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Easy General Knowledge #7

You should be able to get at least 90% on this easy general knowledge test!
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Last updated: January 13, 2023
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What type of creature doesn't like garlic, sunlight, or pointy pieces of wood?
Vampires
In the fairy tale, who planted magic beans and then met a giant?
Jack
What word is either the opposite of "public" or the lowest rank in the army?
Private
What company did Mark Zuckerberg found?
Facebook
Canada has two official languages. One is English. What is the other one?
French
What borders England and is known for golf and kilts?
Scotland
How many stars does the United States have on its flag?
50
Who is the current king of the United Kingdom?
Charles III
What is the most common chess piece?
Pawn
What is a more common name for H2O?
Water
What country do famous soccer players Ronaldo and Ronaldinho come from?
Brazil
What's the largest type of bird?
Ostrich
What's made of sand and rhymes with moon?
Dune
What animal can have two humps if it's Bactrian and one if it's dromedary?
Camel
Clark Kent goes into a phone booth and changes his clothes. Who comes out?
Superman
What element of the periodic table provides the fuel for most nuclear power plants?
Uranium
What animal gets 99% of its food from bamboo plants?
Giant Panda
Who was the main male actor in the 1997 movie "Titanic"?
Leonardo DiCaprio
A group of fish is a called a school. What is a group of birds called?
a Flock
What English folk hero shot a bow and arrow, stole from the rich, and gave to the poor?
Robin Hood
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Level 60
Jan 13, 2023
I’d argue with the Titanic question being easy. Me being a 12 year old kid (and a lot of JetPunkers being younger), we couldn’t care less about actors and whatnot so wouldn’t know anything about them.
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Level 80
Jan 13, 2023
Eh, I’ve never seen Titanic and I still got it. There’s always going to be a group who doesn’t know the answers to certain questions, but for the general population I’d say it’s pretty easy.
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Level 84
Jan 13, 2023
90% got it right, so more people know that Leo was in Titanic than have heard of a flock of birds.
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Level 80
Jan 13, 2023
I tried Winslet first
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Level 17
Feb 13, 2023
My favorite male actor kate winslet
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Level 26
Jan 13, 2023
I'm 11 and I didn't watch it when I was younger yet I got it correct.
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2023
It's still pretty easy, being one of the most famous and influential movies of all time. Just because you can't get it immediately doesn't mean it's not easy.
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2023
Famous, yes; infuential? hardly.
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Level 68
Feb 13, 2023
MiecraftMan may I suggest you substitute the phrase 'we couldn't care less' with 'we tend not to have developed an interest in stage and screen yet.'
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Level 25
Feb 14, 2023
Around your age (won’t say my real ago tho) and still got it right so regardless of age it’s pretty easy
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Level 84
May 10, 2023
But you knew what a phone booth was?
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Level 66
Feb 7, 2024
Clark Kent question is not easy! Not every players are familiar with US-Britain culture!
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Level 80
Jan 13, 2023
The "moon" clue is going to throw a lot of people from outside of North America. It even took me a while, and I used to live over there.
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Level 78
Jan 13, 2023
Definitely pronounced differently on this side of the pond.
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Level 89
Jan 13, 2023
true, the only answer i didn't knew. I even read both words out loud afterwards and still dont think they rhyme, no matter how I pronounce them
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Level 82
Jan 13, 2023
I'm not North American and they still rhyme for me. Curious as to how people are pronouncing 'dune' to make it not rhyme!

In the UK at least, 'dune' and 'June' essentially sound the same and I think both clearly rhyme with moon.

