Quote: etinixa - 2010.09.26. 23:16:59
1st I never got a response to whether I answered the question right or wrong (a hunt ended just as I clicked the answer button) so I don't know what answer is marked as correct.
2nd Whatever the correct answer in the quiz, in the USA a tomato is legally a vegetable, (there is a supreme court ruling stating that,) but for the rest of us its a fruit.

The answer is fruit...and I was replying to the request by someone else that it be changed to vegetable because "I use it like a vegetable".

The issue is in the realm of science, if my country decided all bears were marsupials, that wouldn't change the fact that science has a very detailed classification system which puts them elsewhere, and that is what should be used here, as the universal answer.

Quote: DoomDudeRuby1 - 2010.09.27. 23:37:39

This has been covered. Hanson's title was President of Congress, not President of the USA.

Quote: etinixa - 2010.09.28. 08:30:29

The issue is not just in the realm of science. It's in the realm of linguistics. If some committee in your country decided that all bears were marsupials, you'd be right. But if the general public in your country used the word "marsupial" to refer to a group of animals that included bears, you'd be wrong.

Besides, if you want to get technical, all fruits are also vegetables. So no matter how you approach it, the question is at least ambiguous and should be removed.

You're saying what the general public believes to be true superceeds the fact? That's what kept Europe in the dark ages.

All fruits are vegetables, but since they are a sub-classification they are separate from vegetables. A pitbull is a breed of dog and that makes it a dog, but if you ask me whether its a pitbull or a great dane, the answer is unassailable and the same applies. These quizzes are only wrong if the fact is wrong, or if it truly cannot be determined.

Tomato; fruit or vegetable, look it up anywhere and unless you've stumbled onto vague philosophizing, as we are doing now, its a cold hard fruit.

Quote: etinixa - 2010.09.28. 20:29:24

I'm saying that language is a collection of conventions. The question wording was "What is a Tomato?", not "What is a tomato scientifically classified as?". As such, the question can be legitimately interpreted as a linguistic question. In which case, common usage is enough to make "vegetable" correct.

Quote: etinixa - 2010.09.28. 20:29:24

If a subclass were separate from its superclass, it wouldn't be a subclass. Duh!

Quote: etinixa - 2010.09.28. 20:29:24

That's a totally bogus analogy. Pit bulls are not a subclass of great danes. The correct analogy would be asking you whether a pit bull (tomato) is a dog (fruit) or a mammal (vegetable). And obviously, it is both.

According to the book, The Hobbit, what is the answer to the riddle Gollum is unable to guess? What is in Bilbo's pocket?
a golden ring *
a gold coin
a daffodil
a fish

Though I have no trouble answering this one, I'd say it's a specialist knowledge.

Tortuga is not which of the following?
A butterfly fron Brazil
A ship in the United States Navy
A Caribbean Rum Cake
An island in Haiti


Lexical, uninteresting, and a pain in the royal ass.

[quote author=daktarus date=1280349653]I was asked a question: what is taller when standing on hind legs?
a) a bare
b)a cat
C)a rat
d) a dog
I said a dog as there is no such animal as a "bare" there is how ever A "bear" watch the spelling mistakes people!How did that get through? and can you rectify this ASAP thankyou.[/quote]


I just got this same questions and I also answered Dog as I thought the "bare" was a trick answer. I was in the middle of my answer 20 questions correct quest... now I've got to start over. Please catch the spelling errors.

Which of these is not true about Norah Jones?
She plays piano/keyboards and guitar.
Her album Come Away with Me earned 5 Grammy Awards.
She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar.
She never played in any movie. *

All of this is true.
"In 2007, Jones made her acting debut as the protagonist in a film directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film, My Blueberry Nights, opened for the 2007 Cannes Film Festival"

Quote: LeWatcher - 2010.09.30. 22:20:58


Yet another example of an issue brought up many months ago... Action taken - None.

Seriously, it IS time to remove the Quiz.

posted this while ago and its still not fixed

What color is the blood of a lobster, when exposed to air?

clear
red
green
blue <-------------

lobstor blood is clear NOT BLUE do a google there isnt any website that lists the c olour of lobstor blood as blue, ts clear and opaque when b oiled.

PLEASE FIX This im sick of getting answers correct and losing the SE cos the question is wrong.

and fo r the LAST TIME if u need any help with clearing all these problem questions from databsse i will volunteer.

As of June 1010 which country has the most world cups?

just got this question... and it needs to be removed.

"What is the world most deadly animal?"

answers given were
Mosquito (correct according to this person)
Jellyfish
scorpion
one other i don't recal

Mosquito's are NOT the most deadly animal in the world.

The top prize for “The World Most Deadly Animal,” would go to the Box Jellyfish. It has caused at least 5,567 recorded deaths since 1954. Their venom is among the most deadly in the world. It’s toxins attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. And the worst part of it is that jelly box venom is so overpoweringly painful, that human victims go in shock, drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. Survivors experience pain weeks after the contact with box jellies.

maybe the person askig the question means what animal has the most fatalities per year in the world.. that would be a totally different question. Then it could indeed be the mosquito. but most DEADLY is not a mosquito.
deadly means lethal. A mosquito itself is not lethal, the viruses it can carry however are, but a normal mosquito is harmless if it is not infected with a virus (and many mosquito's are NOT)

Quote: Salanea - 2010.10.02. 01:28:53



Wrong, Mosquito's are the deadliest on that list since they transmit Malaria.

Where was Marco Polo born?
Rome
Genoa
Milan
Venice

This is not a proven fact, as even now there are disputes weather he was born in Venice, Italy or Korcula, Croatia

ImLittleJon, get off your high horse


Who was responsible for curing polio?

Fred Klenner
William MacArthur
Marvin Hudginson
Douglas P. Rutherford

According to the quiz, it is Fred Klenner. Never heard of him, and there is no such thing as a "cure" for polio. You got it, you just have to live it out.
There is a vaccine, which is probably what the author had in mind when creating the quiz, since it has virtually eliminated polio in the modern age. Jonas Salk developed one, and Albert Sabin a second one, both of which are used today.

Remove or adjust please.

What runs like a deer?
Tractor <-- right
4 Wheeler
Truck
Something else

What? Does this make sense to anyone else? I have absolutely no idea what this question is asking or how a tractor is the right answer?

Quote: DoomDudeRuby1 - 2010.10.04. 17:22:17

This has already been discussed, at length.

Quote: DoomDudeRuby1 - 2010.10.04. 17:22:17

i think they outsmarted themselves, the tractor they refer to is a John Deere so the question is wrong on many levels, a deer is the mommy of Bambi and has nothing to do with tractors.