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Try to get 50% correct in this tasty quiz!
Can you do it?
Average Score: 5
39% knows the answer to this question:
"Americans renamed french fries "freedom fries" during the Iraq War. And at one time, what did they rename "liberty cabbage"?
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"A slave in Mauritius named Edmond Albius figured out a way to hand pollinate the vanilla that comes from what plant?"
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Are there any true Historians among us?
Average Score: 4
60% knows the answer to this question:
"Until they were beaten back at the Marne in 1914, German troops came within 15 miles of what capital?
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"In 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor. Of what state?"
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Can you handle internets hardest Geography quiz?
Average Score: 5
70% knows the answer to this question:
"Which freshwater lake is the world's largest in terms of surface area?
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"The former imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty, the Hofburg is home to the Spanish Riding School, as well as to the Maria Theresa apartments, now used by which country's president?"
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Can you keep it dry?
Average Score: 5
67% knows the answer to this question:
"George Martin was the producer, Brian Epstein the manager and Norman Smith the sound engineer. For what band?
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"Carol Channing and Ethel Merman are among the best known women to play Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly," but who played her in the first all-black version?"
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Only Einstein could get a perfect score!
Average Score: 5
56% knows the answer to this question:
"The sartorius, the longest human muscle, was so named because it is exercised when people in what sartorial occupation cross their legs while at work?
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"What Bavarian physician presented a 1906 paper "On a Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex"?"
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Are you one of them?
Average Score: 8
93% knows the answer to this question:
"The pancreas makes juices that help the body digest starches, fats and protein. It also regulates your body's sugar levels, so it plays a key role in what disease?
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"What is damage to the brain called, in a medical context?"
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Pop Music Quiz. Level: Impossible
Average Score: 8
58% knows the answer to this question:
"Susanna the Maid is the bride in what Mozart work, named for the groom?
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"Don McLean wrote the longest song ever to hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts. What was this song?"
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Did you pay attention in school?
Average Score: 8
67% knows the answer to this question:
"What object's gnomon ceases to work at night?
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"How many is a third of two dozen?"
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How is your general knowledge?
Average Score: 8
71% knows the answer to this question:
"As Jan and Dean might know, the real "dead man's curve" is a tight corner of Sunset Boulevard in what city?
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"Released in 2002 by iRobot, the Roomba was a round, flat robot. What did it do?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
Average Score: 8
92% knows the answer to this question:
"Who reportedly wore the same poncho in A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly?
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"What British animals were driven mad by a disease called bovine spongiform encephalopathy?"
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Category: Art - Level: Hard
Average Score: 5
89% knows the answer to this question:
"Caligula considered moving the statue of this god to Rome and replacing the god's face with his own. Theodosius moved it to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in a fire in AD 462. What portable Wonder of the World was this?
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"During my lifetime, I only sold one painting, for $75, but almost a century after I died, another of my paintings set an all-time auction record: $82.5 million. Who am I?"
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Can You Get A Perfect Score?
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"What is "American Idol" winner Fantasia's last name?
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"In the 1990s, what TV character experienced "shrinkage" while swimming at the Hamptons?"