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What Am I Talking About? #1

Based on a single sentence, can you tell the topic I am talking about?
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: July 6, 2021
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First submittedJuly 6, 2021
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Average score68.8%
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1. With only two hanging pawns and a desperado piece left, perpetual check seemed inevitable.
Chess
Golf
Economics
Government
2. Although being an isolate rather than Romantic or Gallic, Basque does borrow a more widely used script.
Classical music
Coding
Languages
Literature
3. Osmium, part of period 6, does not have a full F-orbital.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Literature
U.S. politics
4. The catalytic converter, exhaust manifold, and muffler are all essential parts of the exhaust system.
Cancer
Cars
Geology
Language
5. Although many installments have been sandbox or Metroidvania style, the most recent one borrows elements from modern MMORPGs.
Horror movies
Macroeconomics
Psychology
Video games
6. Following Brest-Litovsk, Wilhelm focused back towards the Somme.
20th century history
Alchemy
Catholic dogma
Modern art
7. The diminished seventh resolves to the tonic, which does not form a perfect authentic cadence.
Bartending
Communications
Music
Sculpting
8. The Caprivi Strip does nearly create a quadripoint approximately antipodal to Hilo.
Geography
Quantum mechanics
Television
Trigonometry
9. By studying scansion and noting the chiasmus, Catullus can easily be identified.
Greek architecture
Forensics
Microbiology
Poetry
10. The ferritin will pass through the mitral valve from the right atrium.
Circulatory system
Interior design
Meteorology
Structural engineering
11. A misaimed lofted pass from the sweeper resulted in a throw-in at the halfway line.
Basketball
Rugby
Soccer
Tennis
12. Khayyam, Euclid, Pascal, Noether, and Turing all made great contributions to their fields.
Astronomy
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tapestries
13. They can be used in the making of a chiffonade, a mesclun, or a coulis.
Cooking
Painting
Pottery
Woodworking
14. Due to the appearance of vestigial structures and similar sequences in the introns, the nodes were reordered on the phylogenetic tree.
Artificial Intelligence
Evolution
Pharmaceuticals
Viruses
15. They can be either weft, including purl and double, or warp, including tricot or Milanese.
Cheese
Knitting
Psychology
Sailing
16. The Coriolis effect and the Humboldt current create a gyre along the southern part of the Ring of Fire.
Atmospheric science
Norse mythology
Oceanography
Science fiction
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Level 39
Jul 6, 2021
What are you talking about?
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Level 81
Apr 14, 2022
What are you talking about?
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Level 51
Sep 9, 2023
What are you talking about?
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Level 78
Jul 12, 2021
Great idea for a quiz.
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Level 75
Dec 17, 2021
Concur - hope there are a lot more of these
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Level 24
Mar 17, 2024
Part 2!? Great idea for a quiz and a good opportunity to apply random bits of trivia.
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Level 62
Jul 13, 2021
I've got a bad scansion in the chiasmus myself. Will have to make a doctor's appointment.
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Level 24
Mar 17, 2024
Me trying to figure it out by applying it to something I actually know:
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Level 74
Jul 13, 2021
Great quiz! I love it! Nominated! Only missed 7, 8, 11, 13 and 15. Being attentive in school goes a long way in this quiz :)
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Level 82
Jul 13, 2021
Love this! I really had to think about some of them, but was able to pick out enough clues to get all but one (and I was 50/50 on that).

FYI, "am" should be capitalized in the title, because it's a verb.

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Level 76
Jul 13, 2021
love love love it!
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Level 76
Jul 13, 2021
Clever quiz. I hope you do a series of them!
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Level 87
Jul 15, 2021
Great idea for a quiz!
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Level 67
Jul 16, 2021
I like how only 56% of Jetpunkers got the geography one, lol
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Level 57
Jul 19, 2023
Now it's just 46%... a bad score for a geography question on Jetpunk.
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Level 66
Mar 23, 2024
Yea, that surprised me too. Cars 95% and geopgraphy 46%. Ok the geograhy wasn't superobvious perhaps, but antipodal was a good clue here.

