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General Knowledge Quiz #197

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What country are the Galapagos Islands part of?
Ecuador
What is the capital of Quebec?
Quebec City
What lies just north of the Sahel?
The Sahara
What tendon connects the heel to the calf?
Achilles Tendon
What does the red circle on the Japanese flag represent?
The Sun
What is it called when a speculator buys nearly the entire supply of a commodity, causing prices to skyrocket?
Cornering the Market
In the song from "The Wizard of Oz", what two words come before "The Witch is Dead"?
Ding Dong
What singer wanted to party like it's 1999?
Prince
What would you buy at an automat?
Food
What country is known poetically as Erin?
Ireland
Where would you find the amygdala?
In the Brain
What language from the TV show "Star Trek" has a couple dozen fluent speakers?
Klingon
What is a common word that means "hirsute"?
Hairy
Who was the most recent U.S. President to not finish his entire term?
Richard Nixon
What subject was studied by Gauss, Fermat, and Poincaré?
Mathematics
What actor requested a purple lightsaber for his character in "Star Wars: Episode II"?
Samuel L. Jackson
What legendary animal, a cross between a serpent and a rooster, can cause death with a single glance?
Basilisk
What was the first name of former Russian President Yeltsin?
Boris
Which animal comes first alphabetically?
Aardvark
Since 1980, only two countries outside of Africa have been affected by famine. Name either.
North Korea / Yemen
APHill
+7
Level 75
Apr 30, 2019
Accept Cockatrice for the legendary animal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatrice
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Apr 30, 2019
Sure
sillie
+7
Level 77
Apr 30, 2019
How about accepting snacks from the automat?
Daaaaaaaavid
+2
Level 21
May 18, 2022
And drinks too
jukeboxandy
+1
Level 65
Oct 30, 2022
and tickets
sumguy
+11
Level 84
Apr 30, 2019
I don't want to tell you guys how to define your language, but if you invent a word pronounced "automat" and the answer to what you buy there isn't "cars", you failed at naming stuff.
POOCH
+8
Level 72
Apr 30, 2019
No, that's an automart. It's on the corner by the laundromat.
QRU
+16
Level 74
Apr 30, 2019
Auto means "self", Automobile "selfmoving". That was actually a difficult question for me, because in my native language, automats describe a wide array of machines, from ones giving snacks, drinks, toys, cigarettes or condoms.
kogatora
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Level 93
May 2, 2019
have to agree there, even once you know it means vending machine I have seen eggs, chocolate, drinks, phones, cigarettes, condoms .. i wouldn't eat all of these.
Carry
+7
Level 63
May 10, 2019
I think it's a very generic term as well. I first thought of an automat for tickets for public transport.
MayaB
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Level 73
May 13, 2019
I only got the right answer by guessing some of the things you already listed. The question was very confusing for me.
Striker
+2
Level 59
May 23, 2019
Tried snacks and drinks and when that didn't work, thought that it didn't mean vending machine, gave up and moved on.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
May 23, 2019
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automat

The definition is different in different languages, but in English, it refers to a machine or cafeteria where food is dispensed.

ander217
+1
Level 75
May 26, 2019
I got it because when I was young when people went to New York City one thing they wanted to do was eat at The Automat. We saw it in movies.
MikesBrain
+2
Level 77
May 23, 2019
How about Venezuela for the famine thing? Its not environmental but political but it is happening.
KinsterPowers
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Level 65
Dec 20, 2020
Isn't it considered famine? The average person has lost 11kg in Venezuela, as reported in Reuters.
AttilatheHutt
+1
Level 84
May 23, 2019
The purple lightsaber was actually a request for Episode II, he doesn't use it in the first one.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
May 23, 2019
Fixed
Greenland
+3
Level 48
May 23, 2019
I agree about the Automat thing - is the question even about an English word?

I just thought of a German Automat, which could be dispensing almost anything - or even just be a machine of some kind

TheCrusher
+4
Level 72
May 23, 2019
Amygdala had me confused. In French, we use the word "amygdales" for tonsels, so I tried throat, mouth, larynx and a number of other variations. (I also tried Naboo, just to see if the Quizmaster was feeling funny.)
Skebander
+1
Level 73
Jun 6, 2022
I just tried 'Norway' and gave up.
Yanni47
+1
Level 77
May 23, 2019
Funny - just before doing this quiz, I was watching "Free Solo", where the amygdala came up. Had I done the quiz about half an hour earlier, I wouldn't have been able to answered that particular question!
DonTheLamplighter
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Level 84
Jan 12, 2020
Basilisk. A new nickname for my mother-in-law.
Chris19
+3
Level 51
Apr 15, 2020
Tried "number theory" for the question about Gauß/Fermat/Poincaré. I guess that was a little too specific :-)
MassLumpBlockClod
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Level 83
Jun 2, 2021
The Achilles' tendon is also known as the calcaneal tendon (the calcaneus is the heel bone). I believe calcaneal is more preferred by anatomists these days as it's more descriptive.
TheGreatArturo
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Level 76
Mar 3, 2024
Given that the vast majority of people call it the Achilles tendon, your point is not pressing.
stylus
+1
Level 76
Apr 12, 2022
allow groceries for food?
JackintheBox
+3
Level 79
Jun 6, 2022
I tried 'drinks' and 'snacks' for automat!
b1094
+1
Level 68
Jun 6, 2022
Accept "drinks" for the automat question? See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat?oldformat=true
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
May 5, 2023
15/20, got food by accident
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