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General Knowledge Quiz #16

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What type of animal stereotypically rests on the shoulder of a pirate?
Parrot
What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
What is the plural of radius?
Radii
In what country would you find Mount Ararat?
Turkey
Take the name of a U.S. state. Add two letters to the beginning, and you have the name of a different state. What state do you have now?
Arkansas
What is the British name for a bachelor party?
Stag Night
What color starts with the letters "mag"?
Magenta
What internet service popularized #hashtags?
Twitter
What novel introduced the phrase "Big Brother is Watching You"?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
What does someone become when they are canonized?
a Saint
How many keys are found on a typical piano?
88
In what sea would you find the Dodecanese and Cyclades island groups?
Aegean Sea
What type of fish is sometimes caught by "noodling" - sticking one's hand into a hole and waiting for the fish to bite?
Catfish
During their 40 years in the desert, what did the Israelites eat?
Manna
Name one of the two countries with the highest population of people from the Pashtun ethnic group.
Afghanistan / Pakistan
What book by Michael Crichton was turned into the highest-grossing movie of 1993?
Jurassic Park
What Chinese dam, completed in 2008, required the permanent relocation of over 1 million people?
Three Gorges Dam
What organ of the body stores blood, removes old blood cells, and filters iron?
The Spleen
What is a bandolier designed to hold?
Ammunition
What is the name of the type of wild dog found in Australia?
Dingo
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74 Comments
kellymannelly14
+9
Level 18
Nov 7, 2013
I thought Ararat is in Armenia
ing
+5
Level 73
Jul 21, 2020
It was, long long ago.
theclit
+18
Level 52
Mar 30, 2021
It should be. It was given to Turkey by the USSR but it's a slap in the face to any Armenian who understands the cultural importance of it.
amongthejumpers
+17
Level 49
Jan 25, 2023
thank you for the insight, the clit.
Azerk
+4
Level 64
Jun 1, 2023
r/rimjob_steve
WillemLAif
+1
Level 81
Jul 13, 2022
Ararat beer is still in Armenia.
Malbaby
+6
Level 70
Dec 19, 2014
I've seen trout caught in Scotland by 'noodling', tickling underside with fingers and in the swampy area of the River Murray in Australia I have tickled large Carp (2ft long) on the belly and they love it.
karnag
+3
Level 35
Nov 28, 2018
Never heard it called 'noodling' in Scotland, it's usually called 'guddling'.
DocEckleburg
+1
Level 68
Apr 18, 2024
Tickling and noodling are two different things, noodling you wait for the fish to bite you then grab it by the mouth, tickling you make it calm by stoking its belly then try to flip it out of the water.
Ampersandwich
+1
Level 61
May 11, 2025
Hey! I remember reading about this in "Danny, The Champion of the World"! Never thought Doc Spencer was actually being serious!
TinkyFitchFeeley
+3
Level 25
Aug 1, 2015
Technically, there is no one capital of Ireland. Dublin is the capital of the republic of Ireland and Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland.
brandybuck96
+43
Level 82
Nov 14, 2015
Ireland is the name of a country, and so Dublin is right. If they had wanted Belfast it would have said Northern Ireland.
CardinalV
+18
Level 65
Jul 18, 2018
If they had meant Northern Ireland they would have said Northern Ireland. No one means "Northern Ireland" when they say "Ireland." They either mean the sovereign state or the island.
HappyQuizzer
+3
Level 68
Jul 15, 2022
I've heard plenty of Northern Irish people refer to NI as Ireland in general conversation but agree for the purposes of this quiz it's clear what's being asked for otherwise you would specify NI
RondoNo2
+1
Level 52
Feb 19, 2026
TinkyFitchFeeley: 'technically', you are a prize eejit.
balletsunami
+4
Level 15
Sep 9, 2017
The only one I got was catfish noodlin' ;p
JackintheBox
+4
Level 82
Nov 2, 2019
I don't believe you!
goose77
+1
Level 87
Jun 13, 2018
If you look up a bandolier on-line, the first several entries are for cell phone holders. I kept typing variations of cell phones and couldn't understand why I wasn't getting credit for the right answer.
jkabq
+6
Level 67
Jul 18, 2018
bandolier, by definition is a pocketed ammunition holder. Bandolier, by trade name, are those silly things that hold cell phones. But you are right. The trade named item comes up first.
CardinalV
+1
Level 65
Jul 18, 2018
First thing that comes up for me is the Wikipedia page for a bandolier ammunition holder.
sciencyguy
+10
Level 45
Jul 18, 2018
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of taking a quiz?
redsplat
+2
Level 72
Feb 16, 2023
@sciencyguy I took that to mean they were looking it up **after** taking the quiz. I sometimes look up things after learning about them in a Jetpunk quiz. For me, learning more is very much the point of taking a quiz :)
elchunko
+1
Level 34
Oct 24, 2019
Bandolier is a brand of cellphone holder.

