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

[Hunchman801]

The answer was the council of Chalcedon! Let's move on to another topic now (and hopefully, something easier).

Greengoop, PluMGMK: 1

Question 4: Where does the word utopia originate?

[Greengoop]

Was it Russia?

[Pirez]

Isn't that the name of the ideal, perfect world in the works of Plato?

[PluMGMK]

Utopia comes from the Greek words "ου-" (no) and "τοπος" (place), meaning "no-where" – i.e. a perfect world that doesn't actually exist.

[Hunchman801]

Yes, but who coined it first?

Everyone may answer again.

[DaveRattlehead]

Thomas More wrote the famous book Utopia and he describes that “perfect society” there, but not sure if he's the first one?

[Hunchman801]

I believe he is!

DaveRattlehead, Greengoop, PluMGMK: 1

Question 5: What country does France share its longest border with?

[DaveRattlehead]

The obvious answer would be Spain, but I have the feeling that there's a trick in this question, so I'll say Brazil because the French Guiana is there

[dr_st]

If not either of these, then maybe Belgium?

[Greengoop]

Could it be Germany? Even though I know it’s not

[Hunchman801]

And Dave scores another point with Brazil (730 km)! Spain is indeed next (646 km), followed by Belgium and Suriname (both 556 km). Germany (418 km) comes after Switzerland (525 km) and Italy (476 km). You may not answer the next question.

DaveRattlehead: 2
Greengoop, PluMGMK: 1

Question 6: What are the westernmost and easternmost Turkic languages? The closest answer will get the point.

[Rsandee]

I'm going to ignore Hungarian and Finnish' similarity to Turkish. Westernmost: Turkish. Easternmost: Yakut (Siberia).

[Hunchman801]

I don't think it's possible to find a better answer, so Rsandee gets the point! As for the possible common origin of Turkic and Uralic languages, I don't believe that there's a scientific consensus on the matter.

DaveRattlehead: 2
Greengoop, PluMGMK, Rsandee: 1

Question 7: Who led the Roman army that defeated the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains?

[Greengoop]

Augustus? Just guessing here

[Rsandee]

Just gonna randomly go with Marcus Crassus, just to stop myself from making a Monty Python joke.

[Hunchman801]

It's neither of those!

[Pirez]

Marcus Aurelius?

[Hunchman801]

It was centuries after those three: if that helps, the battle took place in 451.

[Hunchman801]

All right, it's been a few days, so let's move on! The answer was the patrician Flavius Aetius.

DaveRattlehead: 2
Greengoop, PluMGMK, Rsandee: 1

Question 8: What was the main cause of the First Crusade?

[Greengoop]

That the Turks had conquered Jerusalem, and they were against Christian pilgrimages, so the Turkish and Catholic Churches both decided to take Jerusalem back