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Multiple Choice General Knowledge #6

Can you answer these multiple-choice general knowledge questions?
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Last updated: March 28, 2021
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First submittedMarch 28, 2021
Times taken21,288
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1. Where did the term "soccer" originate?
Australia ✓
Japan ✓
United Kingdom ✓
United States ✓
2. Which of these is a paisley pattern?
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✓
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3. According to the Iliad, which goddess sprang, fully formed, from the forehead of Zeus?
Athena ✓
Aphrodite ✓
Hera ✓
4. Which of these words has the most similar pronunciation to the French city of Nice?
Nice ✓
Niece ✓
Knees ✓
5. What is the "hair of the dog" treatment for a hangover?
Drinking a raw egg in a glass of milk ✓
Drinking more alcohol ✓
Eating dog hair ✓
Throwing up ✓
6. What is the holiest Jewish holiday?
Hanukkah ✓
Purim ✓
Rosh Hashanah ✓
Yom Kippur ✓
7. Why is Ecuador's highest mountain (named Chimborazo) remarkable?
It is further from the center of the Earth than any other point on Earth's surface ✓
It is the world's highest unclimbed mountain ✓
The Inca threw 10,000 virgins into it as human sacrifices ✓
8. Who was Anton Chekhov?
Inventor of the helicopter ✓
A playwright ✓
A polar explorer ✓
The top Soviet general of WWII ✓
9. The radius of the yellow sphere is 100 times that of a blue sphere. How much larger is the yellow sphere by volume?
100 times ✓
1,000 times ✓
10,000 times ✓
1,000,000 times ✓
10. In the Middle Ages, who were friars?
Knights without a lord ✓
Makers of barrels ✓
Poor, traveling preachers ✓
Royal chefs ✓
Nitpickers will be sure to point out that friars still exist
11. What is the highest military decoration that can be earned by a British soldier?
Iron Cross ✓
Medal of Honour ✓
Order of the Garter ✓
Victoria Cross ✓
12. What is the "catalyst" in the following statement?
A man pushes a boulder over a cliff
The man ✓
The boulder ✓
The cliff ✓
Gravity ✓
13. Which number is at the very top of a dartboard?
1 ✓
17 ✓
20 ✓
50 ✓
14. What is a deluge?
A flood ✓
An ice cream based dessert ✓
An icy track for sleds ✓
A "thawing" of geopolitical tensions ✓
15. What was a Megalodon?
A 3 meter long centipede that went extinct 250 million years ago ✓
A 5 meter tall sloth that went extinct 5,000 years ago ✓
A 10 meter long shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago ✓
BolyaiAnna
+2
Level 82
Mar 29, 2021
Centipede* not centimepede. Good quiz, very easy though
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2021
Fixed the typo.

I have to disagree with you about the quiz being easy, however.

Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Apr 4, 2021
I got 11/15 first try, could have gotten 12 if I didn't doubt myself and pick a different answer. It was pretty easy for me.
JWatson24
+3
Level 71
Apr 4, 2021
This was harder than most other general knowledge quizzes for me.
duckwantbread
+1
Level 64
May 4, 2022
11/15 means you got 4/15 wrong, that doesn't seem easy to me.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Dec 5, 2021
Not an easy quiz at al!
Gracia101
+1
Level 26
Dec 24, 2022
this was very hard because my english is not fully good.....
marema
+1
Level 77
Mar 29, 2021
100 * 100 = 10,000, not 1,000,000
BSDM
+27
Level 23
Mar 29, 2021
100*100*100=1,000,000.

Going from radius to volume is cubing the scale factor, not squaring

roleybob
+3
Level 75
Mar 30, 2021
Well, I'm an idiot - did the same thing of squaring it for circlular area instead instead of cubing for spherical volume
IceLemonTea
+11
Level 64
Apr 5, 2021
I am the real idiot. I did 100*100 and got 1,000,000 so was somehow correct.
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 89
Apr 1, 2021
I'm shocked this was by far the least answered in the quiz.
martay
+1
Level 70
Apr 4, 2021
Despite remembering the formula for a sphere's volume, and knowing to cube the radius, I still managed to do the math wrong.
CardinalSin
+3
Level 77
Apr 4, 2021
someone2018, me too. It seems that the one question in this quiz that requires no knowledge, that can just be calculated by simple maths, is the one most badly answered. Sadly it suggests that jetpunkers are good at cramming their heads with facts but perhaps less able when it comes to other aspects of intelligence, do you think?
WillemLAif
+2
Level 76
Apr 4, 2021
It's wrong to say the question requires no knowledge. You need to know the formula or you're guessing.
elirom
+3
Level 53
Jun 26, 2021
Actually, you do not really need the to know the formula. You just need to know that it is a 3D object, so you have to cube the proportionality factor. It would have been the same answer for characteristic lengths of any other 3D object, e.g. if 1 and 100 were side lengths of a cube.
Chris19
+1
Level 51
Jan 14, 2022
You can also just think of the units - length in metres, volume in cubic metres. That makes it obvious that you have to cube somewhere in the process to get from length to volume, even if you don't know the formula.
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 75
Mar 29, 2021
Incans isn't a word...
nerdalert
+1
Level 85
Mar 29, 2021
And yet you knew exactly what was meant....
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 75
Mar 29, 2021
Well that's a nice low editorial bar to clear.....
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2021
Well... it should be. This has been corrected.
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 75
Apr 1, 2021
I don't make the rules, I just enforce them online for some reason.