At least as suprising I found the Chemistry one. Osmium... surely that points you in the right direction. Even if you are bad at naming elements, it simply sounds like one. And it has the word period.. as in periodic table.

I ended up getting two wrong, the sport one, and the poetry, I was about to change it when time ran out.

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Level 69
Jul 17, 2021
Nice quiz. However, I do think Atmospheric Science is a valid answer for the last question. Both the Coriolis effect and Humboldt current are often associated with weather patterns and winds in the atmosphere as well as oceanography.
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Level 66
Jul 18, 2021
Thanks. While those words could refer to atmospheric science, gyres almost exclusively refer to the ocean and the Ring of Fire has nothing to do with the atmosphere.
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Level 71
Dec 18, 2021
Don't forget that the "slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe." Yes, more poetry ;)
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Level 24
Mar 17, 2024
Stupid Coriolis Effect threw me off. I could have put it together with the Ring of Fire part, but I didn't read the rest.
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Level 66
Mar 23, 2024
yes initially I was leaning towards atmosphere, but it was the ring of fire that convinced me to take the oceanography.

Have not heard of gyres, initially it confused it with gales. (english is not my native tongue), but like I said ring of fire sealed the deal.

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Level 60
Jul 25, 2021
Can not compute

*falls of chair and faints*

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Level 67
Dec 9, 2021
Great quiz! The capitalization offers some pretty good hints!
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Level 67
Dec 10, 2021
Good quiz. Had to read some of those questions a few times to really think about the wording. Not to be that guy, but I've never heard of a sweeper position in football/ soccer. Played both football and rugby all my life, and none of those terms were consistent, so assumed it was basketball.
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Level 78
Dec 14, 2021
Not a native English speaker and I've definitely heard of sweeper. Otherwise known as libero.
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Level 60
Dec 15, 2021
It's an outdated term. In the 70s teams would have one defender further back than everyone else, called the sweeper. The offside rule used to be different - you needed 2 defenders between you and the goal instead of 1 - and when they changed it the sweeper suddenly became outdated. But it's where the term "sweeper keeper" comes from.
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Level 68
Dec 15, 2021
You still do need two players between you and the goal Gokpor, don't forget the keeper.

I didn't know that it used to be three (usually two outfield and the goalkeeper but not necessarily) so I looked it up. I think it was changed to two fairly early in the 20th century, it was certainly two when I started going to matches in the 60s.

Anyone who played field hockey in the 60s/70s will remember there having to be three defenders between them and the ball...etc.

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Level 24
Mar 17, 2024
Ah. Thank you.
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Level 57
Nov 30, 2023
Definitely a word that was occasionally used on my soccer teams growing up in the US in the early 2000s to describe something similar to a Center Back.
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Level 70
Dec 10, 2021
I was a bit sceptical when I first saw the title but I enjoyed the quiz immensely! I even did much better than I expected. Some of the hints were really tricky and it wasn't easy to make the right decision but looking back now it all makes sense. The timing worked exactly right for me - just enough to get to everything but not too much to be able to ponder over the answer for too long. Thank you! :)
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Level 77
Dec 10, 2021
I liked this. I have a pretty broad knowledge of weird topics. Happy with 14/16 but the two I missed, I had it down to 50/50 and picked the wrong one on both. I would love to see more of these.
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Level 90
Dec 10, 2021
1-7: Oh, this is fun and easy

8-16: *perspiring heavily*

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Level 24
Mar 17, 2024
This is accurate.
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Level 86
Dec 10, 2021
I only got the one about poetry due to the poem "Catullus 16." I highly recommend you look it up as it's quite the verse.
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Level 88
Dec 15, 2021
Haha, wow. Quite the verse indeed!
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Level 58
Dec 10, 2021
Shoutout to my Latin professor for making Catullus my favorite poet, otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten #9!
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Level 72
Dec 11, 2021
Good quiz. A couple there I had no clue on, and a few where I had it narrowed down to an ‘either or’ and had a 100% record in picking the wrong answer.

