# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/161 "2014-01-09T01:17:38Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Here’s an easy one. Who is the chief executive of Ford Motor Company? I’ll accept his last name. 😉 That hasn’t been an easy question since 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/162 "2014-01-09T01:19:49Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > A little more geography > > 1. Which US State has the largest population? > > 2. Name a US State with population under 1 million (I believe there are 4) > > 3. How many time zones does the US span? 1. California? …Or maybe Florida? …Texas? 2. Alaska?? 3. 3 or 4, I think! > [@Kalea](#): > > 1. CORRECT! > 2. John Hancock. Signed it big and in the middle. > 3. CORRECT! > 4. The Sun. > 5. CORRECT! Other acceptable answers include Downton Abbey and Sherlock. > 6. Tennis. It is a British town where famous tennis greens are located. > > Net Score: 0 > > Round 2: > > 1: Geography: What is the capitol of Alabama? > 2: History: What country was primary enemy of the US in World War One? > 3: Arts & Literature: In what century did Van Gogh live? > 4: Science & Nature: What two elements make up water? > 5: Entertainment: In what country do “Bollywood” films originate? > 6: Sports & Leisure: What board game is associated with the categories I’m using in these questions? 1. Montgomery? 2. I am not sure… I can’t remember. 3. 17th? 4. Oxygen and Carbon?? 5. i’m not sure the exact country, but it’s somewhere in India. 6. Trivial Pursuit? Maybe. > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > It’s only 140 for the user, but 160 for the whole message (routing and stuff), based on the text messaging standard for phones. Good estimate though. > > Here’s another question: > > Name five Muppets. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Beaker, was it like… Dr. Egghead? Or whoever Beaker was paired with. And Fozzy. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > What did Jake wish for at the end of the labyrinth where he stretched all out so they could easily find their way back? > > What is the Japanese name of the Pokemon “Jigglypuff”? > > What is the name of Finn’s alter-ego in The Ice King’s fan-fiction? > > What kind of animals are Mordecai and Rigby, and what television show are they on (one point only if both answers are correct)? > > Who bakes the most delicious apple pies that Finn and Jake have ever eaten? > > Which Miyazaki film(s) won best animated film of the year? > > Yakitate!! Japan! is all about creating a defining \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for the country of Japan. (fill in the blank) 1. He accidentally wished that he wasn’t so hungry, and got a sandwich. 2. Purin! (Silly, that’s in my name, and one of the reasons why it’s there!) 3. Fionna! 4. (Sure, why not) Regular Show is the show, and Mordecai is a blue jay? and Rigby is a Raccoon I think. 5. Tree Trunks! 6. Actually, you got me here! I don’t know. > [@cochrane](#): > > Since you didn’t get these, I’m not going to pick your quote out of your long response, but here are the answers: > > 1. Richard Nixon resigned from office in 1974 rather than face impeachment for his role in covering up the Watergate burglary. > > 2. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, and Bill Clinton, the 42nd, were both impeached by the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate. Both presidents were acquitted and served out their terms. > > 3. [ul] > [li]John Adams and John Quincy Adams - father and son. [/li] > [li]William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison - grandfather and grandson. [/li] > [li]Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 5th cousins. [/li] > [li]George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush - father and son. [/li][/ul] I thought the Bushes would have been obvious since W. was President until very recently. > > Here’s an easy one. Who is the chief executive of Ford Motor Company? I’ll accept his last name. 😉 1. …Henry Ford! …Or maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/163 "2014-01-09T01:30:53Z")
True or False: Stephen Colbert (of the Comedy Central Show The Colbert Report) hates bears. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/164 "2014-01-09T01:35:47Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1. 20th Century. 😃 > 2. I’m not sure, and I can’t quote poetry, I only have a selective memory… Gah. :smack: > 3. I don’t know how that saying goes, but it excepts neither. That’s the only word I can think of that has an e before an i. (Bonus: If I did know the saying, than yes, it is a great help. 😃 ) > 4. I have no idea. It sounds like some sort of… english thing, like a genre of book or movie. But I could be completely wrong. > 5. Dog! 1. 