Whether it should be a word... Probably/possibly in English yes...

BSDM
+7
Level 23
Mar 29, 2021
I love how the one about spheres is just knowing relatively simple math, yet that is (as of now) the worst answered question
Yanni47
+3
Level 77
Mar 29, 2021
True. I had the formula of a circle in my head, not of a sphere. I guess I wasn't the only one.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 70
Mar 29, 2021
I thought we were doing circles too! Not that I would have got the spheres right anyways.
ingriddurden
+1
Level 60
Mar 29, 2021
NIce is not pronounced like any of the 3. The i sound is short in French and not long like in the English words
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2021
Sounds the same to me. Go here and hit play.

That said, my French pronunciation isn't great so I changed the question to "most similar" to remove all possible doubt.

QRU
+3
Level 74
Mar 30, 2021
Google Translate does not have accurate pronouncation, here is a better link.

Although I shouldn't complain, I hear virtually no difference between knees and niece.

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 30, 2021
Google Translate is accurate according to the link you provided. Three of four speakers say Nice almost exactly like the Google Translate, although the first says it like neice-uh. Not sure why. Could be a regional dialect.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Apr 1, 2021
Kind of like how many English speakers say More-EESS with a metric ton of stress on the 2nd syllable for Maurice when it actually sounds closer to the regular old English version Morris, as in the cat.
ctleng76
+2
Level 65
Apr 5, 2021
"...a metric ton". I am guessing you are really annoyed by how people stress the last syllable based on that portion of your comment. As annoying as it may be to you, that is the common pronunciation in the US.
1ProximaCentauri
+2
Level 55
Mar 29, 2021
Friars still exist. Though it doesn't change anything here.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2021
Got ya!
1ProximaCentauri
+3
Level 55
Mar 30, 2021
Lol. I only said it because of the explanation in that question, I really didn't even know what they were until I saw the question.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Apr 1, 2021
They sure do. Remember their roasts with Dean Martin and the who's who in the '70s?
Josiah
+1
Level 57
Mar 30, 2021
Nice quiz!

Didn't know the soccer question though:(

BTW, I've got some good Dutch quizzes.

PapaFurchetta
+2
Level 91
Mar 30, 2021
Got them all except for the one related to excessive drinking. Not ashamed of that.
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 88
Apr 6, 2021
I'm curious which option you guessed for the drinking one.
karlamadeusII
+1
Level 63
Apr 4, 2021
how do you pronounce knees and niece differently? wtf such a dumb question, how did i choose wrong and 92% didn't ?
silvestra
+1
Level 73
Apr 4, 2021
I'm wondering this as well! I kept repeating the words niece and knees out loud and I think they're 100 % the same. Managed to get it right by just randomly choosing the right one :/
sleekcollins
+4
Level 69
Apr 4, 2021
You get more of a z sound with the 's' in knees.
jmellor13
+6
Level 67
Apr 4, 2021
"Knees" is pronounced "neeze," like "sneeze." "Niece" is pronounced "neace," like "peace."
EcceHomo
+1
Level 79
May 17, 2021
and like the French city 'Nice'.
FadKrashmor
+1
Level 71
Jul 7, 2022
English does this thing of voicing terminal consonants when they are normally voiced. Some other languages (like Dutch) never do, and for mother tongue speakers of those languages it seems to be very hard to hear the difference.

Compare:

Cab - Cap

Kid - Kit

Dig - Dick

Live - Life

And indeed..

Knees - Niece

Although of course the spelling in English is nonsense.

AmrahsNaitsabes
+1
Level 45
Apr 4, 2021
Khu-Nees
amgine
+1
Level 65
Apr 6, 2021
Little known fact: From the scalp of Zeus sprang Afrodite
Jato
+3
Level 71
May 9, 2022
With dark mode, the statement on question 12 is almost completely unreadable.
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