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General Knowledge Quiz #183

Answer these random trivia questions.
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What two countries have more species of venomous animals than Australia?
Mexico
Brazil
What country was attacked by both Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939?
Poland
Who, upon his death in 2005, had been seen in person by more people
than anyone else in history?
John Paul II
Who, according to the magic mirror on the wall, was the fairest of them all?
Snow White
What part of a human weighs 21 grams, according to urban legend and the movie "21 Grams"?
The Soul
What auto company's logo consists of three red diamonds that form the shape of a triangle?
Mitsubishi
What castaway had a friend who he named "Friday"?
Robinson Crusoe
What Greek goddess sprang directly from the forehead of her father, Zeus?
Athena
A mesa is a flat-topped hill with steep sides. What does the word mesa mean in Spanish?
Table
What two words are abbreviated and joined to form the word "sitcom"?
Situation Comedy
What composer wrote the scores to "Star Wars", "Jaws", and "Jurassic Park"?
John Williams
What former WWE wrestler is one of the 50 top-grossing movie stars of all time?
Dwayne Johnson
What two 1960s blockbusters featured Julie Andrews as a singing nanny?
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
What is a dried plum known as?
a Prune
Who was born as Paul Hewson in Dublin, Ireland in 1960?
Bono
What movie featured a fish named Flounder that was not, in fact, a flounder?
The Little Mermaid
Which European capital has a name that rhymes with a famous wizard?
Berlin
What virus was not identified until the 1980s but is thought to have originated in
the Congo around 1920?
HIV
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Level 87
Nov 9, 2017
Technically, Berlin and Merlin don't rhyme (they have stress on different syllables)
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2017
'mf3' wins the 'Golden Nitpickers Award' for November '17.......Congratulations!
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Level 83
Nov 15, 2017
It's hardly nitpicking; if you used "Berlin" and "Merlin" in a rhyming couplet you would be called a terrible poet.
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Level 82
Mar 15, 2018
I agree totally with mf3. That's no rhyme.
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Level 65
Mar 15, 2018
What about rapping? It could work for a rapper- a rapper who raps about wizards and Germany, for instance.
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Level 82
Mar 15, 2018
Frequent rap topics.
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2018
I feel like somehow Childish Gambino could make that work.
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Level 70
Mar 21, 2018
Because every creative lyricist, songwriter, rapper, and poet insists on proper OED phonetics and pronunciation to make their 7th grade English teacher proud.
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Level 84
Mar 15, 2018
All depends on your accent. In some (like mine) they do, and I assume that in others (like yours) they don't.
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Level 77
Feb 28, 2022
Merlin and Berlin are proper nouns. There is one way to pronounce both, and they don’t rhyme. Merlin stresses the first syllable and Berlin stresses the second syllable. Rhyming traditionally says that the stressed syllable’s vowel sound and everything afterwards have to be the same sound.
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Level 84
Mar 15, 2018
Have you tried the process of elimination with all the other famous wizards?
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2018
Long list there.
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Level 66
Mar 19, 2018
Just consult your collection of chocolate frog cards.
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Level 77
Mar 15, 2018
I grew up in Berlin, CT which rhymes with Merlin. As I child, I got very annoyed when people said it wrong.
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Level 27
Mar 15, 2018
I thought about Gandalf before anyone else and got it wrong :)
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
Same for me!
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Level 71
Feb 28, 2022
me too
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Level 68
Jan 9, 2024
For some reason I tried to think if there was a famous wizard that rhymed with "Zagreb."
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Level 18
Mar 17, 2018
Dublin it's another option,
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
It should end with 'lin'.
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Level 61
Mar 20, 2018
Nerd
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2017
Is there any ballpark figure for how many people have seen the Pope during his life? That's a very interesting piece of trivia
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Level 85
Mar 15, 2018
I think they included ALL his appearances, not just ones in ballparks.
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
From the Oxford Dictionary of English: ballpark: (of a price or cost) approximate.
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Level 77
Feb 28, 2022
Do you go through quiz comments and purposely leave mundane responses to ironic comments? That’s genius.
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Level 48
Mar 15, 2018
I saw him and I don't know if they counted me or not, so it must be true.
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Level 77
Nov 9, 2017
Totally off base here, but I'm curious if you, Quizmaster, listen to the podcast Trivial Warfare. I ask because I literally just heard 3 of these questions within a few episodes. Maybe it's just coincidence. Also, if you don't listen to it...you should start.
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Level 74
Nov 9, 2017
Please accept situational comedy as well.
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Level 66
Mar 15, 2018
Agree. It wasn't terribly burdensome to re-do it. And I know that "situation" is the most accurate answer; but, the fact that it functions as an adjective makes it all-the-more-reasonable to expect and accept the addition of an adjectival suffix.
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2018
Oh...I thought that's what the answer was! Definitely would have missed it if situational hadn't been accepted.
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Level 72
Nov 15, 2017
First answer to the first question surprised me.
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Level 44
Mar 15, 2018
I guessed vietnam first, and then burma then got the idea of rain forests and went ahead with the two correct answers next haha
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2022
I started with "ok what are large countries in warm regions" and got then both within three guesses XD
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Level 70
Mar 15, 2018
I tried Pallas Athena, and then I didn't bother to try only 'Athena' any more... Might it be accepted as a type-in?
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Level 86
Mar 15, 2018
"Mitsubishi" in Japanese actually means "three water chestnuts," and the water chestnut has traditionally been used as a symbol for the diamond shape in Japan.
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Level 67
Mar 15, 2018
Very interesting to learn.
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Level 63
Mar 15, 2018
Couldn't find anything to rhyme with Dumbledore.
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Level 14
Mar 19, 2018
Exactly, I thought of him first xD
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Level 82
Mar 15, 2018
Stupid bono, ruins everything
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Level 55
Mar 15, 2018
I read the "has been seen by more people in person" as since his death - and all I could think of is Elvis!
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2019
Lenin would probably win that one.
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Level 35
Feb 28, 2022
I thought of Elvis, too, bc Pope John did not work. Forgot the Paul part. Was desperate.
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Level 47
Mar 15, 2018
John Williams is dope, especially the Indiana Jones theme song.
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Level 75
Mar 16, 2018
He also did the music for the Harry Potter movies.
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Level 62
Feb 28, 2022
Only the first three, though.
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Level 20
Mar 15, 2018
I put Situational Comedy and it wasn't accepted. Can we fix that?
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Level ∞
Mar 15, 2018
Okay
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2018
Technically Germany didn't attack Finland but did fight against in Finns on Finnish soil in Lapland War. The Germans retreated in Lapland using the "scorched earth" method, attacking and burning down the largest city in Lapland, Rovaniemi, for example. And yes, Soviet Union certainly did attack Finland even though I'm not sure if they ever admitted it directly.
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Level 51
Mar 16, 2018
That's great, since the answer is Poland.
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Level 74
Mar 20, 2018
Maybe that was hard to read from what I wrote, but I was

