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General Knowledge Quiz #224

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: October 17, 2023
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Which metallic element has the highest strength/weight ratio?
Titanium
Which country suffers at at least 10,000 deaths due to snakebites each year –
by far the most of any country?
India
Whose funeral in 1965 was, at the time, the largest state funeral in British history?
Winston Churchill
What disease is known as "mono" for short?
Mononucleosis
What prescription drug has a name which starts and ends with X?
Xanax
What legendary city in modern-day Turkey was unearthed by archaeologist
Heinrich Schliemann in 1871?
Troy
Which country do the Azores belong to?
Portugal
What English word is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?
Alphabet
What was the largest land animal in North America in 20,000 B.C.?
Woolly Mammoth
What ark was Indiana Jones looking for in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
Ark of the Covenant
What is quartz called when it is purple?
Amethyst
Whose many celebrity exes include Jake Gyllenhaal, Calvin Harris, and Harry Styles?
Taylor Swift
Which Victor Hugo novel became a Disney animated movie?
The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame
Which modern-day country is the largest gold miner in history, responsible for about
22% of the gold ever mined?
South Africa
Mars has 2. Jupiter has at least 95. Mercury doesn't have any.
What are we talking about?
Moons
What is the largest ride sharing app in the United States?
Uber
What traditional Bavarian article of clothing can be translated as "leather shorts"?
Lederhosen
What part of the body is affected by osteoporosis?
Bones / skeleton
What movie character has frequently battled against a global criminal
organization named SPECTRE?
James Bond
What city's largest red-light district is known as De Wallen?
Amsterdam
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Level 66
Oct 18, 2023
Good quiz. My brother has Mono right now; didn't help me.
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Level 85
Oct 18, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_funerals says that the number of attendees for Churchill was "(6,000 at funeral service) 500,000", while the number for Elizabeth II was "(2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000".
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Level ∞
Oct 18, 2023
This one is my source:

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

Doing some research, it appears to be out of date. I updated the clue.

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Level 68
Oct 19, 2023
FYI "Hosen" doesn't mean shorts, it's just the German word for pants.
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Level 77
Oct 20, 2023
Please accept "Glandular Fever" for question four.
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Level 66
Dec 1, 2023
Never heard of mono so I had to look it up. Turns out it's glandular fever. How could the common name not be accepted as an answer?
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Level 68
Oct 21, 2023
Agree "glandular fever" should probably be accepted. But certainly "infectious mononucleosis" should be accepted as that is the full name (in fact, that should be the official answer to the question, with "mononucleosis" accepted as a type-in).
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Level 66
Dec 1, 2023
The woolly mammoth was not the largest mammal in North America. The Columbian mammoth was significantly larger.
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Level 64
Dec 1, 2023
agree that infectious mononucleosis or glandular fever should be accepted for mono
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Level 66
Mar 3, 2024
Should the "prescription drug" question specify that you're looking for a brand name instead of the name of the product?