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General Knowledge Quiz #177

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What is the most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers?
Mandarin Chinese
What city is served by Haneda and Narita airports?
Tokyo
What part of the body is affected by scoliosis?
The Spine
What are hobnails nailed onto?
Boots
What type of curve is known in statistics as a "normal distribution"?
Bell Curve
What famous luxury hotel in Paris has suites named for former guests such as
Elton John and Coco Chanel?
Hôtel Ritz Paris
Who went to the cupboard to give a dog a bone?
Old Mother Hubbard
What is the common name of the medical condition "hypertension"?
High blood pressure
Which state in the U.S. has the highest Inuit population?
Alaska
Name one of the three largest bones in the arm.
Humerus / Radius / Ulna
What is the most common grain used to make beer?
Barley
What superhero team is the Human Torch a part of?
The Fantastic Four
What is the largest country (by area) that touches the Indian Ocean?
Australia
Which deadly sin is an indolent person guilty of?
Sloth
Who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996?
Tupac Shakur
Who was the titular character of unrelated books by H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison?
The Invisible Man
What prestigious university is adjacent to Palo Alto, California?
Stanford
What fictional character has been portrayed by David Tennant and Matt Smith?
The Doctor
What folk hero shot an apple that was placed atop his son's head?
William Tell
Who committed grand larceny against the citizens of Whoville?
The Grinch
28 Comments
+4
Level 50
Aug 25, 2017
Please accept fant4stic for the human torch question.
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Level 78
Aug 29, 2017
no...please don't do that.
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Level 68
Sep 4, 2017
+1
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Level 74
Oct 26, 2017
My vote is to remove superhero questions completely
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Level 63
Jan 17, 2022
+1 I don’t care about any of them, so there is no way I will ever get the correct answer (bar lucky guesses).
+7
Level 91
Jan 17, 2022
I don't care about sports questions, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't belong in a general knowledge quiz.
+15
Level 85
Aug 27, 2017
Old Mother Hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get her poor daughter a dress

When she got there

The cupboard was bare

And so was her daughter, I guess

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Level 78
Aug 29, 2017
Anyone else try "hobs" for the hobnail question?
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Level 70
Sep 7, 2017
Don't leave out Calvin.
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2017
That comment has the virtue of being short.
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Level 65
Apr 6, 2024
so does this
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Level 44
Jan 1, 2021
lol, I did
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Level 69
Oct 26, 2017
You should accept density curve for bell curve
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Level 20
Jan 19, 2022
nah
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Level 81
Oct 26, 2017
The Human Torch was also a member of the Avengers at one point.
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Level 79
Mar 23, 2025
Yeah, but who hasn't?
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Level 79
Oct 26, 2017
I knew hobnail boots from the Beatels song "Happiness is a Warm Gun".
+1
Level 56
Oct 26, 2017
so that's why I knew it. I couldn't figure out why I knew the answer to something that I didn't think I'd ever heard of. Thanks!!
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Level 41
Oct 26, 2017
Thank you Dice.
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Level 69
Oct 26, 2017
hard gk-quiz, only got 11😠

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Level 71
Oct 26, 2017
I was down to 9, but guess language was part of it.

Never heard the "poem" or the idiom, and though I am very familiar with normal distribution curves, I never heard of Bell Curves before.

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Level 72
Dec 7, 2021
I would have finished if I hadn’t spent so long on Question 3
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Level 66
Jan 17, 2022
Not the funny bone then?
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Level 79
Jan 17, 2022
Not funny, but humerus.
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Level 61
Jan 17, 2022
Which deadly sin is an indolent person guilty of?

Isnt't sloth this just being lazy? I think this question is poorly formulated

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Level 37
Jan 18, 2022
Sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins.
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Level 82
Mar 23, 2025
Ralph Ellison's novel is just "Invisible Man" without the article.
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Level 78
Mar 23, 2025
is he gonna hit the apple with his arrow, or is he gonna miss and shoot his son in the head?

only time Will Tell.