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Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
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 Title text: Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London |
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The comic shows Cueball reading off bad trivia questions which are either confusing or don't have an answer.
The caption states that this is because he was paid to sabotage other bars that offer trivia so that people will want to go to the one that hired him.
1. Which member of BTS has a birthday this year?
BTS is a K-Pop group. Every member would have a birthday in 1 year.
2. How many sides does a platonic solid have?
4, 6, 8, 12, or 20 in Euclidean 3-space
3. What is the smallest lake in the world?
Unknowable as there are many small bodies of water in the world, and determining which is the smallest while still being large enough to count as a lake is a complicated question.
4. Which Steven Spielberg movie features more shark attacks? Jaws (1875) or Lincoln (2012)
Jaws, as Lincoln has a surprising lack of shark attacks.
5. How many planets were there originally?
Question lacks context, since it doesn't define what originally means, and there is no way to know when humans first found out that the wandering stars were actually other worlds, or that Earth is a planet.
6. What NFL player has scored the most points outside of a game?
As points are not usually scored outside of games, this is a nonsense question.
7. The Wright brothers built the first airplane. Who built the last one?
Since airplanes are built continuously, there is no way to know who built the last one.
8. Is every even number greater than2 the sum of two primes?
This is an open question in math.
9. Not counting Canberra, what city is the capitol of Australia?
Nonsense question, since each country only has one capitol (citation needed)
10. Who played the drums?
Lots of people, needs context.
The alt-text bonus question:
Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
All choices are technically correct as they are all names for the same geographical area.
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- If you're new to wiki editing, see the explain xkcd:Editor FAQ for a specific guidance to this Wiki and the more general help on how to edit wiki pages. There's also a handy wikicode cheatsheet.
- Discussion about the wiki itself happens at the Community portal.
- You can browse the comics from List of all comics or by navigating the category tree at Category:Comics.
- There are incomplete explanations listed here. Feel free to help out by expanding them!
Rules
Don't be a jerk!
There are a lot of comics that don't have set-in-stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
If you want to talk about a specific comic, use its discussion page.
Please only submit material directly related to (and helping everyone better understand) xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited). Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
If you need assistance from an admin, post a message to the Admin requests board.
