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General Knowledge Quiz #215

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: October 13, 2021
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What sport has a scheduled 20 minute tea break?
Test Cricket
What animal could be described as a "striped equid"?
Zebra
What language do the names of the planets come from?
Latin
What actress supposedly has an anti fandom who call themselves "Hathahaters"?
Anne Hathaway
What species was first identified from remains found in the Neander valley
in present-day Germany?
Neanderthal
What company released the "Game Boy" in 1989?
Nintendo
What is a corsage made of?
Flowers
What Chinese video-sharing app has been downloaded over 2 billion times
worldwide as of 2020?
TikTok
People with a high one will be more likely to know that the median is 100 and the
standard deviation is 15. What is it?
Intelligence Quotient
What is the English title of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre-Dame de Paris"?
The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame
What element is "fixed" from the atmosphere to make fertilizer?
Nitrogen
What is the family name of Luke and Anakin?
Skywalker
What is the Arabic word for God?
Allah
Two Australian states are named for Queen Victoria. One is Victoria. What is the other?
Queensland
What was the first European country to colonize New York City?
Netherlands
Who was discovered by the Pharaoh's daughter, floating in a basket in the Nile River?
Moses
In terms of animal populations, what is worse than "vulnerable"
but better than "extinct"?
Endangered
What percussion instrument has a name starting and ending in g?
Gong
What word is a homophone of "marshal"?
Martial
What fearsome animals can sometimes be seen roving the streets in Churchill, Manitoba
on the shores of Hudson Bay?
Polar Bears
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Level 89
Oct 13, 2021
Anyone who believes ridiculous claims that they have a high IQ by recognizing 1980s celebrities on an ad link or believes a list of Presidents' IQs...from before tests existed...falls on the low end of the deviation.
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Level 79
Oct 20, 2021
Ok
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Level 87
Oct 13, 2021
Percussion is misspelled in the hint for gong
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Level ∞
Oct 13, 2021
Fixed
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Level 84
Oct 13, 2021
Also garantung, gendang, gulintang and gung-gong apparently, and probably more. Not suggesting type-ins, was just curious as the world of percussion instruments is vast.
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Level 73
Oct 13, 2021
I read question 2 as "striped squid" and was having a very difficult time with it.
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Level 82
Oct 20, 2021
Favourite Jetpunk comment ever.
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Level 82
Oct 14, 2021
There are three classifications between "vulnerable" and "extinct" ("endangered", "critically endangered" and "extinct in the wild"), so it might be worth accepting the other two.
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Level 82
Oct 20, 2021
Yep, I tried both the other two before I thought to try just 'endangered'.
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Level 52
Oct 20, 2021
I came to write this. Couldn't work out why Critically Endangered wasn't accepted
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Level 78
Oct 20, 2021
Yeah I tried extinct in the wild and then gave up :(
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Level 77
Oct 20, 2021
Yes, this. I tried critically endangered because I remembered that classification. A type-in would be nice.
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Level 54
Oct 15, 2021
"People with a high one will be more likely to know that the median is 100 and the

standard deviation is 15."

This should be "IQ". It's no longer calculated as a "quotient".

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Level 77
Oct 20, 2021
I hate to think how you'll react when you find out what that Q stands for...
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Level 83
Oct 20, 2021
I guessed gabbang for the percussion instrument.
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Level 70
Oct 22, 2021
The Welshwizard's first thought was a bamboo xylophone of the southern Philippines??
+3
Level 67
Oct 20, 2021
Earth is not a latin word
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Level 70
Oct 22, 2021
Maybe it's Latinx.
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Level 76
Sep 27, 2022
Rightly so. I also believe Uranus is from Greek.
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Level 82
Oct 20, 2021
I know why the answer for the last one is right but I still think "humans" should be an accepted answer
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Level 79
Oct 20, 2021
I tried exactly the same thing just for my own entertainment. Technically, it is very true lol.
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Level 29
Oct 20, 2021
No i come here to get away from tik tok how dare you bring it up
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Level 60
Oct 20, 2021
Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way. Thanks, They Might Be Giants
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Level 28
Oct 21, 2021
Got the first question correct on my first try, just thought of the most British sport I could and bam, question right
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Level 67
Oct 21, 2021
I had to buy a corsage recently they mad expensive now
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Level 82
Oct 21, 2021
Get some ribbon and go pick some wild flowers and you can make your own.
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Level 70
Oct 21, 2021
For the corsage-question, I tried cotton, silk and nylon.

I thought the question was about a type of lingerie :)

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Level 37
Oct 22, 2021
Hahaha I, for some reason read that word and thought of a corset! and I started thinking of different fabrics one could be made of xD
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Level 64
Oct 23, 2021
Redlist and critical should be accepted for endangered species
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Level 62
Sep 18, 2022
Can this quiz be added to the General Knowledge playlist? It is hard to keep track of when new General Knowledge quizzes come out.