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Multiple Choice General Knowledge #4

Can you answer these multiple-choice general knowledge questions?
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1. How old was Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"?
13 ✓
21 ✓
31 ✓
45 ✓
Romeo's age was never specified
2. What is Limburger cheese known for?
Its bright color ✓
Its high price ✓
Its pungent smell ✓
3. What kind of battery is used to power modern laptop computers?
Lead-acid ✓
Lithium-ion ✓
Nickel-cadmium ✓
4. Which of these was a character in "Oliver Twist"?
The Artful Dodger ✓
Mr. Darcy ✓
Tom Sawyer ✓
Tiny Tim ✓
5. What did people call the Western films directed by Sergio Leone and other Italian directors?
Espresso westerns ✓
Gucci westerns ✓
Spaghetti westerns ✓
6. What does it mean when a movie is called a "blockbuster"?
It failed miserably ✓
It sold a lot of tickets ✓
7. What happened to the witch in "Hansel and Gretel"?
Gretel pushed her into an oven ✓
She ate Hansel and then flew away on her broomstick ✓
She disappeared into the deep, dark woods ✓
She transformed into a rat ✓
8. Which of these is NOT a type of architecture?
Art Deco ✓
Brutalist ✓
Dadaist ✓
Gothic ✓
9. What is the key ingredient in a Molotov cocktail?
Gasoline ✓
Milk ✓
Nitroglycerin ✓
Vodka ✓
10. What percentage of the passengers on the Titanic died in the disaster?
0% ✓
4% ✓
62% ✓
99.9% ✓
11. What was the name of Dorothy's aunt in "The Wizard of Oz"?
Aunt Bee ✓
Aunt Em ✓
Aunt Gertrude ✓
Aunt Rose ✓
12. Which of these musical instruments is most similar to a fife?
Flute ✓
Violin ✓
Trumpet ✓
13. What tribe did Goliath belong to?
Dothraki ✓
Hittites ✓
Philistines ✓
Scythians ✓
14. Which of these is NOT a sign of the Zodiac?
Aquarius ✓
Leo ✓
Orion ✓
Taurus ✓
15. If you "decimate" something, what percentage of it do you destroy?
10% ✓
90% ✓
100% ✓
16. In recent years, Nick Saban has been the highest-paid public employee in the United States. What is his profession?
Army general ✓
Customs inspector ✓
Football coach ✓
Surgeon ✓
sumguy
+12
Level 84
Jul 20, 2020
The next thing someone said after we learn that Juliet is only 13: "Younger than she are happy mothers made."
mrnafe
+21
Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
Don't say that, people will start campaigning to ban Shakespeare
OKCQuizzer
+13
Level 66
Jul 21, 2020
good! English major here. I hated shakespeare
mrnafe
+3
Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
Haha watch it or I'll ban you
Jacktheguy
+10
Level 89
Aug 4, 2020
#ShakespeareIsOverParty
mrnafe
+3
Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
Psh.. A pox on both your houses :)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Apr 24, 2022
Jokes on you mrnafe. Nattering ninnies have been campaigning to ban Shakespeare for centuries.
ander217
+5
Level 75
Aug 4, 2020
Loretta Lynn was only 15 when she and Doolittle married. They had six children and were married 48 years at the time of his death. I was a teenage bride and we're hoping to make it to our golden anniversary. In my region of the country teenage brides aren't unusual, although it's usually late teens, not early teens when they marry. It's interesting to me that in the Middle Ages richer girls usually married young while poor ones married when they were older. I suppose it was due to richer families sometimes arranging marriages for attaining property or titles rather than the daughters dreaming of young, romantic love.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
stop it we were enjoying our cultural and moral chauvinism.
ander217
+5
Level 75
Aug 5, 2020
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" :)
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Aug 8, 2022
This seemed weird to me, because the original Shakespeare play says that "Juliet had not seen the change of 14 years", so she's obviously 13 - but I seem to remember that in translations I've read, both in French and German, it says that she "hasn't entered her 14th year", which would make her 12, since you're in your 14th year at 13. I wonder if this is a mistranslation or if I misremembered! I'll try to check that out, eventually.
dunkinggandalf2
+3
Level 68
Aug 8, 2022
Also, I just found out: "She was born on "Lammas Eve at night" (1 August), so Juliet's birthday is 31 July (1.3.19)."

