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General Knowledge Quiz #52

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What is the central religious text of Islam?
Quran
In the Disney movie, what was the profession of the seven dwarfs?
Mining
From what original language are the Romance languages derived?
Latin
What type of flag indicates surrender?
White flag
In what country was Adolf Hitler born?
Austria
Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?
The Moon
What was the deadliest battle in the American Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
Bishop
Who directed three of the four highest-grossing movies of all time?
James Cameron
What country invented bank accounts that had numbers, not names?
Switzerland
Name one of the two majority-Muslim countries that are part of NATO.
Albania / Turkey
What civilization sacrificed thousands of people every year, placing their skulls
in racks known as Tzompantli?
The Aztecs
What type of animal is also known as a sea cow?
Manatee or Dugong
Bruxism is something painful that people do in their sleep. What is it?
Grinding teeth
What book by Joseph Conrad was the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now"?
Heart of Darkness
What palace is famous for its hall of mirrors?
Palace of Versailles
Who famously had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
Cleopatra
Who was the lead singer of Nirvana?
Kurt Cobain
What element is commonly found inside thermometers?
Mercury
Who is the namesake of two continents?
Amerigo Vespucci
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Level 22
Oct 18, 2012
I lost because of spelling errors :(
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Level 50
Oct 18, 2012
I couldn't get Antietam out of my head for the civil war battle.
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Level 82
Feb 27, 2013
most casualties in a single day at Antietam, but pretty far from the most casualties of any battle.
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Level 49
Feb 13, 2016
Is it just me, or were you a level 64 yesterday?
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Level 82
Oct 21, 2022
Sorry for the late reply but I've got no idea what level I was in 2016. Or 2013 when the comment you were responding to was made.
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Level 68
Aug 22, 2023
Most deaths by acre actually belongs to the battle of Schrute Farms, which is also the northernmost battle of the Civil War.
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Level 77
Jan 11, 2015
Most thermometers do not use mercury anymore because of the toxicity of it. A better question would be "was", not "is".
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Level 69
Mar 8, 2019
Not really, as there are still thermometers with mercury made and used, usually in labs as they provide more accurate results. So technically the question is correct.
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Level 71
Aug 21, 2023
And there's not really another place to "commonly" find it (I don't think mercury switches are that common anymore, certainly rarer than mercury thermometers).
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Level 34
Feb 17, 2015
What do you mean when you say Vespucci is the namesake of "two continents"? America is just one continent, South, Central, North and Caribbean are regions (yes, not two, four!).
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Level 75
Feb 17, 2015
Two continents - North and Central Amercica and South America.
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Level 44
Feb 17, 2015
North America and South America are considered two separate continents. North America extends from Canada south to Panama, and includes the countries in the Carribean Sea.

South America extends south from Venezuela and Columbia to Chile and Argentina.

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Level 75
Feb 17, 2015
Eurasia is also shorter to write than Europe and Asia, but we still consider them two continents. (At least on a map North and South America actually look like two separate land masses connected by a thin thread.) America is the shortened name of the United States of America which is in North America, just as are Canada, Mexico, Central America, and several Caribbean islands. We call ourselves Americans rather than United Statesmen, just as people in Beijing are called Chinese rather than Peoples Republicans, or people from Micronesia are Micronesian rather than Federated Statesmen.
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Level 82
Feb 17, 2015
EurAfroAsia is even shorter. It's all the same landmass..
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Level 35
Feb 18, 2015
Funny though, for the Spanish speaking community "América" is a single continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, while "Sudamérica", "Centroamérica" and "Norteamérica" are simply divisions of it.
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Level 82
Jul 10, 2018
^ that's not what I learned from any of my Spanish teachers who were from Mexico, the United States, Uruguay and Spain.
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Level 76
Dec 11, 2018
^ Then your teachers sucked. As a south american, I can confirm what Fluence said.
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Level 61
Mar 8, 2019
now you can correct your south American teachers.
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Level 67
Mar 8, 2019
I don't know that the entire Spanish community considers the Americas to be one large continent, but it is definitely the prevailing view in South America in my experience. But I think the more common view globally is to consider North and South America two separate continents.
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Level 82
Mar 8, 2019
Ferbin: so you speak for all Spanish speakers? Good to know.
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2020
As far as I know, the vast majority of Europe also considers America to be one continent, and many languages actually have more accurate terms to specifically designated people from the USA. In French, we call them "étasuniens" (from Etats-Unis = United States), in German, we say "US-Amerikaner", etc. Geography is largely conventional, so one answer is not really better than the other.
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2020
I would however find it pretty laughable if citizens of Luxembourg or Czechia suddenly called themselves "Europeans" and insisted everyone else is just "Northern European" or "Southern European".
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Level 64
Feb 19, 2022
What's even more laughable is Argentinians calling themselves Americans.

A gaucho visits Paris and says he's an American. They ask him from what part? He says Buenos Aires. They laugh-- you're not American.

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Level 64
Feb 19, 2022
And when Americans sing "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America," they are not referring to Venezuela.

And when Neil Diamond sings, "Coming to America" he's not talking about arriving in Honduras.

And when I go to my homeland in Denmark, I say "Jeg er Amerikan," and Danes don't wonder if I'm Peruvian.

