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General Knowledge Quiz #186

Answer these random trivia questions.
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Question
Answer
Who was served by the genie of the lamp?
Aladdin
What are romaine & butterhead?
Types of Lettuce
What part of the body can be described as "olfactory"?
Nose
What does the prefix "neo" mean?
New
In what country would you find the Dodecanese and Cyclades island chains?
Greece
What is the antonym of transparent?
Opaque
What is the meaning of the German word "Luft"?
Air
Spiders have eight legs. What else do spiders usually have eight of?
Eyes
What city was attacked by Godzilla in the 1954 movie "Godzilla"?
Tokyo
What fictional bear is named after a train station in London?
Paddington Bear
Which Asian country is located just 20 kilometers from Djibouti?
Yemen
What is the largest type of reptile?
Saltwater Crocodile
What does this typographic symbol denote: ¶?
A new paragraph
What A word refers to a robot that resembles a human?
Android
Which two vegetables have names that end in "nip"?
Parsnip
Turnip
What is a synonym for parasol?
Umbrella
What was the largest land animal that was alive during the Pleistocene era?
The Mammoth
What does the Italian word "bambino" mean?
Child
What paper-like substance was invented by the ancient Egyptians?
Papyrus
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Level 74
Feb 25, 2018
Antropomorphic should be ok for the robot question?
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Level 50
Feb 25, 2018
anthropomorphic means in the (general) form of a human but not necessarily for robots. Like Chuck E. Cheese in anthropomorphic but so are the animals in Zootopia. Android is the term used to refer only to robots designed to look (almost exactly) like humans (like the terminator or Data from Star Trek). Hope this helps.
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2018
"Bambino" is more "child" than "baby".
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2018
No one called Babe Ruth "The Child.".....MIc drop.
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Level 51
Feb 26, 2018
Then it was a mistranslation. 'Bambino' was a word long before Babe Ruth. Or baseball. Or the U.S. Maybe even before the concept of an organised sport.
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Level 68
May 23, 2018
So, before the first olympics in ancient Greece?
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
what
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Level 75
Mar 21, 2022
Scientists believe that when the first creatures tentatively crawled out of the sea to forge a new kind of existence on land, they used the word "bambino" to refer to their children.
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Level ∞
Feb 26, 2018
Changed the displayed answer to child
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2018
shouldn't kid work as well? I was surprised when it didn't work
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Level ∞
Feb 28, 2018
Okay
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Level 75
May 23, 2018
I sure as hell don't know, but in all those Madonna-con-bambinos at the Uffizi I don't think there was a toddler Jesus in any of them.
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Level 55
May 23, 2018
Like the word "baby" it might well be applied to other things, but when an Italian looks at a baby they only say "bambino".
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Level 68
Feb 25, 2018
started to type 'alligator' for the reptile question, then it gave me the panacea one...
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Level 66
Feb 25, 2018
I tried to put a second "L" in Aladdin and also got credit for the panacea answer. I suppose "ALL" is an acceptable answer.
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Level 50
Feb 25, 2018
I'm not complaining
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
@mikeb Same! (I knew the correct spelling by the bye)
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Level 68
May 23, 2018
same here
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Level 73
May 23, 2018
Me too! I tried "nothing" but not "everything" ... haha. One of the more unusual freebie answers I've had in a while.
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2018
first time I've gotten them all in a while.
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Level 72
Mar 2, 2018
For me too. It feels nice. :)
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Level 71
May 23, 2018
OMG First time ever I've gotten all the answers on a genereal knowledge quiz. O_O
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Level 68
May 23, 2018
me too!
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2018
I didn't read the thing about the land animal in the pleistoocene question and was thinking about some type of whale....
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Level 75
Feb 26, 2018
I'd always been taught that an umbrella is for protection from rain whereas a parasol is for protection from the Sun. It seems maybe the definitions are a bit looser than that these days but I think sunshade should work
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Level 45
May 23, 2018
I thought this as well.
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Level 55
May 23, 2018
A parasol might well not be waterproof, whereas an umbrella always is. They may look similar in design, but their nouns are not synonyms.
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Level 68
Oct 22, 2020
And yet umbrella comes from the Latin word "umbra", which means shadow...
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Level 60
Mar 21, 2022
Parasol is from 'para' and 'SOL' which is 'Sun', obviously. The French parapluie is linguistically about RAIN. So they aren't synonyms.
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Level 63
Feb 26, 2018
How about accepting "bumbershoot" as a synonym for parasol.
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Level ∞
Feb 28, 2018
Okay. That and sunshade will work now
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Level 87
Feb 26, 2018
Isn't a Komodo dragon bigger than a croc? Or heavier?
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Level ∞
Feb 28, 2018
Nope
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Level 63
Mar 5, 2018
Not even close. A grown male Komodo Dragon weighs around 70 kg while a grown male Saltwater Crocodile can weigh over 1000 kg and they're also twice as long. Maybe you mixed that up with the Komodo Dragon being the largest lizard.
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Level 77
Mar 9, 2018
You learn something every day. Thanks.
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Level 67
Mar 5, 2018
I read the London train station question as "What fictional BEER" *hangs head in shame*
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Level 22
May 23, 2018
I did too !
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Level 48
May 23, 2018
Duffman says "Drink a Duff with Paddington Bear! Oh yeah".
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Level 76
May 23, 2018
HectorVortac FTW
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Level 46
May 23, 2018
I'm pretty sure there were larger animals than the mammoth in the pleistocene, including the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium) or the much larger Paraceratherium, which is in fact, the largest mammal to have ever lived. However, I believe they recently found fossils of a larger straight tusked elephant from Asia but I'm not sure if that has been confirmed to be the largest mammal.

