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General Knowledge Quiz #61

Can you answer these random trivia questions?
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First submittedOctober 3, 2012
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What country attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
Japan
What was the name of Geppetto's puppet who came to life?
Pinocchio
Which modern-day country ended up with 99% of Yugoslavia's coastline?
Croatia
What is the scientific name for the human species?
Homo sapiens
Where does Peter Pan live?
Never Never Land
What type of animal would you find in an apiary?
Bee
In the Bible, what was Lot's wife turned into when she looked back
upon the destruction of Sodom?
A pillar of salt
What country's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is often given as an example
of a "benevolent dictator"?
Singapore
Who sang "Redemption Song" and "Jamming"?
Bob Marley
What is the name of both a French dynasty and a street in New Orleans?
Bourbon
Which African country takes its name from the Latin for "free"?
Liberia
The Romans knew it as Eboracum. The Saxons knew it as Eoforwic. Today the name of
this city only has 4 letters. What is it?
York
What common clothing fiber is made by the larvae of moths?
Silk
What is either a military rank or a type of punishment?
Corporal
Lox is something you might put on your bagel. What is it?
Brined salmon
What, in common English, is a gendarme?
A police officer
In Britain they call it a rubber. What do Americans call it?
An eraser
Who had a wife named Priscilla and a daughter named Lisa Marie?
Elvis Presley
What branch of mathematics was invented separately by
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?
Calculus
What is the last name of Australian actors Chris, Liam, and Luke?
Hemsworth
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63 Comments
Ozchris
+1
Level 33
Dec 27, 2012
The first question is wrong! It's the Germans. JB said so in Animal House! ;)
JDWI
+1
Level 43
Dec 28, 2012
HAHA! Awesome!
aliberti68
+2
Level 54
Dec 28, 2012
he was on a roll...
webkinztoco123
+1
Level 37
Jun 22, 2015
Darn it, I wanted to comment that as soon as I saw the first question!
bebn123
+1
Level 60
Dec 28, 2012
Could you accept "The second star from the right" for where Peter Pan lives?
buck1017
+9
Level 78
Feb 17, 2013
That's the directions to get there. Second star to the right and straight on till morning. That's like saying you lived on the interstate that took you to your town.
gravyfury
+1
Level 22
Dec 28, 2012
homosapien was not accepted :(
JDWI
+1
Level 43
Dec 28, 2012
I know. And I admit my ingorance, but neither was Morman vs Mormon. It is timed and I was in a rush, what can I say?
theLAYTshow
+1
Level 37
Jan 4, 2013
Yeah, boo
PorcNBeanz
+7
Level 57
Mar 6, 2014
Because Homo Sapien is not correct. The "s" on the end of Sapiens does not make it plural, but rather it is needed for the latin word for "wise".
RzrBladeLzrBeam
+1
Level 22
Aug 18, 2014
I was wondering why it didn't accept Homo Sapien... now I know, thanks.
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Mar 3, 2015
Homo sapien will work now even though its incorrect.
samiamco
+10
Level 68
Oct 11, 2017
You pushover, you ;-)
Sifhraven
+8
Level 73
Dec 28, 2018
Normally I don't care too much about leniency in spelling. But this goes too far imo. The s is important. You wouldnt accept huma or tige or moo, for human, moon or tiger would you? It just isnt the same without the s. People might go on thinking it is the correct term. It is not like a word with two r's where you only hear one, or an "e" that is pronounced as a "u" or something like that. It is not just a matter of spelling (I hope you get what I mean. If the answer is cancer, ancer is much more wrong than canser. Or hiladelphia and philidelphia.)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Dec 28, 2018
Because it is not an existing word/term
paula05
+1
Level 34
Dec 30, 2012
11.
williamthered70
+40
Level 14
Jun 22, 2015
Anyone else see the "rubbers" question and instantly think of condoms? No? ...Ok then...
vermiciousknid
+5
Level 90
Sep 17, 2018
Yes, actually
dt1
+31
Level 43
Jun 22, 2015
ok, who else typed condom for the British rubber question?
sillie
+6
Level 76
Aug 26, 2015
I kept wondering why condom, propylactic and such wouldn't work and WHAT word Americans would use then?
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 90
Sep 17, 2018
Me
BlackLab
+2
Level 66
Jul 6, 2023
I wonder what the British call the stuff tires are made of?
partdavid
+3
Level 74
Oct 23, 2023
Tyres are clearly made of rubbour.
Tragic
+3
Level 71
Jun 22, 2015
Anyone else get gendarme because of Archer?
PantsLobbyist
+1
Level 97
Mar 7, 2019
Me!
Carry
+1
Level 63
Mar 14, 2019
I got it because of The Sims.
joeythelemur
+3
Level 82
May 3, 2019
Did you say your name was Benoit? :-)
Nneb
+1
Level 28
Oct 9, 2017
;( I knew corporal but I spelled it 'corpral' and knew it was spelled incorrectly but didn't know the correct spelling.
kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Feb 6, 2018
For some reason I read that clue as what is either a military Tank or a type of punishment. Oops.
PantsLobbyist
+2
Level 97
Mar 7, 2019
Didn't Bob Marley sing "Jammin'?" I think "Jamming" was a song by Chief Clancy Wiggum at the end of a Simpsons episode.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jun 18, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming_(song)
tbolt
+5
Level 78
Mar 7, 2019
Is it possible to accept "Liquid Oxygen" for lox.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 81
Mar 11, 2019
Yes. The salmon sense is only used in North America. Liquid oxygen should also be accepted.
overtired
+1
Level 86
May 10, 2019
Yeah, that's what I tried first. The question isn't specific and lox does mean liquid oxygen. There's a bit in You Only Live Twice where one of the bad guys is secretly importing liquid oxygen (for rocket fuel) along with butter and things, so that people assume it's just salmon :)
RAFhatter
+2
Level 49
May 24, 2021
Agreed. I've never heard of the salmon. I was pretty stumped when liquid oxygen didn't work.
SenileS
+1
Level 48
Sep 2, 2021
I thought liquid oxygen too. The man from LOX, what a great training video...
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jun 18, 2023
Added the bagel bit to the question to avoid possible confusion.
Ain
+6
Level 55
Mar 11, 2019
I tried so many things for "rubber"-- rain coat, slicker, rain boots, galoshes, rubber band, condom. Surely some of these could be accepted?
joeythelemur
+5
Level 82
May 3, 2019
This isn't that hard folks. "In Britain, they call it a rubber." It's not "what else does rubber mean to an American?"
roleybob
+7
Level 74
May 13, 2019
But in Britain we also say rubber to mean condom and I didn't know that Americans also use the term rubber to mean condom - it's not unreasonable that people are getting confused
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jun 18, 2023
The question requires you to know both British and American colloquial language, not just one or the other. That's the whole point of the question.

