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General Knowledge Quiz #158

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedOctober 23, 2016
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What two countries have an X in their name?
Luxembourg
Mexico
What is the biggest species of marsupial?
Red Kangaroo
What does the French word "gâteau" mean in English?
Cake
What word, originating in Britain, is an abbreviation of "association football"?
Soccer
What movie featured the "Imperial March", composed by John Williams?
The Empire Strikes Back
What is the name of this typographical character: ¶
Pilcrow
What part of the body is swollen if one suffers from encephalitis?
The Brain
What movie featured the songs "Born to Hand Jive" and "Beauty School Dropout"?
Grease
What group of islands was conquered by Kamehameha the Great and his
armada of war canoes?
Hawaii
According to Bible verse Matthew 5:5, who shall inherit the Earth?
The Meek
What is a sommelier's area of expertise?
Wine
What are the two major cities in the Canadian province of Alberta?
Calgary
Edmonton
What royal dynasty did Louis XIVth come from?
Bourbon
What was the subject of the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth"?
Global Warming
What U.S. island has a population of more than 1.6 million in an area of just
59.1 square kilometers?
Manhattan
What is the largest animal that was originally domesticated in South America?
Llama
What singer was "Born in the U.S.A." and also "Born to Run"?
Bruce Springsteen
What saint's bones did Venetians steal from Alexandria and bring
to their most famous church?
St. Mark's
sillie
+2
Level 77
Oct 23, 2016
Greenhouse effect for global warming? It's the cause of global warming..
PantsLobbyist
+5
Level 95
Apr 12, 2018
_A_ cause, not _the_ cause
JoshPen
+10
Level 79
Oct 24, 2016
Disappointed that "an abbreviation of "association football"" was not a**ball.
buck1017
+1
Level 77
Oct 24, 2016
I love this. I also love that this question was included. Every time a quiz is about football on this site, the British folks on here all comment "oh...THAT kind of football," and other stupid stuff about how their football is better than our football, and why do we call it soccer when the rest of the world calls it football. As it so happens, the term soccer was coined by the British themselves, and only started using football when the term soccer caught on in the United States. So see there...we TRIED to call it what you call it.
akp713
+2
Level 85
Nov 1, 2016
Yes! Exactly this, and I explain this regularly as an American immigrant to NZ. Here the term soccer has also traditionally been used but in the last 10 years they have tried to change it to football specifically because the term soccer is seen as being American and there's a strong current of anti-Americanism. The same is true in Australia despite their team being called the Socceroos.
Tramp
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Level 76
Nov 15, 2016
The term "soccer" was created by the British, yes, but it was only ever used by upper class public schoolboy types who also called "rugby" "rugger". By the time "soccer" caught on among the working classes, they called it "football".

There's a pretty big class divide in the UK even today, and that divide was even bigger in the past. It's understandable why nobody here wants to call it "soccer" nowadays, even if the original reasons have been forgotten.

Swanbabe
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Level 38
Jan 2, 2017
Dude there might be a slight recoil from the pervasion of American culture but not much. In Australia, we tend to just eat a lot of American junk up. But we like to remain refined and British of occasion. Incidentally, we still definitely call soccer soccer, coz football is distinctly something else.

Don't go drawing us in with your mob mr kiwiland; whole country of enigmas across the tasman. Hehe

I like to (affectionately) accuse kiwis of being spies and that there sneaking in unawares and taking over. There are a lot of them here.

We think Australia and new Zealand will merge...nah - the kiwis are gonna rule the Australasian Empire, god help us!