just wondering if Finland should be counted as well.

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Level 69
Jul 9, 2018
It says 1939, so the only correct answer is Poland.
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Level 48
Sep 5, 2018
Dublin should be accepted as well as Berlin
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Level 64
Apr 8, 2019
Npredella has asked for Dublin!

I read that just before asking for it myself.

So that makes at least 2 of us that believe

Dublin rhymes with Merlin.

I think it is the last syllable that makes the rhyme.

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Level 77
Feb 28, 2022
Rhyming is based on the vowel sound of the stressed syllable and everything after it. Merlin and Dublin both stress the first syllable, so Merlin rhymes with words that end in “erlin” and stress the “er” syllable. Dublin rhymes with “ublin” words, which are none, I believe.
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Level 74
Dec 6, 2019
The way Fleur Delacour says, "Harry" sure rhymes with the way she would say Paris. That's what I kept trying
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Level 52
Jul 8, 2021
i feel as though implying the soul is a part of a human is a bit iffy?
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2022
It is a part of the human body "according to urban legend"
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Level 90
Jul 18, 2021
Urban myth? A physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts is the one who first weighed the soul. Put terminally ill patients, bed and all, on a special scale, immediately before and after they died. Subtracted the latter measurement from the former and determined that whatever had departed had weighed, on average, 3/4 of an ouce. That's just math.
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Level 35
Feb 28, 2022
A woman has a security cam image of a car hitting a deer in front of her house. When it fell and died, you clearly can see a white mist rise from the body and move off. So the soul is probably real & now we have it on camera and know what it weighs. Still have not captured God on camera or proof of any religion, really, tho.
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Level 83
Mar 27, 2022
I wonder do you also believe that vaccines cause autism because a doctor faking results said so?
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Level 76
Apr 19, 2022
Try using Occam's Razor on that. That is, actually inform yourself of the procesess the body goes through immediately after death, and/or check the credibility of the claim, before inventing spirits to fill in the gaps of your knowledge of the natural world.
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Level 67
Feb 14, 2022
Pope Jean Paul II,

not Pope Paul II

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Level 61
Feb 28, 2022
In Australia, the venomous animals are like 6 feet tall
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Level 76
Feb 28, 2022
the magic mirror first of all said snow white's stepmother was the fairest of them all, until snow white overtook her - accept 'stepmother' etc? it was my first thought since the mirror routinely gave that answer, and gave the answer 'snow white' only once
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Level 31
Feb 28, 2022
accept dwayne the rock johnson for dwayne johnson please
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Level 77
Feb 28, 2022
Madrid & The WIzard of Id ?
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Level 65
Jul 18, 2023
Before we continue, we have a scoring correction to make. GalileoS the judges have ruled in favor of your answer and 1 point will be awarded. As we continue, please make your next selection.
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Level 53
Mar 2, 2022
You'd have to pronounce Berlin incorrectly in order for it to rhyme with Merlin.
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Level 67
Mar 2, 2022
Not really, at least not with an English/American accent unless you mean the emphasis of the syllables
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Level 67
Mar 2, 2022
Just missed Bono
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Level 68
Jan 9, 2024
Merlin, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion...