General Knowledge Quiz #50

Can you answer these random trivia questions

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First submitted	September 28, 2012
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Question	Answer
What is thought to be at the center of the Milky Way?	Black hole
What is the only U.S. state that starts with R?	Rhode Island
What is the world's most-visited museum?	The Louvre
What country hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2018?	Russia
What did Snow White eat that put her to sleep?	Poisoned apple
What Billy Joel song contains the lyric: "Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes"?	Piano Man
What was the name of the girl who went to Oz?	Dorothy Gale
What common poison was known as "inheritance powder" in the early 19th century?	Arsenic
What neurotoxin is used to prevent wrinkles?	Botox
What song did Weird Al parody with the song "Amish Paradise"?	Gangsta's Paradise
What country was Hamlet the prince of?	Denmark
What is the largest city in Brazil?	São Paulo
What is the name for the crime of lying under oath?	Perjury
Adjusted for inflation, what 1939 film had the highest box-office receipts in U.S. history?	Gone with the Wind
What comedian who died in 2004 got "no respect"?	Rodney Dangerfield
What title is given to the leader of a Catholic diocese?	Bishop
What is the job title of a person who is hired to carry golf clubs?	Caddy
What horror movie villain wore a hockey mask?	Jason Voorhees
Whose motto is "All for one, one for all"?	The Three Musketeers
What animal's name comes from the Greek for "horse" and "river"?	Hippopotamus

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Level 50

Sep 27, 2012

Caramel or Nougat should be accepted for Milky Way center

Level 65

Sep 27, 2012

Are you serious or making a joke? If you are serious, the questions reads "the" Milky Way. Otherwise it would read a Milky Way candy bar.

+17

Level 91

Sep 28, 2012

I don't think irony is the right word. It's just a joke. Alanis Morissette would probably disagree, but she doesn't really know the meaning of the word either. (coincidences, bad luck, and sarcasm =/= irony)

Level 54

Sep 15, 2013

maybe he was hungry?

+26

Level 77

Dec 11, 2013

Are YOU serious or making a joke? It's obviously a joke. Stop being so serious.

Level 82

Feb 22, 2019

Eating the Milky Way is what gave me the diabeetus.

Level 63

Jan 31, 2019

That's really funny! Laugh people!

Level 20

Sep 27, 2012

i went totally blank on rhode island... awesome.

+20

Level 50

Oct 1, 2012

I was joking about Milky Way. Can't believe you had to ask.

Level 61

Aug 9, 2018

It made me laugh, so...well done.

Level 82

Jan 20, 2015

How did I misspell perjury? Maybe I was using a "g"...

Level 84

Jan 20, 2015

I did the same thing. Not sure why I was so sure but I tried every combination of it I could think of: pergury, purgury, pergery, purgery, ah screw it.

Level 26

Jul 23, 2015

Some issue with this.

1) Botulium toxin and BTX should be allowed for botox answer as this is the scientific name

2) Bishops aren't just for Catholics, they exist also for many other forms of Christianity

Fix this please

+15

Level 51

Jul 28, 2015

I agree that the scientific name for Botox should be accepted. However, there is no need to change the bishop clue. Just because there are bishops in other denominations of Christianity doesn't make the clue incorrect.

Level 60

Aug 10, 2023

Botulinum toxin, the scientific name, is accepted. Treehouse225 missed the "n".

Level 55

Oct 19, 2023

or perhaps 8 years later the accepted answers have been expanded

Level 60

Nov 17, 2023

I doubt it, since Treehouse225 spelt it without the N in their comment.

Level 63

Sep 5, 2021

If you can think of Botolium Toxin you can think of Botox

Level 68

Feb 8, 2023

It took me a while to realise they were the same thing

+14

Level 65

Feb 20, 2018

Least known answer. He really does get no respect.

Level 65

Dec 4, 2022

He was an aluminum siding salesman who worked every day, writing and memorizing bits. to become a comedian.

Awesome

Level 48

Aug 7, 2023

And least known by a wide margin... No respect I tell ya

Level 45

Mar 19, 2018

How did only half of us get Piano Man? Come on, guys.

Level 85

Sep 18, 2018

Yes, it still gets a good deal of airplay (and used in karaoke bars), but the song IS 45 years old...

