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General Knowledge Quiz #10

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: April 4, 2022
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First submittedMarch 3, 2011
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Answer
What country does espresso come from originally?
Italy
What is the modern birthstone for the month of July?
Ruby
What element has the symbol Sn?
Tin
What is the heaviest internal human organ?
Liver
By weight and value, what is the most commonly grown crop in the United States?
Corn
What does the F in UFO stand for?
Flying
What is the tallest kind of tree?
Coast Redwood
What comes in Pillbox, Panama, and Fez varieties?
Hats
What book is about an English aristocrat named Viscount Greystoke who is raised by apes?
Tarzan
What country, despite having a population of just 5.5 million, has won more
Winter Olympics medals than any other?
Norway
What ancient city-state was ruled by King Leonidas?
Sparta
Whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt?
Lot's
What is the main ingredient in hummus?
Chickpeas
In what city do the movies "Robocop" and "Gran Torino" take place?
Detroit
What country's capital is Ulaanbaatar?
Mongolia
What term refers to a luxurious apartment on the top floor of a tall building?
Penthouse
Where does a Muscovite live?
Moscow
What is the westernmost major city in Australia?
Perth
What molecule, formula C12H22O11, is commonly used as table sugar?
Sucrose
What is the first name of actresses McAdams and Weisz?
Rachel
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Level 92
Apr 11, 2013
I was really hoping the answer was Yggdrasil. Ah well, can't win them all.
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Level 45
Jul 7, 2014
Answer for what?
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Level 45
Aug 15, 2014
Ah, okay, thanks! Greek mythology has always been more my thing.
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Level 45
Aug 15, 2014
Although Thor is definitely cool, and Loki... well.... do I even have to say anything?
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Level 54
Jun 21, 2018
Yeah, I think it meant in real life.
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Level 77
May 16, 2013
I saw hummus and read it as human and I was typing water, hydrogen, carbon, flesh, bone and all kinds of things. I guess it helps to read.
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Level 34
Jan 31, 2015
hahaha I did the same!
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Level 20
Apr 15, 2017
I thought the main ingredient in hummus was grass.

lucky me :)

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Level 69
Mar 3, 2018
It only *tastes* like the main ingredient in hummus is grass.
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Level 78
Apr 5, 2022
Really?
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Level 79
Mar 11, 2019
Main ingredient
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Level 36
Aug 9, 2014
Almost missed Detroit; kept typing Delta City.
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Level 25
Jan 12, 2017
Nice quiz :)
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Level 43
Nov 13, 2017
I got ruby by guessing
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Level 62
Mar 9, 2018
Every time I see the word chick pea, all I can think of is lima beans because of the old joke my grandpa used to tell:

What's the difference between a chick pea and a lima bean?

I've never had a lima bean on my chest

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Level 81
Jun 9, 2018
Username checks out?
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Level 88
Apr 4, 2022
Either you or your grandpa got the joke wrong...It's supposed to be "What's the difference between a chick pea and a GARBANZO bean?" There are many differences between a chick pea and a lima bean... besides what's been on your grandpa's chest ;)
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Level 91
Mar 10, 2018
Tricky questions. Thanks.
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Level 68
May 29, 2018
I have never heard of the actresses so I started guessing names for fun. After three names I randomly guessed Rachel... Howzat!
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Level 65
Jun 30, 2023
I typed Rachael.
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Level 89
Jun 28, 2018
Everything I think hummus tastes like doesn't work.
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Level 66
Aug 16, 2018
Wasn't Robocop set in 'New Detroit'? ( because if its anything sci-fi has taught us, all cities will have New put in front of their names in the future). Anyway, remember kids, "Stay out of trouble!"
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Level 58
Dec 9, 2022
New York
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Level 43
Nov 2, 2018
Orpheus' wife turned into a pillar of salt too
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Level 66
Mar 21, 2019
Yea i was think about the greek mythology. Who knew it happened again
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Level 76
Jun 3, 2022
No she doesn't, she just gets taken back to the underworld.
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Level 63
Apr 9, 2020
I also agree
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Level 61
May 31, 2020
How about you also accept Stannum for sn, since is the actual name of the element.
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Level 79
Apr 5, 2022
If the quiz was in Latin, however the quiz is in English.
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Level 57
Sep 8, 2020
"Birthstone"? Give me a break..
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Level 68
Sep 28, 2020
I still think it's weird that jetpunk randomly choses not to count all medals that Germany earned in Winter Olympics, which would put the country a good 40 medals ahead of Norway.
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Level 58
May 26, 2021
As a german I'd sure like to see germany as the answer, but it's difficult since there were two germanys between 1945 and 1990.

It seems like jetpunk (or the originator of the quiz?) only counts western germany for that period.

The german wikipedia does the opposite and counts both countries medals as "german", the english one splits them up.

