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General Knowledge Quiz #53

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What nautical word refers to the right side of a ship?
Starboard
Who was the legendary enemy of the Sheriff of Nottingham?
Robin Hood
Where do Neapolitan people come from?
Naples
What was the name of Peter, Paul, and Mary's "magic" dragon?
Puff
What does the H stand for in H2O?
Hydrogen
Which U.S. state has counted two well-known actors among its governors?
California
What is the traditional gift for a one year wedding anniversary?
Paper
What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus
What instrument is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?
Seismometer
Put your thinking cap on. What is BY FAR the least common day of the year for a person to be born on?
February 29th
What did the dish run away with?
The spoon
What body part does one use to give someone a butterfly kiss?
Eyelashes
What movie's theme song was "My Heart Will Go On"?
Titanic
What region of France did William the Conqueror come from?
Normandy
What were the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement meant to help prevent?
Climate change
In what sport would you hear the terms hooker, scrum, and ruck?
Rugby
From which country did Tunisia gain its independence in 1956?
France
What is the largest island in the English Channel?
Isle of Wight
In what country did Gandhi fight for civil rights before moving back to India?
South Africa
If someone is a "man of the cloth", what is their job?
Clergyman
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69 Comments
tschutzer
+7
Level 93
Oct 25, 2012
Funny, I've known about the Isle of Wight forever (probably got it from a Beatles song), but I never knew it was spelled that way - I thought it was spelled like the color white. I guess you learn something new every day (on Jetpunk).
ruudsje
+2
Level 68
Oct 25, 2012
I thought it was Whight, but there you go. Live and learn..
Tuesday8
+7
Level 76
Mar 3, 2015
It's in When I'm Sixty Four. we could spend a summer in the isle of wight, if it's not to dear
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Sep 29, 2015
Always thought "...In the isle of white, if it's not too dim". "We shall scrim and save"
blinky
+3
Level 57
Apr 17, 2018
Scrimp.
samiamco
+3
Level 67
Oct 28, 2018
"Dear" in British means "expensive, thus the need to scrimp and save.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Feb 2, 2019
Like Like
mikeb
+2
Level 65
Mar 15, 2019
It's "rent a cottage" not "spend a summer".
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Mar 15, 2019
Love that song
ander217
+12
Level 73
Mar 15, 2019
My husband loved that song until he woke up one day and realized he had turned 64. He was losing his hair, doing the garden, fixing the fuses, and putting the grandchildren on his knee. I still feed him, I still need him, but he hasn't taken me to the Isle of Wight. Oh, well, he puts up with me so he gets a pass on that one.
DonTheLamplighter
+5
Level 87
May 28, 2023
Such a nice post, ander217. Four years later, and I hope you & your husband are well, with many more years of putting up with one another ahead.
saintlyjim
+2
Level 44
Aug 27, 2023
Have you managed to make the pilgrimage to the Isle of Wight yet?
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Aug 29, 2023
well its not much different from Hampshire. there are a few old peoples holiday hotels on the island if you like dressing up for dinner for no good reason etc.

Or perhaps he could try one of the prisons.

phoule
+1
Level 46
Apr 23, 2025
too dear
lilig48
+1
Level 19
Oct 28, 2012
For some reason I was thinking 'the crusaders' were characters from a tv show or something ... it didn't even occur to me to associate it with the crusades lol
Gaia
+1
Level 45
Jan 4, 2013
lol
Ozchris
+1
Level 32
Jan 8, 2013
Rugby is actually two different sports. Rugby league and rugby union. Those terms are definitely used in union. I don't think all of them are in league.
joeythelemur
+2
Level 80
May 19, 2014
Hooker and Scrum are definitely used in both. Not sure that ruck is used as a term for League since they don't have the same contest for the ball after the tackle. I don't watch league though, so not sure.
grantdon
+1
Level 74
Jun 21, 2014
They are definitely terms used in both sports. They evolved from the same sport, originally based on professional/amateur lines. League tends to be a blue-collar game, while rugby has more players from private school backgrounds
dunkinggandalf2
+6
Level 72
Oct 10, 2020
I've always enjoyed the fact that, for a long time, the All Blacks hooker was named Andrew Hore.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 26, 2026
Those long winter nights must just fly by. "Hore... that's hilarious. Chuckle."
BiggieSmalls
+1
Level 76
Mar 3, 2015
Why is seismograph not accepted? It should be...Quizmaster uses wikipedia to cite alot of answers and seismograph is another form of seismometer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer

Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Mar 4, 2015
Seismograph IS accepted!
JohnMG123
+2
Level 38
Mar 12, 2015
I also question why richter scale is not accepted for earthquake measurement
Brianix
+13
Level 34
May 5, 2015
Because the richter scale is the scale applied to the seismometer's measurement, not the actual device that measures the magnitude.
Moosefight
+28
Level 59
Dec 20, 2016
The hardest part about measuring an earthquakes intensity is getting them to stand on the richter scale.
JockShepshed
+3
Level 34
Mar 4, 2018
First wedding anniversary, traditional gifts differ, it's paper in America, and cotton in Britain, can you accept either or say America in the question?
oweifdhskxn
+1
Level 33
Jun 16, 2018
...it's paper in britain, too...
kogatora
+4
Level 96
Oct 23, 2018
according to pear's cyclopedia (via the wiki page) traditionally jock is right, although i'm pretty sure everyone just uses the paper 1st list now if they look it up - cotton is clearly better than paper and having wine as the 85th celebration seems like someone is just having a laugh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary
FredB
+8
Level 99
Oct 23, 2018
Technically the largest island in the English channel is Great Britain
POOCH
+5
Level 71
Oct 24, 2018
That's the first thing that I thought of too, but then I thought that the coastlines of Great Britain and Continental Europe form the English Channel so Great Britain is on the English Channel but not in the English Channel. For Great Britain to be in the Channel it would have to wrap all the way around the island, but it doesn't - if that makes any sense.
fitheach
+1
Level 58
Mar 15, 2019
That would make the island of Great Britain in the North Sea and Irish Sea as well.
ThePerfectBoing
+3
Level 43
Aug 11, 2024
Great Britain only BORDERS the English Channel and is not in it
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 26, 2026
That word 'technically' again. And, as usual, so wrong.
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Oct 23, 2018
31% have gotten 20/20, that must be a record for General Knowledge quizzes. (I got 19)
vitriden
+1
Level 84
Aug 6, 2019
This is the first of nearly 100 general knowledge quizes I've finished with 0 points. I usually have 3 or 4, rarely 2. I think this one requires too much specific US/UK culture knowledge compared to the other ones.
AlexThirkell
+6
Level 74
Jan 7, 2021
I thought you were referring to points out of 20...

"I usually have 3 or 4" I was genuinely worried about you for a moment!

vitriden
+1
Level 84
Mar 19, 2021
Haha, if that was the case, I believe I would've given up by now...
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
Dec 15, 2018
I typed many things for the paris agreement, carbondioxide, smog, environment (though obviously that isnt the thing to prevent)
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Mar 15, 2019
Haha :)
MrKenny
+1
Level 68
Mar 15, 2019
How about accepting climate warming?
JackintheBox
+5
Level 82
Mar 15, 2019
Or global change :)
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Mar 15, 2019
Never heard of 'hooker', 'scrum' or 'ruck' before, although I played a bit of rugby in school a few years ago. Also never heard of a clergyman being referred to as a 'man of the cloth'.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Mar 15, 2019
JetPunk does teach me a lot of things
joeythelemur
+4
Level 80
Apr 19, 2019
Played rugby but never heard of a scrum??
ThePerfectBoing
+1
Level 43
Aug 11, 2024
It's probably the referee LOL jk
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 26, 2026
JackintheBox: I'm interested to know which 'bit' of rugby you played - the half-time oranges, perhaps?
Marvel072506
+2
Level 45
Feb 19, 2020
For from what city do Neapolitans hail, I tried Neapolitown. Yes, I'm weird.
ConradBrunstrom
+2
Level 82
Mar 26, 2020
Roger Daltrey is lead singer of The Who - but he doesn't "lead" the band. Pete Townshend has written nearly all of their material and certainly "leads" the band creatively.
Ertaeth
+1
Level 69
Nov 30, 2021
Should accept climate crisis or climate catastrophe maybe?
ShnevorSomeone
+2
Level 61
Dec 8, 2021
Me frantically typing Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, thinking I spelled one of them wrong
Freestatebear
+3
Level 88
May 28, 2023
I'm just a dumb American; so after Jersey and Guernsey didn't work, I was out of options...
vacationmom
+2
Level 67
Jul 23, 2022
I'm surprised the quiz doesn't accept misspellings for "Isle of Wight".
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 26, 2026
I'm surprised that you are surprised.
JackintheBox
+8
Level 82
May 30, 2023
Could '29 Feb' be accepted for February 29th?
DenAm
+3
Level 64
Dec 23, 2023
I kept trying Leap Day
NEGeo
+1
Level 65
Oct 14, 2024
same
Jango
+1
Level 63
Jun 2, 2023
Global heating is an increasingly common term
jkabq
+1
Level 67
Aug 27, 2023
that's the first time I've ever heard it. i'll have to listen more carefully.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 26, 2026
Jango: you can say 'global heating' as many times as you like - that doesn't mean that anyone else does.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+3
Level 69
Jun 12, 2023
I typed Hood for Robin Hood, but it wasn't excepted.
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Aug 27, 2023
Read the question as "What is the dish to run away with?" I spent a good while trying to think of stereotypical hobo food before it clicked.
toplondon
+1
Level 75
Jan 29, 2024
jersey is the biggest island in the english channel, not the Isle of wight
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 29, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight
jcjohn1
+1
Level 56
Mar 3, 2024
Hmmph, I went with Leap Day ... not accepted ... oh, well
MDW
+1
Level 56
Jun 20, 2024
Religion should be accepted as the job of a 'man of the cloth.'
Hollygomerryround
+1
Level 60
Mar 20, 2025
Dude... 29 Feb ? I thought I was wrong, then tried Christmas day 😅
Akva
+1
Level 57
Aug 19, 2025
I feel like lashes should be accepted for the eyelashes question.
Gwaur
+1
Level 50
Aug 20, 2025
Should accept "leap day" as well.
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