
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Level 88
Jun 27, 2016
Just "zika" alone doesn't work???
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Level ∞
Jun 28, 2016
Zika would have worked
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Level 75
Jun 27, 2016
Would you accept a new nate for neonate?
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Level 43
Jun 28, 2016
tried to spell buenos aries so many ways and still couldnt get it!
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Level 58
Feb 4, 2017
Me, too. I hate knowing an answer but missing it because I couldn't spell it.
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Level 25
Apr 8, 2020
yes, as non-native speaker the correct spelling in English is sometimes a really hard nut to crack, especially all russian names...e.g. Gorbachev = Gorbatschow in German, Gorbatchev in French, Gorbachov in Spanish and Gorbaciov in Italian....
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Level 65
Jun 30, 2021
You still haven't learned, even after being shown the answer. Hint: it's Spanish for "Good Air"
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Level 51
Jul 1, 2016
Huh. Sweeney Todd didn't live on Sesame Street. Now I know.
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Level 86
Jul 28, 2018
Now THAT would have been an interesting crossover.
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Level 89
Jun 13, 2021
I only know it from the most annoying episode of The Office they made.
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Level 81
Mar 2, 2017
I got newborn from guessing Babylon to the fallen walls question. RESULT.
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Level 74
Jun 16, 2017
Racked my brain trying to remember the name of the prison in the Shawshank redemption *facepalm*
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Level 44
Mar 27, 2018
lol I was like the shawshank redemption.. oh um 15 seconds oh duh haha
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Level 39
Jun 14, 2021
Thank u for putting an F1 question Quizmaster!
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Level 60
Jun 28, 2021
Best I’ve ever done on a general knowledge!
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Level 46
Jun 28, 2021
Hello great Quiz as usual however I think the adjective would be 'sagely' not 'sage' which is a noun that means a wise-man or magician.
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Level 88
Jun 28, 2021
Sage is both an adjective and a noun. Sagely is an adverb.
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Level 48
Jun 28, 2021
Me, a Bjork fan, realizing Bjork is the answer to a question: :D

*scrolls down to see which is the least known response* :(

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Level 62
Jun 29, 2021
Dang, I said "burned" instead of "fire".
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Level 56
Feb 3, 2022
Hamilton was first to win an F1 race. Willy Ribbs was first American American F1 driver.