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General Knowledge Quiz #227

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: December 7, 2023
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What prestigious chess title has only been awarded to about 2000 people in history?
Grandmaster
Who was Dodi Al Fayed dating in 1997 at the time of his death?
Princess Diana
What company introduced an 8 bit device in 1983, a 16 bit device in 1990,
and a 64 bit device in 1996?
Nintendo
What country was the leader of the Eastern Bloc?
Soviet Union
Who has won 23 Olympic gold medals – more than anyone else in history?
Michael Phelps
What "Footloose" actor has a last name which is a common food?
Kevin Bacon
There are 26 companies in the Star Alliance. What industry are they part of?
Airline
What body part is only about 2% of a person's weight, but requires 20% of its caloric intake?
Brain
What billionaire has said that he wants to "die on Mars"?
Elon Musk
British people call it a lift. What do Americans call it?
Elevator
What is often described as the "fourth dimension" that humans can perceive –
in addition to the three spacial dimensions?
Time
What is a common synonym of the word "enigma"?
Riddle
Which Formula One racing team is named after a beverage company?
Red Bull
What Miami-based DJ is known for shouting his own name as well as "we the best music"
on the tracks of popular songs?
DJ Khaled
What instrument in a modern orchestra is most similar to a fife?
Piccolo
What was the currency of France before it adopted the Euro?
Franc
What does the G stand for in G-force?
Gravitational
Who became famous for making jeweled eggs for the tsars of Russia?
Peter Carl
Fabergé
Who descended from a mountain only to discover that the people he led had started
worshiping a golden calf?
Moses
What doesn't a country have during an interregnum?
Monarch
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28 Comments
TWalker
+8
Level 96
Dec 13, 2023
In my opinion the answer "airline" does not represent an industry. I would either rephrase the question and remove the mention to "industry", or simply allow "aviation", "air transport", "transportation" or similar answers...
JackBeNimble
+3
Level 81
Dec 13, 2023
Agreed. I tried aviation and assumed that it must be a different Star Alliance when that didn't work.
AbiA
+4
Level 85
Dec 13, 2023
I also tried aviation and airplanes to no avail.
buck1017
+3
Level 78
Dec 13, 2023
"Aviation industry" tends to be the airplane manufacturers, like Boeing.

"Airline industry" is the airline itself. They are quite different.

TWalker
+1
Level 96
Dec 13, 2023
You are completely right with your first sentence. However, I am sorry, but I can't agree with the second.

There is no such thing as the "airline industry", airline sector maybe, but airlines are definitely not an industry...

CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 80
Dec 13, 2023
What? How are airlines not an industry?
chemguy16
+3
Level 58
Jan 12, 2024
I've heard the term "airline industry" in the news before. It's a thing.
duckwantbread
+1
Level 65
Dec 13, 2023
Yep it needs more inputs, like others I tried a few different things but assumed I was mistaken when nothing worked.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 13, 2023
Aviation and air transport will work now.
BigJ32001
+2
Level 70
Jan 12, 2024
I tried aerospace, but I can see why that wouldn't really fit.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Dec 8, 2024
I tried aerospace as well!
JackBeNimble
+5
Level 81
Dec 13, 2023
Could you specify that they're olympic gold medals?
sumguy
+3
Level 85
Dec 13, 2023
Yeah, I have 24 gold medals in couch surfing.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 13, 2023
Yes
Dylanplex
+1
Level 96
Dec 13, 2023
I feel like Russia should be an acceptable answer for the Eastern Bloc question. I kept trying it to no avail and didn't even think to put in the Soviet Union
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 13, 2023
Okay
kitsims
+3
Level 83
Dec 19, 2023
Complaining that you “didn’t think” to put in the right answer and that that’s someone else’s fault is pretty wild.

Russia wasn’t a country when the Eastern bloc existed. The Soviet Union quite famously was.

toolers
+5
Level 59
Feb 18, 2024
incorrect -Russia was always a country in itself along with all the other Socialist Republics.

it was just a constituent part of the USSR.

perfectsevens
+8
Level 83
Dec 14, 2023
I feel like government should work for the last clue. According to the Wiki article "An interregnum is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order." I eventually got it after brute forcing a number of different types of governments and leaders but I think that would be a good change.
blizzrd33
+2
Level 80
Dec 20, 2023
Regnum = reign (Latin)

Governments might rule but they don't reign, that's something that monarchs do.

PantsLobbyist
+7
Level 96
Dec 21, 2023
An argument of etymology vs. definition. I don't know the current definition of interregnum, but the argument of using its etymology isn't really an effective one. By that stance, ambidextrous would refer to someone taking bribes from both sides of a legal dispute, sinister would simply mean left handed and explode (-plode meaning applause) would refer to jeering someone offstage. None of these would be the only expected answer with respect to their definitions nor should narrowing this definition to its original.
csonny2
+1
Level 46
Jan 15, 2024
I tried "Reign" and that didn't work
AnnikaKim
+1
Level 66
Jan 7, 2024
Perhaps accept "sovereign" for the interregnum question?
skiesboy
+1
Level 65
Jan 12, 2024
I am not a star wars/trek fan, so I thought that the Star Alliance was referring to one of those. Thankfully I suddenly remembered the answer before my time ran out.
FreeStater
+1
Level 77
Jan 12, 2024
Damn it. I guessed just "Di" and figured it was wrong.
TheCrusher
+1
Level 71
Jan 12, 2024
I wanna thank Steve Carell for helping me get the fife answer. Listened to his appearance on Smartless last night, where he talked about playing the fife when he was younger. Comparde it to a piccolo. So if you ever come by Jetpunk, Steve: thanks!
PJmaskowlette
+1
Level 35
Feb 3, 2024
very good
bibstar66
+1
Level 20
May 18, 2024
Your fourth question is badly phrased and wrong. Russia did not exist as a country, it was the Soviet Union. Whilst they were the clear dominating power they were never regarded as the Leader, it was a coalition of communist states, officially at least.
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