🆒 2. _Song of Myself_ was written by Walt Whitman. Here is a tiny snippet from the poem that I like: “And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times” I’m sure you could’ve quoted something. You wrote a quick haiku earlier, and song lyrics count if they’re moderately good (or if you make a case they are :dubious: ). I think you were underestimating yourself. 3. “i before e except after **c** ”. How odd that you know an exception to the rule! Again though, you doubted yourself: you knew there was a very common example of an exception to the rule, yet you thought it would be a good rule if only you knew what it was. In fact, there are many more exceptions and the rule is a load of tosh! Good on ya for not knowing, your spelling is pretty good without it. I grant half a point for knowing the exception! 4. It is indeed a literary genre (also sometimes film), where magic is a regular part of the real world, in a sort of boring way. Not as flashy and obvious as Harry Potter, more like “lalala… she levitated as she poured her tea…yada yada yada”. Half a point for correctly deducing what it might be. 5. 🆒 I award myself 2.5/5 points. Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/165 "2014-01-09T01:48:43Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1 > > 1. He accidentally wished that he wasn’t so hungry, and got a sandwich. > > 2. Purin! (Silly, that’s in my name, and one of the reasons why it’s there!) > > 3. Fionna! > > 4. (Sure, why not) Regular Show is the show, and Mordecai is a blue jay? and Rigby is a Raccoon I think. > > 5. Tree Trunks! > > 6. Actually, you got me here! I don’t know. 1. Wasn’t that hilarious? 2. I was hoping to be a bit silly, but you did say to not stump you with not-so-average knowledge, and I think Jigglypuff’s japanese name is not-so-average! 3. Fionna was awesome but I think Jake \> Cake 4. WOooooOOOoaaaahhh!!! 5. Isn’t she the sweetest? 6. Spirited Away won in 2002, and is the only Miyazaki film to win best animated oscar. 7. Yakitate! Japan!! is an anime about a boy (Azuma Kazuma) who is on a quest to create a bread that will define Japan. As an avid anime fan I highly recommend this to you!!! It’s the best! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/166 "2014-01-09T02:01:22Z")
1. Can BMO play video tapes? If so, where do they go? 2. Who does Muscle Man love to tell jokes about? 3. If I were an electric/ground type pokemon, which pokemon could I be? 4. What would be a super effective attack against me if I were an electric/ground type pokemon? (one point for me for every super effective attack you can name) 5. Name a character who has summoned a Spirit Bomb at least once in their life. ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/167 "2014-01-09T02:17:04Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1.Genesis > Exodus > Leviticus > Numbers > Deuteronomy > > 1. Something-ism… CRAP! > > 2. I hate you!! > > 3. 8-track tapes?? > > 4. I know these, I don’t know the specific abbreviations! If it’s anything, I know what RAM, ROM, MS-DOS, HTTP, and HTML /are/… Just not the literal words forming it. :smack: > > 5. Well, i’m no dictionary, but a pandemic is a time where a disease or some other life effecting shenanigan is very quickly spreading… Dangerously quickly. > > Bonus 1: Not sure… Other than Doctor Who. But I doubt that. > > Bonus 2: Oh no… OH NO… I knew it! I knew it, but forgot. ☹ 1. Good! 2. Pointillism 3. Peter Piper picked a _peck_ of pickled peppers. 4. Betamax (before your time, I know). 5. I figured that you’d at least get SDMB! Shame on you and your house!😉 6. Something is a pandemic when it’s extraordinarily widespread, not necessarily spreading quickly. Learn your roots: pan + demos. 6a) WHO = The World Health Organization 6b) The board game wherein players cooperate to eradicate a pandemic is called… Pandemic. 😃 ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/168 "2014-01-09T02:23:35Z")
Oh sure, butter her up with Adventure Time trivia. 😉 The answer to my question, which was made into a classic movie in the 50s (and I tried to get you to watch the Tom Cruise/Spielberg version with me… I told you you’d regret not watching it with me! Mwahahaha!) is: The War of the Worlds ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/169 "2014-01-09T02:27:58Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. Wasn’t that hilarious? > 2. I was hoping to be a bit silly, but you did say to not stump you with not-so-average knowledge, and I think Jigglypuff’s japanese name is not-so-average! > 3. Fionna was awesome but I think Jake \> Cake > 4. WOooooOOOoaaaahhh!!! > 5. Isn’t she the sweetest? > 6. Spirited Away won in 2002, and is the only Miyazaki film to win best animated oscar. > 7. Yakitate! Japan!! is an anime about a boy (Azuma Kazuma) who is on a quest to create a bread that will define Japan. As an avid anime fan I highly recommend this to you!!! It’s the best! Oh MAN, I read the Jake thing wrong! If I hadn’t have read it wrong, I would have certainly gotten Cake. I also forgot that question about Spirited Away. _sighs_. I wouldn’t have gotten that one! Man! Oh, and, WooooOOOOaaaaHHHhhhh!! High five, your questions are awesome. _Highest of fives!