General Knowledge Quiz #169

Can you answer these random trivia questions?

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Question	Answer
What was the first city to have a neighborhood known as "Soho"?	London
What country has the most nuclear weapons in its arsenal?	Russia
What gland, starting with the letter P, helps regulate human growth?	Pituitary gland
What is the last name of actors Macaulay and Kieran?	Culkin
What English-language name is equivalent to the Italian name Enrico?	Henry
What three languages was the Bible originally written in?	Hebrew
	Aramaic
	Greek
What mineral deficiency prevents many women under the age of 50 from donating blood?	Iron
What is the only country where Kurdish is an official language?	Iraq
What was Albert Einstein's day job when he devised the theory of special relativity?	Patent clerk
What does an autodidact do without the assistance of others?	Learn
In what activity might a world champion have an Elo rating of 2800?	Chess
What prefix is the opposite of the prefix "eu"?	Dys
What actress has a child named Apple, an ex-husband named Chris, and a company named Goop?	Gwyneth Paltrow
What country's hereditary monarch traces his lineage back to 660 BC and claims descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu?	Japan
What is the only national capital whose names starts with Q?	Quito
What rare disease sparked international concern after killing thousands in West Africa in 2014?	Ebola
What tree-like creatures inhabited the land of Middle Earth?	Ents
What unit is officially defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium-133 atom?	Second

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+11

Level 60

May 3, 2017

The Elo question had my stuck for a while. The Elo system was adopted from chess and applied to online gaming. I eventually got chess, but only after trying E-sports, gaming, competitive gaming, online gaming, computer gaming, starcraft, league of legends, etc.

Maybe you could clarify the question to reflect that this activity is where Elo was invented? Or possibly allow online gaming/esports to the accepted answers since Elo is used there also. Just my 2 cents

Level 60

May 3, 2017

And the number is pretty close too. Champions in games I'm familiar with have Elo rankings in the 2,000's to 4,000's

+13

Level 37

Jun 12, 2017

Nah

Whilst online gaming as become a pretty a big thing in recent times, Elo historically pertains to chess and is undoubtedly most known in that context. Also, Elo is only specific to certain gaming platforms, whereas it is uniform in chess.

Level 84

May 4, 2017

Took a while to guess the prefix as all I could think of was eukaryote/prokaryote...

Level 78

May 4, 2017

yep. Me too. I typed pro, po, ro, por thinking that QM screwed up. Apparently looking for Eutopia/Dystopia.

Level 60

May 4, 2017

In general use, eu- has a slightly different meaning than in scientific circles. In general use, eu- means "good, well", which is the opposite of dys-, which means "bad, ill, evil".

In scientific use, eu- means "true, genuine" instead of "good, well". I wouldn't quite call pro- an opposite since pro- means "forward, advancing". Eukaryotes have a membrane-bound nucleus, whereas when the coin was termed, i can only speculate that scientists at the time thought that prokaryotes were "forward or advancing" towards a membrane bound nucleus.

Level 70

May 5, 2017

I tried Pro a couple of times.

Level ∞

May 5, 2017

Dys is the best answer. I'll grudgingly accept "pro" as well.

Level 68

Nov 16, 2025

In medicine 'eu' can also mean 'normal' as in Euthyroid, so based on that I tried Hypo and Hyper. Couldn't get past that mindset!

Level 47

Nov 17, 2025

I went a different direction and got it wrong. If "eu" was true, I thought "pseudo" would be the answer because it was false or fake. I guess pseudo's not right?

Level 75

May 7, 2017

Happened to guess "pro" when thinking of eulogy and prology. Those aren't really opposites though, it's a bit of a long stretch.

Level 89

May 8, 2017

What about Caco ? Like in euphony/cacophony?

Level 74

Nov 8, 2017

First I tried mal-, but I figured out dys- eventually.

Level 76

Oct 4, 2025

Same

Level 52

Apr 4, 2020

Isn't it utopia, not eutopia? What other words have the prefix "eu" with this meaning?

Level 80

Feb 16, 2025

Euphoria/dysphoria is the one that comes to mind for me.

Level 73

Nov 22, 2021

My first guess was "hetero-" because of euchromatin and heterochromatin.

Level 66

Nov 22, 2021

in biology, the best answer would possibly be "pseudo"

Level 68

Nov 24, 2021

"Eu" comes from the Greek for "good." "Dys" comes from the Greek for "bad." They are the best match. "Mal" is Latin (pairs with "bene").

Level 88

Feb 17, 2025

Thanks for this, because I was trying to figure out why "mal" was not an acceptable answer

Level 72

Feb 18, 2025

"Dys" is really the only answer that should be accepted, certainly the way the clue is phrased.

