Quizzes

Are you one of the 10% who can score a perfect 7 or up?

Average Score: 9

64% knows the answer to this question: "Rubella or three-day measles is better known by what national name? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Contrary to what you've heard, our kunik nose nuzzle is not how we kiss. We do it to babies. Who are we?"

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Can you answer at least 6 correctly? Most quiz takers failed.

Average Score: 9

90% knows the answer to this question: "Which of these chemicals removes odors from refrigerators? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The Latins evicted the Carthaginians from what is now Cadiz in what became the Roman province of Hispania. Today, Hispania is what European nation?"

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You wil only score an acceptable score if you paid attention in class

Average Score: 8

62% knows the answer to this question: "According to song, what red-nosed reindeer guided Santa's sleigh on a cloudy Christmas Eve? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What happens when you try to microwave an egg?"

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LITERATURE QUIZ!

Average Score: 4

32% knows the answer to this question: "According to Lady Caroline Lamb, what clubfooted British poet was "mad, bad and dangerous to know"? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Which Adams wrote Watership Down?"

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Very hard quiz about books. Try to score at least a 6 and share your result.

Average Score: 4

62% knows the answer to this question: "You can visit Pablo Neruda's home, called La Chascona, next time you're in what Chilean capital? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The 1963 Morris West novel "The Shoes of the Fisherman" was based on the then-improbable idea that a Russian named Kiril Lakota would assume what position?"

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Fun TV Quiz

Average Score: 6

44% knows the answer to this question: "Who created Carleton's dance, from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, by mixing Courteney Cox's moves from the Dancing in the Dark video with Eddie Murphy?s imitation of a what person dancing in Delirious? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What is the name of a spinoff series related to the show "Footballers' Wives"?"

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Are you a true Historian?

Average Score: 5

82% knows the answer to this question: "Who was the most famous person born during the reign of Augustus and killed during the reign of Tiberius? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to fly around the world. In which ocean did she disappear?"

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This history quiz is not for crybabies

Average Score: 5

46% knows the answer to this question: "Talmadge Hayer, Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were convicted of murdering somebody. Who? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "If you called Minnesota liberal Eugene McCarthy by his middle name instead of his first name, you'd confuse him with what notorious right-winger from Wisconsin next door?"

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How much information about history do you have stored in your brain?

Average Score: 9

34% knows the answer to this question: "In World War II, what country rapidly defeated its enemies by encircling them with tanks, planes and infantry, with a tactic called blitzkrieg, which means "lightning war"? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "In Dodge City, Kansas, back in the Wild West days, when would you have ended up at Boot Hill?"

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History Trivia

Are you smart enough to score a 6 or better?

Average Score: 9

64% knows the answer to this question: "Thanks in part to British imperial policy, by 1905, about a quarter of Chinese men were addicted to what narcotic, made from the latex of immature poppy seedpods? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What service employed such teenager couriers as Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok, who raced for ten days, carrying the mail 1800 miles?"

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We bet you can't get a decent score in this challenging science quiz.

Average Score: 5

45% knows the answer to this question: "What body's name was selected by the winner of a "Name Planet X" contest, an 11-year-old British girl named Venetia Burney, whose great-uncle had named the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Named for an Italian town in present-day Slovenia, what horse breed is closely associated with the Spanish Riding School?"

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This quiz proves science doesn't have to be boring

Average Score: 4

92% knows the answer to this question: "John Logie Baird is credited with which invention? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What element, at atomic number 1, is therefore the "top of the charts," where the periodic table is concerned?"

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