Daily Trivia for May 7, 2025

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Daily Trivia for May 7, 2025

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+7
Level 53
May 7, 2025
Not a bad score today, 8/10. Didn't know what an Arnold Palmer is and thought Saddam Hussein was overthrown in the Gulf war, which is currently the top score at 55% so at least I wasn't alone in my thinking.
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Level 48
May 7, 2025
He was overthrown in the Iraq War (or the second Gulf War) in 2003.

First war was an international action to protect Kuwait, second war was an anglo-american invasion to topple Saddam due to 'weapons of mass destruction' evidence.

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Level 52
May 7, 2025
Right. And there was a bit of a fuss over the fact that the USA could have overthrown him but did not.
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Level 46
May 7, 2025
More specifically due to 'weapons of mass destruction' non-evidence.
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Level 74
May 7, 2025
"evidence"
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Level 55
May 7, 2025
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT AND ARNOLD PALMER IS? YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY TRY IT
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Level 53
May 7, 2025
And I'm top of my leaderboard....for a small sweet moment.
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Level 38
May 7, 2025
I’m always at the top of my leaderboard. Guess that’s because I have no friends who play🤷‍♂️
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Level 83
May 7, 2025
Dang, fell on the last hurdle. I always thought of them as the First and Second Gulf Wars. Should’ve gone with the oil spill, but overthought the question.
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Level 77
May 7, 2025
Yeah I think that one needs a renaming in the question to be specifically about the First Gulf War cause I too, when I first saw that question, said "which one?" then preceded to get it wrong by choosing the first option that applied to either one.

If not a renaming then swap out the Saddam answer but I figure it would mess with stats less to just add one more word to the question.

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Level ∞
May 7, 2025
There's not really any ambiguity. The Gulf War refers to the conflict of 1990–1991. The other conflict is almost always known as the Iraq War.

Nevertheless, I added the year since we're not trying to trick anyone.

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Level 56
May 7, 2025
Appreciate the clarification but isn't the war of 2003 commonly called the Iraq War?
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Level ∞
May 7, 2025
Yes it is.
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Level 27
May 7, 2025
For any confused people:

The Gulf War/First Gulf War/Persian Gulf War - A brief conflict between 1990-1991 wherein a 42-country coalition, led by the United States, undertook the famous Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.

The Second Gulf War/Iraq War - A U.S.-launched war in Iraq that lasted from 2003-2011, wherein the U.S. invaded Iraq under the (false) pretense that they were harboring WMDs and overthrew Saddam Hussein and his government. Following this overthrow was a period of insurgency and instability that also gave rise to groups such as ISIS and kept the U.S. in a protracted state of conflict that was closed by President Obama in 2011.

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Level 68
May 7, 2025
Ahh I was going so well.. then missed the last three in a row. Golf theme and 7/10
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Level 57
May 7, 2025
9/10, missed the last one :(
+8
Level 53
May 7, 2025
2/10 *Go [l]f*ail.
+3
Level 86
May 7, 2025
That's even less than FORE!!
+9
Level 50
May 7, 2025
Gulf Of America! 🇺🇸
+17
Level 32
May 7, 2025
Nope
+9
Level 87
May 7, 2025
Is it though
+27
Level 58
May 7, 2025
You spelt Mexico wrong mate
+9
Level 58
May 7, 2025
Nope. Nor "Gulf of Abject Narcissism."
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Level 27
May 7, 2025
i do not regret to inform you that you are mistaken
+2
Level 65
May 7, 2025
Go on Google Maps right now and look at the body of water that borders mostly the US and a little of Mexico, all of which is in North America, and tell me what it's labeled as.
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Level 63
May 7, 2025
Google Maps for me says Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

sooooo.....

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Level 89
May 7, 2025
For what it's worth, Mexico's coastline on the gulf is longer than the USA's...
+1
Level 69
May 7, 2025
my ranked teammates
+3
Level 55
May 7, 2025
Nope dude, dont come and say Maga trash please
+2
Level 55
May 7, 2025
nope
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Level 55
May 7, 2025
......
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Level 60
May 7, 2025
I also mistake golf and gulf often.
+7
Level 69
May 7, 2025
Golf and gulf sound quite different in my accent. There is a gulf between them.
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Level 58
May 7, 2025
This comment is underrated 👏
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Level 32
May 7, 2025
2/10 :))))/)))/)/):):):$))
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Level 92
May 7, 2025
9/10

Q7 I should know that, but don't know what happened to me.

