General Knowledge Quiz #124

I wish I had taken Spanish. I put El Nina instead of La Nina.

You need to accept more variations for giant hornet. Wasp for example. Also bird bee, sparrow bee --- this is how the name is translated. Seriously. I have seen one of these in the wild. You don't want to make them angry.

When I saw masticating, I initially thought it said something else...

my ex's friends used to nickname me jar jar binks :'(

On the whale question, I initially read it as "surgeon"...and all I could think to try was "killer". Then I re-read the question... D'oh!

It should probably read "What is the western Pacific equivalent of a hurricane?" The NOAA defines the Eastern Pacific hurricane area (under the jurisdiction of the National Hurricane Center) as everything east of 130°, and the Central Pacific hurricane area (under the jurisdiction of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center) as everything from 130° to 180°, regardless of latitude. Everything west of 180° is the Pacific typhoon area, where storms are named by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). The point is that the dividing lines are on lines of latitude, not longitude. Storms in the north Pacific can be hurricanes if they're in the EPac or CPac. The storm has to be in the Northwest Pacific to be a typhoon; the requirement is for it to be west, not north.

Wow, I can't believe I actually tried "Polizei" for 'What comes after ein and zwei?'...

Since chewing gum is called “mastic” in my native language, the answer was right in front of me yet I thought it must be a coincidence and got it wrong :-/

I think the Rainbow warrior was a ship used at terrorism against whale hunters.

Everyone should check out how French spies bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour NZ, murdering a volunteer photographer. This happened in 1985, when Greenpeace were exposing radioactive pollution resulting from French nuclear tests in Polynesia. This led to widespread poisoning of locals, including a massive spike in childhood cancers. Despite the best efforts of local law enforcement, the guilty parties were allowed to leave NZ and never punished for their crime, as a direct result of pressure from the French government, who labelled Greenpeace a communist-supporting terrorist organisation. Naturally. I mean, it was the French who used a bomb, but it was definitely the hippies who were the terrorists…

Vive la France!

Me, a Jamaican, born, raised and, still living in Jamaica, being shocked to discover that Jar Jar Binks accent is supposedly Jamaican. Like what?

Did someone hear the fake over the top accents some hotel workers do and decided to make an even worse version of that? Or is it that they had never heard a Jamaican accent and just decided to assume what it should sound like, cause there is no way they based that off a genuine Jamaican accent. They got Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black beat by a hundred miles for the prize for wrong accent.