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Level 83
Jan 14, 2023
Yes, while the intial vowel is different in British English (/dʒ/ not /d/, the vowel sound is still the same (/uː/), so it's a rhyme, while perhaps seeming less obviously one.
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2023
I think people might pronounce moon with a strong /u:/ vowel and dune (regardless of the consonant) with a /y:/ vowel
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Level 77
Feb 15, 2023
I was thinking of words that ended in 'oon', but the only one that had remotely to do with sand was 'lagoon'. Of course it didn't work. Never occurred to me that the rhyme could be spelled differently.
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Level 63
Feb 7, 2024
Chipping in from New Zealand, it sounds pretty much the same here
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Level 60
Jan 14, 2023
You used to live on the moon? Impressive
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Level 69
Feb 16, 2023
I kept thinking of things made FROM sand, like glass, not made OF sand.
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Level 26
Jan 13, 2023
I guess this is sort of Easy Peazy Lemon Squeezy
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Level 64
Jan 13, 2023
I don't have a phonetic keyboard so I can't give you the IPA transliterations, but dune (pronounced something like djyoon) definitely doesn't rhyme with moon in British English
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Level 83
Jan 14, 2023
British English: /djuːn/, /dʒuːn/ (dune), /muːn/ (moon). The vowel sounds are the same so it's a rhyme.
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Level 86
Jan 14, 2023
Poor question anyway, no wonder why it's the least guessed of the quiz.
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Level 72
Jan 13, 2023
Should be "what is the largest living bird?"
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Level 63
Jan 16, 2023
Doesn't "is" kind of imply that it's alive?
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Level 62
Feb 13, 2023
It would, but the question as written uses “What’s”, which could viably be interpreted as either ‘what is’ or ‘what was’.
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Level 77
Feb 15, 2023
No. 'What's' can either mean 'what is' or 'what has', but never 'what was'.
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Level 28
Jan 13, 2023
across the pond a group of fish is a shoal... why - who knows... lol

Nice quiz

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Level 73
Feb 13, 2023
It's not a geographical difference; they have slightly different meanings. A school of the same fish or a shoal of mixed species of fish.
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Level 42
Jan 14, 2023
Leo's name is mispelled. It should be "DiCaprio" not "di Caprio".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio

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Level 55
Jan 15, 2023
I'm pretty sure Ronaldo doesn't come from Brazil...
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Level 54
Jan 15, 2023
not cristiano ronaldo, but ronaldo luis nazario de lima or r9
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Level 42
Jan 17, 2023
Ronaldo is from Portugal
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Level 47
Feb 13, 2023
Ronaldo Nazário, not Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Level 68
Feb 13, 2023
The water question appears in Easy GK #3
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Level 56
Feb 13, 2023
Pawns are technically not pieces
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Level 76
Feb 13, 2023
What? Why on earth wouldn't they be?
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Level 75
Feb 14, 2023
If you're going to assert something is wrong on a technicality, you should really make an effort to support your assertion. I'd genuinely like to know what the issue is.
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Level 63
Apr 26, 2023
According to the Wikipedia article on "Chess pieces", there are multiple definitions for the phrase. One is just an indicator for any "chessman" on the board, and another (most commonly used during play or when discussing games/theory) indicates any of the chessmen on the board that aren't pawns. So the original commenter is right in some contexts, but wrong in this one.
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2023
I misunderstood the nuclear power question to mean a literal plant, and racked my brain for a plant that somehow used nuclear power.
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Level 75
Feb 14, 2023
It does mean a literal plant. Plant has more than one definition. Context always matters.
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Level 63
Feb 13, 2023
it should be clarified which Ronaldo we are referring to
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Level 43
Feb 13, 2023
the one who isn't called cristiano
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Level 73
Feb 13, 2023
The one from the same country as Ronaldinho.
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Level 23
May 31, 2023
For real
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Level 62
Sep 25, 2023
Isn't it already specified in the question???
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Level 58
Feb 13, 2023
Surprised the percentage on Dune was so low
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Level 48
Feb 13, 2023
Made a 100%, but took a while with the bird because I thought condor or albatross first.
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Level 57
Feb 14, 2023
I just learned that Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are two different people.
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Level 63
Feb 7, 2024
From the sounds of it, most people here are just learning that Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldo Nazario are different people, so you're ahead of the curve
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Level 77
Feb 14, 2023
good quiz
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Level 41
Feb 16, 2023
RONALDO IS FROM PORTUGAL
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Level 5
Feb 18, 2023
Ronaldo Nazario (R9), not Cristiano Ronaldo
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Level 41
Feb 16, 2023
I think that the clark kent one is harder because i don't watch movies and who on earth is clark kent

Leonardo DiCaprio is memed

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Level 64
Apr 9, 2023
im a non english speaker from middle east and the titanic one is the hardest for me because i never watched it.
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Level 31
Nov 10, 2023
christiano ronaldo was born in funchal, portugal

he isnt from brazil

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Level 38
Jan 31, 2024
good thing its not about him then