General Knowledge Quiz #83

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Trouble is the winter temperatures in Phoenix are much colder than Honolulu and that brings down the average overall temp.

Phoenix's average high is higher (87 to 84 F), but its average low is lower (63 to 71), giving a lower overall mean (75 to 78). Since the highs happen by day, and the lows at night, people will experience Phoenix as the warmer place overall, because that's when they're awake to feel it.

hijab is an ambiguous term and can be used to describe any garment worn to "protect" a person's modesty, though most commonly it is the term used to describe the headscarf commonly worn by Muslim women to cover their hair. They are popular in virtually every Muslim country, though styles vary. Niqab is the veil sometimes worn by Muslim women in some countries. You see them commonly around Arabia and North Africa. An abaya is a full-body covering that covers and obfuscates the contours of a woman's body from neck to ankle, often worn in conjunction with hijab and sometimes niqab, legally mandated in Saudi Arabia. Abayas are almost always plain black though some have colored designs or patterns on them. The burqa is the bee-keeper-looking onesie that covers everything including the face, worn most commonly by women in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. Burqas in Iran are usually black, in Pakistan and Afghanistan they're often blue, brown, grey, orange or some other color.

Actually I think the full-body garment worn by Iranian women might be called a chador, not a burqa. They are similar. Though a chador is more of a wrap and the burqa is more like a bag, and the chador exposes at least part of the face while the burqa conceals it behind an opening obscured by a mesh weave sewn in to the garment.

Stonehenge is not on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was not discovered by the civilised world (whether Roman or later) until well into the AD period, while the classic Seven Wonders were known in the 1st century BCE, or earlier.

You should probably try this test: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/26847/7-wonders-of-the-ancient-world

Yes, but then wouldn't the question be "Who are..." rather than "What are..."?

Giza is a city, not a monument...

Yes, but they weren't Biblical characters.

O is for oxygen, whereas 0 is your score for basic chemistry