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Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:45 pm
by 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?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:46 pm
by Greengoop
Was it Russia?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:54 pm
by Pirez
Isn't that the name of the ideal, perfect world in the works of Plato?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 9:23 pm
by 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.

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 1:27 pm
by Hunchman801
Yes, but who coined it first?

Everyone may answer again.

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 3:08 pm
by DaveRattlehead
Thomas More wrote the famous book Utopia and he describes that “perfect society” there, but not sure if he's the first one?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 4:03 pm
by Hunchman801
I believe he is!

DaveRattlehead, Greengoop, PluMGMK: 1

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

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 4:17 pm
by 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 :lol:

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 4:26 pm
by dr_st
If not either of these, then maybe Belgium?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 5:07 pm
by Greengoop
Could it be Germany? Even though I know it’s not

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 5:31 pm
by 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.

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:02 pm
by Rsandee
I'm going to ignore Hungarian and Finnish' similarity to Turkish. Westernmost: Turkish. Easternmost: Yakut (Siberia).

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:17 pm
by 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?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:31 pm
by Greengoop
Augustus? Just guessing here

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:32 pm
by Rsandee
Just gonna randomly go with Marcus Crassus, just to stop myself from making a Monty Python joke.

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:47 pm
by Hunchman801
It's neither of those!

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 10:05 pm
by Pirez
Marcus Aurelius?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 10:34 pm
by Hunchman801
It was centuries after those three: if that helps, the battle took place in 451.

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 4:54 pm
by 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?

Re: The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 9 - Hunchman801

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 5:09 pm
by 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