General Knowledge Quiz #134

Can you answer these random trivia questions?

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What was the richest city in Europe in the late 1600s due in part to the spice trade?

Amsterdam

What material can be "vulcanized"?

Rubber

What girl group had eight #1 hits in the UK between 1996 and 1998?

The Spice Girls

Where would you be most likely to find a Gideons Bible?

In a Hotel

Who is also known as Jove?

Jupiter

What type of books are eligible to receive a Newbery Medal?

Children's books

What city is known for pastries, coffee, and classical music?

Vienna

What singer has an alter ego named Sasha Fierce?

Beyoncé Knowles

What is played at Roland Garros?

Tennis

What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?

Platypus

Echidna

What does the H stand for in H-Bomb?

Hydrogen

What is the best-selling video game of all-time?

Minecraft

In the show Doctor Who, what does the Doctor's time machine look like from the outside?

Police box

What city's catacombs contain the bones of over six million people?

Paris

What ancient city was located near present-day Tunis?

Carthage

What is the names for small mounds of snow on ski hills?

Moguls

What is the name for a system of law based on Islamic texts?

Sharia

What metro area's largest city is Quezon City?

Manila

In Hawaiian legend, what is Pele the goddess of?

Fire / Volcanoes

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Level 68

Nov 29, 2015

What exactly is a Gideon's Bible? I would much rather wait for the Jetpunk community to tell me than to look it up myself, because I am a self-proclaimed lazy sod.

Level 72

Nov 29, 2015

It's a bible placed by the Gideons (Christian group).

Level 73

Nov 29, 2015

Gideons International is an evangelical Christian group best known for giving away bibles. They place them in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, prisons, and they give them to college students, military personnel, and veterans.

Level 68

Nov 29, 2015

Thanks, in the end, all I had to do was ask.

+19

Level 73

Jul 1, 2016

You knew that many of us here are always happy to show others how smart we think we are.

Level 92

Aug 6, 2019

And others will always point out it's a bible in the Google Hotel.

Level 74

Feb 8, 2021

I always used to love reading Gideon's bibles because they have a biblical text (can't remember which book/chapter/verses) translated into dozens of languages at the beginning.

I'd spend ages reading the different languages and looking at the different alphabets...

Level 63

Feb 12, 2021

I only know thanks to lyrics of "Rocky Raccoon"

Level 68

Mar 17, 2025

Matthew 7:7

Level 71

Feb 8, 2021

I think it's one of those things that only Americans will know. Anyone who has been in a hotel in America has probably seen one, but I'm guessing they are rare overseas.

Level 75

Dec 25, 2023

They're not! I've stayed in many hotels around western Europe, and Gideon Bibles are very common.

Level 65

Mar 26, 2026

Seen one in Tokyo

+11

Level 78

Nov 29, 2015

Am I the only one who, for the Doctor Who question, first tried "smaller"?

Level 66

Nov 29, 2015

I am genuinely shocked more people didn't get Minecraft, considering the cultural phenomenon it is.

Level 82

Sep 19, 2017

I was quite startled that it was the best-selling game. It wasn't high on my list of guesses.

Level 86

Dec 5, 2017

I just know Minecraft (or WoW etc) exists, never noticed it as a cultural phenomenon, unlike Mario, or LOTR or whatever, that is hard to escape even if you've never watched/played it.

Level 66

Jul 11, 2023

I am genuinely shocked the answer wasn't pac-man or pong.

+23

Level 82

Nov 29, 2015

Apparently, Pele is NOT the Hawaiian goddess of football.

Level 41

Nov 29, 2015

Yeah, i did type in football....

Level 66

Sep 20, 2018

Me too...!

Level 94

Nov 30, 2015

See, now I'm trying to create a Football Pantheon to replace the Olympians. Pele's vying for Zeus' spot, Ronaldo for god of beauty, Beckham for god of diving...

Level 88

Jan 14, 2016

Pele would be the god (not goddess) of football, and he's Brazilian, not Hawaiian.

Level 73

Jul 1, 2016

There are a lot of do's and don'ts in Hawaii to keep from incurring the wrath (and curse) of Pele. Don't carry home rocks or sand, do give her flowers or gin, don't pick certain flowers, and don't try to take pork across the Pali Highway (it's reminiscent of her old boyfriend who was part man, part pig, and after a bad breakup they agreed to stay on their own sides of the island).

Level 76

Jun 6, 2024

Don't carry home sand is difficult, it gets everywhere! I find sand weeks after I have been at a beach..

Level 65

Feb 11, 2021

I typed in "soccer" :)

Level 65

Mar 26, 2026

heh

Level 81

Jun 26, 2017

Please accept "spiny anteater" as an answer for echidna. They are the same thing.

Level 76

Jan 11, 2019

For the doctor who I tried smaller first.. surprised that wasnt it, realised they meant the actual thing, so tried: phonebooth phonecell, police booth, police phonebooth etc even phonebox I believe... none of them work... and I believe some of them definately should.