Level 83

Mar 10, 2024

I don't listen to popular music on the radio or go to karaoke bars so I had never heard of it.

Level 77

Sep 18, 2018

I feel like it's always me who picks on spelling. It's a hippopotamus. With an o.

+11

Level ∞

Sep 18, 2018

The spelling of hiphopopotamus has been corrected :)

Level 75

Feb 22, 2019

I'll tag along on this nitpicker comment with "What song does is Weird Al's..." (Wish I could blame that for missing it, but no, I just didn't know the answer.)

Level 77

Apr 19, 2021

Super disappointing that hiphopopotamus wasn't accepted, especially because his rhymes are bottomless.

Level 93

Oct 9, 2018

I could not get the museum one, thought it would be MoMA - that appears to be third after the answer here and very close behind that the National Museum of China in Beijing

Level 67

Dec 28, 2018

Thumbs up for not accepting hippo!

Level 58

Oct 11, 2022

What on Earth is this thing you refer to as, as a 'hippo'? And how is this relevant to this quiz? Never head of that before! Oooohhh.... now I see! Nearly lost the entire meaning of the word without the 'potamus'!? /s

Level 20

Jan 13, 2019

I actually tried to see the comments and typed caramel and nougat as I didn't know the answer :)

Level 60

Aug 10, 2023

Honest question: Why do you check the comments when you don't know the answer? What's the fun in that?

Level 82

Feb 22, 2019

The Smithsonian receives twice as many visitors as the Louvre (20 million vs 10 million in 2018), though it is more a collection of museums than a museum.

Level 57

Feb 22, 2019

Could you please accept Sagittarius A* as an answer to the first question? I typed it in since it's the name of the black hole.

Level 72

Feb 22, 2019

No respect indeed! Least recognized at 24%.

Level 84

Nov 9, 2019

The etymology of "hippopotamus" stuck with me by linking it with the word "Mesopotamia", which is the region of present-day Iraq that basically lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Mesos = between

Potamos = river(s)

Makes me wonder if the name of the Potomac River in Washington D.C. doesn't ultimately translate to River River. (there was an Algonquin village named "Patawomeck" along the river, whose name is very similar to the part of the river named "Patawomke", meaning "river of swans")

Level 91

Feb 6, 2020

It's been a while since I read Dumas, but wasn't it the motto of all the musketeers, not just the 3?

Level 76

May 3, 2021

allow pastime paradise? the one that the one amish paradise was based on was based on?

Level 70

May 8, 2021

Rodney Dangerfield was "Easy Money" for me.

Level 72

Jan 12, 2022

Switzerland should be accepted for One for all, all for one :)

Level 47

May 4, 2022

yes. I got the Louvre first because i am in France right now :)

Level 66

Jul 20, 2022

I think Louve should be accepted for Louvre.

And Smithsonian.

Level 32

Aug 12, 2022

Howdy love, sorry to say this but i think it would be best if you accepted 'Sao Pualo' without the tilde. Not all keyboards can perform such difficult and tiring tasks, so please make life easier for us quiz takers.

Best wishes.

Level 56

Aug 25, 2022

it worked for me, i think it's because you typed pUAlo instead of pAUlo

Level ∞

May 11, 2023

Diacritics never matter on Jétpüñk.

Level 46

Aug 16, 2022

I put gangstas paradise but didn't get the point for missing out the apostrophe...

Level ∞

May 11, 2023

Punctuation, never : matters , on Jet'Punk!

Level 67

Jun 11, 2023

BecauseRegexdoesntcare

Level 67

Jun 11, 2023

I thought Michael Scott was quoting Al Pacino from Taxi Driver, but was actually quoting Rodney Dangerfield! He even said so in his line, I just never noticed. (End of Did I Stutter!, S4)

Level 81

Jun 25, 2023

Yet another nitpick from me: the description is missing a question mark.

(I'm sorry, I'm just really stingy about spelling and grammar, I can't help it!)

Level 60

Aug 10, 2023

A few nitpicks (from above):

Sagittarius A or Sgt A should be accepted for the center of the universe.

Description is missing a '?'

Level 43

Oct 20, 2023

Got everything but the FIFA country with more than 2 minutes left, so I just guessed countries until I got it.

Level 56

Feb 16, 2024

Anyone else put newsies for "all for one, one for all"?

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