The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 13 – Reese Riverson

[Rsandee]

Well, I would refer to some of those as peoples rather than tribes, but Aztecs, Mayas, Toltecs, Zapotecs, Incas, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Dakota, Sioux, Nez-Percés? I didn't even get started with the Inuit.

Correct! I didn't ask for more than 10 because I'm not sure how many of those are considered general knowledge.

Greengoop: 6
Humchman801: 4 + BONUS
Pirez: 3
DaveRattlehead: 2
PluMGMK: 2
The Jonster: 2
dr_st: 1
Magelin: 1
EdgeRabbit: 1

Question 21: The people of the islands of Hawaii (or Hawaiʻi) speak a very interesting and unique language. Please give me 3 Hawaiian words and explain their meaning, place names don't count.

[Greengoop]

Qjehqioqoskchfhejeooepel means hello, qoqopwisnsqpp means cheese, and Nwpqlbd means seven hundred and sixteen

[Rsandee]

Qjehqioqoskchfhejeooepel means hello, qoqopwisnsqpp means cheese, and Nwpqlbd means seven hundred and sixteen

You never watched Lilo & Stitch or listened to Elvis Presley huh

[The Jonster]

No he just wanted to make a stupid answer so he can have a post in.

Let's see, I'll go with these 3 as a guess: aloha could be hello or goodbye, mahalo is thank you, and ohana means family.

[Rsandee]

No he just wanted to make a stupid answer so he can have a post in.

Let's see, I'll go with these 3 as a guess: aloha could be hello or goodbye, mahalo is thank you, and ohana means family.

Greengoop: 6
Humchman801: 4 + BONUS
Pirez: 3
The Jonster: 3
DaveRattlehead: 2
PluMGMK: 2
dr_st: 1
Magelin: 1
EdgeRabbit: 1

Question 22: The US state of Georgia shares its name with the country of Georgia in the Caucasus, sometimes leading to funny misunderstandings. What is the country of Georgia called in Georgian?

[PluMGMK]

Qjehqioqoskchfhejeooepel means hello, qoqopwisnsqpp means cheese, and Nwpqlbd means seven hundred and sixteen

Come on, this is getting really annoying now. Stop it please.

I'm afraid I don't have an answer to this question, but I must say that's a really interesting fact about the LA oil rigs!

[Greengoop]

Wasn’t Georgia’s name something like Zausab in its actual country? (I’m pretty sure it started with a z and ended with an s)

[Hunchman801]

It's called Sakartvelo, (საქართველო), something that could be translated as "land of the Kartvelians".

Inuits aren’t Native American, they come from Siberia and first came to America circa 900AD

Is that too late qualify? The others did the same but earlier.

[Greengoop]

It's called Sakartvelo, (საქართველო), something that could be translated as "land of the Kartvelians".

Read that as “land of the Knaarens”

Is that too late qualify? The others did the same but earlier.

Yeah, especially considering that the Irish visited North America before the Inuits

[Hunchman801]

Yeah, especially considering that the Irish visited North America before the Inuits

Are you referring to this story of Irish monks that might have reached Greenland? I don't think it's anything more than some folk tale.

All the "Native Americans" that arrived earlier also came though the Bering Strait, so, if there's a cut-off date that makes sense to separate "native" from "non-native", it's probably the arrival of Europeans on mainland America in 1497 or 1498. Regardless, "native" and "indigenous" are subjective terms and it's probably best to use "pre-Columbian".

[Greengoop]

No, it’s more likely they reached the United States, considering the discoveries at Horse Creek

[Hunchman801]

What discoveries are you talking about? As far as I know, the only Europeans to ever have reached America (Greenland excluded) in the pre-Columbian era are the Norse and there's no proof that they even reached the mainland.

[Greengoop]

Ancient Irish writings talking about god and Jesus were discovered at horse creek, West Virginia in 1982, essentially. This practically confirms the Irish visited North America

[Hunchman801]

This appears to be a fringe theory popularized by social media and quite the opposite of scientific consensus here.

[Greengoop]

What do you mean by that? Irish linguistics have literally been able to translate the text

[Hunchman801]

And from what I'm reading, others have been able to translate it from other languages too. Maybe they all just found what they were looking for?

Anyway, have you found any reputable source that supports this theory? A quick search only returned a bunch of personal websites.

[Greengoop]

I’d assume those personal websites were run by professional linguistics, I don’t think it has ever been covered by a big source, but the official black history website has covered similar writings found in Nigeria

[Hunchman801]

There's a bunch of qualified scientists who deny climate change, and yet that does not make their opinion the scientific consensus. It appears obvious to me, given the historical significance of such a discovery, that the story would be covered by every reputable encyclopedia if that was the consensus regarding those petroglyphs.

[Rsandee]

It's called Sakartvelo, (საქართველო), something that could be translated as "land of the Kartvelians".

Correct!

Ancient Irish writings talking about god and Jesus were discovered at horse creek, West Virginia in 1982, essentially. This practically confirms the Irish visited North America

While this is an interesting discussion, it's not relevant to the quiz because Humch got the question right even without choosing the Inuits. He just mentioned them.

Greengoop: 6
Humchman801: 5 + BONUS
Pirez: 3
The Jonster: 3
DaveRattlehead: 2
PluMGMK: 2
dr_st: 1
Magelin: 1
EdgeRabbit: 1

Question 23: Since the ancient Greeks and Romans referred to Georgia as "Iberia", we will now move on to Spain (in the modern day Iberian peninsula). There is a delicious dish in Spain called paella that comes from the Valenciana region. Many foreigners try to replicate this Spanish dish but fail to do so, most of the time because they refuse to follow the recipe or they use a completely different cooking method. There is a very specific name for this kind of paella, because they would never actually call such a dish a real paella. What is this choice name for a paella in which people just throw together whatever they want without caring for the traditional recipe?

[Greengoop]

Is it just salmon Paella or something?

While this is an interesting discussion, it's not relevant to the quiz because Humch got the question right even without choosing the Inuits. He just mentioned them.

Well, I’d happily move this discussion to the languages topic, if anyone was up for it!