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General Knowledge Quiz #38

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedJune 28, 2012
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In popular culture, what does BFF stand for?
Best Friends Forever
If Mario eats a mushroom, he gets bigger. What power up item allows
Mario to shoot fireballs?
Flower
What disease is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C?
Scurvy
What 1997 blockbuster movie told the story of something that happened
85 years earlier?
Titanic
Holstein and Angus are types of what?
Cattle
Who performed "U Can't Touch This" and "2 Legit 2 Quit"?
MC Hammer
What country lies directly south of the Strait of Gibraltar?
Morocco
What country was once led by F. W. de Klerk?
South Africa
What comic book character has an alter ego named Diana Prince?
Wonder Woman
What country is Transylvania a part of?
Romania
What is the best-selling hybrid car of all time?
Toyota Prius
In what book would you find a character known as the Artful Dodger?
Oliver Twist
What Russian lake is the world's deepest, and also its oldest?
Lake Baikal
What "generalísimo" ruled Spain from 1939–1975?
Francisco Franco
What city's "Great Smog" is blamed for killing 4,000 people over four days in 1952?
London
What Christmas production is responsible for about 40% of the revenue
of American ballet companies?
The Nutcracker
What is the common English translation of the Latin phrase "nolo contendere"?
No contest
What is pulchritude?
Beauty
Hermes is 1. Aphrodite is 2. Zeus is 5. What is 4?
Ares
What method, used by bats to navigate, is also known as "bio sonar"?
Echolocation
MuthrTrukr
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Level 64
Jan 14, 2015
tough quiz - but very good. Learn something new every time I take one of these quizzes. :))
IvanTheNorse
+14
Level 56
May 29, 2015
I hate to be a pedant, but the first land you come to which is directly south of Gibraltar is a Spanish enclave, and therefore Spain.
Osiris
+6
Level 62
Jun 2, 2018
You're right. The answer could be either Morocco or Spain, depending on whether you are on the eastern or western portion of the strait.
rocamorar
+15
Level 78
Mar 29, 2021
But the test is asking for the territory south of the Gibraltar strait, not the Gibraltar peninsulat. If we consider that the strait is centered in the narrowest opening to the Mediterranean, then the answer is clearly Morocco.
Yanni47
+1
Level 75
Oct 4, 2017
Could "no fight" be accepted for nolo contendere please?
samiamco
+12
Level 69
Aug 16, 2018
Only if you get video of a judge accepting "no fight" as a plea.
GreenFriday
+18
Level 83
Aug 15, 2018
Love the Greek gods clue, took me a little while but pleased when I got it.
Regas
+8
Level 59
Dec 14, 2018
That specific question was brilliant.
DannyWozza
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Level 93
Aug 16, 2018
Can someone please explain the Greek gods clue? I've seen the answer but don't know what it means and, yes, I tried Googling it...
phalocrocorax
+20
Level 82
Aug 16, 2018
If you replace each one with the Roman equivalent, they should make a familiar pattern.
zuzu
+4
Level 63
Aug 16, 2018
I still do not get it. Please explain. I feel silly..
jlf314
+51
Level 84
Aug 16, 2018
Hi zuzu. The Roman equivalents are the planets, counting out from the Sun.

1. Mercury

2. Venus

4. Mars

5. Jupiter

POOCH
+18
Level 73
Aug 16, 2018
Thank you for taking the time to explain that question. I know that I would have never been able to figure it out and I hate when that happens - as it does with ever-increasing regularity.
mrnafe
+11
Level 81
Aug 16, 2018
Yea thanks for explaining chaps, couldn't work it out for the life of me.

Awesome clue though for sure

samiamco
+4
Level 69
Aug 16, 2018
Oooohhhh! Cool!
vermiciousknid
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Level 86
Dec 14, 2018
Thanks to jlf314 for the explanation. I only got the answer when I decided to try naming random Greek gods, and I still didn't understand why it was correct. Clever question.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 56
May 22, 2023
It occurred to me after I guessed it.
cwasims
+7
Level 61
Dec 14, 2018
Could "I do not contest" be added as an acceptable answer (for those of us answering from our rusty Latin)?
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 73
Nov 30, 2020
I think a few other variations should be accepted. 'not contested'/'uncontested' are common as well.
wielblad
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Level 66
Mar 24, 2021
+1

A basic knowledge of Latin might at a stretch be considered "general knowledge", but knowledge of something that's only a quirk of the US law system shouldn't be, internationally.

