# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/61 "2014-01-08T06:25:20Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Which TV show character could get a juke box to play by hitting it? Oh god. Popeye? Hah! > [@cochrane](#): > > This might be easier for you. 2014 is the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. Cobain was the lead singer of which grunge rock group? > > Hint: They are on of this year’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Okay, well, I don’t listen to grunge rock, so I really wouldn’t know! ☹ > [@Isamu](#): > > What’s the first element of the periodic table and why is it the first? Are you guys asking science questions just to stump me? I thought it was supposed to be the opposite! Well, the first element on the periodic table is Hydrogen. It’s atomic number is 1… (Or atomic mass?) So, I guess that’s why it’s the first, other than statistics on the actual element. > [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > 1. Over 90% of your body is hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. Where did each element mostly come from? > > 2. Other than the Milky Way, what’s the closest spiral galaxy? > > 3. What’s so special about a black hole? 1. Um, carbon comes from food I think. Oxygen from air, and hydrogen from water? Or… Something like that?? 2. I have no idea! 3. It’s… scary. They suck you in to someplace no one knows of. It swallows everything, including light, right? I have had nightmares about black holes after watching Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Sheesh. :o ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/62 "2014-01-08T06:26:33Z")
> [@citizenzen](#): > > What is color space? I know this. I know this. …Or at least, I knew it, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/63 "2014-01-08T06:28:03Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1. Shit! It’s a riddle? Fuck. Uhh… dildos. > > 2. References. Fuck, again. No clue. …42? > > 3. Maybe with one of those ladies’ dildos. (Hah, I have no idea.) Yikes. I’ve done many heinous things in my time, but asking a child about sex toys isn’t one of them. The answers: 1. a “Stairway to Heaven”. It’s the second greatest rock song of all time. By Led Zeppelin. Your dad is probably pretty glad you’re aren’t into them at this age. 2. Then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. It’s from the opening lyrics of “Aquarius”, from the musical “Hair”. 3. No. The question is based upon the lyrics of “Free Bird”, by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is the greatest rock song of all time. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. OK then. Moving on to some new questions: 1. Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”? 2. What does the acronym TANSTAAFL mean? 3. Which American President said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” ---
**Author:** ![citizenzen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@citizenzen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citizenzen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/64 "2014-01-08T06:31:02Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > I know this. I know this. > …Or at least, I knew it, anyways. Same subject, different question … What does CMYK stand for? What does RGB stand for? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/65 "2014-01-08T06:37:25Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > …Neil Armstrong?? I can’t science. It hurt brain. Brain hurt. Correct. What is the capital of Canada? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/66 "2014-01-08T06:43:31Z")
What is type 2 diabetes and how does it differ from type 1? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/67 "2014-01-08T06:47:13Z")
1. What are the biblical books which comprise the “Five Books of Moses,” also known in Hebrew as the “Pentateuch?” _Hint: the first one is Genesis._ 2. What painting technique makes use of many small dots which rather than brush strokes? 3. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? 4. What is the name of the videocassette format which was beaten in the marketplace by VHS? 5. Do you know what any of these abbreviations stand for? They all relate to computers or the internet. You get credit if you know any three of them. RAM. ROM. MS-DOS. BIOS. GUI. SDMB. HTTP. HTML. VoIP. 6. The Blue Death pandemic, also known as The Spanish Flu, killed millions of people in 1918. What defines a pandemic? Bonus One: who or what is WHO? Bonus 2: what is the name of the board game in which you cooperate with other players to combat a pandemic? 7. Who vs whom. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/68 "2014-01-08T06:52:50Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > Are you guys asking science questions just to stump me? I thought it was supposed to be the opposite! > > Well, the first element on the periodic table is Hydrogen. It’s atomic number is 1… (Or atomic mass?) So, I guess that’s why it’s the first, other than statistics on the actual element. You got it! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/69 "2014-01-08T07:16:16Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > Oh god. Popeye? Hah! Fonzie could make a jukebox play by hitting it. Aaaaa-yyyyyy! > [@](#): > > Okay, well, I don’t listen to grunge rock, so I really wouldn’t know! ☹ Kurt Cobain was lead singer of Nirvana. Their most famous hit was “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Here are some more and we’re really not trying to stump you. 1. Who is the only U.S. President to resign from office? 2. Which two Presidents were impeached while in office? 3. There were four sets of relatives who were presidents of the U.S. Who were they, and how were they related? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/70 "2014-01-08T07:28:39Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > One… Two… A-Three… _CRUNCH_. > > . This makes me smile. My 15yo would have no clue. (Nice touch with the “A-three” bit.") ---
