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General Knowledge Quiz #177

Answer these random trivia questions.
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First submittedAugust 24, 2017
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What is the largest country (by area) that touches the Indian Ocean?
Australia
Who went to the cupboard to give a dog a bone?
Old Mother Hubbard
Complete the idiom: He who hesitates is ____
Lost
What are hobnails nailed onto?
Boots
What type of animal was a diplodocus?
Dinosaur
What is the #1 cause of death in South Africa?
HIV/AIDS
What famous luxury hotel in Paris has suites named for former guests such as
Elton John and Coco Chanel? (And a bar named for Ernest Hemingway)
Hôtel Ritz Paris
Name one of the three largest bones in the arm.
Humerus, Radius, or Ulna
What university is surrounded by the city of Palo Alto?
Stanford
What type of curve is known in statistics as a "normal distribution"?
Bell Curve
Which state in the U.S. has the highest Inuit population?
Alaska
What superhero team is the Human Torch a part of?
Fantastic Four
Which deadly sin is an indolent person guilty of?
Sloth
What city was attacked by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics?
Munich
What is the common name of the medical condition "hypertension"?
High Blood Pressure
What fictional character has been portrayed by David Tennant,
Tom Baker, and Jon Pertwee?
The Doctor
What city is served by Haneda and Narita airports?
Tokyo
Who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996?
Tupac Shakur
What part of the body is affected by scoliosis?
The Spine
Who was the titular character of books by H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison?
Invisible Man
WolfCam
+2
Level 66
Aug 24, 2017
Please accept the back for the spine. This was one of the harder general knowledge quizzes.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 25, 2017
Back will work now
dirtylenzes
+4
Level 50
Aug 25, 2017
Please accept fant4stic for the human torch question.
buck1017
+17
Level 77
Aug 29, 2017
no...please don't do that.
foxpenguin
+3
Level 69
Sep 4, 2017
+1
roleybob
+18
Level 75
Oct 26, 2017
My vote is to remove superhero questions completely
DrWhoFanJ
+2
Level 62
Jan 17, 2022
+1 I don’t care about any of them, so there is no way I will ever get the correct answer (bar lucky guesses).
Jacktheguy
+5
Level 89
Jan 17, 2022
I don't care about sports questions, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't belong in a general knowledge quiz.
Djilas
+15
Level 82
Aug 25, 2017
Can you accept Gauss or at least Gaussian?
Anzi
+3
Level 69
Oct 26, 2017
+1
iuvas
+2
Level 94
Oct 27, 2017
i agree
boyca
+1
Level 20
Jan 19, 2022
you're level 90? go outside
rocamorar
+2
Level 78
Oct 31, 2017
I completely agree. Gauss or Gaussian curve is even more accurate than "bell curve"
hidetora
+3
Level 66
Feb 16, 2018
Yes. Gaussian should be accepted.
mehe
+3
Level 44
Jan 1, 2021
+1
ecalot
+3
Level 66
Dec 27, 2021
also mexican hat
DonTheLamplighter
+13
Level 84
Aug 27, 2017
Old Mother Hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get her poor daughter a dress

When she got there

The cupboard was bare

And so was her daughter, I guess

buck1017
+13
Level 77
Aug 29, 2017
Anyone else try "hobs" for the hobnail question?
Malbaby
+5
Level 71
Sep 7, 2017
Don't leave out Calvin.
Baltimorean
+2
Level 67
Oct 26, 2017
That comment has the virtue of being short.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 55
Apr 6, 2024
so does this
mehe
+1
Level 44
Jan 1, 2021
lol, I did
tasman
+1
Level 63
Oct 26, 2017
Whats with the picture of Perth?
wtstoudt
+1
Level 79
Oct 26, 2017
It touches the Indian Ocean.
stone222
+1
Level 48
Sep 18, 2018
and is in Australia
jboes99
+1
Level 69
Oct 26, 2017
You should accept density curve for bell curve
boyca
+2
Level 20
Jan 19, 2022
nah
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Oct 26, 2017
The Human Torch was also a member of the Avengers at one point.
sg1rob
+4
Level 78
Oct 26, 2017
I knew hobnail boots from the Beatels song "Happiness is a Warm Gun".
chareth
+1
Level 56
Oct 26, 2017
so that's why I knew it. I couldn't figure out why I knew the answer to something that I didn't think I'd ever heard of. Thanks!!
blisssken
+1
Level 42
Oct 26, 2017
Thank you Dice.
ruudsje
+2
Level 69
Oct 26, 2017
hard gk-quiz, only got 11😠

Photop
+2
Level 70
Oct 26, 2017
I was down to 9, but guess language was part of it.

Never heard the "poem" or the idiom, and though I am very familiar with normal distribution curves, I never heard of Bell Curves before.

joeythelemur
+4
Level 84
Apr 29, 2019
Seems like a quibble maybe, but "City attacked by Palestinian terrorists" makes it sound like they had an issue with the city of Munich, rather than a horrific murder of Israeli athletes. More accurate would be "In what city did Palestinian terrorists kidnap and kill 11 Israeli athletes while it hosted the 1972 Olympics?" Let's not sugarcoat it.
Iamnotreallyhere
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Level 69
Mar 11, 2020
In my many years of maths and stats education I've very rarely heard anyone call a Gaussian a "bell curve". I think it's an Americanism. Here in the UK we always call it either a normal distribution or a Gaussian. Was frustrated when the obvious answer (to me) wasn't accepted.
natnat
+1
Level 25
Apr 15, 2020
Exactly...I was so proud of remembering this term and then so frustrated about this not being accepted...
Ian1979
+2
Level 71
Dec 7, 2021
I would have finished if I hadn’t spent so long on Question 3
Zupity
+1
Level 66
Jan 17, 2022
Not the funny bone then?
RobNobody
+2
Level 76
Jan 17, 2022
Not funny, but humerus.
csAxer8
+1
Level 58
Jan 17, 2022
"Surrounded" implies that its an enclave. Stanford is not an enclave in Palo Alto, about 1/3 of Stanford's campus borders unincorporated land. It's like saying Los angeles surrounds Inglewood. It doesn't.
Ferinoze
+1
Level 61
Jan 17, 2022
Which deadly sin is an indolent person guilty of?

Isnt't sloth this just being lazy? I think this question is poorly formulated

AlexDixon
+2
Level 37
Jan 18, 2022
Sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins.
tetraaa
+1
Level 33
Jan 20, 2022
am i the only one who got "he who hesitates is lost" immediately?
punkybrewster
+1
Level 80
Mar 18, 2022
I guessed "dead"
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