EDIT: Okay, it seems I was mistaken, and Para's are actually from the oligocene, but I'm still not sure about the mammoth.

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Level 53
Jun 18, 2018
you meant land mammal i hope as the largest mammal ever to exist is and was the blue whale :)
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Level 83
May 23, 2018
Wouldn't spiders also have eight feet if they have eight legs?
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Level 68
May 23, 2018
Eight knees?
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Level 68
May 23, 2018
Actually I just googled it, and spiders have 48 knees!
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Level 63
Sep 9, 2018
And dance four dances at once?
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Level 68
Oct 22, 2020
Eight shoes?
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Level 69
May 23, 2018
Those salt water crocodiles are even bigger than those Komodo dragons! That is a big crocodile!
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Level 55
May 23, 2018
Komodo dragons are not nearly as big as you think they are, I believe.
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Level 66
May 23, 2018
Please accept "your mom" for largest land animal that was alive during the Pleistocene era.
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Level 66
May 23, 2018
Please don't.
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Level 84
Dec 9, 2019
I cheated a little on this one. I asked my mother-in-law what year she was born.
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
What have you against your mother-in-law??
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Level 74
May 23, 2018
"Luft" doesn't mean "red"? I feel like Nena has been lying to me all these years. Lol
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Level 73
May 23, 2018
So true! The German version is better anyway.

I don't know much German but I know the words "Luftwaffe" and "Lufthansa" which both relate to airplanes, so that's how I guessed the answer.

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Level 63
May 23, 2018
I knew what "Luftwaffe" meant also.
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Level 67
May 24, 2018
I remembered those words, and tried "fly," "sky," "up," "lift," "cloud,"...pretty much everything but "air."
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Level 65
Jul 18, 2023
99 Luft balloons
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Level 57
May 23, 2018
Could you please clarify that it is the largest *living* reptile, as the largest of all time would probably have been one of the brachiopod dinosaurs.
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Level 17
May 24, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg should be the largest kind of reptile!
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Level 89
May 24, 2018
Even if he was scientifically classified as one, his weight is not even close to that of an average male saltwater crocodile.
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Level 43
Aug 1, 2019
But his net worth is, so depends on your parameter.
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
How do you mean?
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Level 43
May 24, 2018
Damn it.. I was typing Papryus.. Paprus..Papys..Paprys!
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Level 63
May 24, 2018
First time I got them all right!
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Level 40
May 26, 2018
QUIZ: Which two vegetables have names that end in "nip"?

ME: *types* Cat...

ME: Why isn't it working?!

...

ME: Oh.

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Level 20
May 29, 2018
Don't forget "bumbershoot" and "brolly" for umbrella.
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
Sunshade?
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Level 43
Aug 1, 2019
Salad should work for lettuce.
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2019
Sure. And while we're at it why not allow "food" or maybe just "things"
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Level 77
Jan 2, 2020
Is 19/20 good for a 14 year old? Please don't be mean, I think I'm good ☺
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Level 44
Mar 21, 2022
Yes that's good but why are you giving out your age on the internet?
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Level 72
Mar 17, 2020
"Automaton" (noun) a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being.
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Level 79
Sep 22, 2020
Could you accept 'automaton' for android?
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Level 71
Mar 21, 2022
An automaton isn't necessarily designed to resemble a human.
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Level 50
Jul 14, 2021
cleared in about 20 seconds!
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Level 59
Jan 11, 2022
Could you accept Mammooth alone? And not the Mammooth?
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Level 32
Mar 21, 2022
Wouldn’t most dinosaurs be bigger? I think you should put living reptile
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2022
Hilarious. I think we both typed that at the exact same time. Yeah, i think so too.
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2022
I wish you would add "living" or "extant" to the reptile question. It's the dino nerd in me.
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Level 54
Mar 25, 2022
Animatronic for robot question?
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Level 75
Jun 12, 2022
in addition to turnip and parsnip, accept catnip!
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Level 65
Jul 18, 2023
When I hear the word Asian, I am thinking Chinese, Japanese Vietnamese, etc., not Arabic. I am voting for a 3rd district. That being Arabic. We shall call it EurArAsia.