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General Knowledge Quiz #59

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedSeptember 11, 2012
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What story is parodied by the movie "Men in Tights"?
Robin Hood
What person is represented by this series of emojis?
Vincent Van Gogh
In fairy tales, who is Gretel's brother?
Hansel
What kind of tree loses its leaves in the winter?
Deciduous
In which country is the martial art of krav maga part of a soldier's basic training?
Israel
In the Bible, what did God do on the seventh day of creation?
Rest
What type of animal is neither an herbivore or a carnivore?
Omnivore
What does the R stand for in the MMR vaccine?
Rubella
What classic movie features a nightclub named Rick's Cafe?
Casablanca
What band's lead singer is the father of actress Liv Tyler?
Aerosmith
What is the only country in Asia that uses the Peso as its currency?
Philippines
What fictional Swedish girl has red braids, freckles, and a pet monkey?
Pippi Longstocking
What is the name of Apple's web browser?
Safari
What is fed to a bee larva to turn it into a queen?
Royal jelly
How many leagues did Captain Nemo travel "under the sea"?
20,000
What city is known as Kaapstad in one of its native languages?
Cape Town
What is Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle better known as?
Taser
What is the legal term for being tried twice for the same crime?
Double jeopardy
What expensive spice is made from the pods of orchid plants?
Vanilla
What does the Roman god Mercury have on his sandals?
Wings
51 Comments
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Level 44
Dec 9, 2012
Crap. Spelled it desiduous. Got the rest.
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Level 65
Jun 6, 2023
Crap. I spelled it coniferous.
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Level 91
Oct 8, 2023
Crap. I spelled it correctly.
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Level 53
Mar 26, 2024
COOL!!!
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Level 87
Jan 4, 2013
Can't believe I missed Jason. I was thinking mythological creature not person.
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Level 36
Aug 20, 2014
How can 29% of people not get Aerosmith?
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Level 76
Oct 6, 2014
Er, by having no idea, like me!
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Level 83
Oct 17, 2015
Because 29% of people have taste.
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Level 60
Apr 6, 2018
I kept trying Jefferson Airplane. Sigh
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Level 67
Apr 26, 2019
It requires knowing three things: who Liv Tyler is, who her father is, and what band he leads. If you don't know one of the three, it's hard to get that right.
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Level 83
Jun 7, 2023
Well, if you know what band Steven Tyler leads, it's not hard to make the connection even if you've never heard of Liv.
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Level 68
Jun 12, 2023
I got Aerosmith, and I have taste (I don't care for their music but that isn't important).

Maybe because Areosmith can be misspelled quite easily

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Level 66
Jan 23, 2015
I'm surprised 43% of people knew about krav maga. Is it really that well-known? I'd only heard of it because of Archer.
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Level 77
May 26, 2015
It's pretty well known, mainly because of how brutal and dangerous it is (things like targeting eyes/testicals) and that it encourages you to do anything to win a fight, unlike many martial arts which often tend to have some sort of honour system or are meant to be used in self-defence.
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Level 56
Aug 12, 2022
... suits Israel well then
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Level 65
Jun 6, 2023
The whole point of krav maga is that it's not a sport. It's not karate or jiu jitsu, there aren't specific guidelines about what contact is/isn't allowed for the sake of fair competition.

Krav maga is actual self-defense. It's meant for the real world, not a dojo. In the real world there is no "honor code." If your life is in danger, you gotta survive by any means necessary.

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Level 53
May 30, 2015
I know it from the Simpsons episode where they go to Israel.
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Level 70
Jun 13, 2018
Me too!
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Level 69
Oct 8, 2023
It also features, among others, in Friends, How I Met Your Mother... so it's not exactly confidential knowledge!
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Level 51
May 30, 2015
i know it because it's hebrew...
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Level 49
Apr 26, 2019
I just guessed
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Level 85
Jun 7, 2023
I know it from Despicable Me 2. Lucy uses a combination of "jiu-jitsu, krav maga, Aztec warfare, and krumping."

Okay, I knew about it before that, but it still makes me laugh.

