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General Knowledge Quiz #179

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What garment could be described as a "Scottish skirt for men"?
Kilt
In what country would you find the headquarters of the Hyundai corporation?
South Korea
What is the most populous city in northern Italy?
Milan
Who was the leader of the Argonauts from Greek mythology?
Jason
Who wrote "Pet Sematary", "Misery", and "The Green Mile"?
Stephen King
What city in Japan is internationally famous for its beef?
Kobe
There are three primary "macronutrients" in the human diet. One is protein.
One is carbohydrates. What is the other?
Fat
What country has been led by father-son politicians Pierre and Justin?
Canada
What is the capital of Alaska?
Juneau
What type of people does a gerontologist work with?
Elderly
What animal might a barber have applied to your body during the Middle Ages?
Leeches
What are lederhosen made of?
Leather
What type of bread is generally used to make a gyro?
Pita
What does a lexicon contain?
Words
What type of bean is named after a major city in South America?
Lima bean
What girl group from the 1960s featured Diana Ross?
The Supremes
What extension of the Roman Empire, based in Constantinople, survived until the 1400s?
Byzantine Empire
What did Joseph Lister make much safer?
Surgery
What fictional person with initials CK dated at least two women with initials LL?
Clark Kent
What suffix can follow gyro, stetho, and horo?
Scope
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72 Comments
MayaB
+4
Level 73
Sep 8, 2017
Is it possible to accept operation for surgery? Or is it too far fetched?
catcat
+1
Level 60
Sep 8, 2017
I second that!
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Sep 8, 2017
Yeah I tried "operations" as well :) Zero for me for that question
tshalla
+18
Level 78
Nov 23, 2017
I tried mouthwash.
TimFed
+4
Level 76
Nov 23, 2017
Glad I'm ot the only one who tried mouthwash ;}
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 9, 2017
Operation will work now
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Sep 8, 2017
Could "childbirth" also be a thing that Joseph Lister made safer?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 9, 2017
Yes!
EricF
+1
Level 81
May 31, 2023
If you accept childbirth could you also accept birth? That was my first guess.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Oct 4, 2025
hmm childbirth is a weird word..
foxpenguin
+6
Level 67
Sep 9, 2017
The Lister question seems to vague - wouldn't there be many things that he made safer?
halpie
+5
Level 81
Sep 14, 2017
I did not know him, and guessed he made mouths safer (specifically, gum disease)
RabidPony
+4
Level 37
Nov 24, 2017
Fun fact: Listerine was originally sold to women to douche with...
chailattee
+1
Level 68
Feb 6, 2021
I didn't know him either, but I somehow guessed surgery and got it right.
Gorpik
+2
Level 50
Oct 24, 2024
Actually, Listerine was named so by a friend of Joseph Lister's to take advantage of his fame and prestige in his time. He had nothing to do with it.
phalocrocorax
+3
Level 84
Sep 9, 2017
The normal UK spelling is "pitta" - could you accept that too, please?
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Sep 9, 2017
Another British/American word difference discovered!
Balikati
+1
Level 71
Sep 9, 2017
Slugs for leeches?
Arp2600
+24
Level 89
Sep 10, 2017
Please no, these are very different animals.
Dimby
+4
Level 83
Jan 31, 2022
Maybe barbers also used slugs if their clients had a nasty case of cabbage shoulder.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Sep 10, 2017
Good GK quiz, try my latest GK quiz ......

This is it

Joe1
+2
Level 64
Sep 14, 2017
Why are the averages so high in these latest quizzes!? I thought 14 would be a good score...
samiamco
+10
Level 67
Sep 16, 2017
You don't accept Superman for Clark Kent? … Ooooh, that's because not everyone knows, right?? Oops, spoiler alert.
postwaste
+5
Level 88
Nov 23, 2017
Superman is Clark Kent? They don't look anything alike. More crazy conspiracies. Next you'll be saying Bruce Wayne is the Joker.
Jacktheguy
+2
Level 93
Nov 25, 2017
Nah, the Joker's totally Willem Dafoe.
Inside
+3
Level 53
Nov 23, 2017
could you accept 'Byzantium' for extension of the Roman Empire question please?
Sulps
+1
Level 55
Nov 23, 2017
Byzantium was the name of Istanbul before it was named Constantinople. The empire was not called Byzantium.
AntiMatter8192
+8
Level 78
Jan 30, 2022
Oddly, "Eastern Roman" doesn't work for that question. It definitely should be accepted as that name was the official one.

Also, I agree with Sulps above but the Wikipedia page lists Byzantium as a name as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire).

