DON'T Stump the Teenage Girl with Not-So-Average Knowledge

[Clothahump]

@Clothahump

Purin, kudos for you for 1) volunteering to do this and 2) actually knowing such a wide variety of stuff at 15.

Let’s see what I can come up with.

1. You mentioned you like Japanese things. Name three Japanese martial arts.

2. As long as we are on a martial arts kick (ha! :D) …can you name the martial art that originates in Korea? How about one that originates in China? I don’t need a style, just the 'generic" name of the art.

3. Moving on to U. S. history…what was the Great Compromise of 1787 (also known as the Connecticut Compromise)?

4. What does the 10th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution provide for?

5. And lastly (and somewhat more contemporary) - you’ve probably heard this guy’s music at some time or another. He was vastly popular back in the 70s and wrote major hits such as Year of the Cat, and Time Passages. He’s still touring, composing and recording. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, his name is…?

@Purin

1. I only know one, and that’s karate. I used to take it.

2. For one that originates in Korea, I think Tai Kwon Do does. For china, Kung Fu.

3. I don’t know… Ha!

4. I …again, don’t know.

5. I don’t know that either, although the song titles sound slightly familiar.

1. Karate is correct. I was also looking for anything in judo, jujitsu, kendo, aikido, etc.
2. Taekwondo and Kung Fu are both correct. Tai Chi would have also worked for China as well.
3. In a nutshell, the Great Compromise was the agreement reached by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention that wound up defining how our Congress is structured. More here.
4. The 10 Amendment is the States’ Rights Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
   the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. "
5. Al Stewart.

[picunurse]

Ok, sweety, here’s an easy one: What are you reading right now?

[Sofis]

[QUOTE=Shodan]
What is seppuku?
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[QUOTE=Purin血]
2. …Ew. I know, but it’s gross, and I know it is used in a lot of hentai, and just the thought grosses me out.
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@Shodan

Full credit for numbers 2 and 3. Very good!

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.

@Purin

1. A kotatsu is a table with a heater underneath! I want one badly, actually. Gunna sleep under it instead of my bed!

2. I don’t know!

3. I don’t know this either.

4. Oh man, I feel like I should know this, but I don’t!

5. Isn’t it rice based exterior, and then inside there can be a sweet filling, it’s kind of like cake… or ice cream? I had ice cream mochi before. Highly recommend them, they’re so good!

1. Yes indeed, though I’d also mention the blanket reaching from the table to the floor (trapping the hot air). Traditionally, the heat source would be a charcoal fire pit in the floor under the table, but modern kotatsus of course have electric heaters.

2. Manzai is a type of comedy that derives its humour from the interaction of two character archetypes: the boke (funny man) and tsukkomi (straight man). I would have accepted either “tsukkomi” or “straight man” or similar as correct.

3. A shamisen is a stringed instrument.

4. Azuki is a type of bean.

5. Yep, mochi is made of rice.

That puts me at -1. Well above average for this thread. Some more:

1. Immediately upon entering a Japanese school, you will see a large array of what?
2. Name two of the islands that make up Japan. I’m mainly thinking of the four main ones, but any two are valid.
3. Name any two Shinto deities.
4. On Valentine’s Day, Japanese girls give what to boys they like?

[panache45]

If you were watching tv back in the '50s and '60s (and possibly even later), what was the meaning of “horizontal hold” and “vertical hold”?

What actress sang “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy?

What was Jackie Kennedy wearing when her husband was assassinated?

What was the meaning of “Good night, John-boy”?

[Frylock]

@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.

Yes, I was confused by that exchange.

[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

[Magiver]

Even though you’re a young lady I’m hoping you can answer this one.

What is your favorite color?

[Hirka_T_Bawa]

@Queen_Tonya

4. Which organ is responsible for eliminating toxins and monitoring the levels of water, acids, salts and protein in the body?

5. Are arteries and veins the same thing? Why or why not?

6. Kidneys

7. Right you are. Arteries are larger and carry oxygenated blood from the heart out, the smaller veins return the deoxygenated blood back again.

Nitpicks:

When I first read your question 4, I first thought the liver from the way it was asked, I see your point, but I associate “eliminates toxins” more with liver then with kidneys.

However, your answer 8 is incomplete and technically wrong. That is not the definition of an artery or vein (though, I would have accepted that if Purin血 answered that way).

The correct definition is artery travels away from the heart, and veins travel to the heart. The one exception to your answer is the Pulmonary artery which has unoxygenated blood, and the Pulmonary vein which has oxygenated blood.

Purin血 What is the exception to that answer under the spoiler box (without looking?)

@Marion_Wormer

Two of these are tricky when they stand alone. When put together this should be an easy test of your ability to reason.

In what year did the US enter WWII?

What is the answer to ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’?

What is George Bush’s number?

What’s the ‘hitter’s number’?

In what year was the first atomic bomb dropped?