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Level 70
May 7, 2025
7/10. Didn't know what to do because I thought all of those states were on the Gulf of Mexico. And I don't know where the Gulf of Guinea is. Geography really is my downfall. Then I couldn't decide what happened in 1991. Knew Hussein wasn't overthrown for a fact. And I was pretty sure 20,000 US troops didn't die. I also didn't think Iran invaded Iraq, but I also thought a big oil spill would be weird. WEnt the wrong way.
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Level 86
May 7, 2025
If geography is your downfall you're on the right site. This site is great to brush up on it.
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Level 44
May 7, 2025
8/10 - I can't believe I got the car one wrong dear lordy
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Level 91
May 7, 2025
8/10 here as well. I got the car one wrong too, as well as the Pebble Beach question, but I don't know much about cars or golfing venues so I'm not surprised.
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Level 37
May 7, 2025
4/10 not much of a golfer even though I live on a gulf.
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Level 64
May 7, 2025
I know nothing about golf but a lot about gulfs, so it was a mixed day for a mix of two themes (do they sound similar in any accent?).
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Level 63
May 7, 2025
Here in Texas, they are pronounced similarly.
+1
Level 86
May 7, 2025
In Dutch there are 3 types of 'golfs'

1 Golf the sport

2 Golf as in Gulf

3 Golf as in wave (from water)

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Level 91
May 7, 2025
Golf and gulf sound very similar in my experience (I live in the southern US).
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Level 85
May 7, 2025
I'm wondering: who would win a game of golf between Kim Jong Il and Donald Trump?

No caddies, no spectators, no witnesses of any kind.

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Level 83
May 7, 2025
You're laboring under the illusion that such an arrangement would occur under a generally accepted set of rules. It would not. Without such rules, any evaluation of the result is an absurdism.
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Level 85
May 7, 2025
Am I? Or am I just pondering an absurdity?
+1
Level 27
May 7, 2025
they’d both leave the game and claim that they won
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Level 86
May 7, 2025
Tied, both would complete the 18 holes in 1 shot.
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Level 65
May 7, 2025
Trump would win easily. He's actually a very good golfer. Kim, on the other hand, is dead.
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Level 74
May 7, 2025
I wouldn't say, I know much about golf, but this was surprisingly easy. 10/10
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Level 50
May 7, 2025
Got the first one wrong and feared the worst but ended up with 9/10
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Level 89
May 7, 2025
Genuinely shocked to have gotten 10/10 on this theme, since I know next to nothing about golf, but after a complete blind guess on the first question, the rest of these were fairly easy.

Also, respect to QM for still using the correct term "Gulf of Mexico" ;)

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Level 65
May 7, 2025
Not correct any more according to any official map or map software...names can and do change, I hope you realize
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Level 89
May 7, 2025
I hope you realise that nobody outside of the US (and at most half of the people *in* the US) is taking that even remotely seriously, and that even Google still calls it the Gulf of Mexico for any IP address outside of the US.
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Level 66
May 7, 2025
9/10 Missed the Gulf of Guinea...should have connected gulf name with the country of guinea which is closest to Nigeria....luckily I golf - and I remember the oil spill during the gulf war
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Level 80
May 7, 2025
10/10 with only one real stab in the dark. Arnold Palmers are the best...my go to when I'm out to lunch.
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Level 91
May 7, 2025
Try a John Daly next time you go out to lunch and don't have anything to do in the afternoon.
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Level 38
May 7, 2025
8/10
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Level 27
May 7, 2025
8/10 best DTC for me yet

also I respect the decision to keep the Gulf of Mexico as the term on the site

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Level 69
May 7, 2025
that's what it's called to anyone with a brain.
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Level 47
May 7, 2025
I guess it's possible we could end up calling it the Gulf of America. It's so new. Wikipedia states the name change ain't binding on any nations or the private sector.
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Level 65
May 7, 2025
Meanwhile Google Earth, Google Maps, and Apple Maps, among others, have it as the Gulf of America because that's its official name now, and names change. Or should "anyone with a brain" still be saying Macedonia, Swaziland, Zaire, Southern Rhodesia, Persia, Burma, Siam, Abyssinia, Constantinople, Gaul, Anatolia, Babylon.........?
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Level 89
May 7, 2025
Meanwhile if you're accessing any of those apps from one of the 196 countries that *isn't* the USA, it's still called the Gulf of Mexico, because it turns out nobody really cares if a US president decides to unilaterally rename something we'd all already agreed on a name for (outside of the companies that host those websites wanting to suck up to the regime domestically, so we're essentially talking about the cartographic equivalent of Disney censoring their movies for release in China lmao)
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Level 66
May 7, 2025
Except those platforms only show it as such in the United States
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Level 34
May 7, 2025
It is interesting that so many people get upset about the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America thing.

In China they call it they South China Sea, in Vietnam they call the same sea the East Sea.

It is ok, relax

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Level 44
May 7, 2025
8/10 And I never played a single golf game in my life. The history/geography questions really saved me in this one.
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Level 69
May 7, 2025
7/10. I love golf so I got all of those correct.
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Level 58
May 7, 2025
there should be a gulf called "Golf Gulf"
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Level 49
May 7, 2025
2nd consecutive 10/10. If you want frequent 9-10 points scorer, please send me a request. 😀
+2
Level 72
May 7, 2025
was going too fast and whiffed the gulf of guinea one... wouldve been my highest all time
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Level 40
May 7, 2025
2/10 probably my worst ever score
+1
Level 24
May 7, 2025
Yes
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Level 68
May 7, 2025
10/10 4th best score all time.
+1
Level 76
May 8, 2025
First 10/10 in over 2 months… finally!!