General knowledge thread

Blisterman

Since this is the Table quiz forum, how about a thread where you ask a table quiz style question, and whoever gets it gets to ask another. Just like all those specific ones, except about anything.

I'll Start.
What is the capital of Denmark?

Canis Lupus

Copenhagen

Although there is a slight flaw in putting up questions in that all ppl have to do is google it but ya never know.... ppl might just try and stay honest....

Q: What is the largest type of shark?

Rabies

A: Whale Shark

Q: What is the tallest under water mountain?

RuggieBear

Whale shark

What is the capital of Canada?

RuggieBear

Rabies wrote:

Q: What is the tallest under water mountain?

Hawaii!?

joe.

mount everest.

why is there a chocolate thread??

Rabies

A: Because Cloud forgot to take his sanity pills today


Q: How far away is the earth from pluto?

Healio

Rabies wrote:

Q: How far away is the earth from pluto?

The same distance pluto is from earth?

Rabies

Rabies wrote:

A: Because Cloud forgot to take his sanity pills today


Q: How far away is the earth from pluto?

Roughly seven and a half billion kilometers. :cool:

What does the W stand for in George W Bush? :rolleyes:

ixoy

Papa Smut wrote:

What does the W stand for in George W Bush? :rolleyes:

Wanker. Too easy? K chenge the N to an L.

What percentage of the earth's atmosphere is composed of oxygen?

ixoy

ixoy wrote:

Wanker. Too easy? K chenge the N to an L.

What percentage of the earth's atmosphere is composed of oxygen?

I think its around a fifth... Am I right? Can't be bothered with google. more challenging this way.

And as were on about google...

Whats a googol?

meepmeep

a number with 100 zeros after it

(thats how that cheater guy won a million on who wants to be a millionaire)

Who wrote Les Miserables (the book) ?

pwd

victor hugo

Name a word that contains one consonant only and four vowels only

Blisterman

Adieu
It's french, but I can't think of anything else.
What is Marilyn Manson's real name.

meepmeep

Brian......something!

*resisting urge to google*

pwd

heh i was wondering if someone would come up with something foreign! Correct, although it's not what I was loooking for

The answer I had in mind was "Queue".

Blisterman

Blisterman wrote:

Adieu
It's french, but I can't think of anything else.
What is Marilyn Manson's real name.

Ah braindead! :eek: Norma jean.....Grrr

meepmeep

Papa Smut wrote:

Ah braindead! :eek: Norma jean.....Grrr

That would be Marilyn Monroe.......

The question was Marilyn Manson

D-Generate

Blisterman wrote:

Adieu
It's french, but I can't think of anything else.
What is Marilyn Manson's real name.

I think its Brian Warner but not certain.

Anyway, before man discovered Mount Everest what was the tallest mountain on Earth?

Rabies

A: It was still Mt. Everest


Q: What is the best selling book in the world?

Blisterman

The Bible
Or copyrighted, The guiness book of records

Who were the 3 lead singers of van halen?

Blisterman

Actually, that's too hard, just name the first 2.

ixoy

David Lee Roth and eh.... Van Halen?

Eddie Van Halen (or was that the guitarist?)

Sammy Hagar!

besty

the "w" in george w bush stands for walker.dont think anyone has answered it yet

ixoy

ixoy wrote:

Wanker. Too easy? K chenge the N to an L.

What percentage of the earth's atmosphere is composed of oxygen?

Blisterman

Ok, next question
Either papa smut or ixoy, whoever gets there first.

L!aM

Surely people should wait to have comfirmation that they are correct before spouting off more Q's...

pwd

Q: Surely people should wait to have comfirmation that they are correct before spouting off more Q's...

A: ideally yes, but they mightn't be online for a while or even forget about it so in practicality no

Why did Daniel Defoe change his name, and what was it before he changed it?

Blisterman

Daniel Foe he added the De to sound fancier.
I had to google that. Probrbly could have guessed it.

Name all the movies Kevin Smith has directed, from Clerks to Jersey Girl. (There, gave you 2 already.

pwd

There was a bit more to it than just sounding fancier! DeFoe is the Norman equivalent of the Saxon name Foe. In DeFoe's time, there was a very snobbish attitude regarding Normans and Saxons, with the Normans making up the ruling classes mainly, and the Saxons being seen as inferior. DeFoe pretended to be a Norman, even while voicing strong opinions against this sort of attitude! Such a cad and a bounder!

mall rats, jay and silent bob strike back, dogma

is this correct?

In the novelette, "The Outsider", a man is killed essentially because of his refusal to conform his attitudes to those considered correct by his society. The author describes the protagonist as the only sort of hero we are worthy of having. Who was the author?

Zaph

You forgot Chasing Amy in the list of Kevin Smith films

pwd

zaph wrote:

You forgot Chasing Amy in the list of Kevin Smith films

Didn't forget it. I'd never heard of it.

Ali Cat

Blisterman. Who were the singers in Van Halen?

pwd

Roth, David and Lee

Blisterman

David Lee roth, Sammy Hagar and the guy from Extreme, who's name I can't remember, but he didn't do much.

billy the squid

isnt one of the van halen group training to be a paramedic now?

sionnach

q: "what is the world's tallest underwater mountain"
a: mauna kea

What was the name of alexander the great's horse?

pwd

hephastian. Alexandar was the only one able to ride it (even though he was still a teenager at the time) because he noticed that the poor thing was scared of its own shadow and he ran along besiode him for a while looking away from the sun.

In the novelette, "The Outsider", a man is killed essentially because of his refusal to conform his attitudes to those considered correct by his society. The author describes the protagonist as the only sort of hero we are worthy of having. Who was the author?

Blisterman

billy the squid wrote:

isnt one of the van halen group training to be a paramedic now?

Yeah, David lee Roth.

herobear

wasnt hephastion alexanders lover ? bucephalus was his horse

pwd

easy to get them confused! Wonder if Alexander ever did

To rope everybody back on topic....

Who wrote the outsider?

Please remeber to try your hardest NOT to google..

Remember kids: Cheaters never win :cool:

Ali Cat

Papa Smut wrote:

Remember kids: Cheaters never win :cool:

Isn't that cheaters never prosper? I mean cheaters do win, just look at the US elections....

Ali Cat

John B Keane

What year did Allan Ginsberg die?

Ali Cat

Ali Cat wrote:

John B Keane

What year did Allan Ginsberg die?

Just checked that, it's wrong...sorry

Blisterman

New rule. After 2 days, if noone can answer the question, a new question is started.

pwd

Correct answer was Albert Camus. It's worth reading!
Irvine Stone's book "Lust for Life" was a fictionalized bography of which famous painter?

PH01

pwd wrote:

Correct answer was Albert Camus. It's worth reading!
Irvine Stone's book "Lust for Life" was a fictionalized bography of which famous painter?

Boggraphy? Is that the study of bogs?

Piccaso? or Dali?
(I should get a point for not Googleling it)

Sherifu

pwd wrote:

Correct answer was Albert Camus. It's worth reading!
Irvine Stone's book "Lust for Life" was a fictionalized bography of which famous painter?

I'll take a stab at van gogh.

/edit google tells me im right

Whats the longest river in Emerald Isle (Ireland,England,Scotland,Wales) ?