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Level 82
Oct 21, 2022
dg: it's been established which orifice you're talking out of on this subject.
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2023
You are extremely petulant for a grown man.
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Level 61
Feb 17, 2015
What?!?!?!?!?!? I got a good laugh this morning.
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Level 37
Feb 17, 2015
Happy Mardi Gras y'all!
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Level 76
Feb 17, 2015
Amerigo Vespucci is debated as the namesake of the Americas due to only royals having their first names given to landmasses or places, it is always the second name. It is argued that in fact the Americas are named after a chap called George Americ, who was Welsh.
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Level 75
Feb 17, 2015
Thank you for the information which I'd never heard before. After researching it, I discovered there are many, many other theories about the name, too, including the name of a Native American tribe, a combination of Norse words giving credit to the Viking landings, the name of a mountain range in South America, an African phrase introduced into the Mayan and Aztec cultures, a Hungarian word, even another Welshman named Richard Amerike/Ameryk. Many different cultures try to take credit for the name, but as this article says, http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/america.html - "to hear such echoes in the name of our hemisphere is to hear ourselves."
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Level 47
Feb 18, 2015
Deadliest battle of the Civil War was Antietam
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Level 76
Sep 11, 2021
Antietam was the deadliest single day in the war, with 5,389 deaths between the two sides, but Gettysburg lasted for three full days and had an estimated total of nearly 8,000 deaths.
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Level 66
Feb 19, 2015
"Your high score is 12.

The average score is 13."

Damn.

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Level 39
Mar 13, 2015
I don't understand why it didn't take "Gettysburg" rather than Battle of...

In addition, if I am not mistaken, Antietam was the bloodiest/deadliest battle. Gettysburg is more famous because it changed the tide of the war and the address, but I believe more people were killed/wounded at Antietam.

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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2015
It does accept Gettysburg and also the answer is correct which can be easily verified:

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

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Level 75
Feb 26, 2019
You are mistaken. Gettysburg was the deadliest battle. It lasted 3 days (I believe). Antietem is the deadliest one day battle.
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Level 66
Dec 16, 2015
Amerigo Vespucci has nothing named after him. Look it up.
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Level 49
Feb 13, 2016
I did. This is what came up. "Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed 'America', deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name."
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Level 37
Dec 2, 2017
There is no end to pedantry on this site. While we argue, ad infinitum whether or not Columbus "discovered" America (he landed on the

island of Hispaniola but, being geographically challenged, mistook it

for India) on the one hand, while denying with equal fervor that that same America is named for Amerigo Vespucci. If the people of the

Caribbean can put up with the misnomer "West Indian", the rest of

us can put up with America being the namesake of Amerigo Vespucci.

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Level 23
Oct 6, 2016
I was getting really upset that "David Cameron" wasn't working. Clearly, I need to go to bed.
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Level 79
Oct 10, 2018
Anyone else try 'French' for question 4?
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Level 82
Oct 19, 2018
Lost the battle, won the war.
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Level 85
Oct 10, 2018
"Most people with bruxism will experience no pain." (Wikipedia)
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Level 66
Dec 11, 2018
The grinding itself doesnt hurt, teeth like nails have nno feeling in the material itsrlf (the nerves beneath it yes) but you can get very sore jawmuscles from it.
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Level 70
Oct 12, 2018
Nice use of the ʻokina.
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Level 66
Dec 11, 2018
I typed amerigo then tried.several spellings of vespuccio amerigo... I never knew the names were the other way around. I kind of think amerigo should be accepted, cause that is the name america is named after
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Level 88
Mar 8, 2019
Please accept Mine Workers
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Level 51
Mar 8, 2019
What type of flag indicates surrender? The French flag?
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Level 82
Mar 8, 2019
get some new material
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Level 20
Mar 8, 2019
theres something wrong with this , i typed quaran and a white flag and it didn't enter it.. I don't know if it's a problem with this site or my computer but this was interesting
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Level 67
Jul 30, 2021
Well if you spelled Quran like Quaran I doubt it would accept it
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Level 72
Aug 1, 2019
Avengers: End Game recently surpassed Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time, so the James Cameron question might need to be reworded or something
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Level 72
Aug 1, 2019
perhaps "who directed 2 of the top 3 highest grossing movies of all time"
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Level ∞
May 17, 2023
3 of 4 now and reworded.
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Level 82
Feb 3, 2020
Yeah, post Endgame, the Cameron question needs fixing.
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Level 75
Aug 3, 2020
I didn't get the question about the palace of versailles...despite going there and taking pictures of said hall...
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Level 82
Nov 8, 2020
Any chance you could accept "Amerigo" since that is the part of his name he gave to the continents?
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Level 46
Jan 24, 2021
Americo Vespucio?
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Level 45
May 12, 2021
Wow. First time I've ever 100%'d a General Knowledge quiz. Good job, me.
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Level 21
Sep 10, 2021
Unless Cameron directed Avengers Endgame, that question needs to be updated
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Level 72
Jan 21, 2023
In a few weeks, it may circle back to being true again, depending on how Avatar 2 does
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Level 66
Nov 25, 2022
Petition to accept French flag as sign of surrender
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Level 67
Jun 12, 2023
got 19, pretty easy
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Level 49
Aug 7, 2023
Albania is majority Muslim and part of NATO also
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Level ∞
Aug 7, 2023
Updated
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Level 55
Aug 21, 2023
Arctic is named after the bear, so Antarctic is also named after the bear, even though it is more a lack of bears. Never heard of that Amerigo fellow.
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Level 67
Aug 22, 2023
Missed Switzerland and the Moon
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Level 55
Aug 22, 2023
Is it just me or does every 3rd or 4th quiz in this series seem to have a question where the answer is “mercury”?
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Level 37
Feb 16, 2024
Finally, another 20