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Level 74
May 26, 2015
All developing larvae in the bee hive are fed royal jelly for three days. Those targeted to become queens are put in special cells and fed large amounts of it. Our beekeeper has put about 60 hives on our pond bank for the purpose of raising queens to sell. More people who have the right environment should get into that business to help bees survive. They are needed to pollinate our food crops, and they are dying in large numbers due to the varroa mite, lack of pollen diversity, and certain pesticides.
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Level 73
Mar 2, 2019
Yes! Also it's easy to build a little habitat with paper rolls to attract mason bees in the yard. They're adorable and help pollinate the neighbourhood.
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Level 73
Mar 2, 2019
They're also immune to the varroa mite.
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Level 74
Apr 27, 2019
I'd never heard of those before. Thanks for the info.
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Level 65
May 26, 2015
I only got two that were guessed by less than 50% of people, but still, the least-guessed answer is the one that's included in the question? Every word in Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle is capitalised, people. You know what that means. It's clearly an ER.
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Level 55
May 29, 2015
I only got this one because it appeared on my Twitter timeline earlier today. I might have guessed it, but I was pleased to be able to say "I know this one!"
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Level 76
Mar 2, 2019
It took me a bit to see it. When you do, it's easy. If you don't see it, then it's headdesking time when you get the answers.
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Level 61
Oct 10, 2023
I'm kicking myself for missing it particularly because it seems fairly obvious in hindsight even without noting it is an acronym.
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2015
Misspelled taser...
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Level 79
Mar 3, 2019
Omnivores are both carnivore and herbivore!
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Level 90
Mar 4, 2019
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Level 73
Mar 12, 2019
A carnivore's diet consists of mainly or exclusively flesh. While herbivores digestive systems are specifically adapted to consume plant matter as their primary source of nutrients. And while Omnivores eat both flesh and plants they do not fall into either of the previous two categories, first because their diet does not consist mainly or exclusively of flesh and second because they are not specifically adapted to process plant matter (which is generally more difficult to digest than flesh). So no omnivores are not in fact both carnivores and herbivores.
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Level 63
May 29, 2024
Regardless, the correct answer should actually be Insectivore.
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Level 68
May 3, 2019
D'oh! I was trying to sound out 🎨🇾🇪👂 as if it were a logogram, leaving me to wonder who Art Flagear might have been.
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Level 80
Mar 20, 2020
That's the Yemeni flag you used. The one in the quiz is the Dutch flag.
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Level 61
Oct 10, 2023
Oops. I thought it was the French flag. Please revoke my levels...
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Level 85
Jun 7, 2023
I'm Art Flagear, and I didn't consent to my name being used in this quiz. That's why it was changed to Vincent van Gogh.
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Level 79
Feb 6, 2020
How could you not know TASER? It is the initials of the words. Also MMR stands for Mumps, Measles and Rubella (German Measles)
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Level 61
Nov 27, 2020
Technically, Arronax, Ned Land, and Conseil were the ones to travel 20000 leagues under the sea. Nemo sailed under the Nautilus for years, possibly decades, before and after the book.
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Level 88
Apr 20, 2021
Liv Tyler's adoptive father is Todd Rundgren, also the lead singer of the band Utopia.
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Level 83
Jul 7, 2021
wouldn't detritivores/decomposers also be animals that aren't carnivores or herbivores?
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Level 55
Dec 8, 2022
As would frugivores, fungivore, insectivores, etc ... I also came here to complain about this carnivore/herbivore binary that is always presented.

The question should be worded in the form of a definition for ominovry rather than examples of what it is not.

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Level 75
Jun 6, 2023
Mercury is the Roman god, the Greek version is Hermes :)
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Level ∞
Jun 6, 2023
Fixed
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Level 86
Jun 6, 2023
Wikipedia's TASER entry doesn't seem to refer to Tom Swift having middle initial "A".
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Level 87
Jun 6, 2023
Are you suggesting that the correct answer should be TSER? ;)
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Level 64
Mar 24, 2024
An omnivore is both a herbivore and a carnivore rather than neither
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Level 63
May 29, 2024
The TASER question is very misleading.

1) The TASER was not invented by Thomas A Swift

2) the book title it is referring to is 'Tom and His Electric Rifle' (Tom not Thomas and no middle initial)

The TASER is was invented by Jack Cover and named TASER as both a loose acronym of the book title and in a format to sound like LASER (which Jack felt was similar to his invention as they both fire 'beams').

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Level 48
Oct 8, 2024
I love how 'vanilla' is the least known answer. Just goes to show how people don't understand how exotic 'plain vanilla' is.