Simply listing a synonym of rubber is not a valid response.

kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
May 10, 2019
Fish isn't specific enough for lox? I typed that in first and then started to doubt myself when it wasn't taken.
Tummykong
+1
Level 66
May 10, 2019
I tried fish multiple times too then gave up.
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 59
Feb 17, 2025
I did the exact same thing. It's a fish!
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 73
May 10, 2019
Lol for the Singapore one I just guessed every East Asian or Southeast Asian country I knew until I got it.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 73
Sep 30, 2019
And apparently I didn't remember taking this quiz a few months ago but same story lol. Just figured out how to do the blood sign tho
jlkpregan
+5
Level 35
May 13, 2019
A gendarme is basically a policeman but there is a bit of nuance to it. A Gendarmerie is a part of the military with responsibility for policing the civilian population, slightly distinct from normal civilian police/ sheriffs etc. Predominantly a Southern European phenomenon.
dunkinggandalf2
+2
Level 70
Oct 11, 2020
Exactly. Don't try telling a "gendarme" that he's a police officer!
Yanni47
+2
Level 78
Sep 30, 2019
Isn't Peter Pans dwelling called just "Neverland"?
RobNobody
+2
Level 79
Jan 6, 2023
It depends. In J. M. Barrie's original 1904 play it was "the Never Never Land," while in his 1911 novel it was "the Neverland." Adaptations have used either one, or both (as in this scene from Hook.)
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 86
Nov 9, 2019
"What is lox?"

Please accept "delicious with cream cheese on a cinnamon-raisin bagel"?

MindWax
+4
Level 85
Oct 23, 2023
The fact that nobody's called you out in 4 years is unfathomable to me. Putting lox on a sweet bagel instead of a savory bagel, like an onion or everything, is thoroughly incorrect. Let's be enemies about it.
PoetsCorner
+3
Level 87
Nov 10, 2023
THANK YOU!!! I just read that comment and audibly gasped when I reached the word "cinnamon". Such a culinary disgrace is an abomination before man and God.
Oatmeal11
+1
Level 76
Dec 7, 2022
I got desperate and tried "apes" for apiary
yourlocalbugboy
+1
Level 56
Dec 8, 2022
Gendarme is also a mountaineering term for a pillar of rock on a ridge. Hopelessly tried iterations of that before google told me it gets its name from the actual answer to the clue!
casiopea
+4
Level 55
Mar 30, 2023
I know condom is kinda NSFW, but that should be an accepted answer for rubber
RuthlessCosmo
+5
Level 75
Oct 22, 2023
I think the figure for the percentage of the former Yugoslavia's coastline that is now Croatian territory is more like 95%. Croatia has (including island territories, according to Wikipedia) 5,835 km of shoreline. Montenegro has 293.5, Slovenia has 46.6, and Bosnia has 20.
FrankPentangeli
+1
Level 50
Oct 22, 2023
Bob Marley had 11 kids.

Ziggy Marley is a spitting image of him in voice and appearance, making money from that. God bless him.

Damian made Welcome to Jamrock.

Stephen Marley has a great voice too.

Overall, I'm no Bob Marley scholar.

ThePerfectBoing
+3
Level 44
Oct 2, 2024
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are on my blacklist now >:(
wcmagus
+1
Level 48
Oct 8, 2024
Got everything except 'eraser' because I thought 'rubber' was a clue about card games.
OvenBobat
+1
Level 59
Jan 8, 2025
Isn't a rubber also slang for condom?

And isn't it technically homo sapien sapiens?

AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 74
Jan 24, 2025
Croatia doesn't have 99% of Yugoslavia. I think you forgot about Montenegro, which also inherited a significant amount of coast. As RuthlessCosmo said, it's closer to 95%.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 24, 2025
Croatia's coastline is extremely irregular. The 99% figure is accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

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