Clearly not what the question is asking for.

ander217
+3
Level 73
Jul 18, 2018
I'd never heard the term noodling until a few years ago. In my neck of the woods it was always called hogging. My brother went fish hogging once and pulled a water moccasin out of the hole instead of a catfish. I use a fishing pole like all sane people. :)
idontkn1
+2
Level 94
Jul 18, 2018
"Okie Noodling" might be the most enjoyable documentary ever made. Mix one part Flaming Lips, one part redneck one part slice of life and you get awesome.
CardinalSin
+6
Level 82
Jul 18, 2018
Presumably it would also work for piranhas?
martay
+1
Level 69
Jul 18, 2018
Do the people who go hogging also enjoy making Ned Beatty types squeal like a pig?
KiwiTyke
+4
Level 64
Jul 18, 2018
A spleen doesn't really store blood. It stores some blood components, but not actual blood, as it doesn't store red blood cells.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 11, 2022
According to Wikipedia it holds a reserve of blood.
mf3
+5
Level 90
Jul 14, 2022
Sorry, it's been discovered that it's the liver that does this: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160718132646.htm
mikeyp
+4
Level 76
Jul 18, 2018
No actual generals in this quiz, unless you count General Sherman the Catfish, from one of my favorite Simpsons episodes.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Jul 18, 2018
Never heard of the islands before but they sounded Greek so easy to guess.
TinuvielAelin
+1
Level 62
Jul 19, 2018
English ist not my first language, so I needed to translate some words - and in several dictionaries I found "milt" as another term for "spleen". Is this not correct?
stone222
+3
Level 47
Sep 16, 2018
i always understood milt was the roe of a male fish
JackintheBox
+3
Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
German ist your first language, ist it not? ;)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 10, 2024
milt=spleen in Dutch and nearly (if not) all the scandinavian languages

In German it would be Milz.

But TinuvielAelin is correct, spleen particularly of an animal can be called milt too. Though I don't know how common its use is. But is is not marked as obsolete or archaic, so still in use. I personally had not come across it before, but if it is mainly about the animals organ then it's no wonder.

