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You thought history was boring?
Average Score: 4
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"Now properly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, Java Man was first found on an island of the same name in what country?
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"On what date did the Emancipation Proclamation take effect?"
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Do you know a lot about music from the 60's? Then this is a quiz for you
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"Toby Keith and what country legend recorded "Beer for My Horses"?
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"Which of these jazz legends was known for playing drums, rather than guitar?"
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Can you score a 6 or better?
Average Score: 4
64% knows the answer to this question:
"Known for its floating, raft-like nests, what is a grebe?
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"What does the H stand for in management organizations called HMOs?"
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Almost nobody is able score a 6 or better.
Average Score: 8
52% knows the answer to this question:
"American Lewis Waterman had his in a fountain; Hungarian Georg Biro's was on the ballpoint. What had they invented?
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"What German festival, known locally as Wiesn, begins with the mayor of Munich declaring "O'zapft is," meaning "The barrel has been tapped"?"
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Average Score: 5
95% knows the answer to this question:
"Which of these isn't a common name for Felis concolor, but is actually a variety of lynx?
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"Ballistic pioneer Ernst Mach has a number named for him. What is it for?"
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Can you get more than 50% correct in this nightmare of a quiz?
Average Score: 8
38% knows the answer to this question:
"In 2001, what disease got started with some pigs in Northumberland, England?
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"Squam Lake, near Holderness, New Hampshire, also goes by what name, for the Henry Fonda movie filmed there?"
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Can you answer these 10 hard mixed knowledge questions?
Average Score: 8
44% knows the answer to this question:
"Ships have crossed this body of water for centuries. In 1785, it was first crossed by air, in a balloon. In 1875, Matthew Webb swam across it. What is this place?
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"Whom did John Lennon meet on November 9, 1966, at London's Indica Art Gallery?"
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History doesn't have to be boring. Take this fun quiz.
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68% knows the answer to this question:
"Peter Leibing took a famous 1961 photo of Conrad Schumann jumping over something. What?
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"Which of these coincidences does not apply to the assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln?"
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This quiz must be a breeze for the ones who paid attention at school.
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50% knows the answer to this question:
"Because Milliard Fillmore was having trouble getting his law career off the ground, his wife Abigail kept her job and turned out to be the first career wife to be First Lady. What did she do?
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"My half-sister did time for robbing a Virginia bank. And I pardoned my half-brother Roger, who had once been jailed for selling drugs. Who am I?"
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Can you score a 6 or better?
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60% knows the answer to this question:
"Richard J Daley ruled what city from 1955 to 1976, helping to elect national Democrats like JFK?
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"What city's Haifa Street, which enters into the Green Zone, was known to the US military as Grenade Alley and as Purple Heart Boulevard?"
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How much do you know about the world?
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"Poveglia has been a quarantine station and a mental hospital. No wonder they say the abandoned island is haunted. Where is it?
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"In what New England state would you find East Taunton, home to the Beer Can Museum?"
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Impossible geography quiz
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59% knows the answer to this question:
"In the 1880s, Joseph Fralinger became which city's "king" of saltwater taffy?
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"In terms of population, what is the world's largest multi-party democracy?"
