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The Official Geography Quiz
Average Score: 8
73% knows the answer to this question:
"Until lower taxes attracted anglophones, the residents of the four principal Channel Islands were mostly francophone. What country runs these islands?
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"At over 2,340 miles, what river forms all or part of the boundary of nine US states?"
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Answer at least 6 of these questions correctly to share
Average Score: 7
66% knows the answer to this question:
"A pragmatic socialist, Bob Hawke was reelected prime minister of Australia when the right was divided by the Joh for Canberra campaign, which rallied behind Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the right-wing premier of what state?
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"In 1938, to slow down the marauding Japanese, what country blew up the levees on the Yellow River to flood thousands of square miles in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, drowning some 800,000 of their own people in the process?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
Average Score: 8
31% knows the answer to this question:
"No, William Stewart did not say, "We can close the books on infectious diseases." But what position did he hold from 1965-69, when he supposedly said it?
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"When Egypt lent the remains of Ramses II to France, the mummy was issued a passport. What was listed as his occupation?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
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Average Score: 7
66% knows the answer to this question:
"When I was 25, I had already become a general and dumped Desiree Cleary for an older woman named Josephine de Beauharnais. Who am I?
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"Which of these is not one of an octopus's defense mechanisms?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
Average Score: 7
75% knows the answer to this question:
"About two-thirds of the African slaves brought to the New World ended up on plantations to satisfy European demand for glucose (C6O6H12). Which of these products is glucose?
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"Simon Fraser called it New Caledonia, George Vancouver called it New Hanover and the Americans called it Oregon. What did Queen Victoria name it?"
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Science Quiz
Average Score: 9
95% knows the answer to this question:
"Seven muscles make up the calf, which is anchored to the heel bone by the tendon calcaneus, better known by what name?
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"People listening to portable devices will often store their music in what format?"
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Can you score a 6? Almost nobody can!
Average Score: 8
34% knows the answer to this question:
"Director John Derek left his wife, Linda Evans, for a 16-year-old model, Mary Cathleen Collins, moving to Germany to avoid statutory rape laws. Who did she become?
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"The movie Three Men and a Baby was adapted from Trois Hommes et un Couffin, which had been a hit in what country?"
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Is your General Knowledge above average?
Average Score: 8
55% knows the answer to this question:
"As of 2013, what country has seven union territories, including Delhi and a handful of tiny colonies seized from Europeans?
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"What bird, whose name meant "dummy" in Portuguese, was about the size of a turkey, and just about as tasty, which may be why it was extinct?"
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Can you handle a defeat in science?
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Average Score: 9
67% knows the answer to this question:
"Who would suffer hypoglycemia if they get low blood glucose levels from excess insulin action?
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"Who has four stomach chambers called the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum, which allows them to redigest their cud?"
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Only the smartest of the smartest can get all answers right
Average Score: 8
75% knows the answer to this question:
"In 1965, Mariner 4 disproved the idea that what planet might be full of little-green-men-sustaining canals?
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"Calcutta is now Kolkata, and Calicut is now called Kozhikode. What country are these confusing cities in?"
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Are you a smart and happy senior?
Average Score: 9
48% knows the answer to this question:
"Classification is a tricky business, but many botanists put which of these edibles in the amaryllis family, along with shallots, chives and leeks?
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"Name the blockbuster film featuring 'My Heart Will Go On'?"
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Absolutely no one will score a perfect 10 in this crazy hard Trivia quiz
Average Score: 9
54% knows the answer to this question:
"Which of these is a city in Italy?
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"The state abbreviation for Virginia is what?"