General Knowledge Quiz #1

Can you answer these random trivia questions?

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First submitted	January 12, 2013
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Average score	50.0%
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Question	Answer
What is the Spanish word for bull?	Toro
What is the capital of the Philippines?	Manila
Who died in 1948, having never won the Nobel Peace Prize? (It has been called the greatest omission in the history of the award)	Mohandas Gandhi
According to cliché, what do birds of a feather do?	Flock together
What element has symbol Pb?	Lead
Who was John Lennon's second wife?	Yoko Ono
The West Bank is one Palestinian territory. What is the other one?	The Gaza Strip
In what language was Catholic mass always delivered, until the 1960s?	Latin
What country built the Maginot Line to resist invasion from its eastern neighbor? (it didn't work)	France
Who are the best-selling Swedish band of all time?	ABBA
What city is bordered by the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus, and the Sea of Marmara?	Istanbul
What is the term for the smallest animal in a litter?	Runt
What single word sounds like "Youth in Asia"?	Euthanasia
On what island would you find the city of Honolulu?	Oahu
Two elements of the periodic table start with Z. Name either.	Zinc / Zirconium
Who said, of his son, "I want Brooklyn to be Christened, but I don’t know into what religion yet"?	David Beckham
What is the nearest city to New York City which has a population over 10 million?	Mexico City
What could Cassandra, Jeremiah, and Paul the Octopus see that most people can not?	The Future
Who starred as James Bond immediately before Daniel Craig?	Pierce Brosnan
What former patent clerk was named Time Magazine's "Person of the Century" in 1999?	Albert Einstein

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Level 12

Jan 17, 2013

You should acccept Plumbum for Pb because that is technically correct.

+99

Level 89

Dec 23, 2018

Technically, you know it's lead.

You know that technically lead is simpler to type in.

Technically you're just being pedantic.

+39

Level 45

Jan 19, 2019

For birds of a feather I tried

Stick together

Fly together

Stay together

I completely forgot flock together

Level 71

Aug 13, 2021

I tried just "flock". :(

+14

Level 88

Feb 15, 2022

Stick together is all I've ever heard. Should at least be accepted as a type in.

Level 79

Sep 28, 2022

Get the flock outta here.

+31

Level 56

Apr 15, 2019

Um, no. Hate to break it to you but the quiz is in English, not Latin. If you accept "Plumbum", then you'll have to accept every language ("plomb", "blei", "piombo", "chumbo", "plomo" etc.)

Level 46

Sep 3, 2020

Plubonium

+22

Level 22

Feb 5, 2021

I am Duck

Level 59

Dec 8, 2022

Level 48

May 21, 2023

fake

Level 51

Jan 20, 2022

well than shouldn't peanut butter work?

Level 49

Feb 9, 2023

not that kinda pb...

Level 26

Dec 31, 2023

or peanut butter that what I put

Level 21

Sep 1, 2013

Thank you Modern Warfare 2 for the map Favela! (Not just because it's my favorite map in the game)

+22

Level 76

Aug 3, 2014

Please also accept "stick together"

Level 36

Aug 19, 2014

That's not the saying, though. It's a famous quote, and therefore should remain original.

Level 73

Apr 4, 2016

I wonder whether you're thinking of 'My Guy'? There's a line in there that goes 'Like birds of a feather we stick together'.

Level 75

Apr 17, 2020

In the UK it's 'flock' together. That's what the saying is. End of discussion. Nice weather we're having eh?

+15

Level 59

Oct 6, 2020

End of the conversation... until you realize that not everyone uses the same terms used in the UK.

Level 75

Dec 22, 2020

Yeah yeetdeet I suppose it has been a little rainy recently, but at least the plants will appreciate it.

Level 62

Mar 12, 2022

I've always heard it as "flock" too.

Level 46

Mar 3, 2018

yeah i did that first then i did flock together lol

Level 50

Apr 12, 2020

Also know it as "stick together"

Level 43

May 19, 2020

Agreed. That's the only way I've ever heard the expression.

Level 20

Feb 11, 2021

Ye ik i learned it as 'Birds of a feather, STICK together'.....

+29

Level 90

Sep 26, 2017

Uh, almost typed IKEA for the Swedish band one.

Level 63

Mar 15, 2018

Is that a new band?

+16

Level 72

Jul 4, 2022

Yeah, but the audience has to build the stage for them

Level 59

Dec 8, 2022

UNDERRATED COMMENT

Level 67

Dec 18, 2018

Only thing that came to mind is Lordi... but turns out that is finnish

Level 79

Sep 28, 2022

Birds of a feather Finnish together. That's what I heard once too.

Level 66

Sep 26, 2017

Why is this a new featured one?

Level 91

Sep 26, 2017

Seems the 2017 hurricanes have been included.

Level 66

Sep 27, 2017

In that case that question isn't true yet, Maria is still a Hurricane me

Level ∞

Sep 27, 2017

I actually replaced about half of the questions. My quiz writing style is much different than it was in 2013, which is the last time this quiz was featured.

