Name a Valid Answer - General Knowledge #1

Guess any valid answer which fits each selected category.

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Weapon in the board game "Clue", aka "Cluedo"	candlestick \| knife \| lead pipe \| revolver \| rope \| wrench
Event in Olympic women's gymnastics	balance beam \| floor exercise \| uneven bars \| vault
Number spelled in English with exactly five letters (spell it out in letters)	three \| seven \| eight \| forty \| fifty \| sixty
Synthetic fiber developed by DuPont	nylon \| acrylic \| spandex \| Kevlar \| Teflon
Country on the Arabian peninsula other than Saudi Arabia	Kuwait \| Oman \| Qatar \| United Arab Emirates \| Yemen
Language that uses this letter: ø	Danish \| Norwegian \| Faroese \| Southern Sami
Food that appears in the title of a song by the Beatles	honey \| onion \| mustard \| truffle \| pepper \| strawberry \| pie \| octopus
One of the five LEAST similar languages to English that is an official language of a European country	Hungarian \| Finnish \| Estonian \| Maltese \| Latvian
Method of execution mentioned in the Bible	beheading \| burning \| crucifixion \| stoning
Sign of the Zodiac that starts with A	Aries \| Aquarius
Disney movie based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale	The Little Mermaid \| Frozen
Titan from Greek mythology	Atlas \| Cronus \| Oceanus \| Rhea \| Prometheus \| others...
Canadian province that doesn't border the ocean	Alberta \| Saskatchewan
Day of the week in Spanish	lunes \| martes \| miércoles \| jueves \| viernes \| sábado \| domingo
Vegetable, other than broccoli, which is a variety of Brassica oleracea	cabbage \| cauliflower \| kale \| Brussels sprouts \| others ...
Book of the Catholic Bible starting with E	Exodus \| Ezra \| Esther \| Ecclesiastes \| Ecclesiasticus \| Ezekiel \| Ephesians
One of the Three Musketeers	Athos \| Porthos \| Aramis

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Level 98

Oct 6, 2020

Walrus is a food

Level 75

Oct 6, 2020

Octopus for octopus's garden should be included

Level 77

Oct 6, 2020

By that logic, blackbird and octopus should also be included

+23

Level ∞

Oct 6, 2020

+31

Level 92

Oct 6, 2020

Octopus should definitely be included. It's eaten in many parts of the world.

Level 77

Oct 6, 2020

It's referring to the animal, not the food

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Level 86

Oct 6, 2020

I agree that octopus should be allowed, it's commonly eaten. The fact that the song title isn't referring to it in a culinary context is irrelevant - that's also true of many of the other answers permitted.

+15

Level 86

Oct 6, 2020

Is sergeant pepper food?

Level 72

Oct 12, 2020

Octopus is delicious - even with pepper!

Level 78

Jul 9, 2024

I once lost a bet that required that I eat octopus covered in chocolate--a waste of both octopus and chocolate, as it turns out.

I am no longer able to eat octopus, however, knowing what I do about their conscious life. But that's an individual decision--I leave it to others to make up their own minds.

Level 77

Jan 21, 2022

PLEASE include polythene. I regularly eat it and it should be included.

Level 60

Dec 12, 2023

at least Pam. I use it to cook

Level 79

Oct 15, 2020

they probably eat them in Norway and club them in Canada.

Level 96

Oct 6, 2020

Curious what is meant by least similar to English. What would disqualify languages that use a different alphabet - Russian, Greek, for example? Thanks.

Level ∞

Oct 6, 2020

It's based on lexical similarity from this calculator.

Level 87

Oct 6, 2020

Latvian seems out of place since it is still Indo-European and probably isn't that different from Lithuanian.

Level 86

Oct 6, 2020

Yeah it's likely a small margin. Four are obvious but then one of the remaining Indo-European languages has to be chosen.

Level 64

Oct 15, 2020

According to the calculator, German and French are more similar to English than Hungarian.

Level ∞

Jul 13, 2021

Exactly. We are asking for the least similar.

Level 33

Oct 20, 2022

How is it that Gaelic is more similar to English than Hungarian???

Level ∞

Jun 22, 2024

English and Gaelic are both Indo-European languages. Hungarian is not!

