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General Knowledge Quiz #156

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What former country was ruled by the Dalai Lama?
Tibet
What subclass of mammals carry their young in a pouch?
Marsupials
What is the northernmost country that was once a part of the Roman Empire?
United Kingdom
What chess move involves moving the king and a rook in the same turn?
Castling
What weapon did David use to defeat Goliath?
Sling
What German chancellor has frequently been named
"Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Forbes magazine?
Angela Merkel
Who wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams"?
Sigmund Freud
What sport is also known as pugilism?
Boxing
What statue, finished in 1886, was a gift from France to the United States?
Statue of Liberty
Which character in the board game "Clue" is considered a femme-fatale?
Miss Scarlett
What TV show is named after a character in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Big Brother
Who is the most well-known gorgon from Greek mythology?
Medusa
Whose works include 39 plays and 154 sonnets?
William Shakespeare
Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by two fish?
Pisces
What movie features the famous quote: "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."?
The Godfather
What city is considered to be the financial capital of Germany?
Frankfurt
What computer scientist helped to break Germany's enigma code but
was persecuted for being gay?
Alan Turing
What series of conflicts between England and France lasted 116 years, from 1337–1453?
Hundred Years' War
For what crime were Mata Hari, Ethel Rosenberg, and Nathan Hale executed?
Espionage
What prefix can come before violet, sound, and orthodox?
Ultra
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Level 63
Oct 18, 2016
Accept more spellings for pisces
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Level 48
Dec 5, 2016
I agree. Also can you accept 'Medussa' for Medusa?
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Level 66
Dec 5, 2016
I love that the Hundred Years War lasted more than a hundred years. It's like people saying that the only man-made thing you can see from space is the Great Wall of China when there are all of the satellites around the Earth.
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Level 58
Feb 7, 2017
And the Great Wall can't be seen from space anyway. (Well, not without a telescope.)
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Level 67
Aug 23, 2021
The great wall of China is very long but relatively very thin, so it is not visible from a high altitude with the naked eye.
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Level 33
Dec 5, 2016
Wasted so much time on trying room 101 and variants. But you did say 'character' from 1984. Note to self: read the questions.
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Level 56
May 2, 2020
Me too! Duh.
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Level 74
Aug 23, 2021
If it's any consolation, I tried all the major and minor characters before I finally realised which way the wind was blowing and hit on the answer. I even tried 'pleb' out of desperation.
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Level 77
Jul 27, 2019
It's "Cluedo" on my side of the pond.
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Level 56
May 2, 2020
Oh, I was wondering if they had changed the name
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Level 28
May 12, 2021
I really wrote "eiffel tower" instead of Statue of Liberty :facepalm:
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Level 65
Feb 18, 2022
Me too lol, don't feel bad
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Level 78
Jun 17, 2021
In the UK there IS a TV show called "Room 101".
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Level 83
Jun 18, 2021
that's not a character though?
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Level 82
Jun 21, 2021
Arguably, neither is Big Brother. He never actually appears in person in the book, and there's a good chance Orwell intended for him not even to be real within the book's world.
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Level 83
Jun 30, 2021
^ But Big Brother is presented and considered as a character or personage, whereas Room 101 is... a room
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Level 74
Aug 23, 2021
@Findlay, yes, that's why I went through the entire novel naming everyone and their Victory Gin, before I sat back on my heels and guessed BB as a last resort :P
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Level 76
Aug 23, 2021
I guess it helps, then, not to have read the novel and just know some key words. :)
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Level 69
Jun 20, 2021
Julia is also the name of a character in 1984! 😊

From 1968-1971, there was an American TV show called Julia starring Diahann Carroll. (Granted, that show has been off the air for 50 years LOL!)

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Level 52
Jul 7, 2021
was that show specifically named after julia from 1984 though
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Level 82
Jun 21, 2021
I think Russia is the most northerly country that was part of the Roman Empire, not the UK, owing to Crimea. I expect this fact has either a pre-2014 source, or doesn't acknowledge Russian control of Crimea. Either way, I believe this site usually considers Crimea Russian in quizzes, and Russia goes much farther north than the UK.
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Level 30
Aug 23, 2021
At the time Russia consisted of a number of Slavic tribes and Russia conquered Crimea in 1783 AD while Romans held it through 47 BC and 340 AD and they fell in 395 AD.
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Level 66
Aug 23, 2021
Not like the UK existed at the time when parts of Great Britain were Roman territory.
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Level 30
Aug 25, 2021
See the constituent lands of Scotland and England are apart of the current united kingdoms.
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Level 66
Aug 23, 2021
There appears to be some debate or disagreement about how far around the Black Sea the Roman Empire itself actually reached and which part were just vassal states.
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Level 72
Aug 24, 2021
Russia is considered by some historians to be the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire, which considered itself a continuation of the Roman Empire, since the capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople. So there are multiple reasons why Russia should be considered the correct answer, but I also see plenty of reasons why the UK should be considered the correct answer. Maybe the question could be clearer.
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Level 64
Sep 16, 2021
I agree, it was Russia. The UK is a daft answer when it didn't exist then!
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Level 74
Nov 1, 2021
hmm? Neither did Russia?
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Level 46
Aug 23, 2021
aargh tried treason for the espionage clue
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Level 34
Aug 23, 2021
Aren't slings also called catapults in places like Britain? Atleast that's what they are called in India. 'Sling/slingshots' is generally a more American term.

I think slings are usually considered a subset of catapults. Please accept Catapult.

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Level 63
Aug 23, 2021
It's not slingshot, it is sling. A sling is basically a rope with a rock tied to it that you whip around in a circle above your head then throw. You are thinking of a slingshot, which is similar to a catapult.
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Level 34
Aug 25, 2021
Oh okay. Thanks.
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Level 45
Aug 26, 2021
Tried treason and spying for espionage. Oof
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Level 46
Aug 30, 2021
Can you really use Big Brother as a character? Who played that part? Big Brother was a political concept comprising the state's surveillance of all citizens.
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Level 76
Sep 3, 2021
If you're refering to the movie, BB was played by Bob Flag. The question was about the novel, though.

But seriously, even though I agree that him being a character is debatable, I think a lot of people here missed the forest for the trees on that question, considering how widely known the reality show is.

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Level 65
Jul 12, 2023
Do we really need to type the ending 'e' in Shakespeare?