Level ∞

Feb 15, 2022

This time I only changed 2 questions. Pace of change is slowing I guess.

+15

Level 81

Sep 27, 2017

I got Toro from guessing Toronto... Bonus.

Level 74

Jan 25, 2018

Same.

Level 67

Dec 18, 2018

kind of tough when you have taurus in your head. After many tries I thought of torro, heard it in my head. But that didnt work either, not untill later I tried it with one r

Level 29

Jul 14, 2021

Same

Level 79

Jul 4, 2022

Same!

Level 46

Jul 13, 2023

Same haha

Level 80

Sep 27, 2017

The David Beckham question is wrong. Brooklyn is one of his sons, not his daughter

+14

Level ∞

Sep 27, 2017

Kids, this is what happens when you ASSUME. Fixed!

Level 73

Oct 8, 2017

I didn't know the answer, but I thought, who would be dumb enough to say something like this. After I tried 'Madonna' and did not have the correct answer, I tried to think of Britney Spears but I drew a blank. So I typed 'Beckham.' Bingo.

Level 92

Dec 11, 2017

Although I knew the answer, I thought this tidbit would be a little too esoteric to be on a general knowledge quiz.

Level 71

Oct 12, 2017

Good quiz, if you like General Knowledge quizzes try my first of 29 ...here it is

Level 54

Oct 12, 2017

I thought the question "What is the nearest city to New York City that has a population over 10 million?' meant the city that was physically closest to New York City and had 10 million residents.

+19

Level 82

Nov 1, 2017

I think your understanding is correct.

Level 65

Jun 30, 2023

Couldn't think of the name of the New Jersey city.

+14

Level 48

Oct 25, 2017

I must be the only one to type in Zirconium instead of Zinc...

Level 47

Nov 13, 2017

Don't worry, there always are people who will overthink it :)

Level 92

Dec 11, 2017

Thought of both, but chose to type zinc, because I'm lazy.

Level 78

Jan 16, 2018

No, you aren't.

Level 74

Jan 25, 2018

Wrong.

Level 61

Mar 1, 2018

Nerd

Level 67

Dec 18, 2018

Nope only thought of zirconium. why would you think that?

Level 79

Aug 16, 2019

Because Zinc is much more common and well-down and easier to type than Zirconium

Level 59

Mar 15, 2019

I put Zirconium too, I thought I was only one

Level 60

Mar 1, 2018

If people came to know the real truth behind Gandhi, then they would have thanked god that he didn't got the noble prize.

Level 67

Mar 1, 2018

That given the opportunity, he will rain nukes on your civilization? Nope sorry, don't follow.

Also I feel that my life would be unaffected by anyone winning the Noble Peace Prize (unless I got a share of the winnings).

Level 82

Mar 1, 2018

I don't think Gandhi would have been eligible for a Noble Peace Prize as he was not royalty.

Level 60

Mar 9, 2018

And Barack Obama is? I hope you're joking...

Level 93

Dec 5, 2018

Obama didn't win a "noble" peace prize MasterKenobi

Level 82

May 5, 2021

Nobility and royalty aren't the same thing though.

Level 67

Jul 4, 2022

I think the point being made was that "Nobel" and "noble" aren't the same things either ;-)

Level 71

Mar 21, 2021

Yeah, what do you mean? I realize that some of Gandhi's views have come under more scrutiny in the past decade or so, but no one's calling him a monster. It's literally the Nobel Peace Prize, and Gandhi organized one of the biggest nonviolent resistance movements in history. Also, the Nobel Peace Prize isn't particularly impressive when its laureates include such humanitarians as Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, and Abiy Ahmed.

Level ∞

Feb 15, 2022

He was racist against blacks, classist against Dalits, and he also slept nude with young women, including his grand-niece, to "test himself".

We have a tendency to cover up the crimes of great men like Gandhi, MLK, and Nelson Mandela because it goes against what people want to believe.

I still think he deserved a Peace Prize.

Level 71

Jul 4, 2022

Yeah, I know that. And just to be clear, I wasn't trying to say we should completely ignore the personal demons he had. But then again, who doesn't have personal demons? When you take everything into account, Gandhi was still a net positive for the world, and we can still respect him while acknowledging that some of the things he said/did shouldn't be acceptable today. The same can be said of MLK, Mandela, Lincoln, etc.

Level 20

Apr 16, 2024

Nobel

Level 57

Mar 1, 2018

i got Einstein trying to guess the nobel prize one, and toro while guessing "toronto" on the new york one

Level 82

Mar 1, 2018

If I'm expected to know things that David Beckham has said or the names of his spawn, then surely it should not be out of bounds to ask a European to know the Heisman trophy.

Also... "WHO are" in the ABBA question? Are you sure you're American, Quizmaster?

