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General Knowledge Quiz #73

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What country is famous for its fjords?
Norway
What is the official London residence of the British monarch?
Buckingham Palace
What fluttering objects do vexillologists study?
Flags
Among scuba divers, what is decompression sickness commonly known as?
The Bends
What does Santa leave in the stockings of naughty children?
Coal
What was the name of the generation that came of age during WWI, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Lost Generation
Off what country's shores would you find the Great Barrier Reef?
Australia
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who appeared in cameos in over two dozen comic book movies?
Stan Lee
What singer's six children are named Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy, Estere, and Stelle?
Madonna
What movie did the song "A Whole New World" come from?
Aladdin
What weapon does Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle use?
Nunchucks
What country is Saxony a part of?
Germany
According to Greek legend, who opened the box that contained all the world's troubles?
Pandora
What is missing from this group of four: Indiana, Iowa, Illinois?
Idaho
In the equation 9/5 C + 32 = F, what does C stand for?
Celsius
Josip Broz Tito is sometimes called a benevolent dictator. What country did he rule?
Yugoslavia
What did Steve Fossett use to travel around the world in 2002?
Balloon
Starting in Hong Kong and digging directly through the center of the Earth, in what country would you emerge?
Argentina
What word is the most common synonym of the word "corsair"?
Pirate
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48 Comments
buck1017
+2
Level 78
Jun 6, 2013
Finally got 100% on a general knowledge quiz.
arewethereyet421
+1
Level 14
May 14, 2015
65% ( 13/20)
interopia
+2
Level 90
Jul 21, 2015
only missed Corsair
BlackLab
+4
Level 66
Feb 3, 2019
Thought it was a hair dryer
samiamco
+2
Level 68
Jun 7, 2019
I thought it was a cheesy car.
Froststar101
+3
Level 73
Apr 28, 2021
I kept thinking of Corvair
normanlamont
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Level 72
Aug 20, 2025
"hmm i know it's something to do with pirates... ship? sail? cutlass? sea? treasure? nah, guess i don't know it..."
panscedar
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Level 67
Aug 9, 2015
I just finished watching Torchwood. I really should have gotten Argentina.
evacooper
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Level 50
Dec 6, 2015
really, why? i havent finished season 4 yet. dont remember any reference but i am taking my time with that show...
cesareandraistlin
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Level 27
Dec 6, 2015
Oh my god, my head was full of Doctor Who and i wrote "Pandorica"...
Arp2600
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Level 89
Jun 5, 2019
A corsair is a privateer, a pirate with a license from a country to attack and loot enemy ships. Not quite a synonym thus.
blizzrd33
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Level 81
Jun 5, 2019
Just depends from whose perspective you look at the pirate.
Arp2600
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Level 89
Jun 9, 2019
Well, they were considered as combatants, and could even be prisoners of war...
xyzzy
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Level 72
Jun 8, 2019
and it accepts privateer
Arp2600
+6
Level 89
Jun 9, 2019
That's good, but it should be the main answer ;).
martay
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Level 69
Aug 3, 2019
Licensed or not, if a ship appears that then robs you of everything at gunpoint, they're pirates. The aggrieved party would say you're trying to put lipstick on a pig.
YantheMan
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Level 66
Mar 26, 2022
A privateer is really just a legal pirate, like how an "assassin" is a murderer with a specific job. Doesn't change the base thing.
giommaso
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Level 77
Jan 16, 2024
So, the issue for me is to consider them synonyms.

A corsair is a pirate, in some way, but a pirate is not a corsair, and "synonym" means that the two words are interchangeable.

It's like saying that "square" and "rectangle" are synonym. Definitely a square is just a rectangle with all sides with the same length, but one could not use the word to describe any rectangle.

FadKrashmor
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Level 70
Apr 13, 2020
I thought "buccaneer" would be a good answer.
driehoek25
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Level 70
Jan 14, 2024
They are still pirating ships
gerobach
+1
Level 78
Jun 18, 2019
Argentina?!
Djilas
+4
Level 86
Jul 6, 2019
Benevolent dictator? How many people do you have to kill to become a malevolent dictator?
Dimby
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Level 83
Jan 6, 2022
I think he's considered benevolent because it was comparatively better than other communist countries and he managed to navigate the waters of European Cold War politics extraordinarily well for his people. He made sure that Yugoslavia didn't become a puppet state for the USSR.
kiwiquizzer
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Level 68
Aug 2, 2019
Dang, I wrote numchucks.
ahertzy
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Level 87
May 14, 2023
can you accept "numchucks"?
FergusMacIvor
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Level 81
Aug 2, 2019
Buckingham is not the monarch's official London residence. That is still St. James's palace.
MUFC7
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Level 69
Aug 2, 2019
No, it isn't. Queen Victoria was the last monarch to reside there.
FergusMacIvor
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Level 81
Aug 7, 2019
The primary residence is different. St. James' Palace is still the monarch's official London residence, which is how the question is phrased.
Kalleanon
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Level 66
Jul 22, 2021
Wrong. Victoria officially made Buckingham Palace the official London residence in 1837, according to the official web site of the British Royal Family.
eaglesfan6
+3
Level 54
Aug 2, 2019
Nunchuck, singular?
RobNobody
+4
Level 80
Aug 2, 2019
That's just a stick.
determinedtobeatthis
+1
Level 68
Aug 3, 2019
Haha! One of those six names is not like the others...
roleybob
+3
Level 73
Aug 7, 2019
Which are you thinking and why?

To me, each of those 6 names are not like the others...

DonTheLamplighter
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Level 87
Nov 12, 2019
Buckingham Palace....sounds like the venue for a fancy Pig Rodeo.
redsplat
+2
Level 72
Dec 10, 2019
Yep. Interesting fact: fancy pig rodeo is the collective noun for royals.
Yanni47
+1
Level 80
Mar 16, 2020
With "fluttering objects", I tried all kinds of airborne animals. Had a good laugh when I saw what the answer was.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jun 14, 2023
I could have sworn it was butterfly
Triptych
+1
Level 64
Mar 31, 2026
It's been an issue since That Nerd Show
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Aug 1, 2021
I somehow got Argentina after quite a bit of guessing
Dimby
+3
Level 83
Jan 6, 2022
Did anyone else guess literally every country in the Americas before Argentina?
HappyQuizzer
+2
Level 68
Jan 7, 2023
Yes Hong Kong is further north than I thought
aloepottt
+1
Level 53
Dec 5, 2022
Can you accept heaven for the Hong Kong question?
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jun 14, 2023
I got Lost.
Chump772
+1
Level 56
Sep 4, 2023
Accept bens without the d?
yadoya
+2
Level 32
Apr 26, 2024
A corsair has nothing to do with a pirate

Pirates act illegally, corsairs have a letter of mission from a sovereign state

BreakEven37564
+1
Level 46
Dec 6, 2024
thank you Radiohead for helping me with the bends question. Best band of all time there
Riema3
+1
Level 43
Mar 9, 2026
Greetings from Saxony
Triptych
+1
Level 64
Mar 31, 2026
I wish Mr Fossett did not go.

Or at least had a beacon

Hi there, Sassonach. We are cool.

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