+11

Level 80

Nov 16, 2020

Phone booth was the obvious one for me that I was surprised didn't work.

Level 72

Feb 11, 2021

Indeed. Phone booth doesn't work but telephone booth. Perhaps phone booth could be added as a type-in?

Level 56

Mar 17, 2021

I'm glad I typed telephone booth instead of phone booth. What the hell is a "police box".

Level 67

Jan 15, 2023

It was like a phone box, but with a direct line to the police station, and coppers could sit in there filling out reports. Used by the police or the general public to call the police station.

Not a thing anymore, obviously.

Level 80

Jan 29, 2025

I mean, it does say "POLICE BOX" in big letters at the top on all sides, so it shouldn't be TOO much of a surprise as the answer.

Level 18

Mar 17, 2025

I said "police booth" and was really confused why it didnt work lol

Level 76

Jan 11, 2019

And wow jupiter only 19% :o shame on you people

(and yes, expecting a comment now not to shame people just because they didnt know something. And "im sure you dont know stuff others do" but I mean this is not about a popular book or soccerplayer or anything that people 20 years from now will have forgotten. Like I dont know most popular lipgloss...)

Level 80

May 28, 2019

And how exactly is "Jove" relevant to anything today? And for what it's worth, 90% of people are correctly answering the girl group question, which was more than 20 years ago. So apparently people still do remember.

Level 67

Feb 8, 2021

I tried "Jay-Z", wasn't sure how his nickname was spelled...

Level 92

Aug 6, 2019

Yeah, it's about an obscure alternate term for a god no one has worshipped in 1,700 years in a society that vanished off the face of the Earth 1,500 years ago.

Imagine knowing something pertinent to life over that.

Level 66

Feb 8, 2021

Anyone with a passing interest in space has probably heard of the jovian system, jovian moons or jovian planets. Possibly all three. I'm surprised someone on a quiz site would be mocking people for knowing things.

Level 83

Feb 8, 2021

Uh... the Romans didn't vanish off the face of the earth. They slowly integrated with other peoples around them, but the people who live in central Italy today are still ethnically similar to the "Romans". Not only that, but it's not like the Roman culture just vanished as soon as they were conquered.

Level 70

Feb 8, 2021

Pompous berk.

Level 65

Feb 11, 2021

@sifhraven I can understand your point for many questions on here, but not for the one about "jove". If you do a quick Google search, you get many results, but nothing mentioning anything about Jupiter without doing more digging. So I think 19% is probably a fair representation of how little the general public knows about that word.

Level 62

Aug 30, 2021

The only knowledge I have of the word "Jove" is an expression my Grandfather comes out with; "By Jove".

Level 66

Jul 11, 2023

Oh! Thou wishes to feast on the appendage of a humble ovine.

Listen, you freak. We don't all watch Frasier, ok?

Level 63

Jun 12, 2019

Fun fact: Minecraft is now just the best selling game of all time on all consoles, not just PC.

Level 66

Oct 1, 2019

It is common knowledge that Gideons' Bibles are mostly found in HOSPITAL bedside tables. Please add this as an also acceptable answer.

Level 68

Nov 23, 2020

In what country? In the US we have many public hospitals where Bibles would not fly, and I have read there have been all sorts of battles in the UK over them. Hotels, however, tend to be free(r) of such criticism and that’s the only place I’ve seen Gideon’s Bibles in a long time. (And I spend more time in hospitals that I do hotels!)

Level 65

Feb 11, 2021

Actually in the US, most hospitals do have accessible Bibles as well as a chapel.

Level 55

Nov 11, 2019

"What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?"

Echidnas are also known as spiny anteaters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna"

+14

Level 72

Oct 17, 2020

There are actually three mammals that can lay eggs: the platypus, the echidna, and the easter bunny. Next time, please do your research!

Level 49

Feb 8, 2021

How about "phone booth" for the Dr Who question?

Level 66

Feb 8, 2021

Almost typed "soccer" for the last one

Level 71

Feb 8, 2021

Well, I guess Ferb was wrong about platypuses being the only egg-laying mammals.

Level 44

Feb 9, 2021

You forgot kiwis lay eggs too.

Level 26

Mar 24, 2022

But they’re not actually mammals

Level 80

Jan 29, 2025

Kiwis are birds, not mammals. It's far less unusual for birds to lay eggs.

Level 56

Mar 17, 2021

Who is Jove... Come on.

Maybe rephrase it to "What Roman god was only known as 'Jove'?"

Level 80

Jan 29, 2025

Presumably you mean "also," not "only." Otherwise, the answer would have to be "Jove."

Level 86

Oct 9, 2021

Phone booth should be a type in for police box, but do what you want, its your quiz.

Level 44

Jun 26, 2023

Should really accept Carthago. It's even the Latin spelling.

Level 61

Aug 23, 2025

Wow I never knew that about jove

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