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General Knowledge Quiz #27

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: January 20, 2023
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Question
Answer
How many cards are in a standard deck (not including jokers)?
52
Where does Peter Pan live?
Neverland
What substance was once used to make billiard balls and piano keys?
Ivory
What shape is a dunce cap?
Conical
Who painted Marilyn Monroe and soup cans?
Andy Warhol
What country was formerly known as Siam?
Thailand
What type of futuristic skateboard did Marty McFly use in "Back to the Future Part II"?
Hoverboard
What city did Bruce Lee grow up in?
Hong Kong
What was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth?
Sputnik
What was Superman's birth name?
Kal-El
What well-known mountain pass connects Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Khyber Pass
What is the only 6 letter word that ends in mt?
Dreamt
What is the first U.S. state, alphabetically?
Alabama
What type of animal appears on the Ferrari logo?
Horse
What type of "fever" does one get by staying indoors too long?
Cabin fever
What is either a Greek letter or a part of a river?
Delta
What type of hat does Indiana Jones wear?
Fedora
What are prickly pears and saguaros?
Cacti
What country lost about 25% of its population in the late 1970s
during the murderous reign of Pol Pot?
Cambodia
What does the Latin word vox mean?
Voice
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Level 82
Aug 29, 2016
Everything, but Superman. I had a feeling it started with 'K' and had two parts, but nothing beyond that. I think I only knew that because it came up on another quiz somewhere else on this site.
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Level 37
Jun 23, 2017
Wow! - And I always thought that the past tense of Dream was Dreamed!
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Level 82
Jun 26, 2018
It is. From Wiktionary:

"Dreamt" is less common than "dreamed" in both US and UK English in current usage, though somewhat more prevalent in the UK than in the US.

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Level 67
Oct 1, 2018
"I dreamt a dream" really does not have the same ring to it.
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Level 58
Jul 23, 2021
That’s because you’re likely American. It’s ok, we know you don’t understand our language properly and we forgive you
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Level 77
Jan 5, 2022
Goodness, if those Americans notice this statement they'll have a big whingy retort about how language changes naturally and that it's more standardized than British English anyway, and who are you to say that one language is better than another...
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Level 85
Jan 8, 2022
Nah, no need for THAT kind of retort. Rather, we will retort that part of the point of founding a new nation was to be unlike the British as possible and to veer away from (as Ben Franklin put it) "over ten centuries of European mischief".

It's not that we don't understand; it's that being unlike the Brits is the WHOLE POINT.

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Level 89
Jan 20, 2023
It's days like this I wish a country inhabitated mainly by people with zero ties to England spoke German instead.
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Level 59
Feb 26, 2023
Hold on what country are you saying has zero ties to England?
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Level 55
Mar 2, 2023
The one where they all pretend to be Irish
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Level 85
Jan 8, 2022
There's that lovely line from Fiddler on the Roof:

"Tell me what you dreamt and I'll tell you what it meant."

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Level 55
Jul 2, 2018
Put spudnik down for the spacecraft. Damn you Friends!!
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Level 87
Jan 20, 2023
Nah, that was a potato rocket.
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Level 60
Mar 1, 2019
There's a heck of a lot of words out there to think of in a short space of time. Might be nice to have a cryptc clue in the question to help lead you there.
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Level 35
Oct 29, 2019
Or you can just know the answers.
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Level 15
May 19, 2022
they do have those! theyre called words!
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Level 71
Apr 3, 2019
Technically the country was Kampuchea at the time, but this answer isn't accepted. :/
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
Yes. Please accept 'Kampuchea' for Cambodia.
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Level 79
Mar 21, 2021
Pretty please?
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Level 36
Jun 7, 2020
We've all dreamt about dreamed! :-)
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Level 45
Jul 10, 2020
Taking this quiz to fight off cabin fever right now! ;)
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Level 68
Oct 7, 2020
When I stay inside too long, I get Saturday Night Fever.
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Level 66
May 7, 2021
How many other words of any length end in -mt? Dreamt is the only one that popped into my head
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Level 90
Jul 20, 2021
There are more, but they are all variations on dreamt: redreamt, undreamt, daydreamt, outdreamt, foredreamt, except for verklemmt,
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Level 85
Jan 8, 2022
In the meantime, I couldn't get my mind past the painter Gustav Klimt.
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Level 65
Dec 1, 2022
you should get point for that even tho it is a German name
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Level 61
Dec 4, 2021
Kampuchea should be accepted
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Level 85
Jan 20, 2023
Does anyone who knows Kamupchea not know Cambodia?
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Level ∞
Jan 20, 2023
No of course not. Kampuchea is accepted now however.
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Level 67
Nov 19, 2022
I only got vox because of reading The Hunger Games :)
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Level 43
Nov 7, 2023
I got vox because there is a Garageband sound pack called "Vox Melodics" which is mainly comprised of voice tracks.
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Level 25
Dec 21, 2022
I knew Nicholas Cage had named is son Superman's birth name, but still couldn't remember what it was. Why do I know such a useless random bit of trivia?
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Level 76
Jan 20, 2023
why update?
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Level 67
Jan 20, 2023
Peter Pan must have changed his address
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Level ∞
Jan 20, 2023
There was a question that said "what does a miller make". The answer was "flour". Many people complained. So I changed it.

We go through and update these quizzes every few years or so.

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Level 90
Jan 20, 2023
You're allowed to tell those people to take a hike.
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Level 77
Jan 20, 2023
Well, I know Arthur Miller made plays.
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Level 83
Jan 21, 2023
For some reason I thought that 'cabin fever' was a word for airsickness
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Level 80
Jan 21, 2023
could only think of 'pointed' hat
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Level 65
Jan 22, 2023
HK should be accepted for Hong Kong
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Level 63
Jan 23, 2023
We get 5 minutes, how many seconds do you gain writing HK?
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Level 79
Jan 24, 2023
Before finding the required answer, I tried succulent for the question about prickly pears. No dice.
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Level 77
Jan 24, 2023
Thanks to the internet i can't see the word "succulent" without immediately thinking "Chinese meal."
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Level 64
Jul 11, 2023
Gentlemen this is democracy manifest
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Level 55
Jan 25, 2023
Stallion should be accepted for the Ferrari question the "prancing horse" is often described as a "black stallion"
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2023
Got everything in 1:38
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Level 37
Feb 14, 2023
20/20 2:43 :)
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Level 48
Feb 26, 2023
Just wondering, delta is a piece of land....so how is it a part of river?
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Level 54
Feb 26, 2023
A delta is at the mouth of a river, it is formed by sediments in the river water.
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Level 50
Feb 28, 2023
I think you should say a delta is "part of some rivers" because not all rivers have deltas.