Level 76

Oct 4, 2025

Jmellor has a good point, but I disagree with dunkinggandalf, I just reread the question and, precisely because of how it is phrased I think mal actually should be allowed. It isn't asking about Greek, without qualifiers the question is about the English language, both the prefixes eu- and mal- are used in English and they are opposites of eachother.

I can't think of a specific example, maybe in a minute, but if you have a loanword in English and think of synonyms, would you only accept synonyms loaned from the same language? Surely not, why would it be different in this case?

Level 71

Jun 12, 2017

Hey, that's a cool username, but the taxon is actually spelled PhalAcrocorax.

Level 74

May 4, 2017

Quizmaster, you should do one on Texas, maybe the Dallas Cowboys

Level 62

Jun 12, 2017

I thought it was "arameic", dang it! But somehow I got "dys" while guessing languages...

Level 35

Jun 12, 2017

Aargh I couldn't seem to spell aramaic for the life of me

Level 76

Oct 4, 2025

It is spelled Amharic ;)

Level 60

Jun 12, 2017

Huorns are another tree-like creature that inhabited Middle Earth; it should be accepted as an alternate answer.

Level 64

Jun 13, 2017

I really wish there was a bit more specificity when it came to "The Bible" (maybe the "Christian Bible")?

+12

Level 66

Apr 26, 2018

The Bible! What other book are you talking about? There is only one The Bible. What other religion than Christian could it be? Those who do not know this have missed out on some serious information.

Do you really need us to say the Jewish Torah or the Muslim Qur'an?

Level 75

Dec 27, 2023

Jewish, of course. It's entirely in Hebrew. The Christian Bible adds Greek and Aramaic.

Level 54

Jan 7, 2026

This actually isn't true. The New Testament was written entirely in Greek. The Aramaic is from the Book of Daniel (in the Hebrew Bible) and some of what many Christians call the "Apocrypha," which were books that originally came from the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew/Jewish Bible.

Level 37

Nov 22, 2021

What? It's pretty obviously not talking about the "Bible of Classical Guitar Techniques" or the "Bible of the Adversary"...

"Quizmaster! I demand that you change the question to stop me confusing some dusty Christian Bible with the illustrious 'Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy'".

Level 89

Sep 30, 2018

Not sure why "mal" is not an acceptable answer for the prefix. dictionary.com says mal- means "bad, badly, ill, poorly, wrong, wrongly" while dys- means "bad, ill, abnormal." I realize that dys- (like eu-) comes from Greek whereas mal- is of Latin origin, but I don't think that should disqualify it as an opposite.

Level 55

Nov 16, 2025

Concur.

Level 77

Oct 19, 2018

There should be more questions about autodidacticism on jetpunk, then we might learn something.

Level 71

Jul 17, 2024

Do it yourself :)

Level 55

Aug 4, 2020

TIL I'm an autodidact

Level 74

Jul 27, 2021

Who told you that?

Level 93

Feb 18, 2025

You mean "where did you learn that?"

Level 81

Nov 22, 2021

Is there a difference between "dys" and "caco" as prefixes? I had in mind "euphony" and "cacophony".

+10

Level 79

Feb 16, 2025

question 7 kind of makes it sound like you're looking for the deficiency, not the mineral... could this either be rephrased (e.g. "deficiency in what mineral..."), or accept "anaemia" as an answer (or whatever the correct biological term is)?

Level 86

Feb 17, 2025

How is "a second" not acceptable as an answer?

Level 94

Feb 17, 2025

Typo on the national capital question, there's an unnecessary 's' at the end of the word 'name'.

Level 82

Feb 17, 2025

I would have got the last question if it was phrased as 'What unit is equal to one sixtieth of a minute?' :P

+16

Level 82

Feb 17, 2025

Could you accept anaemia for the mineral deficiency? The way the question is worded implies that answer (as opposed to "a deficiency in what mineral").

Level 93

Feb 18, 2025

Came here to say the same thing. But I'm American, so I'd spell it anemia.

Level 69

Sep 18, 2025

Came here to say this! I tried anemia but was stumped when that doesn't work.

Level 56

Feb 17, 2025

For the eu question, I just randomly typed pro. And I got it right somehow.

Level 87

Feb 18, 2025

The next time my wife needs me to give her a hand with something, I'm going to tell her, "Gimme 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium-133 atom."

Level 76

Oct 4, 2025

19/20 had no clue on chess, ended up higher on the board then I expected. And autodidact is nearly the least guessed?!

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