S Answers Quiz #1

Based on the clues, guess these random things that start with the letter S.
All answers are a single word
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Last updated: September 16, 2018
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First submittedJanuary 21, 2013
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Clue
Answer
Desert which spans northern Africa
Sahara
Homer Simpson's hometown
Springfield
12 pence, formerly
Shilling
Italy's largest island
Sicily
This is to sun as lunar is to moon
Solar
Vast region of Eastern Russia
Siberia
2012 Bond movie
Skyfall
Element with symbol Na
Sodium
Canal which connects the
Mediterranean and Red Seas
Suez
Apple's web browser
Safari
Capital of California
Sacramento
Freud's first name
Sigmund
System of Islamic law
Sharia
Makers of "Sonic the Hedgehog"
Sega
Former name of Thailand
Siam
Voice above alto
Soprano
Ravi Shankar's instrument
Sitar
WWI battle with over 1 million casualties
Somme
Spanish city where Figaro was a barber
Seville
Ancient Indian language
Sanskrit
Hindu god called "The Destroyer"
Shiva
Jupiter's dad
Saturn
Traditional religion of Japan
Shinto
Gangnam is a neighborhood of
this city
Seoul
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Level 50
Oct 7, 2013
I kept trying salt for sodium, duh.
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Level 38
Oct 9, 2013
Jupiter's dad- Saturn? Which mythology are you referring to here?
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Level 77
Oct 9, 2013
Uh...Roman? Are you aware of a different relationship between Jupiter and Saturn?
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Level 58
Dec 23, 2013
Perhaps they were trying to figure out who actually birthed the planet?
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Level 67
Jul 31, 2019
jupiter is iopater=zeus
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Level 22
Jun 23, 2014
57% of people got sega, yet 28% got battle of somme - amazing
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Level 75
Feb 20, 2015
I missed 'em both, and Seoul, too.
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Level 82
Sep 30, 2015
Somme people on this site are probably under 100 years old, making the video games they played growing up more relevant to their lives than a battle that happened before they were born.
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Level 58
Sep 30, 2015
Was that "Somme" at the start intentional?
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Level 56
Nov 28, 2018
whether they lived through the somme or played sonic growing up probably factors little into their knowledge of these things; the somme is a historic battle and sega made sonic, these are general knowledge facts that you don't have to experience first hand to know
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Level 77
Dec 20, 2018
No, you don't have to experience thing first-hand in order to know them, but it does make it easier to remember. Consider also how frequently people are exposed to information. How much of the average person's education focused on the Battle of the Somme? It probably featured on a single test I took in middle school, and maybe one more in high school. Meanwhile, people my age who were kids in the early '90s played Sonic games regularly over the course of years, seeing the "Sega" logo pop up every time the fired up the game, hundreds of times if not more. And of course however many hundreds of times they saw commercials for Sonic games, which all prominently featured the Sega logo.

Seriously, I'm not going to judge people because they remember a fact they've been exposed to countless times in a fun context over the course of years better than they remember one that they were exposed to a couple of times in a not-so-fun context.

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Level 77
Sep 16, 2021
But "judging" people who know the trivial answers but not the serious ones when you score them the other way around is one of the greatest pleasures in a jetpunker's life!
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Level 67
Jul 31, 2019
Yea, it is about exposure. I dont think I have ever been exposed to somme, history was not one of my chosen subjects. And afaik not covered in elementary school. I have never played sonic, but you do come across him here and there.
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Level 75
Dec 27, 2020
My mum lives in the middle of the Somme battle area, so I know it very well. Every couple of miles there is a war cemetery - thousands and thousands in total. Pretty much 0 buildings in the area are pre-war, but they've rebuilt them beautifully.

Check out the Thiepval Memorial if you ever need to sober up: it's engraved with the names of 72,337 British and S African soldiers whose remains were never identified.

(Many of the bodies are buried in the cemeteries around the area, with the inscription "A soldier of the Great War known unto God", and some of them were simply never found.)

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Level 58
Sep 30, 2015
To whoever made this quiz,

Thanks for the Indian references. It's nice to see something that's not about the U.S. on this website!

Your biggest fan,

IKnowEveryAnswer

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Level 30
Jun 11, 2017
tf you talkng about
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Level 32
Jun 18, 2021
lol
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Level 60
Oct 1, 2015
100% with 4:20 remaining this was far too easy!
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Level 40
Oct 1, 2015
Missed only one - Sega.

Clearly I haven't wasted enough time on computer gaming... Clearly.

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Level 42
Mar 27, 2024
and yet here you are
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Level 84
Nov 3, 2015
Could steppe also be accepted for area of Russia? It's not as vast as Siberia but the Eurasian Steppe does stretch across eastern Russia into China.
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Level ∞
Nov 3, 2015
Okay
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Level 58
Mar 16, 2016
I got the left column right which made me happy :)
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Level 71
Mar 21, 2016
If you got the LEFT column RIGHT.... had you LEFT the RIGHT column?
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Level 59
Nov 28, 2018
Oh shoot
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Level 59
Apr 18, 2018
one above alto is mezzo-soprano then soprano
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Level 72
Jun 30, 2018
Am I mistaken of have I seen Freud's first name spelled Siegmund?
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Level 49
Jun 12, 2019
Kept writing Shinti instead of shinto. D'oh! Missed Safari too but all in all, quite happy
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Level 67
Jul 31, 2019
Wow, sanskrit is low !! (feels like not knowing about hyroglyphs and pyramids, something you learn in primarary/elementary school) And I hadnt heard about shinto or somme
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Level 67
Feb 25, 2020
How did I not get sitar lol
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Level 56
Mar 30, 2020
My brain obviously is not working today, for the spanish city one I tried so many places beginning with s in Spain, I even tried San Cugat(it's not even a city) and still didn't get the answer.
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Level 74
Jun 27, 2022
Please accept Siva as well as Shiva.
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Level 54
Mar 27, 2024
Please accept "style" for Seoul
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Level 64
Mar 29, 2024
i kept guessing spectre for bond movie. forgot about skyfall :(
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Level 33
Apr 8, 2024
can "sicilia" be accepted for sicily? it's the Italian name for sicily