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Groups of Three Quiz #1

Name the members of these famous threesomes.
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Cycling
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WWII Allied Leaders
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
 
Holy Trinity of
Christianity
Father
Son
Holy Spirit
 
Main Protagonists of
"Harry Potter"
Ron Weasley
Hermione Granger
Harry Potter
 
Parts of Dante's
"Divine Comedy"
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
 
Columbus's Ships
Niña
Pinta
Santa Maria
 
Powerpuff Girls
Blossom
Bubbles
Buttercup
 
Parts of the
Freudian Psyche
Id
Ego
Superego
 
Gifts of the Three
Wisemen
Gold
Myrrh
Frankincense
 
Most Populous Cities
in the Netherlands
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
The Hague
Three Musketeers
Athos
Porthos
Aramis
 
Roshambo Moves
Rock
Paper
Scissors
 
What to do
(if You're On Fire)
Stop
Drop
Roll
 
The Three Rs of
Education
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
 
1990s Rom-Coms with
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
Joe Versus the Volcano
Sleepless in Seattle
You've Got Mail
Three Chipmunks
Alvin
Simon
Theodore
 
The Three Tenors
Luciano Pavarotti
Placido Domingo
Jose Carreras
 
The Three Rs of the
Environment
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
 
Non-Mammals in the
Chinese Zodiac
Dragon
Rooster
Snake
 
European Capitals
Starting with R
Reykjavík
Riga
Rome
90 Comments
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Level ∞
May 14, 2018
The comments have been reset. The quiz has changed so much that they no longer make sense.
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Level 96
May 14, 2018
Isn't Ljubljana also an European capital?
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Level ∞
May 14, 2018
Sorry about that. Changed it to capitals that start with R.
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Level 75
May 14, 2018
I read "Roshambo Moves" as "Roshambo Movies", decided I didn't know any, and moved on. That's a facepalm if ever there was one.
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Level 76
May 15, 2018
Yeah, I only know it as Rock-Paper-Scissors, but that would have been a kinda easy clue.
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Level 59
Oct 19, 2020
Ive never heard the word 'Roshambo'...
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Level 87
May 15, 2018
I did the same thing and figured they were manga or anime movies. Then I read more closely.
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Level 77
Aug 27, 2018
Not anime movies, but there is that Japanese one called Rashomon, so it's an easy mistake to make.
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Level 85
Nov 2, 2019
Yep, that's exactly how I read it...and moved on, resigned to my ignorance.
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Level 62
May 17, 2018
same.
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Level 69
May 19, 2018
I thought Roshambo must be some sort of martial art!
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Level 81
May 22, 2018
I've only ever known it as Paper Scissors Stone. Maybe that third answer could be accepted?
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Level 54
Jul 8, 2018
Likewise. It's paper, scissors, stone in the UK, but rock, paper, scissors in the USA.
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Level 22
Jul 25, 2018
I know it as rock, paper, scissors and I'm from the UK.
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Level 74
Aug 27, 2018
Shouldn't this be in the Groups of Five quiz? Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock. ;)
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Level 59
Oct 19, 2020
or four if you only add gun.
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Level 82
May 20, 2022
Ah, the old "deer hunter" variant
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Level 54
Aug 27, 2018
Did the exact same thing. Presumed it was some director I had never heard of.
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Level 59
Aug 31, 2018
i always thought roshambo was a kick to the groin. Cartman lied to me
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Level 59
Dec 21, 2018
I read it the same way, and was thinking of Rambo movies lol Never heard of that, always called it Rock-Paper-Scissors
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Level 15
Dec 29, 2018
Same. Caught the mistake later, but still.
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Level 89
Apr 14, 2019
I tried Yojimbo, Rashomon, 7 Samurai and gave up.
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Level 79
Feb 11, 2020
I also read it as 'Movies'!
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Level 91
Jun 30, 2021
I couldn't get past the French general who fought with George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and for whom one of the spans of the 14th Street Bridge connecting Washington DC and Arlington, Virginia was named. That span was hit by Air Florida Flight 90 when it crashed on January 13, 1982. There were some extraordinary circumstances surrounding the crash and rescue efforts that day, especially the heroism of passenger Arland D. Williams, Jr. (for whom the bridge was renamed), bystanders Roger Olian & Lenny Skutnik, and the crew of the US Park Police helicopter. Check out the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
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Level 76
May 15, 2018
That's obviously the three Rs of education gone wrong.
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Level 73
May 16, 2018
Yeah, an honest question: are the 3 R's a common joke? I honestly tried to come up with 3 words that start with an R.
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Level 85
May 16, 2018
Probably an Americanism, it's a tongue-in-cheek way of referring to the basics of education: reading, "riting," and "rithmetic."
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Level 58
Jun 15, 2018
Freestatebear may well be correct but I have heard this phrase in England a lot too and it works in an English accent too. Especially if you turn the 'rithmatic into riffmatic. "Readin' 'ri'in" "riffmatic"
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Level 74
Aug 27, 2018
I thought it came from a line in the old song, "School Days," - "reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick," - but after looking it up I see that Wikipedia gives credit to a speech given by Sir William Curtis, Member of Parliament in 1795. So don't blame Americans for this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_three_Rs
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Level 69
Aug 28, 2018
That's how we say those words in Merica.
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Level 72
