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Answer
What is the hardest material that is naturally-occurring on Earth?
Diamond
What is the French word for bread?
Pain
What was Voldemort's birth name?
Tom Riddle
Which U.S. state can be spelled without using any of the letters in "mackerel"?
Ohio
On what island would you find the city of Palermo?
Sicily
What musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is the longest-running production in the history of Broadway theater?
The Phantom of the Opera
Who is the Roman goddess of love and beauty?
Venus
What is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature (and standard pressure)?
Mercury
What type of animal does the term "ursine" refer to?
Bears
What caustic British chef was the host of the show "Hell's Kitchen"?
Gordon Ramsay
Who is the leader of the Autobots?
Optimus Prime
With what country did Germany sign the "Pact of Steel" in 1939?
Italy
What religious document does a person have to memorize to become a "hafiz"?
The Quran
On which peninsula was Yugoslavia located?
Balkan Peninsula
The city of Calexico lies on the U.S. side of the California / Mexico border. What, appropriately, is the name of its sister city on the Mexican side of the border?
Mexicali
What "secret" society has many different orders including the Scottish Rite and the York Rite?
Freemasonry
What rock band has a name that is often abbreviated as GNR?
Guns N' Roses
What book was a predecessor to "The Lord of the Rings"?
The Hobbit
What metallic element, starting with C, is used to make blue pigments?
Just because you look up doesn't mean you know what Ursa Major is. And just because MattMerchant1 knows about Pokemon doesn't mean he has his head in his phone all day long.
Haha the word mackerel isn't magical. Actually, all you need is any word that has M, A, E, L, and C and Ohio is the only state that doesn't have any of those letters.
Mackerel.... I write pub quizzes here in UK, have 8 or 9 sheets of questions, 20 to a sheet, questions with answers that contain no letters of Mackerel... types of fish, dogs, birds, fruit, veg, TV/film characters, songs, bands, olympic sports, towns, cities, countries, there are loads... because of the nature of the "question" i usually have one or two answers just to prove there is an answer, and ask the quizzers for their suggestions, as long as it fits the criteria, it's ok.. dont really know how to actually make a quiz on here, so if anyone wants any of these mackerel things, message me on here with your email address and i'll send you a couple of dozen at random....
"The city of Calexico lies on the U.S. side of the California / Mexico border. What, appropriately, is the name of its sister city on the Mexican side of the border?"
Logically, the answer should be "Mexifornia". Saying "appropriately" suggests that the naming convention on the US side is also used on the Mexico side.
That's what threw me. I kept trying all sorts of names with the beginning of Mexico and the ending of California. It never occured to me to try Mexicali, even though I love that dip. So good.
What annoys me most is that I actually tried 'Mexical', which wasn't accepted. Then I gave up. Considering how many type-ins with the last letter missing are accepted on these quizzes - oh, boy...
I am astonished that over two thirds knew the answer to the Voldemort question. And before anybody suggests that I read the books or watch the films to improve my JetPunk knowledge, that isn't going to happen
Because something exists that a lot of people like but you don't care about. Oh no. Doesn't make you smarter for not knowing it, so why even bother complaining about it in the first place?
reverend I never suggested I was smart for not knowing it but rather I was very surprised that it was known by more people than, say, the answers to the 'ursine' and 'latex' questions
wyoMing
JS
and send some answers a week later...
1- A Book of the Bible
2- Element from the Periodic Table
3- Artist/act who had a UK No.1 single in the 1970’s
4- A monetary Currency
5- An independent country
6- A breed of wild bird
7- A former World Heavyweight Boxing champion (surname)
8- A character from The Simpsons
9- A breed of fish
10- A childrens TV character that is an animal
1- Job. John, Titus, I John,. II John and III John
2- tin
3- Wings (Mull of Kintyre)
4- Pound (UK) Dong (Vietnam) Won (both Korea's)
5- Togo, Fiji, Djibouti
6- Bunting, Puffin, Swift, pipit
7- Mike TYSON, Tony TUBBS (1985-86) Jack JOHNSON (1908-15)
8- Otto (school bus driver) Todd (Flanders)
9- Whiting, guppy, dogfish
10- Bugs Bunny, Goofy, Sooty, Yogi, Booboo, Woody (woodpecker)
Logically, the answer should be "Mexifornia". Saying "appropriately" suggests that the naming convention on the US side is also used on the Mexico side.
And the Kremlin or Russian hackers for leader of the autobots?
WyoMing can also be spelled without using a letter in Mackerel
Is that what you're saying? :)
In fact, there are several.