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General Knowledge Quiz #46

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Question
Answer
What is the occupation of Mario and Luigi?
Plumber
How many milligrams are in a kilogram?
1,000,000
What is either a state of enlightenment or a popular band from the 1990s?
Nirvana
Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?
Charles Dickens
What food product is made in a churn?
Butter
What are Good Hope, Cod, Horn, and Fear?
Capes
In the movie "Scarface", what country did Tony Montana come from?
Cuba
What actress starred in "Avatar" and "Aliens"?
Sigourney Weaver
Who was Queen Victoria's husband?
Prince Albert
In what type of cell would you find an axon and dendrites?
Nerve
What city's American embassy was evacuated via helicopter in 1975 as
Communist troops closed in?
Saigon
What author's first and middle names were John Ronald Reuel?
J. R. R. Tolkien
What real-life Native American had a Disney animated movie made about her?
Pocahontas
Which constellation represents twins?
Gemini
What is the largest country that borders Suriname?
Brazil
What word is a homophone of kernel?
Colonel
What animal is sometimes called the "ship of the desert"?
Camel
What is the most commonly-spoken language in Austria?
German
Who rid Ireland of snakes, according to legend?
St. Patrick
Nautically speaking, what is the opposite of stern?
Bow
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Level 59
Nov 19, 2014
Woohoo! I finally got 100% on a General Knowledge quiz! Yay me. :)
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Level 63
Nov 19, 2014
The metric conversion is easy... Just type 1 and then 0's until the answer fits. The beauty of consistent measurement
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Level 72
Feb 25, 2016
that's why I love the metric system
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Level 55
Jan 24, 2015
Anyone else with map of South America in their head go, "Guyana. Nope. Oh, yes, on the other side, French Guiana (not a country) but is bigger. No, you utter moron the answer is...."
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Level 44
Feb 8, 2015
opps must have misspelled Colonel lol
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Level 75
Feb 28, 2017
When I'm spelling colonel I always think of the French guy in Hogan's Heroes who calls him, "Col-o-nel."
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Level 58
Oct 12, 2016
Would have gotten them all if I could read correctly. Kept trying to come up with the ingredient used in chum.
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Level 65
Feb 2, 2019
:D
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Level 37
Jan 15, 2017
I got so confused because I read grams instead of miligrams
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Level 66
Jan 25, 2019
Should not have mattered; see above comment by "OfTheMountain". Should have just kept the zeroes coming!
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Level 85
Aug 7, 2018
Ice cream is made in a churn: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/ice-cream-churn
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Level ∞
Sep 17, 2018
All quizzes on JetPunk assume common sense on the part of the quiz taker.
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Level 77
Sep 17, 2018
It's the internet, you know.
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Level 63
Jan 30, 2019
THIS!
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Level 86
Sep 18, 2018
Edna Mode would not approve of this quiz.
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Level 71
Jan 25, 2019
With a Scottish accent there is no way kernel and colonel are homophones.
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Level 83
May 11, 2023
The same likely goes for a lot of American accents too, as many of them still pronounce the rhotic
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Level 51
Mar 9, 2024
not a homophone for most accents in English. It seems to be based on RP which is only spoken by a few percent of English speakers mostly in the SE of England.
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Level 76
Jan 25, 2019
I was bewildered by the fact that "coronel" wasn't accepted, then I remembered that the english language sometimes doesn't make sense.
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Level 32
Aug 24, 2023
literally
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Level 66
Jan 30, 2019
I didn't know the spelling of it so I tried bough instead of bow and so assumed I was just wrong
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Level 66
Mar 31, 2020
Tony Montana's two best quotes:

"You know the communists, they always try to tell you what you do.", and;

"Say hello to my little friend!"

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Level 58
Jul 10, 2021
OKAY! I’M RELOADED!!
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Level 67
Jul 28, 2021
For 2nd one you can just type in 1 and then keep typing 0 lmao
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Level 77
Oct 5, 2021
I read churn as chum, the R and N together look like an M
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Level 66
Nov 1, 2021
You and me both.
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2023
same, when the answer came up i did the biggest facepalm of my life
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Level 60
Jun 11, 2022
Who else tried tumbleweed for camel?
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Level 55
Mar 9, 2023
I thought it said made in a chum. For some reason it looks a lot like that way and not churn.
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Level 93
May 11, 2023
Why is 'Pocahontas' not accepted? That's the spelling in the title of the Disney film, and it's how her name is spelled.
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Level 66
May 11, 2023
Agreed.
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Level ∞
May 11, 2023
Fixed
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Level 76
May 11, 2023
I would have gotten the Tolkien question if I was thinking straight. I interpreted that it meant the first and middle names were both "John Ronald Reuel". I.e. his name would be "John Ronald Reuel John Ronald Reuel Tolkien".
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Level 67
May 12, 2023
Yeah that confused me too
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Level 67
May 12, 2023
Just missed Tolkien
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Level 75
May 12, 2023
opposite of stern could also be stem, as in "stem the tide"
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Level 85
May 18, 2023
"1 million" should be accepted as a type-in for 1,000,000.
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Level ∞
May 18, 2023
Done
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Level 79
Jul 13, 2023
I tried cheese for food product made in a churn. So close! 🧀🧈
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Level 53
Jul 20, 2023
Tried typing in "Ho Chi Minh City" to see if it was accepted, and I didn't even get to the "h" before the answer appeared!
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2023
You should accept Matoaka for pocahontas because that was most likely her real name
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Level 51
Mar 9, 2024
That's an interesting point.
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Level 60
Nov 21, 2023
Anyone else read country for the embassy question?