It took me a second to figure it out, but I love the questions! I figured out the pattern knowing questions 1, 2, 5, and knowing baseball enough to know 4 when I knew the answer expected, and 3 fits in the pattern (knew it was somewhere around there).
Now my own questions for Purin血:

1. Repeat from above, What is the exception to that answer under the spoiler box (without looking?)
2. What is the difference in an estrous cycle and a menstrual cycle?
   2a. Name a species that has each one
3. What are the two major hormones that affect the human female cycle?
4. What is the difference of “Effect” and “Affect”? Use each in a sentence.
5. Since there have been comments on Robotech, Name the three major chapters;
   5b. And the major alien enemy of each?
   Who is on each of the following dollar bills?
6. $1
7. $2
8. $5
9. $10
10. $20
11. $50
12. $100
13. Which of those have NEVER been a president of the United States?
14. What does the saying “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” mean?
15. Name a street drug, that you could legally receive a prescription for and have dispensed at your local pharmacy. (this is hard, but needed a question 15).

[Purin]

Hey! I am loving these questions, however due to being so tired, and having a highly anticipated day ahead of me tomorrow, I will be answering questions later tomorrow. Thanks!

[usedtobe]

@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

How many dopers could answer this?

How many dopers could even find these countries on a map?

[CatherineZeta]

I have a highly anticipated day ahead of me tomorrow as well, so my apologies if I’m slow at responding to this when you’re able to answer, but here goes:

1. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales**?

2. Who shot Abraham Lincoln? Bonus if you know where he was shot. ETA: I mean where in Washington, DC was he shot, but I’ll take which body part as an answer too.

3. What did Bombay’s name change to and in what country is it located in?

4. What city in Morocco translates to “white house” in English? Hint: This city’s name is a famous movie title.

5. Which two states did the District of Columbia originally take territory from? Bonus if you know which state it gave the land back to.

6. Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is about what famous event in American history?

7. What is stoichiometry?

8. What Chinese city (that’s actually a special administrative area within China) belonged to the UK until 1997?

9. What basketball player is BFF’s with Kim Jong Un?

10. Which is cuter: A baby panda or a baby polar bear?

[usedtobe]

Ummm…

We are talking about Q which a 15 yr old CAN answer, not “show off your trivia”, remember?

Famous movies from 60 years ago are not famous to most teens.

Books not assigned by 10th grade are very likely not yet read.

[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.

[usedtobe]

@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.

And I had an English teacher play “Sounds of Silence”. I’m not expecting that every HS student has had that experience. Probably about the same number which had Casablanca screened in class.

And what did your HS chemistry cover? Mine emphasized the valence theory of bonding, which my Chem 101 instructor informed me was complete crap. We never even got to organic/inorganic.

If you are going to do Miller, at least use Willy Loman - that is the first of his I learned.

I’ll give you the DC, although I spent 5 minutes in Macy’s convincing a young worker that it really wasn’t a State or part of a State. Don’t think he really believed me or his friend who began the discussion.

[CatherineZeta]

I know not everyone has had the same experiences. I never learned Willy Loman for example. I studied The Crucible when I was her age. I am horrible at chemistry and science in general, but when I was in 10th grade Chem we studied stoichiometry. I was terrible at it but I do know that I was adding compounds together or something like that.

I’m not sure why you think my questions are harder than anyone else’s, but I think you should give her and other teenagers a little credit. Young people do know about things that happened before they were born through cultural references, parodies, etc.

When I was a freshman in college (about 7 years ago) one of my professors asked me if I knew who Elizabeth Taylor is. I was really taken aback, because whole the height of her fame was decades ago she remains a part of pop culture.

[CatherineZeta]

Sorry, while the height of her fame.

[the_diego]

I love national capitals but seem to have encountered a mental blockage with those former Soviet states. Anyway, if you want to stump others, just ask them what’s the capital of Madagascar (correctly the Malagasy Republic.)

Clue: even the pronunciation is hard.

Question #2, which is correct: ‘pronounciation’ or ‘pronunciation?’

[DrumBum]

1. Is Angola in the Northern hemisphere or Southern hemisphere ?

2. What is the official language of Angola ?

3. Who is Number 2 ?

[Max_Torque]

@Purin

@Max Torque

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?

1. I have no clue.

2. No idea, either.

3. …I’m most likely wrong, but is it religion?

Well, this is a long while in coming, since my work suddenly got crazy-busy, but here are the answers I was going for. You will probably slap your forehead and go, “I knew that!” at most of them. Answers are:

1. Arson

2. Treason

3. This was the toughest question, since most people have no reason to know what the third amendment is about. It’s about the quartering of soldiers in private homes, which was a big issue in colonial days, much less so now.

I’ll come up with some new questions shortly.

[Jeff_Lichtman]

@Max_Torque

2. Treason

The U.S. Constitution defines treason this way:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Selling national security information to another government isn’t treason unless they’re an enemy. Selling such information to an ally (Germany, for example) wouldn’t be treason.