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General Knowledge Quiz #149

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
Some questions from Kestrana and one from Quizzer6794
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What is the tallest type of land animal?
Giraffe
What famous London serial killer killed at least 5 people in 1888?
Jack the Ripper
What city is spelled Москва in its native language?
Moscow
What was Jesus's crown made of?
Thorns
What group of people drove a 1959 Cadillac hearse with license plate ECTO-1?
The Ghostbusters
Whose three children were Nancy, Frank Jr., and Tina?
Frank and Nancy
Sinatra
What is the colloquial name for Polaris?
The North Star
Which country has the greatest number of ancient pyramids?
(hint: They are called the Nubian Pyramids)
Sudan
What vegetable, starting with the letter O, is often used to make gumbo?
Okra
Who played Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise?
Johnny Depp
What is the name for an electrical device that regulates heartbeats?
Pacemaker
Minnesota is sometimes known as the land of 10,000 lakes. What Canadian province
to its north is known as the land of 100,000 lakes?
Manitoba
What is the name for a blood-sucking monster common in Mexican folklore?
Chupacabra
What movie features the quotes "life finds a way" and "clever girl"?
Jurassic Park
The sun is currently a yellow dwarf. What will it become in about 5 billion years?
Red Giant
What species is General Sherman, the world's heaviest single-trunk tree?
Giant Sequoia
What Asian plant is the world's tallest grass?
Bamboo
What movie's main characters are James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski?
Monsters Inc.
Whose "uncertainty" principle states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and
the exact momentum of a particle?
Werner Heisenberg
What Shakespearean king had three daughters: Regan, Goneril and Cordelia?
King Lear
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Level 77
Mar 14, 2016
Never knew that Sudan even had pyramids, much less the most in the world. Cool.
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Level 82
Jul 5, 2021
Most of them are relatively tiny, around 6-10 meters tall. The biggest is 30 m tall. Khufu's Pyramid a.k.a. the Great Pyramid of Giza is, by contrast, 139 m tall (and 147 m originally). The Egyptians were a far more accomplished, important, and influential civilization than the Nubians directly to the south, and thus more famous and well-known.
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Level 27
Mar 15, 2024
Nubia refers to what is now Al Dabbah, where the Nile breaks off into the White and Blue Nile
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Level 90
Mar 14, 2016
Not to be too picky here, but I thought what you meant by "most ancient pyramids" was OLDEST (most ancient) pyramids, not what you seem to have meant (highest count of old pyramids). Maybe you could clarify this by changing the wording to "highest number of ancient pyramids".
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2016
Okay
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Level 60
Mar 15, 2016
Isn't the chupacabra from puertorican folklore?
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Level 61
Mar 20, 2016
It would appear that way as Puerto Rico was where the first sightings were reported.
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Level 82
Jul 11, 2016
Heard of chupacabra being the goat sucking monster of Mexican folklore a hundred times. Never once heard of it being Puerto Rican. hm..
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Level 27
Mar 15, 2024
El Chupacabra is hard to narrow down to one country. I personally use the term 'Latin American folklore', though not saying all Latin Americans are the same
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Level 47
Jul 11, 2016
Could you please accept ocra for okra?
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Level 68
Dec 11, 2018
No
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Level 65
Jan 12, 2019
How about orca... ;)
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Level 63
Jul 11, 2016
I will never miss a Jurassic Park trivia question! Take my JP quiz if you want more
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Level 82
Jul 11, 2016
Heisenberg! First you destroy everything Pinkman ever loved! Now you prevent me from getting a perfect score on this quiz! That's the last straw!
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Level 58
Jan 20, 2017
Ha!
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Level 83
Jul 11, 2016
CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow
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Level 53
Jul 11, 2016
Damn it! I was so confident about my english vocabulary, I simply had no idea how to translate "marcapasso", huehue...
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Level 55
Jul 12, 2016
Note, "huehue" is in no part of English vocabulary...
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Level 79
May 6, 2020
哈哈
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Level 82
Jul 11, 2016
Really would have thought Breaking Bad would have improved Heisenberg's score...
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Level 65
Jan 12, 2019
I had schrödinger for not knowing the exact position of a particle
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Level 84
Jun 13, 2021
Schrödinger didn't know if the particle was dead or alive.
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Level 68
Jan 28, 2022
Nor why the particle meowed.
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Level 27
Mar 15, 2024
Schrödinger's cat implies that when the cat is in the box, it is impossible to tell if it is still alive, and you can only find out by opening the box.

However, I'm pretty sure it's impractical, as it's animal cruelty, and no cat I know will go within 4 metres of an open box.

MEOW

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Level 67
Sep 27, 2019
Even if I wasn't taking chem rn I would've still known about Heisenberg.
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Level 67
Jul 7, 2021
I feel like most people would know that from Breaking Bad but it's still the lowest answer on here
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Level 65
Jul 12, 2023
Say my name!
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Level 73
Jun 25, 2021
Since when is bamboo an Asian plant? What makes it exclusively Asian?
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2021
To answer the first question, because it presumably originated in Asia (China, to be specific). To answer the second question, nowhere does it say it's exclusively Asian.
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Level 48
Jul 5, 2021
After looking it up, I learned that there are species of bamboo native to essentially every tropical climate, ranging from Cuba, to Madagascar, to Chile, to Ghana. Hell, there are bamboo forests in France and New Jersey these days. Turns out you're totally right and I've come around. I think the clue could be better phrased. Simply "world's tallest grass variety" would probably do.
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Level 67
Jul 6, 2021
Yes, but bamboo identifies as Asian.
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Level 46
Jul 5, 2021
ADSGLJAHSDGKLJAHSKLJH religion questions
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Level 68
Jul 5, 2021
Giant Redwood should be an acceptable answer.
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Level 69
Jul 6, 2021
I second this.
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Level 74
Feb 14, 2024
Why? It's wrong.
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Level 71
Jul 5, 2021
Minnesota: We're the land of 10,000 lakes!

Manitoba: Is that a challenge???

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Level 16
Jan 19, 2022
I read smallest land animal and I was so confused.
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Level 45
Dec 14, 2022
I wrote pace maker instead of pacemaker :(
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2023
Spaces don't matter in Jetpunk answers, so it should've been accepted.