**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 8, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/71 "2014-01-08T08:13:36Z")
Child of the 90s checking in here, shaking my puny baby fist at all you old geezers asking about 60s-70s pop culture. Nobody’s cared about Happy Days for decades, ya farts! Anyway I’m in the kitchen so I’ll ask kitchen-related questions. 1. What are prunes (besides tart and delicious)? 2. What are the five tastes? 3. What is the distinctive herb in spaghetti sauce? 4. What is the difference between an herb and a spice? 5. Name as many natural sweeteners as you can. I can think of four basic categories that are widely used in the kitchen, but if you want to list off varieties in a category you can go right ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/72 "2014-01-08T10:09:52Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1. Um, carbon comes from food I think. Oxygen from air, and hydrogen from water? Or… Something like that?? > > 2. I have no idea! > > 3. It’s… scary. They suck you in to someplace no one knows of. It swallows everything, including light, right? I have had nightmares about black holes after watching Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Sheesh. :o 1. Not quite the answer I was looking for, but basically correct! What I had in mind was this: hydrogen was formed shortly after the Big Bang, but carbon and oxygen were formed from exploding stars. My fault for an ambiguous question. 2. Andromeda. Most people don’t know it, but [it’s bigger in the night sky than the moon](http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130801.html)! It’s a lot dimmer, though, so it’s hard to see. 3. You have the basic idea. Their gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/73 "2014-01-08T10:57:46Z")
Starter: Great Britain consists of which three countries? Follow-up: Name the capital city of each country. One bonus point for each correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/74 "2014-01-08T11:01:16Z")
Name the two scary eels who served Ursula in _The Little Mermaid_. What is the title of the third book in the trilogy that starts with the books: _Where God Went Wrong_ _Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes_ Name two marsupials. Name the two end points of a U.S. Interstate Highway that runs through the nearest city where you live. (clarification: If you live close to a city through which I-15 runs, where would you end up if you took I-15 all the way to one end, where would you end up if you took I-15 all the way to the other end?) What do the letters in the acronym AIDS stand for? BONUS: What does HIV stand for? Which South American country is farther north: Bolivia or Columbia? BONUS: Did I spell each of those country’s names correctly? Who is NOT Canadian: Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lorde ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/75 "2014-01-08T11:04:28Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Starter: Great Britain consists of which three countries? > > Follow-up: Name the capital city of each country. One bonus point for each correct answer. Wouldn’t that be four? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/76 "2014-01-08T11:07:23Z")
Who has sold more albums: One Direction or Justin Bieber? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/77 "2014-01-08T11:11:04Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Starter: Great Britain consists of which three countries? > [@Shakes](#): > > Wouldn’t that be four? Nope. He said “Great Britain”, he didn’t say “The U.K.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/78 "2014-01-08T11:24:32Z")
What is that thing on your username which looks like a cross between a roasting grille and the Brandenburg Gate? (Hey, you should know it and I want to get edumacated too) Re. Hydrogen, 1 is both its atomic number (that is, the amount of electrons and protons it has when uncharged) and the mass of its most common isotope. The atomic number is what’s used to order elements in the table. Isotopes are atoms of the same element (that is, of the same atomic number) which have different mass due to having different amounts of neutrons. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/79 "2014-01-08T11:31:01Z")
Why should we be concerned, even a little, about what’s under Yellowstone? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/80 "2014-01-08T11:32:15Z")
> [@Peaton\_of\_peat](#): > > Child of the 90s checking in here, shaking my puny baby fist at all you old geezers asking about 60s-70s pop culture. Nobody’s cared about Happy Days for decades, ya farts! I agree - stop asking a 15 year old about 60s stuff! Don’t ask stuff like ‘What does U.N.C.L.E stand for?’ In the 60s there was a TV series called Man from UNCLE, which stood for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. Instead ask stuff you don’t know: Purin血, please name the members of One Direction [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=5)