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

[aceplace57]

I hope we haven’t scared the OP off.

It’s easy to forget has much general knowledge we absorb over the years. Especially trivia about tv shows, music, and other things we actually experienced. I admit it’s surprising to learn that not everyone knows who Hawkeye and Colonel Potter are. But a lot of people born after 1990 never saw that show unless they happened to see a rerun.

I’ll ask a basic civics question. I had Civics in 9th grade. How long do members of the US House serve? US Senators serve how long?

[Kimballkid]

@terentii

If she’s fifteen, I’d say it’s high time she learned them. :rolleyes:

Fifteen is not an adult so :rolleyes: right back at ya buddy!

[Kenm]

@Deeg

Apparently your father is a bit more lenient regarding your language than my father was about mine.

Your father didn’t have to deal with the interwebz teaching you words like “swell”.

[Roderick_Femm]

@Kenm

Your father didn’t have to deal with the interwebz teaching you words like “swell”.

and “so’s your old man.” I got that one from Cap’n Billy’s Whizbang. Now excuse me while I re-buckle my knickerbockers below the knee.

Here’s one for the OP: name a continent that does not start with the letter “A” (if there are two words in the continent’s name, neither word can start with “A”).

Or if you prefer, name the other 6 continents where at least one word of the name does start with “A”.
Roddy

[terentii]

@Kimballkid

Fifteen is not an adult so :rolleyes: right back at ya buddy!

Ignorance defended! :dubious:

[Kimballkid]

Chronos said those were things every adult citizen should know.

FIFTEEN IS NOT AN ADULT!!

That’s the part I was getting at. I don’t care how much she knows or doesn’t know.

[Count_Blucher]

Q: What color was Katy Perry’s hair last year?
(Hint: its Very hard to get one this wrong)

[cmyk]

@Kimballkid

Considering the OP isn’t an adult, I’d say they ought not ‘ought to know’ them.

Indeed, she’s only 15. But I’m hoping she gets most of them. Though we only just moved to Tennessee so if she knows who our Reps are in congress I’ll be blown away.

[Purin]

@Skammer

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?

It’s a shame I know none of these. Not even Charlotte’s Web, although i’ve read the book a million times! But… Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain right???

@picunurse

Who are the three main protaginists in the Twlight series?
Who is Katniss Everdeen?

1. Bella, Jacob, and Edward. (I hate Twilight. )
2. She’s one of the main characters, if not, the main character of The Hunger Games series of books/movies. I really need to read that series, it looks good!

@gracer

Hi Purin!

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!)

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!

@Chronos

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).

1. Uhh… The House, the Senate, and… the third one. :B Then again, I could be thinking of a different thing here.

2. …where the president is??? (Not sure about that one)… Who makes laws legal, and … bluh.

3. I’m not sure.

4. Not sure, either.

5. God, I should know this.

6. Leonardo Da Vinci? Right??

7. …Poop.

8. I have no idea…

9. No clue.

10. Same as all the others.

11. Aw, man… I forget his name. And I don’t know why, actually.

12. Wasn’t it a big thing about gay rights? Like, a protest?

13. Man, I feel like I should know this one!

14. Biden, and … Palin?

@Malacandra

1. What does my username mean?

2. What two entries complete this list: archangels, angels, virtues, thrones, dominions, cherubim, seraphim?

3. Why do polar bears never prey on penguins?

Malacandra… I’m not sure. Although if what i’m thinking is correct, it has something to do with fire or lava. Halcandra (although it’s a planet in a video game) is a hot, fire-y planet. I’m a nerd and I will use my nerdy-ness to badly guess!

@wevets

Here’s one… complete this sentence:
Many dopers are in negative scores on this challenge because they are asking you about things that happened years before you were ____.

…Born. Heh. I should know half of this stuff! It’s my own fault, save a few questions which I do think were a bit too hard, even for an adult!

@Dung_Beetle

No doubt! I sure as hell don’t know all these.

Purin, I saw a question on Millionaire today which made me think of this thread (the contestant had to pass on it, by the way):

Upon his death, Polish musician Andre Tchaikowsky donated what item to the Royal Shakespeare Co. to be used in a production of “Hamlet”?

A: His wig
B: His goat
C: His shoes
D: His skull

D, maybe? I know that scene in Hamlet where that dude’s holding a skull. Wasn’t it… “To be, or not to be?” Or am I really just that dumb! :dubious:

@Shodan

If you were flying over a lake in a canoe, and one of the wheels fell off, how many pancakes would it take to shingle a doghouse?

Thirteen - ice cream doesn’t have any bones.Okay - now a hard one.

What are the two major divisions of Islam?