JackintheBox
+3
Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
Also, though the German for spleen ist Milz, 'milt' in English means something completely different – the semen of a male fish.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Mar 4, 2024
yes but what's the word for the semen of a female fish?
VishVarm
+2
Level 66
Jul 20, 2018
Bullets for ammunition?
Speed4TheNeed
+1
Level 88
Jul 23, 2018
bullets worked for me
stone222
+1
Level 47
Sep 16, 2018
i thought the name of the male "hen party" was bucks night
karnag
+5
Level 35
Nov 28, 2018
Never heard it called that in the UK. Always heard it called a 'stag night', as per the accepted answer.
phalocrocorax
+5
Level 84
Jul 13, 2022
"Bucks night" is the Australian term, not British.
Chris19
+7
Level 51
Apr 12, 2019
Shouldn't "Mediterranean" be accepted for the sea in which the Dodecanese and Cyclades island groups can be found?
Nevson64
+1
Level 67
Jan 16, 2026
That’s what I tried :(
IrisIris
+4
Level 59
Jun 8, 2019
shoudn't "bitter herbs" and "unleavened bread" be accepted in the question about the 40 years in the desert?
tomwinkler95
+7
Level 73
Dec 19, 2020
Did anyone else say sand?
ErldaGerl
+2
Level 33
Jul 13, 2022
No. That’s for the Passover Seder. In the desert, the people ate Manna.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 10, 2024
Wow, I have never heard the word seder, yesterday I came across it (in a show, though it was written) for the first time ever, and now I see it again!
KanzazKyote
+4
Level 92
Jul 12, 2019
The Israelites also ate quail in the desert, you should make the question either or.
ErldaGerl
+3
Level 33
Jul 13, 2022
Not for 40 years.
CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 74
Oct 29, 2023
No, they didn't
DaviJamesson
+6
Level 71
Mar 30, 2020
I think stag night should be changed to stag do as this is more common or at least add it as a type in. FYI do just means party
undeadwarrior
+1
Level 66
Jul 11, 2021
It's also called a Bucks Night
RondoNo2
+1
Level 52
Feb 19, 2026
No.
EcceHomo
+2
Level 86
Jul 13, 2022
It ain't called a buck's night in the UK.

According to the Merriam Webster, radiuses is also an acceptable answer for plural of radius.

blizzrd33
+1
Level 81
Jul 18, 2022
The legacy of Noah Webster, still trying to break the English language one word at a time.
buck1017
+2
Level 78
Jul 19, 2022
Here's a fun fact...The thylacene is a wild dog species native to Australia as well. It may have went extinct in the 1960s but people still swear that they have seen them. It is also one of if not the only land mammal species that have gone extinct in modern times because of natural selection rather than human interaction as the dingo was the more advanced predator and essentially beat out the thylacene as apex predator on the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
grantdon
+4
Level 74
Oct 16, 2022
The Thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a marsupial; more like a large carnivorous possum than a dog.
Damo71
+1
Level 44
Dec 22, 2022
What happened in Tasmania? no dingoes there.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 52
Feb 19, 2026
Buck1017: here's a fun fact - you're wrong. Why did you choose to demonstrate it so publicly?
SpencerGT
+1
Level 68
Oct 16, 2022
I know it gets a lot of shade, but the Chinese dam generates electricity.
emmaafinke
+1
Level 65
Oct 16, 2022
Twitter isn't an internet service.
Rozzi
+2
Level 61
Oct 16, 2022
? I think you'll find it is.
Azerk
+1
Level 64
Jun 1, 2023
Then what is it?
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Mar 4, 2024
The former name of what is now the internet's finest source of bigotry and disinformation.
Gumbledalf
+3
Level 77
Oct 16, 2022
Accept "holy" for Saint?
CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 74
Oct 29, 2023
Israelites (Jews) ate matzo while wandering through the desert.
busby
+1
Level 65
Dec 22, 2023
Not magnolia? My walls are magnolia. Is it because it's a flower?
Dolphinsrock10
+1
Level 44
Dec 27, 2024
yes
PitifulExcuse
+2
Level 65
Mar 4, 2024
Should accept radiuses for plural of radius. Both forms appear in the dictionary (Webster, Collins, Oxford).
Junseong
+1
Level 73
May 11, 2025
Should the endonym be accepted as the answer to the fourth question?
RondoNo2
+1
Level 52
Feb 19, 2026
No - it's not the name of a country. If you're bright enough to know the word 'endonym', you're bright enough to answer the question properly.
Baldur
+1
Level 68
Apr 10, 2026
Missed bandoleer one because I put cartridges and munitions...
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