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| General Knowledge Menu |
Yes, I know the whole site is about General Knowledge - but this category is even more general than the others. It covers:
| Advertising | – slogans, etc. |
| Ages and the Law | – at what age can you ... ? |
| Aristocracy: miscellaneous | – stuff about the aristocracy, that doesn't come under The Landed Gentry, Peerages, or Dukedoms |
| Armed Forces | |
| Armour | – mainly, "Which part of the body is protected by the ... ?" |
| Banknotes | |
| Business | |
| Ceremonies and Officials | |
| Clothes and Fashion | |
| Clothing Care | – what do all those symbols on clothing care labels mean? |
| Coins | |
| Collective Nouns | – a contentious subject in quizzes - treated as peremptorily as I dare |
| Colours | – primary colours, etc. |
| Computers | – non-scientific stuff about computers |
| Crafts | – including materials, etc. |
| Customs - UK | |
| Customs - other | – including martial arts |
| Days of the Week | – about their names in various languages, and who or what they're named after |
| Designers | – see also Architects, Clothes and Fashion |
| Dogs | – breeds, real life dogs, fictional dogs, etc. |
| Domestic animals | – questions about animals (including birds, etc.) that don't come under Natural History. But see also Dogs and Horses |
| Dukedoms | – brief histories of some of the more prominent British dukedoms |
| Education | |
| The EU and the Eurozone | – which countries are members of which (and which aren't) |
| Finance | |
| Flags | – including the Union Jack, the British Royal Standard, etc. |
| Heraldry | |
| Horses | |
| Inscriptions | – including epitaphs (etc.) |
| Inventions and Discoveries | |
| Jobs | – e.g. "What did a fletcher make"? |
| The Landed Gentry | – e.g. "What is the family name of the Dukes of Marlborough?" |
| Law | |
| Letters | – letters of the alphabet, including all alphabets (particularly the Greek one) |
| London | |
| Medals and Honours | |
| Mileages | – how far is it from ... to ... ? (also in kilometres!) |
| Mottoes | |
| Nicknames of Places and Things | |
| Nobel Prizes | |
| Numbers | |
| Ologies | – e.g. "What is aetiology the study of?" |
| Organisations | |
| Peerages | – what title was adopted by ... ? |
| Perfumes | – which fashion house produces (such-and-such a perfume)? |
| Pets | – animals that have names, and aren't dogs or horses |
| Phobias | – see Collective Nouns, above (the same comment applies) |
| Plants (domesticated) | – mainly about plants that are used for food or other purposes |
| Police | |
| Precious Metals | |
| Publishing | – including newspapers, etc. |
| Roman Numerals | |
| Royal Dates | – significant dates for the British royal family |
| The Royal Family | |
| St. George | |
| Sets | – e.g. who were the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? |
| Stamps | – postage stamps, that is |
| Superlatives | – the first, last, biggest, oldest, etc. ... of various things |
| Tarot | |
| Types | – what are ... types of? |
| Unclassifiable | – some questions just don't fit into my system! |
| Websites | – and Social Media ... etc. |
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