Pedantic point, Q11, can you replace “soccer” with ‘football’ or amend it to ‘soccer/football’ or ‘football/soccer’? The sport is known as football pretty much everywhere else in the world.

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Level 82
Dec 11, 2021
Fun quiz. Great idea. Has series potential.
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Level 64
Dec 11, 2021
There is no such thing as a sweeper in soccer. Not in British English, anyway
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Level 71
Dec 13, 2021
There most certainly is but teams very rarely play with one nowadays. Players such as Franz Beckenbauer and Franco Baresi were masters of it and I have even played the position myself but to a much poorer standard.
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Level 68
Dec 14, 2021
The "soccer" one reads how I imagine an American with only a vague awareness of the game would describe a football match
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Level 58
Dec 15, 2021
This is such a bizarre comment. Google Franz Beckenbauer, Matthias Sammer, Franco Baresi, Ruud Krol, Ronald Koeman... even Lothar Matthaus and Ruud Gullit.

If it has to be someone British try Mark Wright at Italia 90.

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Level 60
Dec 11, 2021
the Khayyam et al. one is misleading. The other clues all use technical terms pertaining to the respective subject area, while this just listed famous mathematicians, so I thought this would be epistemology, i.e. philosophy. Surely it couldn't be hard to come up with some technical babble in the style of the other clues that actually has to do with math.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2021
Yeah, I also feel like this question doesn't fit with the others, and since Khayyam and Pascal were polymaths it's also a bit misleading.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2021
As an alternative to the existing clue, I suggest: "Under Stephen Smale’s horseshoe map, the points in orbits that fall within the original square form a set whose horizontal and vertical components are homeomorphic to the Cantor Set." (Source: 2019 Chicago Open question set).
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Level 40
Dec 15, 2021
Sweeper really threw me off. I've never heard that term in football, since we don't use it. It is only used to describe a "Sweeper keeper", a goalkeeper playstyle where the goalkeeper goes farther up the pitch.

Well at least nowadays.

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Level 65
Dec 15, 2021
Sweeper in football...oh dear Jetpunk
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Level 63
Dec 15, 2021
Sweepers are a real position in football, Franz Beckenbauer was one of the greatest sweepers to ever play. They are essentially players that stand behind the centre backs so that a defender or keeper that isn't great at passing can easily pass the ball to an attacker rather than hoofing it up field and hoping it finds a teammate. They've gone out of fashion these days because defenders and keepers tend to be good at passing now, so there's no need for a specialist at the back that knows how to attack.
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Level 68
Dec 15, 2021
Match Of The Day was full of sweepers in the 70s. Definitely used in Britain. Not so much now though.
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Level 49
Dec 15, 2021
About sweeper. When I learned English football positions as a non-native speaker, I saw also sweeper. I interpreted that the difference with centre back (CB) was sweeper's position and role as a last lock of defense before goal keeper, as a player who sweeps the ball from dangerous area. If sweeper has liberty to attack, the word is synonymous with libero.
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Level 58
Dec 15, 2021
Exactly right. They aren't that common any more because most teams only play with one central striker (so the second CB is often spare), and also there tend to be two defensive midfielders so the sweeper isn't needed so much.
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Level 49
Dec 15, 2021
Yes, sweepers and liberos had their glory days probably in the 70s.
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Level 57
Dec 15, 2021
Nobody says sweeper in soccer.. O.o
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Level 56
Jan 2, 2023
Well SOMEONE clearly posted without reading any of the other comments first......
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Level 65
Dec 15, 2021
This is an incredibly wild quiz (IMHO). You must be incredibly well rounded to come up with these question and answers.
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Level 56
Dec 15, 2021
Warp and weft have to do with weaving, not knitting, even though the latter makes fabric, too.
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Level 71
Dec 15, 2021
For the mathematics question, it would have been nice to have some actual mathematics in the clue, not just names. Like:

Modding out a ring with a maximal ideal gives a field.

or

A Noetherian ring satisfies an ascending chain condition, while an Artinian ring satisfies a descending chain condition.

or

A graph is called a forest if it contains no cycles. A tree is a connected forest.

