General Knowledge Quiz #47

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?
1492
What is the official language of Brazil?
Portuguese
What band's music is featured in the musical "Mamma Mia!"?
ABBA
What is the shortest word that starts with gn?
Gnu
What singer's hits include "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep"?
Adele
Which U.S. President is thought to have had polio?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was born in Argentina, was a Communist revolutionary in Cuba, and was executed in Bolivia?
Che Guevara
What are Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Polaris?
Stars
Who is the Incredible Hulk's alter ego?
Bruce Banner
What Jamaican spice blend is made with allspice, Scotch bonnet peppers,
and other seasonings?
Jerk
Which country is connected to Singapore by bridges?
Malaysia
Who is (usually) pursued by Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde?
Pac-Man
What is the name of a volcano, a camera company, and a type of apple?
Fuji
What is the capital of El Salvador?
San Salvador
What language gave us the words "chutzpah" and "shtick"?
Yiddish
What is the name of the Japanese mafia?
Yakuza
What term, meaning "the boy", refers to weather conditions caused by warm water off the Pacific coast of South America?
El Niño
What country was Aesop from?
Greece
What is another word for the abominable snowman?
Yeti
What school is accessible via an express train that departs from Platform 9 ¾
at King's Cross station?
Hogwarts
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Level 26
Sep 6, 2012
Living in NYC helps.
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Level 84
Dec 10, 2014
Helps what?
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Level 85
Dec 10, 2014
Everything. It's the center of the world.
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Level 82
Feb 1, 2019
You spelled London wrong :)
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Level 50
May 14, 2021
and centre
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Level 76
Jul 16, 2023
yeah well uhhhhh, you spelled, uh, shut up
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Level 70
Sep 6, 2012
Finally a general knowledge quiz I scored 100% on.
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Level 45
May 15, 2019
Same here 😄.
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Level 55
Dec 10, 2014
I always thought it was DAVID Banner who is the Hulk's alter ego.
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Level 55
Dec 10, 2014
Only Bill Bixby in the TV show was David Banner. I actually have no idea why. Maybe Aaron Spelling (or Glen A Larson or whoever) thought Bruce was more a villainous name or something.
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Level 72
Dec 10, 2014
They actually thought Bruce sounded too gay. True story.
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Level 61
Aug 9, 2018
Sad but true. Bruce become his middle name for the show, if I'm remembering correctly.
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Level 73
Mar 6, 2021
Only if you lithp it like "Broooth"
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Level 77
May 12, 2023
Have you ever even talked to a gay person? :/
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Level 41
Dec 10, 2014
Gnu... total guess :)
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Level 59
Nov 30, 2020
I just typed in gn and tried every vowel
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Level 85
Jan 12, 2022
I gnu it!
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Level 68
Dec 10, 2014
What do you mean Roosevelt was "thought to have polio". He HAD polio.
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Level 67
Dec 10, 2014
I was wondering that too. Maybe it's one of those bits of history that somehow gets distorted? I don't know. I've read a fair amount about FDR. Never heard of him "maybe" having polio.
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Level ∞
Dec 11, 2014
It's actually not 100% certain that he had polio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_paralytic_illness

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Level 58
Sep 23, 2015
Whoo, 100% with 0:16 left, so close!
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Level 52
Jul 5, 2016
Didn't take "pacman" :-(
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Level 82
Mar 18, 2017
Impossible, punctuation and capital letters don't count on Jetpunk.
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Level 55
Jul 31, 2018
I only learned the Colombus rhyme due to this quiz
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Level 78
Sep 18, 2018
Presumably before 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean joyfully
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Level 78
Sep 18, 2018
Please accept Yakusa. It's just as good a transliteration from the Japanese. As a Brit (and therefore frugal in my use of zeds, or zees as I believe they are called in some more ignorant offshoots of the empire) I couldn't figure out why Yakusa wasn't accepted
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Level 51
Feb 5, 2024
My guess is that your argument was going down well until the bit about the, 'more ignorant' parts of the empire….
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Level 84
Sep 18, 2018
I knew Yakuza because of the Simpsons. "They'll kill ya five times before ya hit the ground!"
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Level 66
Dec 28, 2018
Ugh, I tried hebrew, and then jewish and then my time was up, couldnt think of jiddisch fast enough
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Level 63
Jan 31, 2019
I tried those as well and then Jiddish. But with a J so I didn't get it.
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Level 75
Feb 1, 2019
Saw "Someone Like You" and immediately thought of Rod Stewart's "Reason to Believe" and couldn't even think of a guess after that.
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Level 56
May 14, 2023
Me too
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Level 78
Nov 7, 2019
Per the classic movie 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' another name for the Abominable Snowman is a Bumble - hence the line: 'Bumbles bounce.'
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Level 21
Feb 10, 2021
I spelt Yetti with two 'T's. Should this count?
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Level 62
May 22, 2023
uh, no
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Level 67
May 12, 2023
100%, 1:29. Average on this one seems to be way higher than usual, I thought it felt kind of easy but it's fun when you can get everything
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Level 84
May 13, 2023
I thought it was spelled Hogworts. Learn something new every day.
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Level 66
Jul 16, 2023
Is the Hulk called Bruce Banner in the new Avengers movies?

I don't think I've ever heard the name before. I was surprised 75% of people knew it. I don't know much pop culture, but know of Dr Octopus, Alfred Pennyworth, Charles Xavier, etc. - Banner doesn't even ring a bell. Maybe The Hulk didn't have much mainstream success.

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Level 62
Jul 16, 2023
He's referred to as Bruce, Banner, Bruce Banner, Dr. Banner, Dr. Bruce Banner.
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Level 73
Jul 16, 2023
Easy Peasy today
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Level 35
Jul 23, 2023
Abominable Snowman is also called Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Why are these not accepted?
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Level 72
Jul 27, 2023
Not the same imaginary (or is it?) creature. Bigfoot and Sasquatch both refer to a forest living, brown haired one, whereas Yeti/Abominable Snowman lives in snowy mountains and is white haired.
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Level 37
Feb 16, 2024
Finally, another 20. This one seemed fairly easy.