Level 73

May 31, 2018

They were living in USA at the time and it was widely reported on news stations everywhere. As for the complaint about the English language; this from a supposed English teacher who thinks THAT and THAN are interchangeable?

Level 67

Dec 18, 2018

If you know david beckham good chance you know he has a kid named brooklyn ( even if you dont know beckham, there are only a few (too many) weird kid names out there) You do not need to know what he has said or anything else about him.

I literally only know his name, that he is a soccer player and the name of his kid (you only have to hear it once to make it stick)

Level 82

Feb 2, 2022

I know Beckham. Had no idea he had children.

Level 72

Mar 1, 2018

David Sideris: The vet told me (of my sick cat) I should think about euthanasia. I imagined Japanese children spilling out of their school. He said, "are you thinking about it?" Yep, I replied.

Level 60

Mar 1, 2018

HAHAHA! I love David Sedaris!

Level 44

Apr 6, 2018

I'm pretty sure the Youth in Asia clue comes from that guy on twitter who accidentally wrote a 2 hour presentation about youth in Asia instead of euthanasia hahaha

Level 88

Jul 20, 2022

That reminds me of when I was taking a Sociological Theory class in college and we were peer-reviewing essays written by our classmates. One of the essays I reviewed was supposed to be about Weber's The Protestant Ethic, but the student had instead written about the "Protest and Ethnic". As you might imagine, the essay was not exactly cogent.

Level 63

May 19, 2018

Bacon, peanut butter, and cheese. Yumaroo!

Level 50

May 9, 2019

mexico city only has 8 million people foget

Level 75

Jul 14, 2020

Why not make a general knowledge badge with the featured General Knowledge quizzes in it?

Level 29

Sep 3, 2020

Yeah that’s actually a good idea

Level 42

Mar 21, 2021

There is now

Level 82

Dec 3, 2020

Dang it. I misread the Istanbul one as "what country" and tried Turkey and Greece to no effect. This is why we have to read, kids

Level 65

Mar 21, 2021

For question 4, can "Group together" be accepted? It is how I've always known it.

Level 64

Mar 22, 2021

Oh yay a new badge!

not yay

Level 35

May 12, 2021

i live in oahu, hawaii and didnt get it lol

Level 67

Jun 1, 2021

Missed Beckham, Mexico, and somehow hurricanes evaded my mind. I got Einstein when guessing for Gandhi

Level 63

Jul 11, 2021

I have only ever heard of the phrase "birds of a feather STICK together," so can you please add this as a type in please.

Level 79

Feb 15, 2022

The expression birds of a feather flock together can be traced to a 1545 work called The Rescuing of Romish Fox, written by William Turner: “Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together.” The proverb doesn't include "stick" as much as some folks may seem to want to re-write it to do so.

Level 48

Sep 1, 2021

I am a dumb now that I do not know anything :C

Level 65

Jun 30, 2023

-So.crates

Level 20

Oct 17, 2021

how about tornado?

Level 49

Dec 22, 2021

i hate the general knowledge badge.

Level 82

Feb 15, 2022

Only the main form (Roman Rite) of the Catholic mass was almost always in the Romans' language (ignoring the Greek and Hebrew fragments), while the eastern Catholic churches have had a variety of rites in different languages. There was also the special exemption for Church Slavonic mainly in parts of Croatia.

It doesn't affect the ability to guess the answer, but the question isn't quite correct.

Level 79

Feb 16, 2022

I got the Spanish word for bull by guessing Toronto for the city question!

Level 81

Feb 17, 2022

no way? :)

Level 60

Jun 26, 2022

Me trying “Martin Luther King” for “David Beckham”. I’m dying.

Level 46

Aug 8, 2022

The amount of variations on 'predict/see the future' I put for the Paul the Octopus question without getting the right one... Should increase the acceptable range of answers

Level 67

Sep 25, 2022

Please accept ‘Stick Together’

Level 28

Jan 12, 2023

Common knowledge for white people

Level 19

Apr 3, 2023

Please tell me that other people recognize Honolulu from the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" or I might just be crazy.

Level 73

Apr 18, 2023

there should be a badge for people who got all the badges :-D

Level 68

Aug 25, 2023

I tried “polybdenum” :/

Level 22

Oct 12, 2023

Technically the maginot line did what it was designed to do which is to force a german invasion to go through Belgium as that would make the United Kingdom help defend France as France and the United Kingdom had only joined forces in the First World War because of the same scenario. They had underestimated the Germans further during the battle of France like when they assumed the Germans would not/could not attack through the Ardennes because it was forested

(This isn't a 'um akshaully' I just keep seeing people immediately assume that the maginot line was entirely a waste when it did what it was meant to do sorry if it comes off as aggressive in advance)

Level 39

Nov 11, 2023

toro rosso! i knew that meant red bull in italian, i should have figured it was 'bull' in spanish

Level 48

Dec 29, 2023

i got 5 of them, and accidentaly got toro because i tried toronto for the city near new york

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