kalbahamut
+5
Level 82
Jan 2, 2017
There is nothing at all "refined" about Britishness, or unrefined about Americanness.
sulfuratus
+6
Level 66
Jan 6, 2017
I was super disappointed when “assfoot” just wouldn't work.
chitrajainn
+1
Level 55
Aug 4, 2020
That was my first guess
Algernon
+1
Level 72
Oct 24, 2016
Also amazed so many people knew Pilcrow. That is literally the first time I have ever heard of it.
Robjohnson
+12
Level 87
Oct 24, 2016
I haven't heard of Pilcrow either but I'm sure I'm not the only one who got it correct by typing "paragraph" - which is an accepted answer.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Jan 2, 2017
+1
lucd13
+1
Level 69
Nov 25, 2017
+1
chitrajainn
+1
Level 55
Aug 4, 2020
Ya thanks for that QM
jennraven
+1
Level 68
Sep 6, 2021
Aww, I knew that's what it was for, but never thought it would be an accepted answer! What could have been...
sumguy
+2
Level 84
Nov 29, 2016
How exactly is soccer an abbreviation of "association football"? An abbreviation is "a shortened form of a word or phrase". I see the "soc" in "asSOCiation football", but where's the "er"? Is there another word somewhere that also got shortened? Maybe it's short for "asSOCiation football is bettER (than American football)"?
alexihampson
+1
Level 34
Jan 2, 2017
"Soccer" was created to similar to "Rugger" which was shortened from "rugby football" and somebody decided to twist "association football" into a similar form.
Roger77024
+1
Level 57
Jan 2, 2017
If properly shortened, Americans would now be playing Assoer - or maybe they wouldn't!
lucd13
+4
Level 69
Nov 25, 2017
I feel as though you're confusing Abbreviation with Portmanteau. Only portmanteaux require both (or all) words to be used. For example, in Australia, we often abbreviate 'service station' to 'servo' and 'Salvation Army' to 'Salvos' - only one of the two words are used and it is still considered an abbreviation.
CliveDexter
+3
Level 75
Jan 2, 2017
Can you use the term "climate change"? "Global warming" confuses those with lesser reasoning capabilities. ;)
ander217
+4
Level 75
Jan 2, 2017
I prefer the term "global weirding". ;)
Quizard86
+1
Level 41
Jan 2, 2017
Sorry but that soccer question is ridiculous and completely incorrect. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word. Soccer is not short for anything and certainly not short for association football.
trebek
+16
Level 70
Jan 2, 2017
The question isn't ridiculous nor is it incorrect. You don't know everything. You can learn things on jetpunk
kalbahamut
+11
Level 82
Jan 2, 2017
Are you saying that "soccer" is not shorter than "association football?"
joeythelemur
+9
Level 84
Jan 3, 2017
If only there were a way to look these things up!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

Dazinho71
+2
Level 43
Jan 3, 2017
I thought that kingdom ruled by Kamehameha was Japan. It just looked like something a character from Dragon Ball Z would say.
onegonecat
+1
Level 74
Jan 3, 2017
Please accept Saint Marco. I thought I was wrong when it didn't accept it.
Djilas
+3
Level 82
Feb 20, 2017
It's San Marco, if you want to use the Italian words. But the quiz is in English.
manchesterutd10
+1
Level 55
Jan 3, 2017
i know the internet took it and ran but even if you don't have a twitter or whatever you should know who/what harambe was because that dominated news as far as im concerned in America for a period of time this past year
Djilas
+3
Level 82
Feb 20, 2017
Just a short news story this side of the ocean. I've heard much more about Knut the polar bear.
irish41
+3
Level 59
Jan 4, 2017
How did I forget about Mexico?!
OfficerDibble
+1
Level 80
Jan 29, 2018
Was struggling to guess the Kamehameha question, and found myself entering 'South Park' and 'Kyle's Mum' in case there were funny type-ins. There weren't.
Bdubz
+1
Level 43
Apr 30, 2020
Sorry I don't like to do this but can you accept "environment" for the Gore doc?
tommuelmerson
+3
Level 58
Feb 2, 2021
Or Manbearpig
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Sep 6, 2021
Matt and Trey eventually acknowledged that they were wrong about Manbearpig and that he does exist and is a serious threat.
tommuelmerson
+3
Level 58
Feb 2, 2021
Oh, it's the meek! Blessed are the meek! I'm glad they're getting something 'cause they've had a hell of a time.
DrWhoFanJ
+1
Level 62
Sep 6, 2021
“Louis XIVth”? Really? Louis the Fifteenthth‽

The XIV already includes the “th” part, so doesn’t need repeating!

wkrpnyc
+2
Level 81
Sep 7, 2021
Except XIV =14, not fifteen
zack22
+1
Level 67
Dec 21, 2021
You know you have been on this site too long when you spell Grease as Greece. Good thing it was accepted as a type-in anyway, LOL.
mrzli86
+1
Level 81
Aug 22, 2023
uhhh I did't
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