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Average Score: 5
77% knows the answer to this question:
"Who dropped out of Harvard, then came back on film to play a super-genius who would rather mop nearby MIT's floors than attend its classes?
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"Simple Minds hated their biggest hit, "Don't You (Forget About Me)," which they didn't write and which they recorded solely so that it could appear on what movie's soundtrack?"
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Are you good at Science? Share if you are!
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55% knows the answer to this question:
"Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron. What is a cyclotron?
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"Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell speculated how evolution would have played out if what smart dinosaur had not expired?"
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How Good Do You Know Our World?
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46% knows the answer to this question:
"Found more or less along the 180th meridian, the International Date Line cuts through which ocean?
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"The peony and plum blossom have traditionally been what Asian country's national flowers?"
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Are you smart enough?
Average Score: 8
67% knows the answer to this question:
"During WWII, the Japanese resorted to a (literally) suicidal method of warfare called kamikaze. What did this entail?
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"During WWII, a destroyer named the O'Bannon found itself too close to a Japanese sub to use its weaponry. Instead, they threw what tubers, which the sub mistook for grenades?"
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The Official Geography Quiz
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81% knows the answer to this question:
"At over 2,340 miles, what river forms all or part of the boundary of nine US states?
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"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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"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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"During the Vietnam War, Operation Ranch Hand dumped 20 million gallons of color-coded herbicides on the jungle. The best known of these was a 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D that went by what name?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
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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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"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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51% knows the answer to this question:
"A Chinese eunuch named Cai Lun (or Ts'ai Lun) is credited with using bark, hemp, rags and fishnets to invent something in 105 AD. What?
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"Named for Friedrich Mohs and determined with a sclerometer, what does the Mohs scale measure?"
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Share if you can handle a defeat in this History quiz!
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81% knows the answer to this question:
"After the southerners walked out, the Democrats lost quorum and couldn't nominate anybody for president, until eventually the northern wing backed Stephen Douglas and the southern wing backed John Breckinridge, splitting the vote and making what Republican president?
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"In 2001, Hannelore Kohl killed herself with sleeping pills, having been tormented by a painful sensitivity to sunlight. Her husband once ran what country?"
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Can you own this History quiz?
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65% knows the answer to this question:
"Who was head of the Syrian Computer Club and studied ophthalmology at the University of Damascus, only to end up running Syria after his brother died in a 1994 car crash?
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"In 2011, Sarah Palin seemed to think that what patriot was ringin' bells and firin' shots to warn the British that they better not take Americans' guns?"
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Don't come crying if you fail in this Music quiz!
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82% knows the answer to this question:
"Dr Luke and Max Martin originally wrote "Since U Been Gone" for Pink, but it instead became a huge hit for what American Idol winner?
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"The South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo added vocals to whose song "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes"?"
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"Who played both Joseph Wladislaw in The Dirty Dozen and Bernardo O'Reilly in The Magnificent Seven, making him the only star in both films?
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"What film was based on the passengers who tried to take back the cockpit of their hijacked plane on 9/11?"