You may argue that eastern germany was a part of germany before and after it existed and still called itself germany.

What if it had decided to call itself something else, maybe prussia, would it still qualify to be counted as germany for that period?

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Level 60
Jul 25, 2021
Olympic games have limitations on how many athletes from one country can compete. So counting two countries together hardly seems fair.
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2022
That's a fair point, although it really only applies to some team sports, since all individual sports will allow several athletes from the same country to participate. For instance, in this year's Winter Olympics, German athletes have won 8 out of 12 possible medals in bobsleigh, including all three medals in men's doubles. I remember other instances, such as four years ago in men's Nordic combine, where German athletes have placed first, second and third in the sprint. Especially at the Winter Olympics, there are only a handful of team sports, and those also happen to be the sports in which Germany doesn't tyically excel (such as ice hockey). So, for the criticism to be valid, there would need to be multiple instances of both the FRG and the GDR winning a teams medal in the same Olympics - which I'm willing to be hasn't happened very often, and probably not enough to really change the medals ranking.
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Level 82
Apr 4, 2022
There's nothing at all weird, odd, or random about this. What's weird is your repeated insistence, in spite of being corrected multiple times, that East Germany and West Germany, though each fielded separate Olympics teams, are somehow the same country. They competed at the same Olympics but with separate teams, winning medals with both, and adding them up together makes no sense and is unfair to every other country that only won medals with a single team at any given Olympics. Only in Germany maybe would this be considered odd, because of a self-serving bias that leads them to want to claim a higher medal count. Literally everywhere else it's the commonplace standard. But even if it weren't common or standard (and it is), it's still not "random," you know why Germany isn't the answer, and it's quite disingenuous for you, after years of leaving comments like this and replying to the responses, to pretend as if you don't know where it's coming from.
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Level 78
Apr 5, 2022
I find myself in full agreement with you k.
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Level 68
Aug 3, 2022
German athletes from Germany competing for Germany have won more medals than US athletes from the US competing for the US in the Winter Olympics. Whether you accept to deal with that reality or try to finess your way out of it by sheer ignorance of international law is of course up to you, kalba!
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Level 82
Sep 4, 2022
No finessing. No denial. No ignorance. That's obviously your thing, gandalf. Ethnicities do not send teams to compete at the Olympics. Countries do. (and if they did, they wouldn't be allowed to send multiple teams) Please take your snide condescension to the bathroom mirror where it belongs.

Aside: your implication that my acceptance of reality is somehow motivated by obnoxious jingoism is, also, obviously, more projection on your part. My personal ego really could not care less how many medals any country has at the Olympics. The totals are what they are. I'm as happy to acknowledge that Norway beats Germany at the Winter Olympics as I am to acknowledge that the US beats Germany, or that Norway beats the US. Also happy to acknowledge that Germany is better than America at foosball. And sausages. And genocide. And probably other things, too. None of these things bother me in the slightest. But you still don't get to field twice as many teams at the Olympics as everyone else.

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Level 82
Sep 4, 2022
Also please point out the "international law" (no such thing) that says Germany gets to cheat at the Olympics. I hope that whatever is going on in your personal life leading to you being like this lately is resolved soon. Sincerely. Be well.
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Level 22
Oct 9, 2023
Ouch
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2022
Is it your total lack of jingoism that makes you say things like "Germany beats the US at genocide"? I mean, other than such comparisons being completely distateful because the horrors committed by one country don't excuse the horrors committed by another, but - man, open a History book!
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Level 74
Apr 18, 2022
I got Interesting Facts #17: "People from Moscow are known as Muscovites" after completing this quiz.
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Level 67
Sep 4, 2022
Can you accept Rachael for Rachel?
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Level 23
Sep 4, 2022
actually skin is the heaviest organ

and why is zodic gemstones "general knowledge", didn't even know about it until i saw it here

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Level 77
Sep 4, 2022
Hard luck if your skin is on your inside.
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Level 71
Sep 5, 2022
I didn't know the gemstone answer either but got it by eventually by simply guessing but, to me, it was no less 'general knowledge' than the Robocop question, which I also had to get by guessing
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Level 59
Sep 6, 2022
Birthstone, not zodiac gemstones (birthstones are to do with the month you were born in, not what star sign). Birthstones are often given as presents as jewellery, plenty of jewellers (online or physical ones) market them and sell them: they are a part of Western culture as anything else on this quiz, and so are "general" knowledge.
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Level 66
Jan 15, 2023
Isn't a Presidential Suite also an acceptable answer? This got my stumped for a little while.
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Level 67
Mar 14, 2023
1:59
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Level 78
Nov 8, 2023
Tarzan didn't even occur to me... damn
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Level 45
Jan 12, 2024
Can "stannum" be accepted for the Sn element question?