Level 55

Jul 9, 2024

As others have mentioned, Irish (and the other Gaelic languages) is a Celtic language, along with Welsh, Cornish, and Breton (and Gaulish). All of these languages are Indo-European languages, as are French, English, Russian, Farsi and Hindi. Anyone who studies the verb 'to be' in any of these languages will quickly see similarities (as with so many other words, especially family member names, numbers).

Level 91

Nov 2, 2022

@Js006, probably because Gaelic is part of the Indo-European language family, while Hungarian is not.

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Level 87

Oct 6, 2020

Please accept submarine as food

Level 71

Oct 8, 2020

Seconded. While walrus and blackbird might be niche dishes, submarines are definitely more common as food than octopus (even if some of the heathen refer to them as 'hoagies')

Level 86

Oct 9, 2020

as in Subway.

Level 79

Oct 15, 2020

They all live in a yellow submarine sandwich?

Level 72

Jul 9, 2024

Agree! I thought its punniness would make it the #1 answer!

Level 90

Oct 7, 2020

Why isn't "The Ugly Duckling" in there for Andersen / Disney films?

Level 93

Oct 15, 2020

There's no film in the Disney Animated Canon that's based on The Ugly Duckling.

Level 79

Oct 15, 2020

There actually is, unless by animated canon you mean the "Disney Animated Classics" collection which officially only includes feature-length animated movies and then only some of them.

Level 93

Oct 15, 2020

Yes that’s what I meant. None of the movies from this list are directly based on the Ugly Duckling.

Level 93

Oct 17, 2022

Whoops. The link didn't work. This one should.

Level 91

Oct 7, 2020

This seems like a good opportunity to plug my quiz about cultivars of Brassica oleracea.

Level 73

Oct 15, 2020

These quizzes are great, I'm sure it took a while to put something like this together but I would love to see more like this in the future!

Level 47

Oct 15, 2020

Weapon in the board game* Left me confused for longer than it should

Level 67

Oct 15, 2020

Does Basque not count? It's a co-official language in Spain, and is certainly the furthest from English.

Level 92

Oct 15, 2020

It's not co-official nationally. It's co-official only within certain areas

Level 43

Sep 4, 2021

I'm with you. Basque is official on some parts so it is "an official language of Spain". It does not say "official language of the Federal Government"

Level 67

Oct 15, 2020

Very good. Thank you. More like this please QM

Level 82

Oct 15, 2020

How did I not know that Frozen was based off Hans Christian Anderson?

Level 80

Oct 15, 2020

Well, it's less "based off of" and more "vaguely inspired by." The similarities between The Snow Queen and Frozen are limited to "woman/supernatural being with cold powers" and "a person getting a shard of magic glass/ice in their eye and heart." If you didn't see the "inspired by" credit, you'd be forgiven for not realizing the stories have anything to do with each other.

Level 79

Oct 15, 2020

accept lead piping? pretty sure it’s called that in UK cluedo

Level 81

Oct 15, 2020

It certainly is

Level 59

Feb 5, 2021

second this

Level 66

Oct 15, 2020

A submarine is food!

Level 73

Oct 15, 2020

I misread the clue as "languages that are at least similar to English". I thought the wording was unusual but I figured you were trying to head off complaints that some of the answers weren't close enough to English to be included. I reread the clue several times and every time my silly brain added "at" to the clue. Needless to say, none of my answers worked and I was totally confused when the answers appeared. Sigh.

Level 74

Oct 18, 2020

Exact same for me :D

Level 67

Oct 18, 2022

Same ander. Exact same. And then I wondered why I wasn't seeing dutch and flemish when the answers appeared.

I thought to myself, "Finnish IS close to English...???? What's going on?"

Level 83

Oct 15, 2020

Fun grammar lesson: The "vegetable other than broccoli question" (#15) is written incorrectly. By using "which", you are implying that there is one vegetable and it is Brassica oleracea. You need to use "that". It would be best written as "Vegetable other than broccoli that..." or "Vegetable belonging to Brassica oleracea other than broccoli".

Level 81

Oct 15, 2020

Shout out to Pulp Fiction for helping with Ezekiel 25:17

Level 68

Oct 15, 2020

Never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a guy before I put a cap in him.

Level 63

Oct 15, 2020

What's concerning about this quiz is that 98% of the English quiz takers don't know an English number with five letters...