_ > [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. Can BMO play video tapes? If so, where do they go? > > 2. Who does Muscle Man love to tell jokes about? > > 3. If I were an electric/ground type pokemon, which pokemon could I be? > > 4. What would be a super effective attack against me if I were an electric/ground type pokemon? (one point for me for every super effective attack you can name) > > 5. Name a character who has summoned a Spirit Bomb at least once in their life. 1. Yep; they go in his ass! 😛 2. …HIS MOOOMMM! 3. Oh, man! I gotta think about this one… Isn’t Stunfisk (a super lame Pokemon IMO… Probably just because of how weird it looks) an electric/ground type? Damn, that was a good one! 4. Oh, now you got me. Damn it! Moves and effectiveness are my weakness! Lessee… Maybe a grass type move? …Or fire? I’ll go ahead and put one move for both… so probably Flamethrower for fire and Magical Leaf for grass…? 5. I haven’t watched much Dragon Ball at all, but isn’t that Vegeta? Or Goku? I think it was Goku. Didn’t they think he died or something after he did so? But he was like… ‘nah bitches’ > [@gracer](#): > > 1. 🆒 > > 2. _Song of Myself_ was written by Walt Whitman. Here is a tiny snippet from the poem that I like: “And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times” I’m sure you could’ve quoted something. You wrote a quick haiku earlier, and song lyrics count if they’re moderately good (or if you make a case they are :dubious: ). I think you were underestimating yourself. > > 3. “i before e except after **c** ”. How odd that you know an exception to the rule! Again though, you doubted yourself: you knew there was a very common example of an exception to the rule, yet you thought it would be a good rule if only you knew what it was. In fact, there are many more exceptions and the rule is a load of tosh! Good on ya for not knowing, your spelling is pretty good without it. I grant half a point for knowing the exception! > > 4. It is indeed a literary genre (also sometimes film), where magic is a regular part of the real world, in a sort of boring way. Not as flashy and obvious as Harry Potter, more like “lalala… she levitated as she poured her tea…yada yada yada”. Half a point for correctly deducing what it might be. > > 5. 🆒 > > I award myself 2.5/5 points. Huzzah! Huzzah! I totally approve of the points, haha! I can’t help but doubt myself sometimes. 🙂 Woah, I can’t believe it’s actually a piece of shit rule! It sounds pretty solid. And I didn’t know I could put song lyrics! I can do that, easy! If song lyrics count, I know a shitload of poetry! 😃 > [@blondebear](#): > > True or False: Stephen Colbert (of the Comedy Central Show The Colbert Report) hates bears. Oh, I think that’s true…? I watch him all the time, he’s a genius! But i’m usually half asleep when I do because his show’s on late. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/170 "2014-01-09T02:29:34Z")
I made the anime question a bit too hard I think, now that I think about the phrasing of the question. The most popular anime in 1995/1996 was Neon Genesis Evangelion. You almost got my other one…the household disinfectant was hydrogen peroxide! Like I said, they don’t recommend it anymore so don’t go pouring it on your wounds. Since I know you like anime and everyone else is doing a darn good job making lots of political and geographical questions, here’s some more I think you can get! 1.Naruto is the name of a guy in a popular anime named after him. His name can also be interpreted as a noun in Japanese. What does the word naruto describe? 2.When this anime franchise was brought to the United States, they renamed it Robotech. Was was the original Japanese name for this franchise? 3.Stars come in several classifications in reference to their size and/or color. Name at least 3 of them. 4.There is a type of star that rotates very quickly and emits a radiation beam out of its core. What is the name of this type of star? 5.Name at least 3 prefixes. Bonus points if you can describe how they modify the words they are attached to. 6.Johnny Yong Bosch voices so many main characters in dubs for anime and video games that it gets downright annoying hearing him yet again. Name as many roles as you can that he has voiced. 7.This japanese-korean voice actress is famous for her deep preteen and teenage boy voices for characters such as Edward Elric and Tao Ren. Who is she? ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/171 "2014-01-09T02:32:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > 1. Good! > 2. Pointillism > 3. Peter Piper picked a _peck_ of pickled peppers. > 4. Betamax (before your time, I know). > 5. I figured that you’d at least get SDMB! Shame on you and your house!😉 > 6. Something is a pandemic when it’s extraordinarily widespread, not necessarily spreading quickly. Learn your roots: pan + demos. > 6a) WHO = The World Health Organization > 6b) The board game wherein players cooperate to eradicate a pandemic is called… Pandemic. 