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

[Oakminster]

@Oakminster

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.”

Still awaiting answers…

[Purin]

@terentii

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.)

I’ll look them up! And yeah, maybe so, but selective memory is hard to deal with. I wish I didn’t have it. :smack:

[Purin]

@Oakminster

Still awaiting answers…

Whoops! I totally missed you. So sorry!

1. I have no idea…

2. I feel like I have heard this before, but I can’t seem to figure it out.

3. Was it Ronald Reagan? :dubious:

[cmyk]

This is proving to be rather useful on a lot of the topics I’m going to have you brush up on!

[pulykamell]

@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?

@Purin血

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

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

1. There’s no real good reason to know this one nowadays that I can think of, but a gross is a dozen dozen or 144.

2. This one may be more useful to know if you need to calculate something out, but a mile is 5280 feet. I don’t know if it helps or confuses the point, but if you’ve run track, you might know that 1/4 mile is 440 yards (the quarter mile race is sometimes called the 440 yard dash). There’s three feet in a yard, so if you do the math, you’ll get 5280 feet.

3. You didn’t answer this one, but this is probably the most useful in day-to-day life if you like to cook. It’s 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon.

[Little_Nemo]

How about the Purin gets a chance for payback. Let’s have her ask us questions and see what we know.

[pulykamell]

OK, three more, from the category Games:

1. How many cards in a standard deck of playing cards, excluding jokers?

2. I rolled a standard six-sided die and it came up a 2. What number (or technically what number of pips) is on the other side?

3. What number is at the very top of a standard dart board?

[Kalea]

I’ll play, since we didn’t manage to scare off the OP:

1: Geography: What is the alphabetically first state (US)?

2: History: Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

3: Arts & Literature: Which artist painted “Starry Night”?

4: Science & Nature: What is the closest star to Earth?

5: Entertainment: Name a currently popular TV show which is made in the UK (multiple acceptable answers).

6: Sports & Leisure: What sport is associated with Wimbledon?

[Queen_Tonya]

Easy anatomy time!

1. Where are your irises?

2. Breathing in and out is known as:
   a. inhalation
   b. respiration
   c. expiration

3. What is the largest muscle in the human body?

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

5. You’ve heard of carpal-tunnel syndrome probably. Where in your body are the Carpals? Bonus: where are the Tarsals?

6. What causes the common cold?
   a. cold weather
   b. viruses
   c. going outside with wet hair

7. What is the largest organ in the human body?

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

9. Where are your biceps?

10. In Fahrenheit, what’s a normal body temperature?

[Oakminster]

@Purin

Whoops! I totally missed you. So sorry!

1. I have no idea…

2. I feel like I have heard this before, but I can’t seem to figure it out.

3. Was it Ronald Reagan? :dubious:

No problemo

1. Shakespeare

2. There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Popularized by Robert Heinlein in *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. *.

3. Correct! I get a point!

New Questions:

1. Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?

2. What passenger ship sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg?

3. What country attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

[Purin]

@Leaffan

Correct.

What is the capital of Canada?

Ottawa…?

@Ambivalid

What is type 2 diabetes and how does it differ from type 1?

You only get Type 2 when you’re an adult, and it happens to a lot of pregnant women… (last time I checked anyways…)

@Johnny_Bravo

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?

1.Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

2. Something-ism… CRAP!

3. I hate you!!

4. 8-track tapes??

5. 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:

6. 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.

@cochrane

Fonzie could make a jukebox play by hitting it. Aaaaa-yyyyyy!

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?

1. I remember learning about this, but I forget who it was exactly.

2. …I don’t know anything about presidents, do I?

3. No idea!

@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!

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.

Now, this might be something I can do.

1. Prunes are dried plums, if I can remember correctly. It was some sort of dried fruit.

2. Salty, Sweet, Sour, Bitter, and… I can’t remember the last one!

3. …Uh, basil? Right? Or bay leaves? Crap!

4. Damn, I can’t think of what makes them different!

5. …Why do I want to say sugar cane. That’s a guess, i’m most likely wrong I think. Sugar in the raw, too? Probably not.

@bienville

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

1. Don’t know. I don’t think i’ve ever seen The Little Mermaid. (Not a Disney original movie watcher.)

2. I don’t think i’ve ever even heard of those books before.

3. …What are marsupials again?? This is embarrassing.

4. I’m bad at this. So bad at this. I’m going to learn this soon, but I haven’t yet!

5. The ‘V’ in HIV stands for virus, right? …I don’t know anything else.

6. I think you spelled them both right…? And I think Columbia is farther north? I can’t remember.

7. I think Carly Rae Jaspen, either her or Lorde. I know JB is canadian though.

@Ravenman

Who has sold more albums: One Direction or Justin Bieber?

I think it’s JB. I hate them both though.

@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)

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.

The ‘thing’ in my username is a Japanese symbol known as a Kanji. I’m a very large anime and manga fan, and I love Japanese culture just as much, if not, even more. (Hint hint, wink wink for you guys asking questions!).

It is pronounced ‘chi’ (like in ‘CHEEse’) and it is the kanji for the word ‘blood’.

God, I love telling people about what my name means! I get excited when I have the opportunity to teach people more about this stuff.

@The_Mad_Hermit

Why should we be concerned, even a little, about what’s under Yellowstone?

Oh gee, another reference, maybe? I’m not sure!

@glee

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

I saw the spoiler, but it doesn’t matter too much because I wouldn’t have known anyways!

