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General Knowledge Quiz #84

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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In what modern-day country was Christopher Columbus born?
Italy
What 2013 Pixar movie is a prequel to Monsters Inc.?
Monsters University
What sea borders Turkey to the north?
Black Sea
What does a mnemonic device help you do?
Remember
What nautical unit of measurement is equal to six feet?
Fathom
What does IQ stand for?
Intelligence Quotient
What city in the Middle East had the first black diamond rating indoor slope?
Dubai
What is the name for a box or room that keeps cigars at a constant humidity?
Humidor
What New York street is considered to be the center of the U.S. financial industry?
Wall Street
What was the Greek name for the god Pluto?
Hades
In common depictions of the devil, what animal's lower body does he have?
Goat
What does the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah celebrate?
Jewish New Year
What can be purchased at a zapateria?
Shoes
If someone commits matricide, who did they kill?
Their Mother
What kind of bean is used to make tofu?
Soybean
Who was the most successful women's tennis player of the 1990s?
Steffi Graf
What is a female peacock called?
Peahen
What is the approximate gestational period in humans?
9 months
What conveyance do the Otis and ThyssenKrupp companies produce?
Elevators
What can be either a burrowing animal or approximately 6.02 x 1023 molecules?
Mole
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73 Comments
buck1017
+11
Level 78
Nov 26, 2013
Hmm...for Zapateria i tried both 'Laser Guns' and 'Bug Zappers'...both to no avail.
scott4real
+7
Level 69
Oct 22, 2019
I tried microwaved food. Sounds like a cafeteria that microwaves your food.
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Apr 4, 2024
i tried every single mexican food known to mankind
MovieQuizGuy
+2
Level 64
May 17, 2025
I tried zapatos. You'd think that would work.
burntfrost
+1
Level 47
Jun 10, 2014
I typed every damn sea I know, of which there are a surprisingly large number.
MBAMatt
+10
Level 82
Nov 24, 2014
how about memorize for mnemonic devices!!!!
Nedudddki
+1
Level 43
Dec 3, 2014
i agree... it helps improve your memory
juanne
+4
Level 32
Oct 9, 2015
Intellectual Quotient should be accepted....its more widely know as that
LarryLovage
+31
Level 55
Oct 19, 2015
Never heard it as that.
Duzza
+10
Level 33
May 9, 2016
It is definitely more widely known as Intelligence Quotient, although intellectual Quotient should probably also be allowed
sumguy
+14
Level 87
Aug 4, 2021
Only by people who fare badly on the test.
Dimby
+17
Level 83
Jan 6, 2022
According to Google Ngram viewer, Intelligence Quotient appears in print about 1000 times more often than Intellectual Quotient. I believe you are mistaken.
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 72
Oct 31, 2023
Even if it was more widely known as that, which I'm not sure about - it's still wrong.
CliveDexter
+1
Level 73
May 9, 2016
Good one!
jmellor13
+2
Level 68
May 9, 2016
I can picture the popular image of the devil so clearly, but I never thought about what animal his lower half is supposed to be. I guessed every animal with hooves I could think of...except goat. Well now I know.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jun 15, 2023
The Simpsons depicts him as Ned Flanders with goat legs, very funny.
ChaosQuizzer
+13
Level 35
May 10, 2016
I couldn't fathom being 182.88cm tall.
PantsLobbyist
+3
Level 99
Jul 8, 2019
Ahahahaha. I am almost exactly 183cm. FATHOM!!
samiamco
+20
Level 67
Jul 9, 2019
I’m definitely not in your league.
stylus
+3
Level 79
Oct 30, 2023
i'm enjoying this comment chain
Phoenix786
+1
Level 11
Jun 2, 2018
I really don't like general knowledge quizzes
stone222
+28
Level 47
Sep 24, 2018
then don't do them
mikeb
+9
Level 65
Oct 18, 2019
I don't like general stores cause you can't buy anything specific.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
May 5, 2024
I don't like sauerkraut
fuanacdc
+2
Level 89
Jan 15, 2025
I don't like folding laundry.
Dimby
+1
Level 83
Jan 7, 2026
I don’t like sand.
GAMIN4DUMMIES
+17
Level 28
Oct 28, 2018
Peavagina should be accepted
WanderingWalrus
+2
Level 82
Jul 8, 2019
Entered Dubai as a joke as I had no idea. Do they have a toboggan run and an ice rink as well?
Djilas
+3
Level 86
Jul 12, 2019
yeah, at least three ice rinks.
helenap13
+2
Level 66
Oct 20, 2019
and penguins
Iscannon
+1
Level 65
Aug 4, 2025
It's always bloody Dubai
PauloMX
+4
Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
6/20 :( - I didn't cheat
Djilas
+4
Level 86
Jul 12, 2019
Monster University isn't close enough?
SpartanLlama
+3
Level 79
Oct 18, 2019
Lol we just learned about moles in chem today
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Oct 18, 2019
I guessed parents for matricide
MDW
+1
Level 56
Nov 3, 2019
Technically, matricide can be ANY mother, not just the murderers own mother.
loganite
+25
Level 94
Nov 13, 2019
Absolutely not. Matricide is killing ones own mother, and I just checked three dictionaries that all agree. If you kill a woman that just so happens to have children, that is properly defined as homicide
MindWax
+2
Level 87
Oct 30, 2023
Honest question: does this apply for all the -cides? If you kill the king of a nation to which you don't belong, is it still regicide?
Goggynoggler
+3
Level 56
Feb 16, 2024
I looked up definitions for a bunch of different kinds of -cides, and it looks like this rule only applies if the murder victim is a member of the murder's family. However there are some terms that specify one's killing of their own family vs. someone else killing a member of a family. E.g. pedicide is the killing of a child in general, but there's also filicide and prolicide which specifically define someone killing their own children. Researching this it's actually kind of sickening that there's at least six different terms that describe the killing of children :(

So anyway, no, you don't have to be a citizen of the nation of the king you stabbed for it to be considered regicide.

RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 28, 2026
MDW: what's your source for this piece of utter foolishness?
sumguy
+5
Level 87
Aug 4, 2021
How foolish of me: I hear people saying "Let's go to the zapateria and buy some shoes" all the time!
23authentic23
+1
Level 39
Apr 4, 2024
lol
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Dec 8, 2022
Rosh Hashanah is actually celebrating the creation of man. The new year is based around that.
JackBeNimble
+1
Level 82
Oct 31, 2023
Seconded. I tried creation before new year.
Berney
+6
Level 84
Oct 30, 2023
You might want to accept 'lift's as well as 'elevators' as that's what they're called in the UK and some other places.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 30, 2023
Done. Thank you.
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 74
Oct 30, 2023
'mum' for mother too pls :)
dunkinggandalf2
+4
Level 72
Oct 31, 2023
And mommy, too?
bananawana
+1
Level 32
Feb 5, 2026
Spawn point?
thadefritz
+2
Level 74
Oct 30, 2023
Thyssenkrupp sold their Lift buisiness back in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp#ThyssenKrupp_Elevator

loganite
+6
Level 94
Oct 30, 2023
There is no female peacock, a peahen is a female peafowl. ;)
dunkinggandalf2
+9
Level 72
Oct 31, 2023
You're being peadantic.
loganite
+7
Level 94
Oct 31, 2023
We can't all be pearfect like you! ;)
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
May 5, 2024
Pears got nothing to do with this! Don't bring them into this fowl verbal fight
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 87
Oct 30, 2023
I guess I need a mnemonic device for what a "mnemonic device" does.
cledun2
+4
Level 95
Oct 31, 2023
Pluto comes from Πλούτων (Plouton) and is a Greek word, Ploutos which means wealth and which was an alternative Greek name for Hades. The Latin name "Pluto" is a direct borrowing from Greek and the native Latin equivalent to Hades is Dis Pater.
Ninor
+1
Level 56
Nov 4, 2023
Shouldn't "boots" be acceptable for zapateria?
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Nov 17, 2023
Peafowl is another name for peahen BTW

maybe you should accept that as an answer

Cog
+1
Level 77
Nov 20, 2023
Nah peafowl is species name and not gender specific
caromac
+2
Level 70
Dec 15, 2023
'Mum' should be acceptable for matricide, if 'mom' is.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 74
Mar 31, 2024
I've seen this "x borders y to the north/south/east/west" error on a few different quizzes. Turkey borders the Black Sea to the north, the Black Sea doesn't border Turkey to the north.

The Black Sea borders Ukraine to the north, Russia and Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south and Romania and Bulgaria to the west.

There was one of the early GK quizzes that had a similar question about France and Switzerland which had them the wrong way round as well.

RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 28, 2026
Again, AlexThirkell, I have to tell you that you are the one getting it wrong.
BiggieSmalls
+2
Level 76
Mar 31, 2024
For human gestation, there are additional answers. The gestational period is actually 280 days. Which is also 10 lunar cycles. It's also 40 weeks. OB-Gyns refer to 40 weeks and/or 10 months, not the calendar 9 months. These al should be acceptable answers
scherre
+1
Level 57
Jan 29, 2025
This was going to be my suggestion too. My first answer was 280 days but when that didn't work I went with 9 months. Stating the number in days or weeks (40) is much more precise than using months because of the inconsistency in length of calendar months and the existence of lunar months as well.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 55
Feb 28, 2026
Who in obstetrics uses lunar months?
glimmeringspines
+1
Level 46
Jun 3, 2024
It feels a bit of a cheat that this accepted "monsters" for "monsters university"!
JenZa
+1
Level 65
Oct 9, 2024
The question for the indoor ski slope will need to be changed with the next update. It's now Shanghai with the largest: Shanghai L+SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 9, 2024
Updated
NQChien
+1
Level 69
Feb 10, 2025
Isn't the quiz so US-specific?

As I later searched for Zapateria, it is referred to Ballota = a genus of plant.

MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Mar 25, 2025
I thought it would be funny if it accepted zapatos for what they sell at a zapateria. No such luck.
Unobtainium
+2
Level 49
May 12, 2025
My disappointment is immeasurable.
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
May 17, 2025
Les chaussures aussi.
S0ulsb0rne
+1
Level 62
Jan 6, 2026
PLEASE don't use AI for thumbnails.

AI has ruined so many websites and Social Media I really don't want this to become the norm on Jetpunk.

It's understandable you wouldn't want to make your own thumbnail so just get an image from google like everyone else does rather than resorting to these awful tactics.

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