😃 WHY did I not get SDMB?! My brain is so overloaded with questions, hah! Plus I still gotta get used to that, since I thought the abbreviation would be TSD for “The Straight Dope” but now I see… It’s “Straight Dope Message Boards” Fffffuck. And I hate you for that board game one!! I should have known, since I played Pandemic 2 on my fucking computer!! :eek: > [@cmyk](#): > > Oh sure, butter her up with Adventure Time trivia. 😉 > > The answer to my question, which was made into a classic movie in the 50s (and I tried to get you to watch the Tom Cruise/Spielberg version with me… I told you you’d regret not watching it with me! Mwahahaha!) is: > > The War of the Worlds Oh sure, blame it on me not watching it with you… You would have asked a different question that I didn’t know the answer to if I did! 😛 ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/172 "2014-01-09T02:36:33Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1. …Henry Ford! …Or maybe not. I said a last name would be good enough. It’s William Clay Ford, Jr., Henry’s great-grandson. So, you had it right with “Ford”. 🙂 Speaking of Ford, it, General Motors, and Chrysler, the so-called “Big Three” U.S. auto makers, are associated with which American city? ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_Raygun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Ronald\_Raygun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_Raygun)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/173 "2014-01-09T02:37:05Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > 1. Phantom of the Opera. 😃 > > 2. Poo. > > 3. Cyan pepper?? > > 4. No idea. I don’t even know philosophers that are Greek. > > 5. Alexander Gram Bell? …Just a guess. > > 6. Puerto Rica?? Guessing again. > > 7. Damn it. > > 8. Sealand. But it actually claimed it’s independence. Uhh… New Zealand? Yeah? > > 9. Saudi Arabia? (It kinda starts with A… But not really.) > > 10. No idea… i’m bad at presidential stuff. :smack: Awesome! I’m in a deep hole now! 1. Sorry, it’s a novel, a film and a musical, but not an opera. Famous operas include Barber of Seville, The Valkyrie, Carmen, La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly. 2. Frank Lloyd Wright is the one that springs to everyone’s mind. “Poo” is close to “Pei”, I suppose. 3. I’ll accept this. Cayenne pepper (with a _k_ sound). Cyan (with an _s_ sound) is a greenish-blue color. 4. Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Augustine, Hume… 5. Correct! 6. Puerto Rico is actually a territory of the US. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the other large ones, with a whole bunch of smaller ones in the Lesser Antilles. 7. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo. 8. While I’m surprised you know of Sealand, I’m not sure that I can accept a fort as an island. 9. Correct! 10. State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Education, Energy, Homeland Security… So -8 for me. :mad: Round 2: - What does the fox say? - Rebecca Black has a sequel to her song “Friday”. What is it called? - What is the name of the sash on a kimono? - The Legend of Zelda video games feature a guy in green as the protagonist. What is his name? - What gas causes balloons to float? - What civilization used hieroglyphics as a writing system? - Name three web browsers. - You are surely familiar with the company Google. What is a googol? - When Facebook first launched, accounts were not available to everyone, but rather a smaller subset of the population. Who could have a Facebook account? - What are emoji? - Name five Native American tribes. ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/174 "2014-01-09T02:40:59Z")
Pop Culture: 1. What species of dinosaur is the first to attack in the film _Jurassic Park?_ 2. What. Makes. Time. Travel. Possible?! 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ is one of the most celebrated comedies in film of all time among geeks and inifinity quotable. But what were they seeking in the film? 4. What color shirt does Spock wear? (Bonus 1. Name all three colored shirts used in Star Fleet. Bonus 2. Name what class the colors represent aboard the ship.) 5. What does the fox say? ETA: I swear question 5 was a coincidence. But now you can choose 2 noises from multiple correct answers! ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/175 "2014-01-09T02:44:10Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > I made the anime question a bit too hard I think, now that I think about the phrasing of the question. The most popular anime in 1995/1996 was Neon Genesis Evangelion. You almost got my other one…the household disinfectant was hydrogen peroxide! Like I said, they don’t recommend it anymore so don’t go pouring it on your wounds. > > Since I know you like anime and everyone else is doing a darn good job making lots of political and geographical questions, here’s some more I think you can get! > > 1.Naruto is the name of a guy in a popular anime named after him. His name can also be interpreted as a noun in Japanese. What does the word naruto describe? > > 2.When this anime franchise was brought to the United States, they renamed it Robotech. Was was the original Japanese name for this franchise? > > 3.Stars come in several classifications in reference to their size and/or color. Name at least 3 of them. > > 4.There is a type of star that rotates very quickly and emits a radiation beam out of its core. What is the name of this type of star? > > 5.Name at least 3 prefixes. Bonus points if you can describe how they modify the words they are attached to. > > 6.Johnny Yong Bosch voices so many main characters in dubs for anime and video games that it gets downright annoying hearing him yet again. Name as many roles as you can that he has voiced. > > 7.This japanese-korean voice actress is famous for her deep preteen and teenage boy voices for characters such as Edward Elric and Tao Ren. Who is she? I literally HATE myself for not getting Evangelion, because my friend just watched it. :smack: And yeah! My mom used to clean my ears with that. It’s kinda gross. 1. I’ve heard of Naruto, but i’ve never seen it! It shouldn’t mean ninja, since isn’t that shinobi? It’s probably something related to that. 2. Aw, shit, you got me here. I have no idea! 3. Red giant? Or something like that? That’s all I can think of. 4. No clue. 5. There’s de- … Like declassified and derailed? If that’s what you mean by prefix. There’s re- like reevaluated and reassigned? I can’t think of any others without just listing words that start with one letter. These might not even be correct. :dubious: 6. Actually, the only one I can think of is that he did that one guy from Bleach. I’ve never even watched it, but it’s on my list of to-watch for sure. 7. I don’t know! I haven’t watched too much anime, at least not anything too obscure, but i’m getting there! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/176 "2014-01-09T02:44:38Z")
You are getting almost all my questions correct. On the moves question, grass would be super effective but not fire. Otherwise, you got 'em all. 🙂 I love that you know/get the Regular Show and Adventure Time references. That’s way more important and interesting than knowing that senators are elected for 6 years at a time or that Biden is the Vice President 😃 Although, you should still know them 😛 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/177 "2014-01-09T02:51:21Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > True or False: Stephen Colbert (of the Comedy Central Show The Colbert Report) hates bears. > [@Purin](#): > > Oh, I think that’s true…? I watch him all the time, he’s a genius! But i’m usually half asleep when I do because his show’s on late. 😉 Another point for you! Stephen commonly refers to bears as “_godless killing machines_”. ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/178 "2014-01-09T02:58:11Z")
> [@Ronald\_Raygun](#): > > Awesome! I’m in a deep hole now! > > 1. Sorry, it’s a novel, a film and a musical, but not an opera. Famous operas include Barber of Seville, The Valkyrie, Carmen, La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly. > > 2. Frank Lloyd Wright is the one that springs to everyone’s mind. “Poo” is close to “Pei”, I suppose. > > 3. I’ll accept this. Cayenne pepper (with a _k_ sound). Cyan (with an _s_ sound) is a greenish-blue color. > > 4. Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Augustine, Hume… > > 5. Correct! > > 6. Puerto Rico is actually a territory of the US. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the other large ones, with a whole bunch of smaller ones in the Lesser Antilles. > > 7. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo. > > 8. While I’m surprised you know of Sealand, I’m not sure that I can accept a fort as an island. > > 9. Correct! > > 10. State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Education, Energy, Homeland Security… > > So -8 for me. :mad: > > Round 2: > > - What does the fox say? > > - Rebecca Black has a sequel to her song “Friday”. What is it called? > > - What is the name of the sash on a kimono? > > - The Legend of Zelda video games feature a guy in green as the protagonist. What is his name? > > - What gas causes balloons to float? > > - What civilization used hieroglyphics as a writing system? > > - Name three web browsers. > > - You are surely familiar with the company Google. What is a googol? > > - When Facebook first launched, accounts were not available to everyone, but rather a smaller subset of the population. Who could have a Facebook account? > > - What are emoji? > > - Name five Native American tribes. 1. Oh god… Ahem… _Ring ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! A-ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-!