So, Juliet has the same birthday as Harry Potter - and, coincidentally, myself! Yay!

Jorissie
+33
Level 88
Jul 21, 2020
Technically at least 99,9% of the titanic passengers are dead (now).
kogatora
+3
Level 93
Jul 21, 2020
very true
Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Jul 21, 2020
Good one, changed the question slightly :)
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Jul 22, 2020
I very much appreciated the timely mention of Scythia! For those of you have not yet watched “The Old Guard” on Netflix, run, don’t walk to your nearest streaming device and do it right now.
APHill
+1
Level 75
Jul 22, 2020
Also have to put in a plug for the folk band Scythian - give them a listen!
APHill
+15
Level 75
Jul 22, 2020
If this quiz makes even one person stop using "decimate" improperly, it will have been worth it. Thank you for including it!
colematr
+15
Level 90
Jul 24, 2020
@APHill, look it up. Any dictionary will include the much more common definition of decimate as "to destroy a large part of" alongside the historical definition of killing every tenth man. In fact, the definition of decimate suggested by this quiz--to destroy 10% of something--is probably the least accurate. It is rare to find a definition of decimate that is as specific as 10% while simultaneously as general as "destroy something." If the definition specifies 10%, it's almost always in relation to a specific act: killing 1 in 10 soldiers or taxing 10%. If the definition doesn't specify 10%, it usually means to destroy a large part of.

In short, you might be using the word according to its most controversial meaning, whereas those you criticize are using it for its most widely accepted meaning.

APHill
+6
Level 75
Jul 28, 2020
If your argument is "everyone has been using the wrong definition for so long that it has become far more prevalent than the correct definition, thereby making the wrong definition right", then you have already lost the argument.
Dovicz
+1
Level 75
Jan 24, 2024
That's literally how language works, though
roleybob
+11
Level 75
Jul 29, 2020
decimate

/ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/

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verb

verb: decimate; 3rd person present: decimates; past tense: decimated; past participle: decimated; gerund or present participle: decimating

1.

kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.

"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated"

drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something).

"public transport has been decimated"

2.

historical

kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group.

"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

jmellor13
+15
Level 67
Aug 4, 2020
Actually, APHill, it is on precisely that basis that the dictionary has changed a lot of definitions. They fairly recently amended "momentarily" to include the previously-incorrect "in a moment" (as in "I'll be with you momentarily"), in addition to the established, correct meaning: "for a moment" (as in "I looked momentarily out the window.") I don't really like that change myself, but the fact is that words mean what most people agree they mean.
kalbahamut
+22
Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
AP: that's how a living dynamic language like English works.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Aug 4, 2020
That may be true in general terms, but in this case the new meaning is almost the opposite of the original meaning, and when a word means two opposite things it becomes almost useless. Whenever I hear the word "decimate", if the context isn't very clear then I want to ask - "what do you actually mean?

Destroyed a large part of it, or destroyed a small part of it?"

jmellor13
+6
Level 67
Aug 4, 2020
Jon, there are many words like that. They're called contronyms. Some examples are "sanction" (to punish or to approve behavior), "screen" (to block or to show), "cleave" (to split apart or stick together), "to dust" (to sprinkle with particles or to remove particles), "variety" (referring to one specific type of something or to something have many types), and "to weather" (to endure something and survive, or for something to erode something else). There are a lot more, but those are the ones I can summon right now. But a word whose meanings contradict each is other nothing new.
kevlarkev
+1
Level 62
Aug 4, 2020
You think that's bad? "Irregardless" has been added to the English dictionary. :/
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 72
Aug 6, 2022
President Eisenhower made that word much more popular. And Warren Harding invented the word "normalcy" as a part of his campaign slogan when running for President in 1920.
Dimby
+2
Level 77
Aug 6, 2022
There is no such thing as “the English dictionary”.
MastKwizzerRa
+3
Level 33
Jun 24, 2021
pls i will completely decimate u 100% stop flexing ur grammar.

