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General Knowledge Quiz #156

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What former country was ruled by the Dalai Lama?
Tibet
What subclass of mammals carry their young in a pouch?
Marsupials
What chess move involves moving the king and a rook in the same turn?
Castling
What weapon did David use to defeat Goliath?
Sling
What former German chancellor was frequently named as the
"Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Forbes magazine?
Angela Merkel
Who wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams"?
Sigmund Freud
What sport is also known as pugilism?
Boxing
What statue, finished in 1886, was a gift from France to the United States?
Statue of Liberty
Which character in the board game "Clue" is considered a femme-fatale?
Miss Scarlett
What TV show is named after a character in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Big Brother
Who is the most well-known gorgon from Greek mythology?
Medusa
Whose works include 39 plays and 154 sonnets?
William Shakespeare
Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by two fish?
Pisces
In what modern-day country would you find the northernmost territory which once
belonged to the Roman Empire?
United Kingdom
What movie features the famous quote: "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."?
The Godfather
What city is considered to be the financial capital of Germany?
Frankfurt
What computer scientist helped to break Germany's enigma code but
was persecuted for being gay?
Alan Turing
What series of conflicts between England and France lasted 116 years, from 1337–1453?
Hundred Years' War
For what crime were Mata Hari, Ethel Rosenberg, and Nathan Hale executed?
Espionage
What prefix can come before violet, sound, and orthodox?
Ultra
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30 Comments
pals
+7
Level 62
Oct 18, 2016
Accept more spellings for pisces
Sterref10
+5
Level 57
Dec 5, 2016
I agree. Also can you accept 'Medussa' for Medusa?
fuanacdc
+1
Level 88
Jan 27, 2025
I will never be able to correctly spell it on the first try.
10sauem
+3
Level 67
Dec 5, 2016
I love that the Hundred Years War lasted more than a hundred years. It's like people saying that the only man-made thing you can see from space is the Great Wall of China when there are all of the satellites around the Earth.
blinky
+14
Level 58
Feb 7, 2017
And the Great Wall can't be seen from space anyway. (Well, not without a telescope.)
QuizApe
+3
Level 69
Aug 23, 2021
The great wall of China is very long but relatively very thin, so it is not visible from a high altitude with the naked eye.
Shikari
+4
Level 32
Dec 5, 2016
Wasted so much time on trying room 101 and variants. But you did say 'character' from 1984. Note to self: read the questions.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 58
May 2, 2020
Me too! Duh.
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Aug 23, 2021
If it's any consolation, I tried all the major and minor characters before I finally realised which way the wind was blowing and hit on the answer. I even tried 'pleb' out of desperation.
CardinalSin
+10
Level 80
Jul 27, 2019
It's "Cluedo" on my side of the pond.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 58
May 2, 2020
Oh, I was wondering if they had changed the name
Ender
+2
Level 29
May 12, 2021
I really wrote "eiffel tower" instead of Statue of Liberty :facepalm:
GalGonso
+1
Level 65
Feb 18, 2022
Me too lol, don't feel bad
ConradBrunstrom
+1
Level 80
Jun 17, 2021
In the UK there IS a TV show called "Room 101".
brandybuck96
+4
Level 83
Jun 18, 2021
that's not a character though?
Findlay
+5
Level 81
Jun 21, 2021
Arguably, neither is Big Brother. He never actually appears in person in the book, and there's a good chance Orwell intended for him not even to be real within the book's world.
brandybuck96
+2
Level 83
Jun 30, 2021
^ But Big Brother is presented and considered as a character or personage, whereas Room 101 is... a room
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Aug 23, 2021
@Findlay, yes, that's why I went through the entire novel naming everyone and their Victory Gin, before I sat back on my heels and guessed BB as a last resort :P
Yanni47
+1
Level 78
Aug 23, 2021
I guess it helps, then, not to have read the novel and just know some key words. :)
brainchild
+2
Level 69
Jun 20, 2021
Julia is also the name of a character in 1984! 😊

From 1968-1971, there was an American TV show called Julia starring Diahann Carroll. (Granted, that show has been off the air for 50 years LOL!)

gordito7
+3
Level 53
Jul 7, 2021
was that show specifically named after julia from 1984 though
Ctrling
+2
Level 46
Aug 23, 2021
aargh tried treason for the espionage clue
PearlP
+1
Level 36
Aug 23, 2021
Aren't slings also called catapults in places like Britain? Atleast that's what they are called in India. 'Sling/slingshots' is generally a more American term.

I think slings are usually considered a subset of catapults. Please accept Catapult.

WJPenguin
+2
Level 66
Aug 23, 2021
It's not slingshot, it is sling. A sling is basically a rope with a rock tied to it that you whip around in a circle above your head then throw. You are thinking of a slingshot, which is similar to a catapult.
PearlP
+1
Level 36
Aug 25, 2021
Oh okay. Thanks.
maximeloon
+1
Level 47
Aug 26, 2021
Tried treason and spying for espionage. Oof
bb11145
+2
Level 46
Aug 30, 2021
Can you really use Big Brother as a character? Who played that part? Big Brother was a political concept comprising the state's surveillance of all citizens.
Ferbin
+2
Level 78
Sep 3, 2021
If you're refering to the movie, BB was played by Bob Flag. The question was about the novel, though.

But seriously, even though I agree that him being a character is debatable, I think a lot of people here missed the forest for the trees on that question, considering how widely known the reality show is.

BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Jul 12, 2023
Do we really need to type the ending 'e' in Shakespeare?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 25, 2025
Yes. We don't want all the people who spell it correctly to have a dangling "e" they have to erase.
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