_ 2. It’s Saturday or something like that. 3. Zelda. NO. I’M KIDDING. It’s Link of course. 😃 4. Helium! 5. Egyptians. 6. Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox. 7. A googol is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000… onwards until there are 100 zeros! (Finally I can use this knowledge! YES!) 8. I am actually unsure! 9. Aren’t those japanese emoticons? like… ノ’///д///'ノ … Wow i’m not good at those! 10. I can’t answer this, either! > [@cochrane](#): > > I said a last name would be good enough. It’s William Clay Ford, Jr., Henry’s great-grandson. So, you had it right with “Ford”. 🙂 > > Speaking of Ford, it, General Motors, and Chrysler, the so-called “Big Three” U.S. auto makers, are associated with which American city? Detroit? I’m not sure, even though I lived in Detroit. :rolleyes: > [@cmyk](#): > > Pop Culture: > > 1. What species of dinosaur is the first to attack in the film _Jurassic Park?_ > > 2. What. Makes. Time. Travel. Possible?! > > 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ is one of the most celebrated comedies in film of all time among geeks and inifinity quotable. But what were they seeking in the film? > > 4. What color shirt does Spock wear? (Bonus 1. Name all three colored shirts used in Star Fleet. Bonus 2. Name what class the colors represent aboard the ship.) > > 5. What does the fox say? > ETA: I swear question 5 was a coincidence. But now you can choose 2 noises from multiple correct answers! 1. …I hate you. 2. The Flux Capacitor! 3. …The Holy Grail? 4. Blue! …And the three colored shirts are blue, yellow, and red. I’m not sure what they all mean, but if I were to guess, blue probably means a captain, or some thing like that, red means an operator, and yellow is like… special forces? I don’t even know. 5. No. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/179 "2014-01-09T02:59:58Z")
> [@Purin](#): > > I literally HATE myself for not getting Evangelion, because my friend just watched it. :smack: > > And yeah! My mom used to clean my ears with that. It’s kinda gross. > > 1. I’ve heard of Naruto, but i’ve never seen it! It shouldn’t mean ninja, since isn’t that shinobi? It’s probably something related to that. > > 2. Aw, shit, you got me here. I have no idea! > > 3. Red giant? Or something like that? That’s all I can think of. > > 4. No clue. > > 5. There’s de- … Like declassified and derailed? If that’s what you mean by prefix. There’s re- like reevaluated and reassigned? I can’t think of any others without just listing words that start with one letter. These might not even be correct. :dubious: > > 6. Actually, the only one I can think of is that he did that one guy from Bleach. I’ve never even watched it, but it’s on my list of to-watch for sure. > > 7. I don’t know! I haven’t watched too much anime, at least not anything too obscure, but i’m getting there! 1. A naruto is a type of fishcake with a spiral pattern. Naruto the guy has a spiral on his stomach and that’s why the author named him that. 2.The original series name was Macross, or full name “The Super Dimension Fortress Macross” 2. Red giant is correct! Some other star types are white dwarf, brown dwarf, and blue supergiant. 3. It’s called a pulsar. Science discovered a lot using these stars, and some are almost as accurate as atomic clocks in their rotation! Super cool. 5.You did get two with De- and Re-. Prefix itself has one - “pre”. “De” for instance means something akin to “opposite/negative”, “re” means something like “again” and so on. Other prefix examples are “sub”, “macro”, “micro”, “poly”, “semi” and “mono” to name a few. I had to learn prefixes and what they meant really early and they helped a TON in understanding new words I hadn’t heard of. I recommend them! 4. This one was kinda hard. But once you learn his voice you may become just as annoyed as I at how many lead roles he’s given. All these heroes sound the same! You did get it right with Ichigo, the lead dude of Bleach 5. Romi Paku (though I think her official spelling is Romi Park). ---
**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233/180 "2014-01-09T03:00:16Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > You are getting almost all my questions correct. On the moves question, grass would be super effective but not fire. Otherwise, you got 'em all. 🙂 > > I love that you know/get the Regular Show and Adventure Time references. That’s way more important and interesting than knowing that senators are elected for 6 years at a time or that Biden is the Vice President 😃 Although, you should still know them 😛 Oh man, you can award yourself half a point for that… Since I was a dummy by even mentioning fire… :rolleyes: I kicked myself when I thought about fire and ground types. Yeah, I know right? I was waiting for more fun questions that I actually had a chance to answer! Ask me more if you would like! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-stump-the-teenage-girl-with-not-so-average-knowledge/678233.md?page=10)