Level 68

Oct 15, 2020

98% of them *do* know a five-letter number. You're misreading the stats. Only 2% didn't get that question right, which is almost certainly a representation of people who gave up or something. You only need to get to "three" to find an answer.

Level 64

Oct 17, 2020

But if you count backward from four trillion, six hundred billion, four million two hundred thousand, nine hundred twenty it will take a long time. I did for me at least.

Level 35

Jul 9, 2024

damn thats exactly what i did and it took me too long

Level 50

Oct 16, 2020

Decapitation should also work as beheading

Level ∞

Jul 13, 2021

That will work now.

Level 26

Oct 16, 2020

Just learned that Chronos and Cronus are different mythological entities... Dammit

Level 61

Oct 16, 2020

Can we maybe have "sprout" instead of having to write out "Brussels sprout"?

I concede that I should have just chosen "cabbage" or something...

And also, while I'm at it, "Cronos" as well as Cronus, as the -us ending is the Latinised version?

Level 74

Oct 17, 2020

I got it with 'Kronos'.

Level 74

Jul 9, 2024

Sprout is too general; for lots of English speakers, a sprout or sprouts would never imply Brussels sprouts (rather bean or alfalfa sprouts).

Level 61

Dec 16, 2020

For q. 1, may we have "lead piping"? That's what it is in Cluedo.

Level 62

Feb 11, 2021

I missed the execution method question. I facepalmed so hard when I saw crucifixion.

Level 69

Jun 7, 2021

Is Esdras not from the Catholic Bible? All the books mentioned are not unique to the Catholic Bible, but Esdras is.

Level 90

Oct 21, 2021

Part of it is in the Catholic Bible but it is divided up. We refer to them as Ezra (1 Esdras) and Nehemiah (2 Esdras).

3 and 4 Esdras are sometimes included in the Apocrypha.

Level 86

Oct 24, 2021

The inuit eat walrus, and it is edible, ergo walrus should be allowed. Just because it sounds disgusting does not mean it is not food.

Level 57

Jan 24, 2022

No Bahrain on the Arabian Peninsula?

Level 77

Oct 17, 2022

Bahrain is an island nation, not a peninsular one

Level 73

Feb 11, 2022

Is broccolini too similar to broccoli? I feel like that should count.

Level 71

Oct 17, 2022

Mustard as in Mean Mr. Mustard

Level 64

Oct 17, 2022

I somehow misread the underline on one of the questions...though I do believe it could use better wording

Level 78

Oct 17, 2022

Armis and Parthos. That's what I came up with. It's been a long time.

Level 65

Oct 17, 2022

Ray Harryhausen lied to me! I Thought for sure the Kraken would be on the titan list. Typhon didn't work either.

Level 67

Oct 18, 2022

Thank you for accepting D'Artagnan. Despite the actual Musketeers having simpler names, D'Artagnan is the only one my brain has latched onto so far.

Level 79

Oct 19, 2022

this might be my favorite format, make more!

Level 29

Jan 10, 2023

i know you mentioned the lexical similarity calculator above; albanian is more similar to english than latvian, at least

Level 88

Jun 25, 2024

Genesis 40:19 "Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee."

Hanging should be included as a execution method

Level 89

Jul 9, 2024

Isn't Haman also hanged in the book of Esther?

Level 55

Jul 9, 2024

Agreed. And Judas hanged himself. When that failed, just went for crucifixion, but still....

Level 59

Jul 9, 2024

D'Artagnan is accepted as one of the "Three Musketeers", but he's not one of them.

Level 74

Jul 9, 2024

submarine should be accepted for the beatles song (yellow submarine/sub sandwich)

Level 61

Jul 9, 2024

Isn't Asparagus a sign of the zodiac?

Level 67

Jul 11, 2024

What ocean does Manitoba and Ontario border? The Hudson Ocean? Maybe go with landlocked istead.

Level 78

Jul 11, 2024

It says "the ocean," so it's referring to that single world ocean that lies at sea level and includes "oceans," bays, gulfs, and straits. "The ocean" bordering Manitoba and Ontario is salt water at sea level and provides access to the rest of the world's ocean.

Level 79

Jul 12, 2024

2:49 used, fun

Level 62

Oct 7, 2024

would've gotten two more correct if I could spell

Level 68

Apr 11, 2025

If someone is biting the dust, does that make dust a food?

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