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Level 69
Dec 15, 2021
I don't love including "sweeper" in the soccer one.

I'm aware of sweepers, but that position and that term have largely died out.

Using "sweeper" in the example for soccer is about as appropriate as mentioning the "W-M" formation. Technically correct, but purposefully deceitful and borderline absurd.

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Level 79
Dec 15, 2021
Agreed, just because wikipedia has a description of a sweeper in soccer doesn't mean it is still a thing today or even in recent memory.
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Level 82
Dec 15, 2021
I missed the least-guessed answer. But surprisingly got the sports question missed by over 70%.
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Level 70
Dec 15, 2021
Great idea for a quiz. Could become a series!
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Level 73
Dec 15, 2021
As an atmospheric scientist, apparently I can’t just read “Coriolis effect” and answer “atmospheric science” instinctively 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Level 43
Dec 17, 2021
That's what I did.
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Level 59
Dec 15, 2021
This was awesome, particularly because it included knowledge in a wide variety of topics ! I'd love to see this turned into a series
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Level 54
Dec 16, 2021
Ferritin will not pass through the mitral valve from the right but left atrium.
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Level 68
Jan 19, 2022
The curve of the score distribution is beautiful.
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Level 76
Mar 18, 2022
Great idea.
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Level 62
Jun 16, 2022
I do like my cheese to be as weft as possible - pretty tasty.

I like the idea that a government could be stuck in perpetual check, and that Brest-Litovsk was some great artist.

The sweeper one is perfectly fine - it's in the past tense anyway, so there should be no complaints there. Super quiz!

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Level 72
Jun 16, 2022
What a super idea for a quiz. And great options to choose from as well. Really enjoyed this, thank you.
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Level 60
Jun 18, 2022
I love this whole series and the questions are really awesome. Very diverse very interesting. Btw, being a Geography Major, I found the last question confusing cuz Coriolis Force and Humdolt current are atmospheric phenomenon which is also an option but of course the Ring Of Fire is associated with Oceanography. Eitherway it could be both Atmospheric Sciences or Oceanography so maybe change of the options.
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Level 77
Jun 18, 2022
When I was a kid playing soccer in the 70s and 80s, it was common for coaches to arrange the defense in a diamond with a sweeper and stopper. Absolutely no one plays like this anymore, opting to use the CBs in more of a flat back line. Long story short, "sweeper" is very much a soccer term, albeit one that only historians are going to remember soon.
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Level 80
Oct 14, 2022
My high school soccer coach tired to play with a sweeper last year. Safe to say that it only worked about half the time.
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Level 56
Dec 14, 2022
10/16. i'm honestly surprised more people didn't get the oceanography one. coriolis, ring of fire, currents??? i don't know what the coriolis effect is and i barely understand ocean currents but that one felt pretty heard of to me
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2023
Fun quiz, ty. Would love harder ones.
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Level 35
Oct 31, 2023
ITS FOOTBALL NOT SOCERRRRR
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Level 81
Nov 9, 2023
This was a really twist on your average general knowledge quiz, I loved it! Just gave it 5 stars.
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Level 36
Jan 30, 2024
REALLY cool. The poetry question is what surprised me a lot. I really appreciate learning something new from a quiz here :))
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Level 51
Feb 26, 2024
Good quiz! My only issue was that the right atrium leads to the TRICUSPID valve, not the mitral valve ;)