Dimby
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Level 74
Jan 8, 2022
The term “no contest” is common, though. It’s used in various places, like law and sport. I’m pretty sure it has been around for centuries and is international (as a non-American I knew the term instantly).
Sifhraven
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Level 66
Dec 14, 2018
Toyota didnt work. Does toyota have other hybrid cars then?
grantdon
+6
Level 74
Dec 14, 2018
Probably in the works but not all Toyotas are Priuses
Carry
+6
Level 63
Jan 31, 2019
Doesn't matter. The quiz asks for a car. Toyota is a Producer/brand - not a car.
Bdubz
+1
Level 43
May 31, 2020
The toyota corolla isn't a hybrid, only the prius.
roadrage
+1
Level 68
Jun 19, 2020
....soon to be overtaken by Tesla.
Dimby
+7
Level 74
Jan 8, 2022
Ha ha ha ha! Tesla only sells a couple hundred thousand cars per year. They’ll never catch Toyota.
kuyafabes
+6
Level 78
Mar 22, 2023
Tesla produce exactly zero hybrid cars. They're all electric.
nomad14
+7
Level 69
Jun 19, 2020
What an awesome planet / mythology question.
Dml123
+4
Level 67
Nov 1, 2020
Did not accept prettiness for pulchitrude - I've always considered it to be mean more 'pretty' than 'beautiful', but maybe that was just the way my classics teacher explained it! Consider prettiness as a type in...?
Koult45
+1
Level 55
Nov 28, 2020
I got that you were talking about planets, but couldn't for the life of me remember the Greek equivalent of Mars.
Aljo
+1
Level 24
May 27, 2021
The gods/planets question is cool but is not objectively correct in the sense that there is no unambiguous single answer.

Otherwise, great quiz!

Dimby
+6
Level 74
Jan 8, 2022
It definitely has a single correct answer. How else could those gods be ranked? By Taylor Swift’s Greek God tier list? She doesn’t care about Greek mythology! Don’t be silly!
RobNobody
+4
Level 74
Mar 22, 2023
What's another possible answer to the question as written?
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 64
Jul 28, 2021
Interesting how Ares was quite low, I guess it takes a moment to realize it's referring to planets
HyddenRizz
+4
Level 65
Jan 15, 2023
I just simply don't know the Greek Gods. We covered the Romans in a lot more detail at school.
GreatDane
+6
Level 65
Feb 19, 2022
Pulchritude is such an ugly word for a beautiful concept.
TonoIcono
+1
Level 68
Jul 3, 2022
I think the Hybrid car question needs to be updated. As far as I know, Prius is not anymore the best selling hybrid model?
mez
+1
Level 70
Mar 21, 2023
pretty sure it still is the Prius.
jennraven
+3
Level 67
Sep 14, 2022
Oliver for Oliver Twist? I know that’s the stage/movie version, and I had such a facepalm moment when I saw the answer.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 14, 2022
Oliver will work now.
Findlay
+2
Level 83
Nov 3, 2022
I got the Greek Gods one correct through random guesswork before I figured out what it actually meant.
Liquidano
+1
Level 46
Feb 26, 2023
Pulchritude is not beauty. It's cleanliness
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2023
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulchritude

Perhaps you are confusing cleanliness for comeliness.

phalocrocorax
+5
Level 82
Mar 22, 2023
To be fair, it is next to the question involving godliness.
Neodymium
+3
Level 58
Mar 21, 2023
You wrote cattle with 3 "t"
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Mar 21, 2023
This is fixed.
sumguy
+7
Level 83
Mar 21, 2023
Fire Flower should work for the Mario question, since that's what it's called in the games.
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 75
Mar 21, 2023
Please allow "Fire Flower". I see what you are trying to do, by just saying "mushroom" instead of "super mushroom" in the question, but the Super Mushroom is often just called a Mushroom casually, while the Fire Flower is almost never just called the "flower".
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Mar 21, 2023
Fixed
DonTheLamplighter
+7
Level 84
Mar 23, 2023
I had no idea what allowed Mario to shoot fireballs, so I tried "Taco Bell".
JackintheBox
+1
Level 77
Mar 28, 2023
I tried 'no competition' :/
Lemondance
+2
Level 66
May 21, 2023
Was not expecting to see a featured quiz with a pic of Yotsuba as its preview image, lol
EmilyGriffin
+1
Level 37
May 23, 2023
the latin one is a bit misleading since i have a basic knowledge of latin but not of the US legal system- nolo actually means "I do not wish" so i wrote "I do not wish to contend" and "I do not want to contend," could these be acceptable as they are the actual translations?
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