Daily Trivia for November 4, 2024

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Level 88

Nov 4, 2024

Donner kebab.

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Level 78

Nov 4, 2024

If you turn off I-70 while heading east toward Reno and head north on California 89 you'll see a sign for the Donner Party Picnic Area. There are some sick people in the California Parks Department.

Level 94

Nov 4, 2024

I-80. I-70 ends in southern Utah.

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

7 from 10 after not spending long enough thinking about triangles, and I had no clue about Amish punishments or Hello Kitty

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Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

9/10 today, curse you Hello Kitty! 😂

Also would rather not disclose how long I spent thinking about question 2 😅 A few tricky ones here tbf

Level 83

Nov 4, 2024

I don’t want to disclose how long I took either, especially considering that I got it wrong. 🤔

Level 66

Nov 4, 2024

Definitely had an advantage being a Brit for Q2. London falls into both hemispheres (Greenwich being the famous point it switches at, hence the timezone GMT standing for Greenwich Mean Time), so that ruled Asia and North America out straight away.

Level 80

Nov 4, 2024

The irony is that "hemi-" means half, so the question is about four half-globes which is technically not correct. It should be four quarters, really. And would Oceania not qualify as well, to be in all four of those quarters? I know it wasn't one of the options, but still...

Level 94

Nov 4, 2024

The question has to be about hemispheres/half globes because Africa doesn't have land in all 4 quarters. It has no land in the south-western quadrant. This is a perfect example of why the argument against 4 hemispheres is not well conceived. (Really, the argument should be made for 6 hemispheres, but that's not relevant here.)

Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

Oceania would definitely qualify if it was an option because Kiribati has territory in all four hemispheres, pretty sure it's the only country that can make that claim

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

True. But Oceania doesn't really fi the definition of 'continent', nor is it an option here

Level 61

Nov 4, 2024

Back to 10/10!

All thanks to my intense ~~luck~~ skill and unmatched knowledge of Hello Kitty!

Level 69

Nov 4, 2024

I was shunned from the age of four until my sixth birthday...

Level 65

Nov 4, 2024

Oh my...are you serious? Why?

Level 66

Nov 4, 2024

Only 15% got Hello Kitty? Surely this shows that isn’t that great of Daily Trivia question

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Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

It caught me out but I don't mind niche questions popping up once in a while. Tbf the lack of a Japanese option kinda gave me a hunch that it would be one of the Western options, but I had no way of narrowing it down so I went for Hong Kong anyway 😅

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

I remember hearing something about it, and also remembered that it was not where I had expected it to be, so I just guessed the least-likely seeming option. Los Angeles.

Level 66

Nov 4, 2024

That’s a fair point.

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

Hello Kitty > probably Japanese > so likely not Hong Kong/China > Paris/London. But I chose Paris because I thought the Japanese were pretty obsessive about Paris

Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

Yeah if I'd gone with my gut and went for one of the Western options I think I probably would've gone with Paris as well, for similar reasons

Level 56

Nov 4, 2024

Quite a few of us think the Amish are pretty brutal

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

Let me tell you about a man named Bullroarer Took....

Level 57

Nov 4, 2024

Lol I thought the same thing, golf was made in The Shire

Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

I had some very, very lucky guesses to get 10/10 today!

Level 70

Nov 4, 2024

Only got 7/10. Don't know where Hello Kitty lives, geography bested me again. I figured Asia creeped over into the Western hemisphere, but I guess not. And said Dahmer party, because I'm an idiot and didn't read all the choices first.

Level 89

Nov 4, 2024

I got the four hemisphere question, but otherwise had your same experience. Know nothing about Hello Kitty, and went too fast on the Donner Party question and picked Dahmer.

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

We're twinning!

Except I also missed the tank question.

One of my worst performances to date. I totally need to slow down. The Dahmer Party. 😂

Level 66

Nov 4, 2024

The gunpowder question should be tossed or re-worded. Both sulphur (brimstone) and saltpeter (potassium nitrate) are elements of (black) gunpowder. What is the "key" element of water-hydrogen or oxygen?

Level 72

Nov 4, 2024

Didn't know about the Donner Party and Hello Kitty's residence, so I just guessed (wrongly obviously)

What fooled me was the continent question, because there are European countries' land (territories) in all four hemispheres. France alone has land in South and North America, Eastern Africa and Oceania. But I suppose I can only blame myself, the question was not if there was EU external territories, but if the continent itself was on these hemispheres... I should have known better

Level 88

Nov 4, 2024

Doesn't gunpowder contain both brimstone (sulfur) AND saltpeter? Granted, the saltpeter portion was traditionally more difficult to source, and was the "controlling ingredient" to making gunpowder.

Level 76

Nov 4, 2024

Hello Kitty has LORE?! Well, ya learn something new everyday.

Level 55

Nov 4, 2024

9/10 my best score. Who is getting london for Hello Kitty though???

Level 80

Nov 4, 2024

I got it because I vaguely remember reading years ago that Hello Kitty is supposedly a London schoolgirl, according to the creator.

Level 64

Nov 4, 2024

You know it's a good question when 59% of Jetpunkers miss it (and I was part of that 59%).