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General Knowledge Quiz #31

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What modern hairstyle takes its name from a Native American tribe?
Mohawk
What will a pescetarian eat that a vegetarian will not?
Fish
What silent film star wore the same style mustache as Adolf Hitler?
Charlie Chaplin
What country is ruled by the Taliban?
Afghanistan
What "religion" was founded by a science fiction writer?
Scientology
In what city would you find Kowloon Peninsula and Victoria Harbour?
Hong Kong
What is the term for three consecutive strikes in bowling?
Turkey
What major Japanese city is an anagram of Tokyo?
Kyoto
What fictional character was a photographer for the Daily Bugle?
Spider-Man
What type of animal appeared on the coat of arms of King Richard I?
Lion
What country has slums known as favelas?
Brazil
What country did Golda Meir serve as Prime Minister from 1969–1974?
Israel
What director refers to his films as "joints"?
Spike Lee
What large tree has all five vowels in the seven letters of its name?
Sequoia
What American product did Sir Walter Raleigh help popularize in England
where it quickly became an irresistible sensation?
Tobacco
Where would a Viking warrior hope to go if he died in battle?
Valhalla
What is the most common phobia in the United States, according to the NIMH?
Fear of Public
Speaking
What taxonomic rank comes above phylum?
Kingdom
Which Bible character killed up to one quarter of the world's population?
Cain
Of all the countries on Earth, which one has a capital city with the highest elevation?
Bolivia
73 Comments
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Level 78
Apr 1, 2014
But Hong Kong isn't a country!

And then I realised you asked what city...

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Level 29
Jun 29, 2017
Hong Kong is a country lol
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Level 73
Aug 16, 2017
Ehhh, no. It's not.
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Level 56
May 8, 2023
Algernon
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Level 27
May 10, 2020
Hong Kong has been a part of China since the 90s.
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Level 79
Jan 24, 2023
And before that, it was owned by the UK.
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Level 44
Jul 19, 2024
You simpletons... eVeRyBoDy kNoWs hOnGkOnG iS A cOnTiNaNt
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Level 65
Apr 1, 2014
Apparently Vikings don't go to Asgaard.
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Level 68
Aug 21, 2021
Yeah i tried Asgard too!
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Level 44
Feb 27, 2025
Asgard is the home of the gods
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Level 57
Apr 1, 2014
I typed Rio for the country with favelas and it worked! I read as asking for a country, but for some reason I typed Rio.
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Level 76
Jul 25, 2018
Yep, I just tried it and "Rio" works as a "country"!
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Level 80
May 19, 2015
Is La Paz actually higher in elevation than Kathmandu?
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Level 78
Sep 28, 2015
Much more. Kathmandu is "only" at 1,400 m, while La Paz's elevation is about 3,200 m.
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Level 44
Jul 19, 2024
Thimphu is also higher than Kathmandu with a whopping 2334m
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Level 66
Sep 28, 2015
Can stage-fright be acceptable for public speaking? Not sure if there is any difference between the two?
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Level 88
Jul 14, 2018
I believe stage fright typically only refers to acting in front of an audience, not public speaking in general. But the concepts are overall very similar.
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Level 55
Jun 19, 2016
"What Bible character killed one quarter of the world's population?"

Didn't get it. Clever!

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Level 73
Feb 16, 2023
What Bible character killed 100% of the world's population?

poƃ = ɹǝʍsu∀

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Level 60
Apr 2, 2023
Almost 100%. Minus Noah and his family.
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Level 72
Aug 22, 2024
I assume Adam and Eve also had daughters, but women are rarely mentioned in the Bible.

God's tally: almost everyone (flood), almost everyone (apocalypse), two cities (Sodom and Gomorrah), almost all the boys in Egypt...

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Level 61
Oct 30, 2018
Kingdom comes AFTER Phylum, not above.

sorry to break the biblical thread, fascinating though it isn't.

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Level 65
Oct 31, 2018
kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species.

Is that what you consider "after"?

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Level 56
Nov 1, 2018
Awww, could you please accept some variations of Cain? I tried Kane, Kain, and Kayne, but didn't think of a C. I've never actually seen the name written, as I've never read the Bible, but I think some credit should go to figuring out the little riddle in the question, yeah?
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Level 83
Jan 24, 2023
Have you ever seen it spelled differently than Cain?
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Level 62
Apr 2, 2023
In Norwegian we say Kain
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Level 44
Jul 19, 2024
Did you try Kanye?
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Level 59
Nov 23, 2018
Kyōto and Tōkyō aren't actually anagrams (note the spelling). It's the difference of a macron in English but a whole syllable in Japanese.
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Level 62
Sep 26, 2019
Same letters, different arrangement. Sounds like an anagram to me.
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Level 85
Jan 24, 2023
Theoretically in English they should be spelled Kyouto and Toukyou. Extra u in Toukyou, but the names we know in Enlgish are a simplified version.
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Level 78
Apr 28, 2023
This is always frustrating to me...no...they shouldn't be spelled that way. They are spelled like they are spelled. Every language has different words for foreign cities and countries. Germany is Deutschland in German, Allemagne in French, and Germany in English. Should the English spelling 'technically' be Doitchland or some nonsense? No...because that's not what it is.
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Level 88
Mar 23, 2022
They are anagrams in English.
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Level 46
Mar 19, 2019
No one else got hung up on Hall and Oates instead of Meat Loaf?
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Level 54
Nov 3, 2019
"What city is Kowloon a part of?"