Regards,
Shodan

That was a silly one!
But about your harder one, it’s certainly harder. I have no idea.

@pulykamell

Yeah, I’m lucky if I’m getting 3/4 of these questions, if that.

Category: Measurements

1. How many items in a “gross”?

2. How many feet in a mile?

3. How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?

1. Crap. isn’t a ‘gross’ like 10,000… or 1,000?

2. 1,092 feet or something really close to that.

@Lukeinva

Who is the only president elected to four terms?

Who was the last president to be sworn into office on March 4th?

1. Wasn’t it Roosevelt? …Oh… Jeez…

2. Do you mean the most current president? Obama? Or just a presiden’t that was sworn into office on March 4th. (You can tell if that’s the case, I have no clue.)

@Kenm

Why didn’t you think you were opening a huge can o’ worms?

I don’t know…

@Inner_Stickler

Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with dew?

How do you destroy the Black Cauldron?

Who is the main character of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty?

In Potions class, the intelligent student could learn to bottle fame, brew glory, or even what?

When Juliet asks “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo” what is she asking?

1. This sounds familiar.

2. Harry Potter? I haven’t watched Harry Potter (Or read it. I don’t even know if this is HP or not.)

3. No clue.

4. She’s calling out, asking him where he is. Right? It’s gotta be right.

@terentii

Who was the only American president never to be elected either president or vice president?

How many years can someone serve as US president?

Why is the White House white?

What state is Washington, DC, in?

In what years were there three US presidents?

1. I don’t know… if he was a president, he had to be elected. Wait, is it Washington?

2. Four, yes?

3. No idea.

4. I should know this!!

5. No idea…!

@Ronald_Raygun

• Name an opera.

• Name an architect.

• Name a spice or herb that begins with C that isn’t cinnamon.

• Name a philosopher that isn’t Greek.

• Name a scientist from the 1800s or later that isn’t Einstein or Stephen Hawking.

• Name a nation in the Caribbean that isn’t Cuba or Jamaica.

• Name one of the Marx Brothers.

• Name an island that is
  i. not part of the US,
  ii. not a continent, and
  iii. not a country on its own, but rather part of a country.

• Name a country in the Middle East that does not begin with a vowel.

• The president’s Cabinet has departments. Name one.

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:

@terentii

If she’s fifteen, I’d say it’s high time she learned them. :rolleyes:

Alternative Question: Who are Louie, Dewey, and Huey, and how can you tell them apart? :dubious:

No idea!! They sound really familiar though!

@Drunky_Smurf

Ok I actually know this one.

A comedien, a philosopher and a rock musician.

Who is Albert Einstein?

A famous scientist. He created the equasion E=MC2 (Just pretend that’s a squared number…)

@Deeg

Apparently your father is a bit more lenient regarding your language than my father was about mine.

Well, I can only get away with it on the internet. He doesn’t care if it’s for comedic purposes, so i’ll take what I can get. shrug.

@Dung_Beetle

Wait until he finds out she’s been answering all these quiz questions instead of doing her homework.

Homeschooled. I have a lot of spare time.

@notfrommensa

True or False:

1. 100 pounds is less than 100 kilograms
2. 100 yards is less than 100 meters
3. A house mortgage with a 10% interest rate is better than a house mortgage with 5% interest rate. (all other factors being equal)

1. False?
2. True?
3. True??
   Just guessing.

@aceplace57

I hope we haven’t scared the OP off.

It’s easy to forget has much general knowledge we absorb over the years. Especially trivia about tv shows, music, and other things we actually experienced. I admit it’s surprising to learn that not everyone knows who Hawkeye and Colonel Potter are. But a lot of people born after 1990 never saw that show unless they happened to see a rerun.

I’ll ask a basic civics question. I had Civics in 9th grade. How long do members of the US House serve? US Senators serve how long?

No, you haven’t scared me off! It’s a bit sad that I can’t seem to answer any of these. I’m trying!

Oh gee… I just went over this, and I have the notes, but I can’t look at them! So… I know it, but I can’t remember. :smack:

[aceplace57]

2 years for US House Members and 6 for Senators. The President serves a 4 year term.

It’s ok. This is just for fun.

I actually memorized this with the 2,4,6,8 kids song. 2, 4, 6 are the three answers.

[Purin]

@Kenm

Your father didn’t have to deal with the interwebz teaching you words like “swell”.

Nope, but I did learn that word when I was like… Three.

@Roderick_Femm

and “so’s your old man.” I got that one from Cap’n Billy’s Whizbang. Now excuse me while I re-buckle my knickerbockers below the knee.

Here’s one for the OP: name a continent that does not start with the letter “A” (if there are two words in the continent’s name, neither word can start with “A”).

