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General Knowledge Quiz #204

Answer these random trivia questions.
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What is the only country in which a platypus can be found in the wild?
Australia
What three syllables come next after "do re mi"?
Fa sol la
What movie's premise involved scientists extracting DNA from insects encased in amber?
Jurassic Park
Other than Russia, what country uses the Ruble as its currency?
Belarus
Who wrote "The Jungle Book", "Kim", and "If—"?
Rudyard Kipling
What singer asked the rhetorical question "how many roads must a man walk down,
before you call him a man"?
Bob Dylan
What bay borders Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut?
Hudson Bay
Where did Valentina Tereshkova go in 1963 that no women had ever gone before?
Space
What common English male name (originally Welsh) starts with a double L?
Lloyd
What is one eighth of a byte?
Bit
The Pantheon is located in Rome. In what city would you find the Panthéon?
Paris
What vegetable do people often employ when decorating a snowman?
Carrot
What river is also known as the Huang He?
Yellow River
Who, along with Julia Roberts, was the star of the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman"?
Richard Gere
What ancient philospher's "Analects" include one of the earliest formulations
of the "Golden Rule"?
Confucius
Who said, in 1977, that her job was "to stop Britain from going red"?
Margaret Thatcher
The three states of matter we commonly experience are solid, liquid, and gas.
But there are others. What state of matter is the sun composed of?
Plasma
What religion is Zen a school of?
Buddhism
What musical prodigy's first album, "The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie" was recorded
when he was just 11 years old?
Stevie Wonder
Monday's child is fair of face. What is Tuesday's child?
Full of grace
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Level 75
Apr 8, 2020
I'm guessing there's no such thing as an octabyte? (Finally guessed the answer.)
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Level 84
Apr 11, 2020
If there was, that would be eight bytes, not an eighth of a byte. For the record, eight bytes is called a quad word.
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Level 76
Apr 8, 2020
Wonder how many pronounce the LL name as Coyd...
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Level 77
Apr 9, 2020
The sun is a miasma / of incandescent plasma / I forgot what I was told by myself / elf, elf, elf
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Level 65
Apr 9, 2020
Why was in my mind George Clooney in Pretty Woman??
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Level 65
Aug 17, 2021
That would be Pretty Man.
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Level 78
Apr 10, 2020
Spelling of philosopher ? sorry just being pedantic !
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Level 84
Apr 11, 2020
Nothing to be sorry about. That's not how you spell philosopher and you're right to point it out.
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Level 82
Apr 20, 2020
Is Llywelyn not common enough?
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Level 79
Apr 20, 2020
I was thinking of Llewellyn.
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Level 63
Apr 20, 2020
Kept trying to figure out how I was misspelling Llewellyn myself.
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Level 49
Apr 20, 2020
I was trying Llewellyn in all different spellings
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Level 89
Apr 20, 2020
How did we all think of Llewellyn before Lloyd? That's hilarious!
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Level 77
Apr 21, 2020
Another vote for Llewellyn.
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Level 70
Apr 28, 2020
I had a friend in school called Llewelyn, but have never met a Lloyd. In fact the only L(l)oyd I can think of, Grossman, spells his name with a single L.
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Level 65
Aug 17, 2021
My mom used to sing a ditty (I think it had been a radio ad) "Double ell ee double you ee double ell wye en"
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Level 72
Apr 20, 2020
Lloyd is still welsh
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Level 24
Apr 20, 2020
I have never heard the Do-Re-Mi song with SOL. It is in fact, SO. That is why the lyrics of the Sound of Music song say: "A needle pulling thread." Having said so, I looked it up on WIkipedia and it has BOTH SO and SOL as options....I was always taught WITHOUT the L.
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Level 65
Apr 20, 2020
I agree, the L in SOL seems strange to me. I was always taught it without the L as well. Since LA follows it, the two L sounds blend together anyway making it a redundant letter.
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Level 84
Apr 21, 2020
La doesn't necessarily follow sol. It depends on the melody. Any note can follow any note.
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Level 59
Apr 20, 2020
You know The Sound of Music did not invent these syllables, right ? Music notes are called that way in many European languages, such as French or Italian. And in those languages, it's definitely "sol" and not "so".
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Level 32
Apr 20, 2020
Like everyone else I’m a bit confused as to why the spelling of ‘Philosopher’ was incorrect.
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Level 80
Apr 20, 2020
Joan Baez should also be accepted for the "How many roads" question.
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Level 76
Apr 20, 2020
I mean, literally hundreds of well-known artists have covered "Blowin' in the Wind." Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, Cher, Sam Cooke, Lena Horne, Bobby Darin, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Etta James, and Elvis Presley, just to name a few. I think it's safe to say they mean the original artist and songwriter.
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Level 47
Jun 9, 2022
Obviously if that's the only answer that's accepted. I think the question should be changed to "Which singer/songwriter wrote..."
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Level 47
Jun 9, 2022
Exactly! I typed the same thing!
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Level 67
Apr 20, 2020
Finally found something with Belarus. I was gonna guess Australia for the first one cuz that's the first one I thought of but then I left it and forgot to come back to it
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Level 65
Apr 20, 2020
Do platypuses not live in New Guinea?
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Level 49
Apr 20, 2020
No, only down the east cost of Australia
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Level 70
Apr 28, 2020
New Guinea has echidnas and loads of marsupials, but alas, no platypus.
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Level 67
Apr 25, 2020
I'm incredibly surprised Confucius is by far the least guessed answer. Especially when the hint gave two clues (The Analects and the Golden Rule)
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Level 42
Feb 25, 2021
How do so few people know Tuesday's child is full of grace.
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Level 49
Jun 16, 2021
Honestly never heard that rhyme before in my life. Guessed the right answer because I thought it'd be something religious.
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Level 79
Feb 10, 2022
I knew it rhymed with face (and that that was incorrect) but couldn't remember in time
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Level 85
Dec 16, 2021
Wait a minute! Dylan's question is RHETORICAL?!?!?!
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2022
I definitely read that as "Monday's child is fair of price. What is Tuesday's child?" and thinking it had to rhyme guessed "Full of rice". Upon second glance I was able to guess the right answer though. Never heard that saying.
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Level 56
May 5, 2022
Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child must work for a living,

But the child that's born on the Sabbath day,

Is fair and wise and good and gay.

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Level 65
Jul 20, 2023
Is bonny and blithe, good and gay. --Wiki

Now, what is blithe, since we already covered bonnie.

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Level 47
Feb 8, 2024
The Belarus currency is spelled "rubel", and caps not needed.