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

[The Jonster]

Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistán, India, Bangladesh!

[Hunchman801]

While that's not the correct order, the countries are correct, so Jonster gets the point!

Roughly, the actual numbers are as follows:

1. Indonesia: 243M (87% of population)
2. Pakistan: 233M (97%)
3. India: 203M (15%)
4. Bangladesh: 151M (91%)
5. Nigeria: 96M (48%)

Iran and Turkey follow closely, but Afghanistan and Ethiopia are much further down the list.

Greengoop: 5
DaveRattlehead: 4
PluMGMK, Rsandee, The Jonster: 3

Question 22: Name 10 programming languages.

[dr_st]

C, C++, Java, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, Python, Perl, Assembly, MATLAB, C#, Basic, D, Tcl, JavaScript, Visual Basic for Applications... :D:D

[Rsandee]

C, R, Java, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, Python, Perl, Assembly, MATLAB, C#, Basic, D, Tcl, JavaScript, Visual Basic for Applications.

For the 1 in 1000000 chance that Humch will count C and C++ as the same programming language :')

[The Jonster]

Nooooooo a question that I feel confident about (even though I don’t practice very much)!!!!!
….And I can’t answer because of rules.

Btw I like how you guys randomly just went for more than 10 languages

[PluMGMK]

You'll notice that they named 0x10 languages

[dr_st]

Well, as far as historical languages go, I could also add Fortran and COBOL.

And if one considers shell scripting languages, one could name Bash, C-Shell, Powershell and even DOS/NT batch programming.

However I like Plum's 0x10 idea, so I'll pretend it was intentional.

[Greengoop]

If I could name 10 off the top of my head, there’d be Python, Lua, C++, Scratch, Arch, Unix, C#, Unity aand that’s all I can name

[The Jonster]

You'll notice that they named 0x10 languages

That's an interesting note! If all of these answers were put into an array, the endpoint would be how many languages are the same between the two answers.

Unfortunately, this pattern has now been broken thanks to Greengoop. On top of this offense, I'm afraid I'm going to have to deduct o1720440 Tings from him.

[Rsandee]

Well, as far as historical languages go, I could also add Fortran and COBOL.

In theoretical chemistry we still use Fortran, even after 60 years.

[Hunchman801]

I see no reason to deny dr_st this well-deserved point and let him join the leaderboard! Where was he when I asked about Lord of the Rings though?

Greengoop: 5
DaveRattlehead: 4
PluMGMK, Rsandee, The Jonster: 3
dr_st: 1

Question 23: What is the name of the technology invented in 2017 which underpins all of today's AI language models?

[Greengoop]

OpenAI?

[DaveRattlehead]

Transformer!

[Hunchman801]

Transformer!

That's right, the transformer is a type of neural network architecture that was developed in 2017 by researchers at Google. It superseded recurrent neural networks and ushered a new era of AI.

DaveRattlehead, Greengoop: 5
PluMGMK, Rsandee, The Jonster: 3
dr_st: 1

Question 24: Name five active territorial conflicts involving at least one internationally recognized state each.

[dr_st]

That's easy, because Israel is internationally recognized, and has a territorial conflict with Syria, with Lebanon, and with the PLO. That's three even if Syria had stopped being a country recently,
LOL, there is also Russia-Ukraine. Sudan - South Sudan (is that still active?). You could also add China-Taiwan (is that considered a conflict? China basically doesn't recognize Taiwan). The Western Sahara dispute between Morocco and Mauritania. How about the Houthis in Yemen?

[Hunchman801]

That's certainly enough to warrant a second point for dr_st! Sadly, there is not shortage of such conflicts in the world...

DaveRattlehead, Greengoop: 5
PluMGMK, Rsandee, The Jonster: 3
dr_st: 2

Question 25: Tyrian purple is a natural dye which was greatly prized in antiquity. What is it extracted from?

[DaveRattlehead]

Oops, dr_st was faster!

It's extracted from a mocus of some sea snails. It's also known as royal purple because it was very expensive.

[PluMGMK]

I wanna say squid? Could be totally off the mark...

[Greengoop]

Is it from whelks?

[Pirez]

Imma try red cabbage, based on the fact that I once boiled one of those, then spilled the water that ruined some clothes forever.