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General Knowledge Quiz #217

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: February 17, 2022
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What is the largest landmass that doesn't have mosquitos?
Antarctica
What did the Facebook corporation change its name to in 2021?
Meta Systems
What is the largest cell in the human body? (Hint: only about half of people have them)
Egg
In which two U.S. states did Native Americans carve totem poles?
Alaska
Washington
What painting of the early 1500s is known as La Gioconda by people from the
painter's home country of Italy?
The Mona Lisa
What beverage was supposedly invented by an ancient king named
Shennong in 2737 BC?
Tea
Which world capital starts and ends with W?
Warsaw
What organization has a General Assembly and a Security Council?
United Nations
Her name is three letters long and she was supposedly created from a
three letter body part. Who is she?
Eve
What "catch" said that you can get out of the army if you're crazy, but wanting to
get out of the army proves you're not crazy?
Catch 22
What country is made up of North, South, and more than 700 other islands?
New Zealand
What is the lightest element that is solid at room temperature and standard pressure?
Lithium
What "curious" movie character was born an old man and aged backwards?
Benjamin Button
Who died at the age of 32 in Babylon in 323 BC?
Alexander the Great
What might be measured at 120 systolic over 80 diastolic?
Blood pressure
What single Italian word means both "Konnichiwa" and "Sayonara"?
Ciao
What heir to an Italian fashion house was killed by a hitman hired by his ex-wife in 1995?
Maurizio Gucci
Which two countries, between them, have more than 1/3 of the world's oil reserves?
Venezuela
Saudi Arabia
23 Comments
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Level 69
Feb 10, 2022
It's also La Joconde in French. To be honest, I have no idea where the name Mona Lisa comes from.
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Level ∞
Feb 10, 2022
La Joconde would have worked.
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Level 81
Feb 10, 2022
The title of the painting, which is known in English as Mona Lisa, comes from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."
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Level 70
Feb 16, 2022
I just looked up the word "Mona" in Italian, expecting the translation to be something like "Lady", maybe akin to English peerage or suggesting a woman of the Italian upper class. Um, yeah... I was very, very wrong.
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Level 32
Feb 16, 2022
The word you were looking for is "Monna", which is how Italians spell the honorific (my lady = ma donna, eventually contracted to 5 letters). I've known some Italians to get infuriated about the way the rest of the world chooses to spell it "wrong."
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Level 88
Feb 13, 2022
Took me a second to realize why "Versace" wasn't one of the answers.
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Level 86
Feb 13, 2022
ah New Zealand
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Level 60
Feb 16, 2022
The largest cell got me.

The hint made clear that it had to be something in the genital organs, but since I didn't consider an egg to be part of the body, I tried a lot of those very private thingies that I thought might possibly be single cells, but didn't get the answer...

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Level 66
Feb 16, 2022
Sperm didn't work.
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Level 37
Feb 16, 2022
Why would the egg not be part of the body?
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Level 83
Feb 16, 2022
I misread the name question and thought the name came from the body part; I kept typing things like arm, leg, eye, thinking "none of these are names. What sort of name comes from a body part?
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2022
LOL
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Level 50
Feb 16, 2022
Is it possible to accept "Eva" for "Eve"?
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Level 71
Feb 16, 2022
Did anyone else accidentally get New Zealand after guessing it for the first question?
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Level 45
Feb 20, 2022
oh we have mosquitos...
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Level 75
Feb 16, 2022
Richard wasn't offering to trade his kingdom for a horse. After all, he was fighting a battle to /keep/ his kingdom. His horse had been killed, so he wasn't able to ride into the action and rally the troops. The line means, "I'm going to lose my kingdom for lack of a horse."
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Level ∞
Feb 17, 2022
Good point changed the question.
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Level 55
Feb 17, 2022
Naypyidaw is also a world capital that ends with W.
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Level 65
Feb 17, 2022
The question asks for a capital that both starts and ends with W, your answer only fulfills one of the two conditions.
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Level 51
Oct 17, 2022
I'm not getting the option for next quiz anymore. How come?
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Level 68
Oct 7, 2023
You've played all the quizzes on Jetpunk, now go read a book
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Level 65
Feb 28, 2023
Probably the first General Knowledge quiz I aced :)
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Level 46
Oct 28, 2024
Isn't Wellington the capital of New Zealand?