General Knowledge Quiz

[Andover]

Florida?

 

[MotCO]

Central Australia

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Central Australia

Not here

Florida?

Florida is correct

Your floor

 

[Andover]

Blimey, that was more of 'where wouldn't you think of' guess.

Apropos of the Spanish presence there, which word in that language could signify a military unit, a form of taxation, or a fraction?

 

[Calthrop]

Absolutely guessing in the dark: tercero ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Blimey, that was more of 'where wouldn't you think of' guess.

Apropos of the Spanish presence there, which word in that language could signify a military unit, a form of taxation, or a fraction?

Sounds like the Spanish version of "tithe".

 

[Andover]

Sounds like the Spanish version of "tithe".

Similar idea, different amounts.

Absolutely guessing in the dark: tercero ?

It's tercio, but I think that's plenty close enough. Su turno, señor.

 

[Calthrop]

Similar idea, different amounts.

It's tercio, but I think that's plenty close enough. Su turno, señor.

Thanks -- that's good of you. (Think I came across, and imperfectly remembered, the "military unit" bit: in an alternative-history novel where the Armada successfully lands.)

What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? (Not a wind-up; the word really exists.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Thanks -- that's good of you. (Think I came across, and imperfectly remembered, the "military unit" bit: in an alternative-history novel where the Armada successfully lands.)

What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? (Not a wind-up; the word really exists.)

Fear of big mouths.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Fear of big animals ( not just hippos) ?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Fear of long words.

 

[MotCO]

Fear of a group of hippos or horses

 

[Ashley Hill]

Fear of hippopotamuses making a joke about a Spanish surrealist.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Hippocampus is part if brain for memory and learning so maybe it is a fear of having to learn a large amount of data

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hippocampus is part if brain for memory and learning so maybe it is a fear of having to learn a large amount of data

Taking a hint from the brain and fear in homo sapiens, I will venture a guess at something that does not affect me, a fear of using big words, such as the word in the clue of this conundrum.

 

[Calthrop]

Have been out all day and away from computer -- just back.

Love the various imaginative / comical answers; however, @Peterthegreat, as below, has the rights of it:

Fear of long words.

Taking a hint from the brain and fear in homo sapiens, I will venture a guess at something that does not affect me, a fear of using big words, such as the word in the clue of this conundrum.

By my understanding: not a fear of using them as such -- just a general and overall fear of long words, and of having anything to do with them.

@Peterthegreat : next one is yours to set -- whether in long words, short ones, or anything in between.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
A short word.
What is a gyne?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Given what gynaecologists do, I am guessing a gyne is a woman.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Given what gynaecologists do, I am guessing a gyne is a woman.

Can you be more exact? It does originate from the Greek for female.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Females of a species?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Females of a species?

Again can you be more exact?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Taking as a hint female of a species.

Breeding females?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Taking as a hint female of a species.

Breeding females?

Very close. Usually refers to particular species.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Bees?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thinking of ants.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bees and ants are the main examples.
In general terms it normally refers to the "Queen".
@OhNoAPacer got there slightly before @Xenophon PCDGS so please set the next question.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Emanuel Lasker held the title of world chess champion for a record length of time, for how long did he hold the title?

 

[DaleCooper]

Emanuel Lasker held the title of world chess champion for a record length of time, for how long did he hold the title?

20 years

 

[OhNoAPacer]

20 years

Not a bad guess, but incorrect.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think he held that title at the turn of the 19th century, so I shall guess at 25 years.