General Knowledge!

[BFM_JANE]

Needs more almglocken!

They're tuned cow bells, also known as Alpine Bells. Percussion instrument, played the same way a glockenspiel is.

The "glocken" gave it away

[BFM_Kiwi]

I thought a glockenspiel was a piano!  Had no idea it was bells!  I think you gave that one away too easily.  Ok then.

Where does most of the world's chocolate come from?

[BFM_JANE]

I thought a glockenspiel was like a xylophone, but Google does kind of compare it to a piano.

I'm going to say a lot of chocolate comes from Germany. (Link!)

[BFM_Kiwi]

Sorry, I was a bit vauge - I meant the raw cocao.  Where is it grown.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Well, given that the Myans and Aztecs had it long ago, I'm going to say that it grows in the tropical Americas....

I know all about how its produced tho, since wifey worked for Ghirardelli for quite some time....

MMmmMMMMmMmmmm!

[BFM_Kiwi]

A big chunk of it is grown in south america, but the majority is grown elsewhere.

[Marty]

I thought a lot of it came from Africa...

[jim360]

Oompa-Loompa land.

[BFM_Edison]

I'd agree with three60 if I had to guess, so I looked it up. Looks like the top country produces an amazingly large proportion of the total in the world.

[BFM_Kiwi]

How far these forums have fallen.  There was a day when someone was sure to google it then say "omg, we just studied chocolate production in social studies" my teacher is from the Ivory Coast...".

Ok new question:  As of today, in fact RIGHT NOW, what is the exact (human, not sheep) population of New Zealand?

You must get it correct down to the exact number, but it is guessable and you can google.

[Marty]

It will quite shortly reach 4,444,444 people...apparently, now it's just a touch short of that...

[BFM_Kiwi]

Correct!

I've done a quick count and apparently we're at 4,444,427 at the moment.   

Yer up.

[jim360]

4,444,409 according to your own government as at 11am tomorrow today your time. It'll be 4,444,444 in a little under nine hours.
 

[Marty]

Lots of companies enjoy putting little inside jokes within their products for customers and fans to find. Perhaps the most famous is Pixar's use of the phrase 'A-113', a reference to the room number in which some of its founders studied computer graphics. It's appeared as a license plate, an emergency code and a cell block - amongst many other things.

Such inside jokes or hidden treasures are called Easter Eggs. Google is a frequent poster of Easter Eggs, often in their maps page.

With that brief history of Easter Eggs out of the way, here comes the general knowledge question.

What is the most common Easter Egg within the Halo series?

Ordinarily, I would class this as a 'trivia' question, not general knowledge. However, this forums is solo populated by people who have at least played Halo, and many who have also read the novels and played every single campaign going. To anyone paying attention, there is an almost ludicrously repeated idea used throughout the Halo universe that is something of an inside joke. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what that idea is.

Good luck.

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[BFM_Xtr3me]

The only 2 I can remember are an actual Easter egg or the skulls that change game play.
Probably better ones than that but those are my guesses.