General Knowledge Quiz #76

Pwetty pwease can you accept Nuclear Fission for Fission, since fission is just splitting anything into two parts?

Syllables can be divided into open and closed syllables. Fusion has an open syllable at the start and the vocal, the sound represented by u is thus pronounced long. The i sound at the start of Fission however is pronounced short, so it takes a closed syllable. To close a syllable in writing you need an extra consonant. Not sure it works fully in English, though it works that way in other Germanic languages. So anyway, for once in English the spelling and pronounciation are linked.

Vision.

Visor.

Stupid English language "rules".

Yes, you can't tell if they're looking for a continent, hemisphere, country, region....

He probably didn't want to ask which country and then get into another "discussion" over whether or not Scotland is a country.

Yeah! I put "Earth" because I thought you meant what part of the solar system!

nae ye dinnae* :p

whistling pig could also be used to replace woodchuck

I've also heard people call them whistlepigs.

Never heard this but I'm using it from now on

How much wood could a whistlepig chuck!

That would be, how many pigs would a whistlepig whistle!

I thought it was an eyelash first

It turns out that the green, singing fictional character wasn't Hulk after all. I'm disappointed.

+1

Caber-toss could also be another name for a woodchuck?

Maybe there's a woodchuck named "Bear", so that animal's Latin name is "Ursa".

The thumbnail that almost looks like a question mark would be soooo perfect...… if it wasn't a millipede!

Also odd... Nickelback works.

So THAT'S what a groundhog is... I thought it was a type of pig for some reason.

Can you accept marmot for groundhog?

Seems like groundhogs are a type of marmot.

"The Groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the Woodchuck, or the Whistlepig (particularly in the Southern United States), is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots"

Nickelback is bad, but they are far from the worst band from the 90's. They get overhated because the combination of their mediocrity *and* immense popularity makes people especially resentful. Their music is just...lame. Creed is a run-of-the-mill bad alt-rock knockoff, but their preachiness and Scott Stapp's toxic personality earn them a lot of extra hatred. Limp Bizkit, on the other hand, is just awful from top to bottom. I'd probably rate them as the worst band of the 90's. Fred Durst is not only an insufferable egomaniac, but he is tone-deaf, and he can't rap either. Sugar Ray should be near the top (or bottom?) of the list of terrible 90's bands. There were also a lot of really terrible bands that struck gold with one song, but had pretty much no special talent otherwise: Lit, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Seven Mary Three, Fastball, Deep Blue Something, and so on. They're all probably worse than Nickelback and Creed, but they didn't have the popularity to earn hatred.

Being popular is kind of a prerequisite to be considered in this category. As you mention, a big part of the reason Nickelback is so hated is because they were popular. There were definitely worse bands playing in random bars all over the place. But for a rolling stones magazine poll they won't be considered because no one knows who they are. Hence the bands that were chosen.

I get that. I am not talking about the band down the block. I'm talking about bands noteworthy enough to be in Rolling Stone in the first place. That's why I mentioned bands like Lit and Sugar Ray. They were famous, and they're both worse Nickelback.

I don't know what metric you're using to claim that Fastball and Seven Mary Three are worse than Nickelback. Musicianship? From everything I've heard Fastball had a lot of showmanship and always tried really hard for their audiences. Dude certainly had a better voice than Kroeger. I also don't remember ever seeing anything about Seven Mary Three being anything but a college band that worked hard and only had one song that hit. I wouldn't say that either of those bands are doofy or sellouts like Nickelback. Anyway, I think the issue is that Nickelback made total garbage AFTER they got big. Photograph and Rockstar are just doofy and awful.

Portobello reminded me of Nigahiga's old video, so I jokingly started typing "mushroom burgers". I was absolutely astonished when I got the right answer.

I think you're right

The picture is a millipede, not centipede. Centipedes are creepy looking, millipedes are low key cute

and the Heebie Jeebies.

Apparently I'm not general because I didn't get Waterloo (I'm not a history buff at all) or Heath Ledger (I care more about the characters in the movie, not who's portraying them) or mustaches (I have had absolutely no reason to learn mustache types ever)

Still great quiz

I don't really know how you can live about your life without having heard of a handlebar moustache before

So wait, a ten story building could technically be called a centipede tall?

You might be thinking of a different book entirely. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1957. The Road is a bleak post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy published in 2006.

There's a character in Wizards of Waverly Place named Dean Moriarty (he's Alex's first boyfriend) and I couldn't get him out of my head long enough to figure out the right title

Accept Fungi for Mushroom?

All mushrooms are fungi, but not all fungi are mushrooms.