Test Your Common Knowledge

What professional sport bestows the Grey Cup?

According to the World Wide Web: canadian football.

How many american president has been in office while Fidel Castro has been the leader of Cuba? What are their names?

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

If this is all common knowledge, I feel uncommonly stupid.

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Me too

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Aw come on, guys! What year did Fidel seize power in Cuba?

In 1959....



Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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JFK

Where is Mesopotamia located?

irak
promotional question...hehe...sorry....where's croatia?

In Europe, beside Slovenia.

How many minutes in a year?

525600
the capitol of romania

Bukarest

And the answer to my question by the way is: 10; Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II.

Which city in the world is the fastest growing (financially as well as geographically)?

hmm..berlin or mexico city?

Shanghai (in communist China).

What's the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?

Same thing, except cosmonaut is what Russians call their astronauts

What does SCUBA stand for?

Self contained underwater breathing apparatus



Which former US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?

Jimmy Carter

Which is the highest mountain top in Europe?

Elbrus

Which mountain range in the US is shaped like a human heart in satellite photos?
(Hint: these mountains are sacred to Native Americans)




I think the name of this thread needs to be changed to "Un-common Knowledge"...

elbrus? isn't it mt. blanc?

I thought it was Mont Blanc (4807m) too… but according to a little CIA fact book I have, Elbrus (5642m), in the Caucasus Mountains is the highest… I did a bit of checking after I saw your post, and from what I could figure out, some of the confusion seems to be due to the fact a small portion of the Caucasus Mountain ridge forms part of the European-Asian border… but the majority of the ridge is on the Russian-Georgian border… (I think )

Mont Blanc is what we learned in school and probably because Elbrus was considered to be in Asia. But Cait might be right. Anyway, I don't think the highest mountain top of Europe is an example of "un-common" knowledge.

I don't have a clue about the heart shaped mountain range... The Rocky Mountains?