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General Knowledge Quiz #6

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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What large desert can be found in China and Mongolia?
Gobi
What type of reference book lists synonyms?
Thesaurus
It's the third largest city in South Africa, and its name rhymes with a type of headwear
commonly worn in India. What is it?
Durban
Which musical group is will.i.am a member of?
Black Eyed Peas
Who starred as Bella Swan in the movie "Twilight"?
Kristen Stewart
In what country was Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann hiding when Mossad agents
captured him in 1960?
Argentina
Which two rivers form the boundaries of Mesopotamia?
Tigris
Euphrates
What award is given to the World Cup's leading goal scorer?
Golden Boot
According to the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. But what city did he grow up in?
Nazareth
Who was Henry VIII's second wife?
Anne Boleyn
What singer is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?
James Brown
In what activity can someone be "en pointe", which means standing
on the very tips of their toes?
Ballet
What does "domo arigato" mean?
Thank you
What sweetener is usually used in Diet Coke?
Aspartame
What major language sounds very similar to Urdu, but is written with a different script?
Hindi
What country was Nefertiti the queen of?
Egypt
In what country did fortune cookies originate?
United States
What power-up makes Mario temporarily invincible?
Star
What type of number are 8, 27, 64, and 125?
Perfect Cube
74 Comments
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Level 23
Feb 2, 2013
I felt sorry for this General Knowledge quiz, only 6 people had done it :P!
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22,183 attempts later...
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Feb 16, 2023
115,151 attempts later. This is one situation where pity actually helped ;)
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Level 35
Jun 5, 2016
Drew a blank on Anne Boleyn, even though I watched "The Tudors" a few years ago...
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2022
I credit Oversimplified for teaching me that one
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Level 74
Feb 10, 2018
I only knew domo arigato from the song Mister Roboto. You can learn things from pop culture.
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Level 45
Dec 20, 2018
What language is domo arigato? I’m thinking Esperanto for some reason???
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Level 59
Jan 3, 2019
Dude, it's japanese
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Level 59
Nov 19, 2020
I'm sorry did you say Esperanto
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Level 80
Mar 21, 2021
I was thinking Italian or Spanish 🤦‍♂️
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Level 59
Aug 5, 2023
It would be "Gracias" in spanish and "Grazzie" in italian.
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2022
same lol
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Level 66
Apr 19, 2018
In what world is the artificial sweetener of Coca Cola generally known?
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Level 67
Dec 4, 2018
Hear Hear
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Level 72
Dec 29, 2019
A world where people would like to know what kind of crap is put in products, they might or might not want to consume.
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2022
It's one of the most studied compounds in the world and completely safe, but sure buddy.
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Level 28
Sep 12, 2022
They never said it was bad, just that someone might know the sweetener if they regularly inspect ingredients of what they consume.
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Level 73
Feb 16, 2023
I definitely don't consume it, but still knew what it contained...however couldn't spell it for the life of me. Please accept more type-ins, I tried a pack of them -- aspratame, aspertame, aspritame, asperitame, asperitame, aspretame ad nauseam :P
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Level 73
Feb 16, 2023
Also, any chance you could accept "perfect square" for "perfect cube"? That's what I know it as. (For the record I don't consume those either -- choking hazard).
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Level 58
Mar 14, 2023
Square and cube numbers are very different
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Level ∞
Feb 23, 2022
Currently guessed by 38% of quiz takers so it would seem to be commonly known.
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Level 83
Feb 23, 2022
It's not like there are hundreds of artificial sweeteners commonly on the market. Just try two or three most common.
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2022
I guessed cocaine for that question
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Level 61
Apr 20, 2018
Should accept ballon d’or?
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Level 67
Sep 3, 2018
Not the same thing
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Level 54
Feb 15, 2022
Even if you translate it Ballon D'or means golden ball and is awarded to the best footballer in the last season.
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Level 35
Mar 28, 2022
Ballon d' or is the best player in the world and golden boot is the top scorer usually in leagues and major football tournaments
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Level 47
May 14, 2019
Pretoria for fedora
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Level 51
Oct 14, 2020
They don't rhyme.
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Level 84
Feb 24, 2022
*fetoria
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Level 70
Sep 24, 2019
Spelled it as "Gobhi" so I didn't get it. :l
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Level 48
Oct 19, 2019
Cape Town rhymes with crown, for example; very vague question for first one, sure there’s loads of other possible answers
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Level ∞
Oct 19, 2019
Changed it to remove any ambiguity.
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Level 44
Apr 10, 2021
Ur joking me. Fortune cookies originated in Japan not USA
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Level 83
Feb 23, 2022
It would have been so easy to look this up and not look foolish, but you go ahead and believe what you want to believe. For the record, invented in 1906 in San Francisco by a Japanese immigrant.
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Level 33
Dec 18, 2023
I typed in Japan & the answer came up USA. Weird! Obviously both answers accepted.
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Level 64
Jun 15, 2021
I was pretty sure "domo arigato" meant "dried up house", but since it didn't make sense, didn't write it. Oops---it was Japanese.
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Level 53
Nov 9, 2021
Fortune cookies didn't originate in the US. They originated near Kyoto, Japan
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Level 30
Nov 24, 2021
I also tried to put Japan... It is my understanding that they became a thing in the US when the Japanese were put in internment camps during the war and Chinese restaurant owners took over the Japanese restaurants and began using their cookie presses
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Level 65
Jan 18, 2022
Every source I look up online says Japan is where fortune cookies originated. Even if there is controversy over the actual origination point, wikipedia articles, where many answers for these quizzes come from, point to Japan, not the US.
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Level ∞
Jan 18, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie

"The exact origin of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century. They most likely originated from cookies made by Japanese immigrants to the United States in the late 19th or early 20th century."

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Level 41
Jan 1, 2022
i thought fortune cookies are from japan
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Level 85
Feb 23, 2022
The most popular theory is that they were created in California, by immigrants from Japan. However, it seems that there are so many stories it's hard to sort the facts from the anecdotes.
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Level 14
Jan 24, 2022
i loved it! so difficult!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 88
Feb 23, 2022
Actually, "arigato" means thank you. "Domo arigato" means thank you very much.
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Level 60
Feb 23, 2022
Why are all the general knowledge quizzes being updated?
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Level 80
Feb 24, 2022
Sometimes questions get retired and replaced with new ones
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Level 60
Feb 26, 2022
Ah, ok thanks. Why does he retire them though? Wouldn’t it ruin the generalissimo badge?
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Level 66
Nov 16, 2023
apparantely not
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Level 85
Feb 23, 2022
Super nitpick incoming! Even with that power-up Mario can still be killed by lava and being squished and falling off the screen...
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Level 56
May 20, 2022
True
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Level 80
Apr 18, 2022
In the first Super Mario Bros. game, it was called Starman. I wonder if it still is.
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Level 56
May 20, 2022
I typed in thanks
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Level 55
Jun 30, 2022
Minor point but saying Hindi sounds like Urdu but is written with a different script sounds disingenuous. Hindi is the much older language
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Level 54
Oct 26, 2022
What type of number are 8, 27, 64, and 125?

Shouldn't be 9, instead of 8?

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Level 69
Nov 5, 2022
1×1×1 = 1

2×2×2 = 8

3×3×3 = 16

9 is not a cube number, but a square number (3×3)

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Level 42
Nov 4, 2023
27
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Level 69
Nov 5, 2022
what is the difference between a perfect cube and a cube?
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Level 42
Apr 16, 2024
A perfect cube is a number whose cube root is an integer. A cube is any number that has a cube root. I am only a 7th grader so please check me on this.
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Level 70
May 2, 2023
19/20, just missed Golden Boot
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Level 57
Jun 4, 2023
Got confused for a second when it gave me United States when typing in Japan
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Level 44
Jan 21, 2024
Can't believe I missed Durban, went through every other major SA city :(