Another General Knowledge Test - Do Not Use a Search Engine or a Book - use your brain!?

Question

Explain in one or two brief sentences - testing peoples' general knowledge.
1. What is the cause for concern over Darfur?
2. Name the current members of the US Supreme Court.
3. Name the original members of the Rolling Stones and Beatles.
4. Name the 20th century US Presidents, in order.
5. What are stem cells?
6. Name the planets of our solar system.
7. How long does it take for the earth to orbit the sun?
8. Name 3 countries on each continent (except Australia and Antarctica obviously) and their capitals.

Answer 1

1. Systematic killing of large groups of people is generally frowned upon. Lack of action by the UN is even more disconcerting.
2.Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, and I could picture him but couldn't remember Justice Alito's name without looking him up. The rest of the Justices I wouldn't have got.
3. Heh. I do good to remember the names of people I meet in person. Paul Mcartney was one.
4. Name the 20th century US Presidents, in order.
<37 I can't remember in order.
37. Nixon
38. Ford
39. Carter
40. Reagan
41. G HW Bush
42. Clinton
43. GW Bush
5. Good question. I know common practice for baby stem cells is to take the raw cells from a impregnated embryo before it develops in to a human form. As I understand it, it's just cells that can become different types of cells.
6. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto, Planet X (Had to look Neptune up.)
7. 365.25 days
8. Heh, I knew playing Risk would come in to good use some day.
Africa: Egypt- Cairo, Ethiopia, Sudan
Asia: China, Kyrgistan (sp), Uzbekistan, Russia- Moscow
Europe: France- Paris, Belgium- Brussels, Norway- Oslo
North America: US- DC, Canada, Mexico- Mexico City
South America: Brazil, Venezuela, Panama - Panama City

Answer 2

The answer to number 3, I don't have the faintest idea- that was way before my time. But as for the others, it's genocide in Darfur; Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg, and Souter on the Court; McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton- 20th century presidents; stem cells are perpetually embryonic cells found in all organisms that repair and replenish tissues; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto are the planets; the earth orbits the sun in exactly 1 year. Canada (Ottawa) US (Washington) Mexico (Mexico City are on North America, Brazil (Brasilia) Peru (Lima) Chile (Santiago) are on South America, France (Paris) Italy (Rome) Greece (Athens) are in Europe, China (Beijing) Vietnam (Hanoi) South Korea (Seoul) are in Asia, Angola (Luanda) Kenya (Nairobi) Somalia (Mogadishu) are in Africa. The capital of Australia is Canberra, and Antarctica doesn't have one (obviously).

Answer 3

1. no idea (upset about it too)
2. Radcliffe, O'Connor, Scalia (that's it, can't think of the rest right now, is Marshall still around?)
3.Rolling Stones-Mick Jagger Beatles-Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George something, John Lennon.
4.theodore, eisehower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, ?, carter, reagan, bush, clinton, bush
5.Stem cells are the first to grow to produce a human, they are very useful for research.
6.Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto(even though they are going to "decide" if it's a planet and not some satellite in August I believe).
7.It takes approximately 365 and a quarter days for the earth to orbit the sun.
8.North America-Canada-Ottawa-U.S.-Washington, D.C.-Mexico- Mexico D.F.South America-Chile-Santiago, Columbia-Bogota, Brazil-Brasillia, Europe-France-Paris-Germany-Berlin-Spain-Barcelona-Asia-Japan, Tokyo-China, Beijing, India-New Delhi, Africa-Botswana, Kenya, Niger
So I probably got nothing right except for the planets.

Answer 4

1. The Cold War, which is called "cold" because it was different from a traditional "hot" war in that there were no actual military engagements between the two opposing factions, was the time period (1950s and 1960s) of extreme political tension between the US and the USSR during which the two rival nations teetered on the brink of actual war (possibly nuclear) on several occasions. 2. Adolf (Adolph) Hitler, an Austrian who served in WWI then rose to power in post-war Germany as leader of the Nazi Party and was elected Chancellor of Germany in the 1930s, instigated WWII by breaking the terms of the Versailles Treaty by invading Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland (among other things) and engineered the attempted genocide of the Jewish race, aka the Holocaust, in a sick effort to create a "pure Aryan" race for his hoped-for European empire. 3. A nuclear reactor splits atoms and in doing so, releases energy; the released energy is used to generate electricity. 4. Abraham Lincoln is famous because he: was president during the most divisive time period in US history, the Civil War; held the nation together; ended slavery in the US; was a self-made, self-educated man from a poor background (the ideal American); and died violently and tragically at an assassin's hand just days after the war's conclusion. 5. Sure--she couldn't possibly be worse then the current president. 6. A prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself. 7. I am not sure, but I think the leading cause of death in the US is some form of cancer. 8. I am not sure, but I think there are just over 200 bones in the human body--maybe 206.

Answer 5

dear lord! you're gonna have to give me some time to answer this one! I gotta go right now but I will be back to answer!

Okay so I was gonna come back and answer but a lot of ppl have answered below and I dont want to cheat (cause now I know about genocide in Darfur and I did not know before). So pick one of the geniuses that knew all those things.

Answer 6

1 idk
2 idk
3a idk rolling stones
3b john lennon, paul mccartney, george harrison, and rhichard starskey, or ringo star
4 idk
5 idk
6 mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupitar, saturn, uranus, neptune, pluto
7 355 1/4 days, approxamatly
8a north america - USA (washington DC), Mexico (Mexico City), Cananda (Ottawa)
8b south america - Brazil (Brazilia), Argentina (Buanos Aris), Venesuala (Caracus)
8c Europe - Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome), France (Paris)
8d Africa - Egypt (Ciaro), Libya (Tripoli), Tunisia (Tunis)
8e Asia - Japan (Tokyo), China (Beijang), India (Delhi)

Answer 7

Well, now, that is not fair. You can't ask questions and make the rules at the same time.... ;)
Sorry, but I would have to google to get some of the answers....:)

Answer 8

I think the answer is twenty two.

Answer 9

lol i must be stupid cause i dont think i could answer those with help roflmao