reverendmeat
+1
Level 86
Feb 26, 2023
"Eastern" or "Eastern Roman" should absolutely be accepted
amgine
+3
Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
Byzantium = noun. Byzantine = adjective. Learn it and move on. It's like accepting "Rome Empire."
SgtMac
+2
Level 53
Nov 23, 2017
I suggest "S Korea" should be accepted instead of having to spell the whole word "South" out.
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 72
Oct 28, 2020
How lazy can one be?
PitifulExcuse
+2
Level 65
Apr 6, 2024
was going to explain but it's too much trouble
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Oct 4, 2025
SK..
AlexThirkell
+4
Level 74
Jan 26, 2021
Just type 'ROK' (Republic of Korea).
alexandertorres1978
+1
Level 70
Jan 31, 2022
There's a quiz on abbreviations of country names. You should try it, it's good fun
LadyQuizling
+2
Level 57
Nov 23, 2017
I never heard of barbers in the middle ages using leeches.
RabidPony
+4
Level 37
Nov 24, 2017
It was common practice, based on humorism I believe (the belief that your mood and health was regulated by blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm). The idea was that the equilibrium between the 4 was broken. Or something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech#Medicinal_use_of_leeches
SummerMcLovin
+4
Level 49
Nov 24, 2017
If the source of your confusion is "barber" rather than the use of leeches, they were more fully known as "barber surgeons". Normally based with a military, they use their blades for cutting limbs as well as hair, along with other medical practices of the time.
pamu
+1
Level 48
Nov 23, 2017
It could be argued that Lister made "everything" safer, but I went for the obvious.
stubart409
+1
Level 69
Nov 23, 2017
I thought Sapporo was famous for its beers, not Kobe.
lightstream
+2
Level 62
Nov 23, 2017
Yes! I entered Sapporo four times, spelled right and wrong before I squinted at the question and saw it was asking for Kobe.
LVSAS
+1
Level 43
Nov 23, 2017
same, i also tried Kirin
Arp2600
+8
Level 89
Nov 23, 2017
The question asks about beef, not beer.
Froststar101
+2
Level 73
Nov 24, 2017
Shouldn't "Lipids" work for the macromolecule question? And "vocabulary" as an alternative to "words"?
bobwalter
+2
Level 33
Nov 26, 2017
A better answer for the lexicon question would be "definitions."
plattitude
+1
Level 94
Mar 8, 2018
Agreed. Vocab* would also not be incorrect.
natnat
+1
Level 24
Apr 15, 2020
exactly what I thought too
jennraven
+4
Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
Another request to accept definitions or vocabulary for the lexicon question. Words feels like too vague of an answer, and I never would have gotten it. Every book / website contains words.
ahertzy
+1
Level 87
Sep 2, 2024
+1
Bemused
+1
Level 55
Jan 25, 2026
Agree that vocabulary should be accepted. Definitions, though, aren't necessary to a lexicon. Few languages are yet to be deciphered, but think of the past, when compiling a lexicon was a necessary early step.
bkemp2001
+1
Level 60
Nov 28, 2017
I probably would have gotten Lima beans if I hadn't read it as major South AFRICAN city. Duh.
lucd13
+2
Level 70
Mar 3, 2018
Can you accept seniors or senior citizens for the elderly?
SgtMac
+1
Level 53
Sep 12, 2018
If the bean was named for lima, peru, why is it not pronounced 'lee-ma' instead of 'lye-ma'?
mirtaxsisko
+3
Level 73
May 2, 2021
what kind of hold does superman have over quizmaster
RyanVon24
+1
Level 43
Jun 6, 2021
Shouldn't "wagyu" work for the Japanese beef question?
gordito7
+2
Level 52
Jul 8, 2021
wagyu is a type of cow i think, not a city
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 79
Jan 31, 2022
My guess was that the other LL is Lena Luthor
GrantH
+2
Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
Superman (Clark Kent) dated

Luma Lynai

Lori Lemaris

Lois Lane

Lisa Lasalle

Lana Lang

Among others (wonder women is one)

rabble
+2
Level 68
May 16, 2023
Thanks I was going to google that. I've never heard the names, or even that Kent had more than 1 love interest. Still got it right fortunately.
RobNobody
+3
Level 80
Jan 29, 2025
Yup! Of course, it depends on the version and canon you're talking about. Luma Lynai only really shows up in a single issue in the early '60s, and Lisa Lasalle is only in the "Earth One" series of graphic novels. There's also Lyla Lerrol, another one-issue love interest from the early '60s.

The other three are generally his "main" love interests: Lana Lang was his childhood sweetheart (originally introduced in the Superboy comics), Lori Lemaris was a mermaid he dated in college (it's complicated), and of course Lois Lane was his primary love interest as an adult.

Clark prefers not to think about how Lex Luthor fits into this.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Oct 4, 2025
Lexy Luthor :)
GrammarBeane1
+3
Level 82
Jan 31, 2022
could "vocabulary" work for the lexicon question?
ScribblScout
+1
Level 48
Jan 31, 2022
when you forget leeches...
DrWhoFanJ
+1
Level 64
Jan 31, 2022
When you get a 23% answer (Lister — learnt from Doctor Who!), but not a 67% one (Stephen King — not my sort of books/movies). 🤷‍♂️
sarahthe7th
+1
Level 48
Jan 21, 2023
Can ‘lipids’ please be accepted instead of just ‘fats’ please?
Rwinner
+1
Level 60
Sep 2, 2023
Animal hides are leather! Accept it?
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Apr 6, 2024
is leather not the product derived from animal hides after the tanning process?
YouAreAQuizard
+5
Level 65
Oct 30, 2024
A bit too gyro centric for my liking...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Oct 4, 2025
Could not think of the Supremes and did not know Lister 18/20 not bad :)
MeMeMe333
+1
Level 71
Jan 25, 2026
Sigh. The only person I could think of with the initials of 'CK' was Charlie Kirk.

May he rest in peace, now that he's with his heavenly Father.

hihipicklei
+1
Level 56
Jan 25, 2026
For the lexicon question, I tried language, translations, all sorts of "words" before I found the right one.
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