Mar 1, 2019
Huh. When I saw the answer I thought that it must be that ARithmetic is one of the three AARRRs.
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Level 81
Aug 27, 2018
Spelling obviously isn't one of the three things they're focusing on.
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Level 74
Mar 14, 2023
The irony of the US education system
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Level 85
May 15, 2018
I'm going to remind you every time that the Bible doesn't say that there were three wisemen. It should be "Gifts of the Wisemen" or "Three Gifts of the Wisemen".
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Level 72
Jun 12, 2018
It's just logical that if there are three gifts, there were three wisemen - otherwise someone was a cheapskate - he could have at least brought a box of Pampers.
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Level 58
Jun 15, 2018
...and I got you this lemon and lime drink, a keyring and a "greetings from bethlehem" post card. I'm wise, but I was in a hurry and we only stopped at the station down the road. And due to this ludicrous census they'd even sold out of prosecco, lambrini and wine coolers.
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Level 62
Aug 27, 2018
The Bible never states that there were 3 wise men. That tradition is extra-biblical, and probably based on there being 3 gifts mentioned.
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Level 74
Aug 27, 2018
Maybe two of them had to chip in together on the gold, and another one was carrying spices but he accidentally dropped his container so they made him stay with the camels. Seriously, the number doesn't matter. Some traditions have the number at twelve wise men. Matthew is the only gospel where they are mentioned and no number is given, only the number of their gifts. They also didn't visit the baby in the manger but saw Jesus and Mary in a house at an unspecified time later. It was the shepherds who visited on the night of his birth, but nativity scenes just combine them all together. The Three Wise Men have become part of the traditions surrounding Christmas, so as long as people realize no actual number or date is given in the Bible, three is as good a number as any to represent them since no one really knows. What is important is that they came to worship the child and they didn't return to Herod to tell him the location of the Christ child.
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Level 81
Aug 28, 2018
Traditions about the identity of the Magi (Gaspar, Melchior, Balthazar) go back pretty far. Not as far back as the gospels, but the gospels were not contemporary accounts themselves and pretty obviously myth so ... I don't know. Seems like quibbling. As Ander points out there are different competing and contradictory traditions, just like there are contradictory stories within the Bible, but many Christians for at least 1600 years have believed there to have been 3 wise men, and this is probably what the majority of people learn in Sunday School today.
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Level 75
Sep 12, 2018
Really, Kal? The gospels are "pretty obviously myth?"
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Level 66
Apr 22, 2024
yeah really!
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Level 89
Apr 14, 2019
Yes, seeing as they were written long after the fact and thoroughly contradict each other. They wouldn't hold up as eyewitnesses to a littering.
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Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
Unless you're claiming that some dude *actually* walked on water...
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Level 52
Jan 25, 2021
He did.
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Level 66
Apr 22, 2024
n't
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Level 87
May 15, 2018
Like on the Seinfeld episode, I couldn't come up with the name of the third tenor.
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Level 85
May 19, 2018
"The Other Guy" should count.
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Level 48
Aug 27, 2018
That's what I've always known him as. I thought he was in Wham! as well, George Michael and The Other Guy. Turns out to be a different other guy.
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Level 67
Aug 27, 2018
I only know the third one because I made a point of looking it up after watching that episode.
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Level 64
May 16, 2018
is there anything wrong with rotterdam? I'm pretty sure I typed it and when it wasnt accepted I spent time thinking of another big dutch city
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Level 64
May 16, 2018
it also happened to me with placido domingo btw, but maybe I wrote the accent in plácido
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Level 73
May 17, 2018
Never heard it called "Roshambo" before. I spent a few minutes trying to work out what the hell Roshambo was. I thought it was some weird martial art.

Is that what (the answer) is called in America? In Britain it's known by it's more obvious name.

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Level 62
May 18, 2018
That name certainly isn't common in any area of the US where I have lived, but I got the answer right because I have a friend in Oregon that says that people call it roshambo up there. It may be a West Coast or Pacific Northwest peculiarity.
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Level 86
May 25, 2018
Midwesterner, can confirm it is used here as well.
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Level 82
May 20, 2022
I'm from Oregon and always knew it by "rock paper scissors" (and we would throw on scissors)
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Level 75
Jun 10, 2018
Think I got my first Harry Potter answer when I typed "Harry" for the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan question
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Level 77
Aug 27, 2018
Let me guess - you tried "When Harry met Sally", right? I was thinking of that too, at first, but then realized it wasn't a Tom Hanks movie and wouldn't have worked anyway.
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Level 54
Aug 27, 2018
I tried that as well. Turns out Tom Hanks wasn't in it and it came out in 1989.
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Level 84
Aug 27, 2018
Couldn't you also accept "Joe vs. the volcano"?
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Level 46
Aug 27, 2018
Article on the origins of Roshambo

http://mentalfloss.com/article/80201/why-do-people-call-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo

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Level 81
Aug 27, 2018
Man.. I only missed one tenor and still didn't get 5 points. That's rough.

