# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/81 "2014-01-08T11:36:35Z")
> [@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. [spoiler]… Huh, as soon as you said three I knew you **meant** England, Scotland, and Wales. What I didn’t know was that Wales was considered a country, I thought only Scotland and England were given country status. I know Wales has its own culture and language and such, I always just thought of Wales as sort of a “region of England” and Scotland as its own thing. I’m so sorry, Wales. Learned something new I guess. Edit: On review, I knew Diana was the princess of Wales, and Henry the prince. How the fuck did I not connect this to Wales being an actual sovereign entity (albeit under the UK)? [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/82 "2014-01-08T15:12:25Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > 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) I think it looks like a birthday cake with 1 candle. StG ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/83 "2014-01-08T15:38:09Z")
1. Name the leaders of any three foreign countries (and the countries they lead). 2. Name three things that the US exports. 3. What year was your state admitted to the union? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/84 "2014-01-08T15:45:25Z")
Hmmm… no science questions. Though you are doing pretty good. 1- California shares its borders with what other states? 2- Blue and yellow make what? 3- What’s the Louisiana purchase about? Who bought what from whom? ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/85 "2014-01-08T15:53:03Z")
I feel like this one might actually hit inside your circle of expertise, but I’ll find out soon enough… Name me the most popular anime of 1996 I’ll give you a slight hint if you want (because dates are hard): People still regularly talk about it today and figurines are still made for it, despite its age. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/86 "2014-01-08T15:55:54Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > Hah, I may know some, but I can’t recognize this one. e. e. cummings is the only one who comes to mind based on the style. (I love e. e. cummings. Not just because he has a funny name, but I really adore his poetry. 😃 ) W.B. Yeats And I’ll concede the slavery answer. It was a complicated mess of political, moral and ideological differences, but slavery was indeed at the core of things. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/87 "2014-01-08T16:00:23Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > I feel like this one might actually hit inside your circle of expertise, but I’ll find out soon enough… > > Name me the most popular anime of 1996 > > I’ll give you a slight hint if you want (because dates are hard): > > People still regularly talk about it today and figurines are still made for it, despite its age. Correction to the question - it’s really 1995, but half of it aired in 1996 and it ended in 1996. Sorry for being confusing. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/88 "2014-01-08T16:05:24Z")
Name this person: This man was the first black Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He had previously served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as the Solicitor General. Before becoming a judge, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case that ended racial segregation in public schools, _Brown v. Board of Education_. Who was he? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/89 "2014-01-08T16:12:57Z")
1. What did you have for breakfast? 2. What is the weather like right now? 3. If a train travelling eastbound from San Francisco to Chicago at 34.5 mph increases its speed to 73.6 mph 3/4 of the way through the trip, and another train travelling from Chicago to San Francisco at 44.4 mph increases its speed to 90 mph 1/3 of the way through the trip, what is your favorite cartoon? ---
**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, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/90 "2014-01-08T16:16:40Z")
**Jragon** , not every location which has an associated “Prince” title is a country. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/91 "2014-01-08T16:19:54Z")
What household liquid did people commonly use to disinfect minor wounds that is now no longer recommended? The recommendation changed recently (i.e. I’m not talking about a recommendation that changed in 1882) I’m really just asking this to see how quickly this practice has faded from public knowledge so it’d probably be a good thing if you don’t know about it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/92 "2014-01-08T16:28:13Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > This makes me smile. My 15yo would have no clue. (Nice touch with the “A-three” bit.") You might be surprised. That commercial is still run pretty regularly on channels my kids watch (and yes, that makes me smile as well). ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/93 "2014-01-08T16:39:09Z")
1. Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor of what country? 2. How about Caesar Augustus? 3. How about Hirohito? 4. The next World Cup will be in Brazil. What sport will be played? 5. On what continent is Brazil? 6. What language do they speak in Brazil? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/94 "2014-01-08T16:54:23Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Name this person: > > This man was the first black Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He had previously served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as the Solicitor General. Before becoming a judge, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case that ended racial segregation in public schools, _Brown v. Board of Education_. Who was he? oo, yeah, let’s try some law questions. I burn down a building. What’s the name for the crime I have committed? I sell national security information to another government. What’s the name for the crime I have committed? We hear a lot about the First Amendment (freedom of speech and the press) and the Second Amendment (right to bear arms). What the heck is the Third Amendment about? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/95 "2014-01-08T16:55:36Z")
Shut your eyes…now tell me how many fingers you are holding up. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/96 "2014-01-08T17:09:42Z")
In 1938, over Halloween, Mercury Theater on the Air broadcast a dramatic radio series of a novel written by H.G. Wells. It was being narrated by Orson Welles, and he had adapted the first part of the novel to sound like radio news bulletins, which caused an unforeseen localized panic as some listeners took the drama to be an actual news broadcast of an alien invasion. What was the title of this classic science fiction book by Wells, Welles was reading? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/97 "2014-01-08T17:12:28Z")
Who wrote _A Tale of Two Cities_? What is the first line from it? Who wrote _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_? And what was the name of Huck’s travelling companion? Who wrote _The Communist Manifesto_? Who wrote _Charlotte’s Web_? What was the girl’s name? Who wrote _Dianetics_? What is the name of the religious group founded by the author? Who wrote _The Book of Love_? Who was that man? What did he make my girlfriend do? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/98 "2014-01-08T17:21:22Z")
Who are the three main protaginists in the _Twlight_ series? Who is Katniss Everdeen? ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/99 "2014-01-08T17:23:52Z")
Hi **Purin**! > [@Purin](#): > > The Great Depression was in the 1900’s. And which century is that? Who wrote the poem _Song of Myself_? (BONUS: quote some poetry, anything you like!) “i before e except after …”? (BONUS: is this a helpful rule?) Do you know what “magical realism” is? If you don’t, in which class at school could you learn about it? What do these words all mean: chien, Hund, perro, cane? (They all mean the same thing!) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/100 "2014-01-08T18:00:28Z")
Some politics questions that every adult citizen ought to know: 1: What are the three branches of the US government? 2: In two or three words each, what does each of those branches do? 3: What is the Electoral College, and what does it do? 4: Who are your representatives in the US Congress? 5: What is the difference between the Senate and the House of Representatives? (there are multiple possible answers here) Some cultural questions: 6: Who painted the Mona Lisa? 7: Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? 8: Who wrote _A Tale of Two Cities_? 9: Who wrote _Don Quixote_? 10: Who wrote _The Odyssey_? Current events: 11: Who is the current Pope, and in what unconventional way did he come to that position? 12: Something interesting happened in Chelyabinsk, Russia in the past year. What? 13: What respected world leader died this past December? 14: Name two likely candidates for President in 2016 (obviously, there’s a lot of leeway on the answer for this one). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=6)