And the members of 1D? …Uh… isn’t one named Zayne? Or something? Harry Styles…? However you spell his name? I don’t know the others.

@Desert_Nomad

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?

1. Crap. Whoops. Well, there’s the Queen of England. I forget her actual name though.

2. I honestly have no idea…!

3. No clue, either.

@enipla

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?

1. Let me think. Nevada, New Mexico? (Or is it Arizona…)

2. Green!

3. I don’t know!

@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.

I’m going to go with Sailor Moon. I think they’re making a remake of that anime soonish.

@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?

…I don’t know, but i’m going to guess, is it Martin Luther King Jr.?

@Czarcasm

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?

1. Nothing.

2. Cold… and windy.

3. I think it’s Adventure Time, if we’re excluding anime.

@Macca26

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!

It’s not rubbing alcohol, is it? I doubt it. Carbon Peroxide? …Maybe??

@Pixel_Dent

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?

1. France.
2. Rome???
3. Japan???
4. I’m not sure. Soccer?
5. South America??
6. Spanish?

@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?

@Czarcasm

Shut your eyes…now tell me how many fingers you are holding up.

Another reference? I have no idea.

@cmyk

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?

I don’t know, dad. sigh. :dubious:

[Baron_Greenback]

@Purin

I appreciate your efforts to defend me, and thank you so much, but it’s not necessary!

Good response.

How many characters of user input are allowed in a single tweet?

[Purin]

@cmyk

This is proving to be rather useful on a lot of the topics I’m going to have you brush up on!

See what you guys did? By stumping me, you have given my father this idea. …And given me a bad case of embarrassment.

House and Senate… What the hell was I thinking?

@Little_Nemo

How about the Purin gets a chance for payback. Let’s have her ask us questions and see what we know.

…I wouldn’t know any questions, besides anime and manga and Japanese culture… Unless you want to test your knowledge on that.

@pulykamell

OK, three more, from the category Games:

1. How many cards in a standard deck of playing cards, excluding jokers?

2. I rolled a standard six-sided die and it came up a 2. What number (or technically what number of pips) is on the other side?

3. What number is at the very top of a standard dart board?

1. 56? 52? …I think it’s 52 including jokers, but 50 without?

2. 4?

3. Aw, fuck, I used to know this, since I had like 2 dartboards. But, I can’t remember.

@Kalea

I’ll play, since we didn’t manage to scare off the OP:

1: Geography: What is the alphabetically first state (US)?

2: History: Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

3: Arts & Literature: Which artist painted “Starry Night”?

4: Science & Nature: What is the closest star to Earth?

5: Entertainment: Name a currently popular TV show which is made in the UK (multiple acceptable answers).

6: Sports & Leisure: What sport is associated with Wimbledon?

1. Alabama.

2. You’re killing me here!

3. Vincent Van Gogh!

4. No idea.

5. Doctor Who! (Just for the record, I don’t watch it, haha!)

6. Cricket?? I have no idea. It sounded British to me!

@Queen_Tonya

Easy anatomy time!

1. Where are your irises?

2. Breathing in and out is known as:
   a. inhalation
   b. respiration
   c. expiration

3. What is the largest muscle in the human body?

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

5. You’ve heard of carpal-tunnel syndrome probably. Where in your body are the Carpals? Bonus: where are the Tarsals?

6. What causes the common cold?
   a. cold weather
   b. viruses
   c. going outside with wet hair

7. What is the largest organ in the human body?

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

9. Where are your biceps?

10. In Fahrenheit, what’s a normal body temperature?

1. Around your pupils! They are the colored parts of your eyes.

2. B.

3. Oh… Got me there. I don’t know! Stomach muscle?

4. Oh, man! Got me here too.

5. I have Carpal Tunnel, so they’re in your arms? Bonus: No idea.

6. B. Viruses. Viruses that you can get easily with the other two options.

7. Your skin!

8. No, they aren’t. I don’t know why, but i’m guessing because your arteries are vital if you manage to cut them somehow. You could bleed out in minutes!

9. Your arms?

10. 98.5 degrees.

@Oakminster

No problemo

1. Shakespeare

2. There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Popularized by Robert Heinlein in *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. *.

3. Correct! I get a point!

New Questions:

1. Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?

2. What passenger ship sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg?

3. What country attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

1. No clue!

2. The Titanic!

3. Japan, right?

[Purin]

@Baron_Greenback

Good response.

How many characters of user input are allowed in a single tweet?

I don’t have a Twitter, but it’s like 162? Or something?

[Oakminster]

@Purin

1. No clue!

2. The Titanic!

3. Japan, right?

1. Tennessee Williams. You’ll likely read it in Sophomore Literature when you get to college.

2&3 are both correct

[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?

[Kalea]

@Kalea

1: Geography: What is the alphabetically first state (US)?
2: History: Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
3: Arts & Literature: Which artist painted “Starry Night”?
4: Science & Nature: What is the closest star to Earth?
5: Entertainment: Name a currently popular TV show which is made in the UK (multiple acceptable answers).
6: Sports & Leisure: What sport is associated with Wimbledon?

1. Alabama.
2. You’re killing me here!
3. Vincent Van Gogh!
4. No idea.
5. Doctor Who! (Just for the record, I don’t watch it, haha!)
6. Cricket?? I have no idea. It sounded British to me!

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?

[Baron_Greenback]

@Purin

I don’t have a Twitter, but it’s like 162? Or something?

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.

[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)

[cochrane]

@cochrane

Fonzie could make a jukebox play by hitting it. Aaaaa-yyyyyy!

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?

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.