I just recently saw a recycling sign where it seems they've abandoned "reduce" and replaced it with "repurpose"- not sure if that was a one-off or if they're going to start using that from now on.

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Level 67
Oct 7, 2024
I hope it's a one off, because reducing is arguably the most important of the three, and repurposing more or less means the same as reusing
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Level 91
Aug 27, 2018
I would have bet a million bucks that the first Hanks/Ryan movie was from the late 80s.
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Level 61
Aug 27, 2018
What to do

(if You're On Fire)

Burn ? :D

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Level 56
Aug 27, 2018
Not if you STOP DROP & ROLL.
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Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
Why would you stop, though? Does it matter if you drop in stride, and then start rolling? Seems like "stopping" would just cost extra time.
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Level 71
Aug 27, 2018
Only 82% got Harry Potter as one of the main protagonists of Harry Potter?
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Level 69
Aug 28, 2018
There are a ton of threes in the HP universe, and "protagonist" might be a hard word for some? e.g. some probably tried deathly hallows, illegal spells, and then moved on.
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Level 72
Dec 17, 2018
I have to admit, I first tried his adversaries/nemesis when neither draco/malfoy nor voldemort worked, the penny dropped. Not that I really dont know what protagonist means, if the question was to give the definition I would think about it and get it right. Ut now I was just too fast and assumed the wrong thing
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Level 72
Feb 11, 2020
Funny how things change, I cant imagine now that I truly didnt know the word protagonist. Maybe I had one of my confused days haha.
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Level 69
Nov 19, 2020
Classically, in Greek theater, the protagonist refers exclusively to the single main actor. Greek plays used to have two actors: the protagonist, and the deuteragonist. Then Sophocles got all fancy-schmancy and "artistic" and "avant-garde" and introduced a third actor, the tritagonist. Today, "protagonist" is commonly used to describe any number of main characters - but, now that you've read this, you know better, and you can finally be fun at parties!
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Level 64
Aug 29, 2018
Can you accept swim, bike, and run for triathlons because that's what most people who does them refers to the events as.
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Level 62
Oct 15, 2018
It was between "Roll" and "Shut em down, open up shop" for what to do when you are on fire. Luckily, I got it right.
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Level 72
Dec 17, 2018
the % results in order are: holy spirit, alvin, father, son. Hahah that's funny!
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Level 49
Jul 12, 2019
Wasn't one of the presents of the three wise men a Nintendo DS
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Level 85
Aug 6, 2019
Speaking of roshambo, check this factoid out: The common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) exhibits a rock–paper–scissors pattern in its mating strategies. Of its three color types of males, "orange beats blue, blue beats yellow, and yellow beats orange" in competition for females, which is similar to the rules of rock-paper-scissors.
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Level 72
Feb 11, 2020
Hmm...wouldnt you always win if you are 2nd to the scene then? Or are they colored like that from birth and dont change on the spot?

Apparently from birth, it is a very interesting read!

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Level 43
Jan 30, 2020
I forgot Writing and Arithmetic began with an R
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Level 79
Feb 11, 2020
Yep.
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Level 79
Feb 11, 2020
I typed 'read' for 'reading' but it wasn't accepted.
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Level 59
Feb 11, 2020
I read it as Roshambo Movies having never heard of that before
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Level 69
Feb 18, 2020
I actually thought of Blossom and Bubbles briefly but I didn't try them for some reason.
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Level 49
Aug 6, 2020
Rooster isn't a mammal??
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Level 49
Aug 6, 2020
i'm a dummy.
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Level 59
Oct 19, 2020
I've only known those as the the three R's of recycling, not the environment, which is a more complex issue than just waste.
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Level 59
Oct 19, 2020
Sometimes, when I press the wrong key in my haste, I accidentally give baby Jesus the game of golf.
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Level 35
Apr 28, 2021
You should accept 'Recycling', 'Reusing' etc.
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Level 60
May 17, 2021
"Serpent" should be accepted for snake
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Level 38
Sep 5, 2022
Only 12% for Joe Vs. the Volcano? Guys, go watch it. It's just the right amount of silliness, adventure and heartwarming-... ness. Meg Ryan plays 3 parts and is fantastic in all 3.
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Level 57
Feb 5, 2024
Only 40% knew Dante's inferno? Come on, people!