Or if you prefer, name the other 6 continents where at least one word of the name does start with “A”.
Roddy

The internet is not that old, and neither are any of you adults (at least to me). I call my pops my ‘old man’ sometimes.

Oh, and the question? India.

@Count_Blucher

Q: What color was Katy Perry’s hair last year?
(Hint: its Very hard to get one this wrong)

Any color. She changes it all the time. (That should be fair… Hah!)

[Purin]

@Kimballkid

Chronos said those were things every adult citizen should know.

FIFTEEN IS NOT AN ADULT!!

That’s the part I was getting at. I don’t care how much she knows or doesn’t know.

Okay, look man. This is just a game. He can ask me whatever questions he wishes, even if it’s just for fun. I know the goal is not to stump me, but I also want to learn things, so i’m open to getting things wrong so I can learn about them. I appreciate your efforts to defend me, and thank you so much, but it’s not necessary!

[Inner_Stickler]

@Purin

1. This sounds familiar.

2. Harry Potter? I haven’t watched Harry Potter (Or read it. I don’t even know if this is HP or not.)

3. No clue.

4. She’s calling out, asking him where he is. Right? It’s gotta be right.

Dang, I thought YA was the way to go.

@Inner_Stickler

Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with dew?

How do you destroy the Black Cauldron?

Who is the main character of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty?

In Potions class, the intelligent student could learn to bottle fame, brew glory, or even what?

When Juliet asks “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo” what is she asking?

Willy Wonka/ The Candyman

A person must voluntarily climb into the cauldron knowing they will not emerge alive.

Flora, Fauna and Meriweather.

Stopper death.

Why are you named Romeo, but more generally, why, of all the people she had to fall in love with did it have to be the one guy her parents would approve of least on account of their families’ feud?
I’m afraid you’ve conflated the To be or not to be scene with the Alas, Poor Yorick scene, by the way. Don’t feel bad, many people think he’s got a skull in To be or not to be.

[Purin]

Malcandra, I forgot to answer some of your questions!

2. No idea!

3. Not sure, really… I thought they did attack penguins! I guess not, unless this is a reference.

[terentii]

@Purin

1. I don’t know… if he was a president, he had to be elected. Wait, is it Washington?

2. Four, yes?

3. No idea.

4. I should know this!!

5. No idea…!

ANSWERS (Which require further thought):

1. No, you don’t. Why not? (FYI, Washington was the only president ever to receive a unanimous vote from the Electoral College.)

2. Ten years. Why?

3. What, uhm, happened between 1812 and 1815?

4. Yes, you should. The answer is contained in the question.

5. 1841 and 1881. Why?

BONUS ANSWER:

… And how can you tell who is who? (Don’t go by the link; the order is wrong.)

[terentii]

@Kimballkid

I don’t care how much she knows or doesn’t know.

You should. She’ll be able to vote, drive a car, get married, and raise a child on her own in only three years.*

*Personally, I’m in favor of raising the age for all of these to 35.

[Kenm]

@Purin

Nope, but I did learn that word when I was like… Three.
The internet is not that old, and neither are any of you adults (at least to me). I call my pops my ‘old man’ sometimes.

That exchange between Roderick and me refers to this excerpt from the Music Man on YouTube. (He’s a con man.)

That scene is the swellest.

[Purin]

@terentii

ANSWERS (Which require further thought):

1. No, you don’t. Why not? (FYI, Washington was the only president ever to receive a unanimous vote from the Electoral College.)

2. Ten years. Why?

3. What, uhm, happened between 1812 and 1815?

4. Yes, you should. The answer is contained in the question.

5. 1841 and 1881. Why?

BONUS ANSWER:

http://www.weirdspace.dk/Disney/Graphics/HueyDeweyLouie.gif

… And how can you tell who is who? (Don’t go by the link; the order is wrong.)

1. I don’t know!

2. Don’t know that either.

3. ??? No idea.

4. …Washington…? I thought it was in some other state, for some reason.

5. ??

Bonus: Saw a spoiler for that question while editing, whoops!

[Purin]

@Kenm

That exchange between Roderick and me refers to this excerpt from the Music Man on YouTube. (He’s a con man.)

That scene is the swellest.

Indeed it’s swell! This is quite catchy.

[terentii]

@Purin

1. I don’t know!

2. Don’t know that either.

3. ??? No idea.

4. …Washington…? I thought it was in some other state, for some reason.

5. ??

Bonus: Saw a spoiler for that question while editing, whoops!

Instead of my telling you the correct answers, you’ll learn faster if you find them yourself with what I’ve already given you. If you’re homeschooled, you should know this already. (I’m a certified teacher, BTW.)