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General Knowledge Quiz #193

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: February 4, 2019
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First submittedNovember 30, 2018
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What country do bánh mì sandwiches come from?
Vietnam
Who were the two main stars of the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Tom Hanks
Meg Ryan
In what city would one find Estadio Azteca?
Mexico City
What is the English translation of the Japanese word "manga"?
Comics
What sport was Prince Charles playing when he broke his arm in 1990?
Polo
What is a six letter word that has three i's and is something that women wear?
Bikini
In the Harry Potter universe, what is the name for the people who can't use magic?
Muggles
What was the first name of French painters Cezanne and Gauguin?
Paul
In South America, they are known as gauchos. What are they called in the United States?
Cowboys
What city is the hub of Emirates airline?
Dubai
In a car engine, what do you call the things that move up and down within a cylinder?
Pistons
In what country would you find the island of Ithaca?
Greece
What was the name of the 1605 plot by Guy Fawkes and others to blow up Parliament?
Gunpowder Plot
Whose last words were "France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine"?
Napoleon Bonaparte
In the sentence "I have less shoes than Thomas" one word is incorrect. What is
the correct word that should be used instead?
Fewer
In what song would you hear the lyrics "Galileo Figaro Magnifico"?
Bohemian Rhapsody
In the countries of the Caribbean, what is the most-grown crop by weight?
Sugarcane
What part of the world does haggis come from?
Scotland
What board game, invented in China, is played on a 19x19 grid?
Go
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Level 88
Nov 30, 2018
women can also wear a miniskirt. (3 i's.)
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Level ∞
Nov 30, 2018
Nice catch. Changed the question.
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Level 69
Dec 3, 2018
I still must object. My husband looks *fetching* in a bikini. Fetching, I tell you. ;-)
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Level 56
Mar 3, 2021
It really doesn't
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Level 82
Nov 30, 2018
Scotland is in UK.
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2018
Correct but the question doesn't ask for a country but a part of the world
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Level 92
Dec 5, 2018
Seems like there's a better way to clue what's being asked for. Great Britain, British Isles, and Europe all seem to be perfectly reasonable answers to the question.
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Level 76
Feb 3, 2019
Pretty sure the UK is also a part of the world.
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Level 74
Feb 3, 2019
The Northern Hemisphere.
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Level ∞
Feb 10, 2022
I answered Virgo Supercluster and it wasn't accepted.
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2018
Surely sugar should be allowed for sugarcane?
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Level ∞
Nov 30, 2018
Okay
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Level 95
Nov 30, 2018
"In the Harry Potter universe, what is the name for the people who can't use magic?"

Because of the new movies I would suggest either accepting "Nomag" as well, or changing the question itself to "In the Harry Potter universe, what is the British name for the people who can't use magic?"

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Level 86
Feb 3, 2019
*shudders at the thought that there could be Harry Potter fans familiar with the term "Nomag" but not "Muggle"*
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Level 32
Feb 3, 2019
they wouldn't be harry potter fans at that point, surely they would be fantastic beasts fans?
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Level 78
Feb 3, 2019
Also the term "squib" should be accepted. Pottermore states that they're incapable of using magic, similar to muggles
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Level 67
Feb 3, 2019
That was my first guess.
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Level 75
Feb 3, 2019
I immediately thought of muggles but agreed, squib is also correct. A more difficult question with squib as the only correct answer might be, "In the HP universe, what does one call a wizard-born Muggle?"
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Level 78
Feb 3, 2019
Although haggis is generally associated with Scotland, the first known mention is in a cookbook from 1430 written in Lancashire England.
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Level 51
Feb 4, 2019
The answer to the Harry Potter question is NOT muggle. Hermione was a muggle, but she could do magic. Muggles are simply normal people from "non-magical" families. The correct answer is squib. Squibs are unable to do magic.
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Level ∞
Feb 4, 2019
Erroneous! Hermione was Muggle-born. She was not a Muggle.
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Level 89
May 9, 2022
A squib is someone who has magical parents but can't use magic themselves. A muggle-born, or "mudblood" as some people call them, is the opposite; a magical child born to non-magical parents.

That being said, I do think the question could be phrased a little bit better.

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Level 68
Feb 7, 2019
Yay, my pet grammar topic is mentioned. "Fewer", not "less", when referring to something you can count. No one seems to know this anymore :-(
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Level 83
Feb 8, 2019
Squibs can't use magic either.
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Level 59
Apr 8, 2020
Why would you make that the first question, and more confusingly how did so many people know it?
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Level 88
Jun 7, 2022
About bánh mì? Why not? It's a perfectly reasonable question about a delicious food that I am now craving.
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2021
Maybe add rancher as a type in for cowboy? A cowboy is merely a rancher, but anyway good quiz
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Level 67
May 9, 2022
Can you accept ‘no-majs’ for muggles?
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Level 60
May 9, 2022
Wow 100%. I never get 100%. Got the Cezanne question right in the waning seconds. Great quiz, even though some language descriptivists could argue with you on the grammar question.
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Level 63
May 9, 2022
can you accept weiqi for Go?
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Level 61
May 10, 2022
Harry Potter questions are not general knowledge yet occur regularly in these quizzes.
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Level 67
May 11, 2022
they do appear regularly and I never get them right as harry Potter just isn't my thing. I did watch half of the first movie last year as it is a cultural phenomenon but I couldn't persevere.

However why is it not general knowledge?

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Level 67
May 5, 2023
Don't know how I got Paul, Meg Ryan, and got Go by accident. 18/20
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Level 36
Nov 17, 2023
17/20 - the best I did so far. I love this quiz - thanks Mr Quizmaster.