# DON'T Stump the Teenage Girl with Not-So-Average Knowledge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233 "2014-01-08T02:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/281 "2014-01-13T22:10:32Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > I’ve got to say, I don’t think you two are thinking the same thing when you read “seppuku”, because while there is some strange stuff in Japanese hentai, suicide by disembowelment doesn’t show up particularly often, I believe. 🙂 Ritual suicide by disembowelment is what I meant. I probably don’t want to know what she meant. I know very little about hentai, and I am reluctant to Google. At least tell me the counting to five was right! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/282 "2014-01-13T22:11:59Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > For each of the countries below, name a food product they export: > > 1. Colombia > 2. Sri Lanka > 3. Madagascar > 4. Sudan > 5. Canada > [@usedtobe](#): > > How many dopers could answer this? > > How many dopers could even find these countries on a map? Well, anyone could miss Canada tucked away down there like it is. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/283 "2014-01-13T22:12:48Z")
> [@CatherineZeta](#): > > If you’re replying to me, my English teacher showed us Casablanca in 11th grade and I studied medieval literature in 10th. I think the majority of questions in this entire thread are fairly reasonable. Then I’m screwed. I’m lucky if I’m batting .500 at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/284 "2014-01-14T04:00:09Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Here’s one. Which famous comedian from radio and television had a servant named Rochester, a girlfriend named Mary Livingstone, had a reputation for being cheap, vain, and a bad violinist, and claimed to be perpetually 39 years old? Really? I know the point is to ask the young lady challenging questions, but asking her about Jack Benny’s girlfriend is ridiculous. It’s like asking you about 1910 vaudeville shows. > [@Chefguy](#): > > You seem to know poetry. Who wrote: > He was my North, my South, my East and West, > My working week and my Sunday rest > My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; > I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong. > [@Chefguy](#): > > W.B. Yeats Six pages and no one jumped on this? W.H. Auden, not Yeats. (I’ll admit I only know this from _Four Weddings And A Funeral_.) I’m impressed and a bit bemused by what you do and don’t know, **Purin**. You don’t know that the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but did get the correlation/causation joke from _xkcd_. An eclectic mind you have there, kiddo. Don’t sweat not knowing the answers to all these questions. You clearly have a curious mind, and that’s the important part. The rest will follow. Okay, try these: The Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses are part of what? What right do they protect? What is the Mason-Dixon line, and where is it located? What is the cause of summer and winter, and why when it is winter in the U.S., it’s summer in Australia? What famous poet wrote the line “Because I could not stop for Death/Death kindly stopped for me”? (Bonus poetry question: who and what are archy and mehitabel?) What is iambic pentameter, and who most famously used it? Rank these three in order of size, from smallest to largest: proton, molecule, atom. (Bonus: add quark to the list.) What genre of literature was Matsuo Basho known for? What religions are each of these books associated with: The _Talmud_, the _Koran_, the _Bhagavad Gita_, and the _Tao Te Ching_? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/285 "2014-01-14T21:13:19Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > What famous poet wrote the line “Because I could not stop for Death/Death kindly stopped for me”? (Bonus poetry question: who and what are archy and mehitabel?) _cough_ “_He_ kindly stopped for me”. Curious about the bonus question, too, as I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/286 "2014-01-15T22:22:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > _cough_ “_He_ kindly stopped for me”. Curious about the bonus question, too, as I have no idea. Thanks! That’s the danger of quoting from memory. As for the bonus question, the answer is [spoiler]archy and mehitabel are characters created by the early twentieth-century poet Don Marquis. archy is a free verse poet who was reincarnated as a cockroach and mehitabel is an alley cat who claims to have been Cleopatra. Marquis’ conceit was that he left a sheet of paper in his typewriter and archy typed him a poem by jumping and falling headfirst onto the keys. He obviously couldn’t use the shift key, so there was no punctuation or capitalization. I thought if **Purin** knows e.e. cummings, she might know Marquis. It’s great stuff, funny but deep, and tinged with a bit of melancholy. Marquis is definitely worth a look.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/287 "2014-01-15T22:28:42Z")
The ones my dog could get are all either “Rough” or “Ruff”… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/288 "2014-01-15T22:55:50Z")
Alright, I’ll join in with a few… 1. Name four woodwind instruments 2. In music, what are the names of the two most commonly used clefs. 3. Name three of the four poisonous snakes found in North America (in the wild). 4. How do you tell the age of a tree? 5. How do you identify a Black Widow? ---
**Author:** ![Peaton\_of\_peat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Peaton\_of\_peat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peaton_of_peat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/289 "2014-01-19T06:58:58Z")
Hey! Don’t think we’ve forgotten about you just because the thread slipped off the radar! \>:| 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=14)