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General Knowledge Quiz #232

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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Last updated: December 2, 2024
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What country starts with A and uses the Peso as its currency?
Argentina
What sport is played at the Oval in London?
Cricket
Who was the star of the 1979 movie "Mad Max"?
Mel Gibson
What can range in power from F-0 (light damage) to F-5 (incredible damage)?
Tornadoes
What country bombed Darwin, Australia in 1942?
Japan
What country's many ancient cities include Antioch, Chalcedon, Ephesus, and Nicea?
Turkey
What type of vessel was the Kon-Tiki?
Raft
Who recorded the 1986 album "Master of Puppets"?
Metallica
What's the smallest breed of poodle?
Toy poodle
What's the second-most populous city in Colombia?
Medellin
What's the largest type of lizard that is native to the Americas?
Iguana
What event was held for the first time in 1924 in Chamonix, France?
The Winter Olympics
What city of 5 million people in South Asia is named for an Italian?
Colombo
What is the dome of the Roman Pantheon made of?
Concrete
What is the largest building (by square footage) owned by the U.S. government?
The Pentagon
What animals are mentioned in the poem colloquially known as
"Twas the Night Before Christmas"?
Mouse
Reindeer
The five largest islands in the Mediterranean are Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, and ...
Crete
What film director scandalously began a relationship with the 21 year old
adopted daughter of his former partner Mia Farrow
Woody Allen
What territory voted NOT to become a U.S. state in 1993?
Puerto Rico
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32 Comments
PontiacLover
+1
Level 42
Dec 3, 2024
Yay
hi111223
+4
Level 65
Dec 3, 2024
Kept putting hi111223 as the Italian but it didn't work :(
OfficerDibble
+3
Level 83
Dec 3, 2024
Opinions will differ as to whether his actions were "scandalous" or not. But just to get the facts right, the film director in question did not "cast aside partner Mia Farrow to start a relationship", as the question puts it. Their romantic relationship / partnership had ended about 5 years before his relationship with her adopted daughter began.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Dec 3, 2024
Fixed. It was scandalous because it was a scandal. It doesn't mean that everyone was against it.
Danem20
+11
Level 85
Dec 4, 2024
It was scandalous because he was a 60 year old dating a child he raised since she was 9.
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Dec 5, 2024
And they're now into their 28th year of being married, with Woody (now 89) and Soon-Yi (now 54) still going strong.
ander217
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Level 75
Dec 14, 2024
I quickly skimmed and saw the words director, scandalous, and Mia Farrow and my mind immediately went to the Rosemary’s Baby director, Roman Polanski. When that wouldn’t work I went back and read the whole question. I should have realized Allen was scandalous, Polanski was criminal.
Stiner
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Level 93
Dec 3, 2024
Can you explain the reasoning behind the answer to the lizard question? This wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_extant_lizards) lists three lizards native to South and Central America that are typically larger than the one in the answer. (Even if you figure the Galapagos Islands as not part of the Americas, there is one that is endemic to Hispaniola that is larger than the one in the answer.)
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 3, 2024
Changed the answer to simply "Iguana"
cpgatbyu
+5
Level 86
Dec 3, 2024
The Wikipedia page for "Colombo" seems to indicate that its etymology is uncertain.
sumguy
+2
Level 86
Dec 3, 2024
I know the passage is "not even a mouse", but since the question is phrased "what animals" are mentioned, I wrote "mice". It seems like it should work.
Koopa
+3
Level 82
Dec 3, 2024
My guesses for Kon-Tiki: kayak, canoe, catamaran, boat, sailboat, ship, rowboat, ship.

I knew it was a simple vessel, but I couldn't come up with raft.

kinjapan
+4
Level 72
Dec 3, 2024
Ditto! I almost want to suggest the question have something about being specific. I typed "boat" three times, because it was in fact a kind of boat.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Dec 14, 2024
For those of us who first read about the Kon Tiki in our parents’ Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, would you accept the spelling as raf? 😉
CryonicCrusader76
+2
Level 74
Dec 4, 2024
Just a minor spelling error. The city is spelled "Ephesus."
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Dec 5, 2024
Spelling: The Oval, with a capital T. True story: My parents met there, in 1957, she supporting Yorkshire, he supporting Surrey. I really do have to like cricket, given that I owe my existence to the sport.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Dec 14, 2024
Nice story.
AdamD
+1
Level 72
Dec 5, 2024
Largest lizard in the Americas is a Gila Monster. You can find them in Arizona.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 67
Dec 10, 2024
Last I checked, there are several native iguanas larger than a Gila monster.
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Dec 16, 2024
The Americas doesn't just mean USA. Despite what you might believe.
LivinAWestLife
+2
Level 83
Dec 7, 2024
Colombo isn't directly named after Columbus:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Colombo

Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 12, 2024
Suggestions for how to fix the clue? Colombo does gets its name from Columbus. The city was named something like "Kolon thota" in Sinhala, and then the Portuguese decided that the native named sounded like Colombo and called it that. The new name stuck.
ThobiasEriksson
+2
Level 71
Dec 12, 2024
Colombo is not named after Columbus.
nations12345eat
+1
Level 41
Dec 12, 2024
ephesus is spelled wrong. ephEsus nos ephIsus
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 12, 2024
Fixed
Seanthesheep
+1
Level 74
Dec 12, 2024
Twister should be accepted as a type in for tornado
doglover29
+1
Level 36
Dec 28, 2024
I put Pentagon, but the answer is The Pentagon. Can this be changed?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 28, 2024
Any answer that starts with "the" will always be accepted without it. This quiz is no exception.
wateraddict
+1
Level 33
Jan 13, 2025
The fact about tornadoes is not accurate. The F scale was used until 2007, but the EF scale is now the rating scale in use.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
What does "incredible damage" mean? The sort that the insurance company won't pay out for because they don't believe you?

Maybe extreme would be a be better word

PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
What does "incredible damage" mean? The sort that the insurance company won't pay out for because they don't believe you?

Maybe extreme would be a be better word

PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
What does "incredible damage" mean? The sort that the insurance company won't pay out for because they don't believe you?

Maybe extreme would be a be better word

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