It's part of the special administrative region of Hong Kong, not part of the city.

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Level 49
Jan 28, 2020
Ugh I thought it asked for the specific name of the phobia for fear of public speaking for which I had no idea
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Level 64
May 10, 2020
Same here. I knew public speaking was the correct answer, but I didn't try typing it.
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Level 55
Mar 12, 2021
Shouldn't 'Walhalla' with a W also be acceptable?
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Level 80
Jan 24, 2023
In a German version of the quiz perhaps, but this is the English version.
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Level 43
Mar 31, 2021
Spiderman was not a photographer at the Daily Bugle. It was Peter Parker. Other than that this was a great, challenging quiz. Loved the Bible question. I did not get it correct. However, when I saw the answer I thought "oh yeah, clever"
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Level 80
Jan 24, 2023
If the answer is Spider-man, the question should be which fictional character's alter ego is a photographer. Either the question or the answer needs to be adjusted here.
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Level 74
Jan 26, 2023
It's not a purely technical distinction, because other people (who weren't photographers) have been "Spider-Man".
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Level 78
Apr 28, 2023
I typed Parker and was actually surprised when the answer came up spider-man.
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Level 62
Apr 17, 2021
Why is Sinophobia not accepted?
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Level 29
May 20, 2021
the animals on Richard I coat of arms were actually leopards not lions.
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Level 66
Jul 22, 2021
Nope. The French refer to lions passant guardant as léopards but they're still lions and have nothing to do with zoological leopards.
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2025
Fun fact: "Pard" was an Old English word for a panther, and leo came from Latin for lion, so a leopard is a compound word for a lion panther. Basically the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans didn't know much about what actual big cats looked like.
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Level 53
Aug 16, 2021
The Taliban question might need to be adjusted, because they control Afghanistan again.
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Level 68
Aug 21, 2021
What group controlled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 and then again in 2021
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Level 86
May 22, 2022
I think “three consecutive strikes in bowling” would be a hat-trick if you were playing cricket.
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Level 85
Jan 24, 2023
If it was baseball, you’d be out.
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Level 87
Jan 25, 2023
In hockey as well - but the question does ask about bowling...
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Level 66
Mar 5, 2024
yeah, that was confusing. maybe if it specified the sport of bowling to differentiate it from the action of bowling. I first thought cricket and then baseball and only now realised it's ten pin bowling.
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2025
I don't know sports well, but isn't bowling bowling? Can you bowl when you're not bowling?
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Level 48
Jun 15, 2022
nice
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Level 77
Jan 24, 2023
You need to accept God as an answer for which bible character killed 1/4 of the worlds population. You know, when he drowned everybody.
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Level ∞
Jan 24, 2023
Read the question again.
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Level 59
Jan 25, 2023
God killed everyone but Noah and his family in one incident alone, much more than 1/4 of the world population. Some mercy he has.
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Level 62
Apr 27, 2023
People love to point to the Flood and mic-drop, but what they fail to remember (or perhaps were never taught) is that for generations beforehand, heavenly beings were coming down and mating with human women, creating a whole race of giant people that were apparently nothing but evil. And these thoroughly evil creatures were corrupting all the humans to where the only people with any good left in them at all were Noah and his family. We have no idea how terrible people were back then, but suffice it to say that if you want rapists and murderers dead now, you'd probably want God to torture these people first before slowly drowning them too.
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Level 69
Jul 18, 2023
The fact that you believe it is absolutely terrifying
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Level 66
Mar 5, 2024
It does seem harsh all right. but it taught them a lesson. Everyone has behaved themselves since then. So it all turned out for the best.
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Level 63
Jan 24, 2023
Please accept Eddie Brock.
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Level 86
Jan 24, 2023
Please consider adding Folkvangr for the Viking question. There is really no reason to prefer Valhalla over Folkvangr or vice versa.
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Level 25
Mar 27, 2023
cain lmfao
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Level 45
Apr 3, 2023
i was typing in scientology when time ran out, couldn't think of that till last second but got bolivia almost instantly
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Level 68
Nov 16, 2023
lol I just put in Jedi...ism
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Level 57
Feb 16, 2024
Only my second failure on the way to Generalissimo. A few too many US-centric pop quiz questions for non-US people.
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Level 46
Feb 28, 2024
Wow, so happy, missed the bowling one and still got a 5! Bowling, seriously, if I weren't American I would also be complaining lol! I like to go once in a while but who is going to know anything about bowling. I thought that sport died with my grandpa. Lol. I still gave this 5 stars. It's agreat quiz
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Level 48
Mar 24, 2024
I like the CREATIVITY of the Cain question, but the word choice is "up to", indicating a maximum of 4 people at the time that Cain murdered Abel. Cain and Abel probably had sisters that weren't mentioned. Consider "at least" as opposed to "up to".
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Level 83
Jan 8, 2025
If there were more than four people, Abel would not be "at least" a quarter of the population. The question is fine as is.
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Level 46
Jun 10, 2024
I only got the bowling question because I started naming random countries for the highest capital city question LOL
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Level 45
Jul 8, 2024
Lots of vegetarians eat fish, at least in my country.
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Level 33
May 18, 2025
Well Israel is not a country
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2025
For the murderous Bible character I tried God before Cain, and for where dead Vikings hoped to go I tried the hospital before Valhalla. But I guess it would be a little late to go to the hospital...