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General Knowledge Quiz #196

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What shape are the cells in a honeycomb?
Hexagon
What city is home to the 16 of the 19 Smithsonian museums?
Washington D.C.
What entrepreneur's businesses include car manufacturing, satellite launch, tunnel drilling,
artificial intelligence, the "hyperloop", and even making flamethrowers?
Elon Musk
What is the tallest statue in the fifty states of the U.S.?
The Statue of Liberty
What country got kicked out of the United Nations when China joined in 1971?
Taiwan
Complete this sequence: JFMAMJJA
SOND
The first generation had 151. #72 was Tentacool. What are they?
Pokémon
Whose painting "The Persistence of Memory" featured melting clocks?
Salvador Dalí
What is lysergic acid commonly known as?
LSD
What Canadian singer's Las Vegas residencies have sold over $500
million in tickets since 2003?
Celine Dion
Chicago is the second largest city in its time zone. What city is larger?
Mexico City
What red-headed singer has albums named "+", "x", and "÷"?
Ed Sheeran
Who had a horse named Bucephalus and a best friend named Hephaestion?
Alexander the Great
Who wrote "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
George Orwell
What god had twin sons, Phobos and Deimos, who represented fear and terror?
Ares
What is the name of the piano player in the movie "Casablanca"?
Sam
What did Benedict XVI do that no other pope had done in over 500 years?
Resign
Complete the line of poetry: "water water every where ...."
Nor any drop to drink
In what language are reef triggerfish known as humuhumunukunukuapua’a?
Hawaiian
What does the C stand for in UNICEF?
Children's
Moos1005
+18
Level 83
Mar 10, 2019
I definitely did not try "not die" as an answer for the pope question...
Dollyfroggy
+4
Level 60
May 30, 2022
I tried 'die' which is probably more stupid.
sillie
+2
Level 77
Mar 10, 2019
Could "nor a drop to drink" be accepted as well?
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 10, 2019
The cadence is wrong. The popular misquotation "but not a drop to drink" is accepted however.
fuanacdc
+10
Level 84
Mar 13, 2019
For some reason I thought it was "nary a drop to drink."
TenThousand
+7
Level 76
Mar 11, 2019
I looked up "Tallest US statues" in Wikipedia, and it lists one higher than the State of Liberty, called Birth of the New World, in Puerto Rico. I re-read the question and it is carefully worded to exclude that one! I'm surprised that that tallest statue is almost unheard of.
jafe
+3
Level 82
Mar 11, 2019
That's interesting. I was wondering why the "50 states" are mentioned as well.
DannyWozza
+1
Level 94
Mar 11, 2019
Someone please explain how Chicago and Mexico City are in the same time zone? I have looked and Mexico City is an hour behind Chicago? As I type this (from the UK), Chicago time is 3.29am on Mon 11th March 2019 and Mexico City is 2.29am...
Carry
+11
Level 63
Mar 11, 2019
They're in the same time zone. Chicago changed to summer/daylight time yesterday (March 10) and Mexico City does so on April 7.
MayaB
+1
Level 73
Mar 11, 2019
Maybe, and this is only a speculation, this is because of the change to daylight savings time. If the USA already did it and Mexico still hasn't they now have 1 hour difference.
Carry
+4
Level 63
Mar 11, 2019
Couldn't come up with that exact word for the pope question. I tried step back and quit. :D Step back is what we say in Germany if you translate it literally.
JackBeNimble
+5
Level 81
Mar 12, 2019
That's interesting. "Step down" is common in British English.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Apr 30, 2019
Aftreden in dutch, so losely translated also step down (or off)
chiang001
+4
Level 59
Mar 15, 2019
I put in "and ne're a drop to drink" couldn't understand why it didn't accept it so put in "and all the boards did shrink" and it filled in the right answer for me!
TomatosRaafatos
+6
Level 73
Apr 29, 2019
Can someone explain to me the "complete the sequence" question?
salvadoran
+13
Level 62
Apr 29, 2019
JFMAMJJA are the initials of the months January-August, so they ask you to give the initials of the rest of the month
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Apr 30, 2019
Thanks!
FiatDriver
+5
Level 26
Apr 29, 2019
Eddie Van Halen also wrote 1984...
misspdt
+2
Level 30
Apr 29, 2019
At least I got LSD!
Shadywyvern
+2
Level 77
Apr 29, 2019
You should have the question about the pianist from "Casablanca" before the Samuel L. Jackson question. I didn't know the answer but I accidentally got it right because of that.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Apr 30, 2019
Good point. Swapped out the Samuel L. Jackson question. In the future, you can save time by just typing last names.
CyprusisinAsia
+2
Level 71
Jun 26, 2020
Would abdicate be the an acceptable alternate for resign?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 12, 2022
Yes, that is accepted as well as many other variations.
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 84
Nov 13, 2020
So apparently Benedict XVI was not into cat juggling. Hey, took a shot.
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 75
Jun 9, 2021
How about Aphrodite as answer for the parent of Phobos and Deimos? 'Actress' is increasingly passé after all, perhaps we can call Aphrodite and her sisters gods too. Blaze the trail QM!
Ferbin
+1
Level 76
May 30, 2022
I guess you mean "goddess" instead of "actress", otherwise this comment confuses me. If so, what's the problem with -ess suffixes? Are we meant to interpret they're sexist? Feminine nouns?
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Jan 28, 2024
I was suggesting that "god" could refer to male and female deities, albeit in a rather confusing way. Aphrodite was the mother of Phobos and Deimos, and she was - why not? - a god.

I was supporting my argument by noting that the tendency these days is to use "actor" to refer to male and female thespians. There used to be director / directress, which went the same way a long time ago. "-ess" suffixes are indeed dying out.

anemone
+3
Level 47
May 30, 2022
"best friend" ¬‿¬
RuthlessCosmo
+3
Level 72
May 30, 2022
When I was taking biology in high school, my father noticed the picture of a humuhumunukunukuapua’a in my textbook; he immediately launched into "I wanna go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua Hawaii, where the humuhumunukunukuapua’a goes swimming by." Happy memories.
TownPunk
+4
Level 62
May 30, 2022
Lysergic acid is just the precursor to LSD, which stands for lysergic acid diethylamide.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
May 5, 2023
I got Celine Dion when guessing Dionysus for the god one (I just went through all the Greek and Roman gods). 16/20, forgot about LSD so that was interesting
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