u slef conceeted persin

Dimby
+3
Level 77
Aug 6, 2022
I literally could care less if people use do diligence with language. It just doesn’t peak my interest, per say, to try and nip bad grammar in the butt. Unthaw your heart, and its deep-seeded grammarian ways, and let people have free reign over their language! As long as the wording jives with meaning, it’s all a mute point.
jennraven
+1
Level 68
Aug 6, 2022
Are all of these mistakes bait?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 80
Aug 6, 2022
How eloquently put
partdavid
+3
Level 71
Aug 8, 2022
Agreed, although I could of paid more attention in class, it doesn't make a difference what a word is based off, for all intensive purposes.
RobNobody
+3
Level 76
Dec 6, 2022
Eh, if you're okay with a quarantine not lasting 40 days, or something other than a stone building being called dilapidated, or a dashboard being used for something other than keeping dirt from being kicked up (or "dashed") into your face, or saying something is terrific without it inspiring terror, or calling something that exists in the real world fantastic, then you can live with decimation affecting more than 10%.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Aug 4, 2020
Got the Zodiac question wrong 🤦‍♂️
Eigengrau
+1
Level 60
Aug 4, 2020
Bruh...
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Aug 4, 2020
In my Grimm's Fairy Tales book when I was little, Gretel never pushes the witch into the oven, they somehow escape (I forget how) and the witch chases them. Somehow Hansel ends up being permanently changed into a deer but they bump into the King's hunting party (I think) and Gretel sweet-talks the prince into catching the witch and saving Hansel, and then the prince marries her and they all live happily ever after. It's a bit non-standard.
ander217
+4
Level 75
Aug 4, 2020
I have the real thing and it's brutal in places. I loved it when I was young, but now some of the stories scare me. :)
Susie222
+3
Level 59
Aug 10, 2020
Originally fairy tales were NOT aimed at children. They were stories adults told to each other for amusement or cautionary tales, not unlike watching "The Walking Dead" or other horror shows nowadays.
EcceHomo
+2
Level 79
Feb 8, 2021
The German word for these 'fairy' tales is Märchen, and is our source for the word 'nightmare'
Dimby
+2
Level 77
Aug 6, 2022
I’m not sure it’s accurate to say that pre-Renaissance fairy tales were not for children. I’m sure there’s a reason that Hansel and Gretel were children and found a house made of confection. I think it’s more likely that things were just generally more brutal in the 1600s and kids were expected to understand the brutality of the world. I mean, heck, it wasn’t uncommon that parents would actually ditch unwanted children in the woods in 17th century Europe. I think a lot of these brutal fairy tales were probably meant to teach children moral lessons.
KIS
+1
Level 81
Sep 23, 2021
I read "what is *not* a key ingredient" doh.
MassLumpBlockClod
+5
Level 83
Jun 7, 2022
It would be fun to see the breakdown of guesses for multiple choice quizzes as opposed to just how many got the answer right.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 72
Aug 6, 2022
Another interesting word origin: "blockbuster" was invented in the 1940s to refer to a bomb capable of leveling an entire city block.
3NRD
+1
Level 41
Aug 6, 2022
That is a chilling thought.

It seems you posted tomorrow.

edit

It also seems i replied tommorow,

Las Vegas NV local time.

Marvo7
+1
Level 60
Aug 6, 2022
Philistines weren't a 'tribe' but a people.
Rozzi
+1
Level 60
Aug 7, 2022
I got tricked by the public/private transatlantic difference in the last question. A football coach seemed the obvious high earner, but they wouldn't be employed by the government I thought! Darn you Americans and your twisted terminology!
RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Dec 6, 2022
Hey, what's twisted about a school paid for by public funds (i.e., operated by the government via taxpayer money) being called a public school?
MrBuzz
+1
Level 41
Aug 7, 2022
While historically, the word 'decimate' has been attributed to the idea of '1 in 10', it was almost entirely used in a military sense. Furthermore in a modern context, is most commonly used to describe something that is completely destroyed or demolished.
wassallthatabout
+2
Level 61
Aug 8, 2022
How is a football coach a public employee? Does the US government own an NFL team?
JeromesNiece
+2
Level 72
Aug 8, 2022
Nick Saban is the coach of the football team of a public university: The University of Alabama. He's an employee of the state of Alabama.
wassallthatabout
+1
Level 61
Aug 9, 2022
Thanks - I was confused!
SpencerGT
+1
Level 67
Oct 1, 2022
The state of Alabama owns a college, which operates a football team.
luxwoodflowerpod
+1
Level 32
Aug 8, 2022
To decimate: kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of. Do your research love. ta
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