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This history quiz is even a struggle for a historian.
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"Hussein bin Ali had been Emir of Mecca and claimed to be caliph in 1924, after what country abolished the Ottoman Empire?
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"Thomas Franklin took a famous shot for the Bergen Record of firefighters raising the US flag. Where?"
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Can you get more than 6 answers correct?
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"Based on a 1951 Broadway musical, what 1969 movie, set in the California Gold Rush, has Clint Eastwood (of all people) sing two songs, namely "I Still See Elisa" and "I Talk to the Trees"?
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"The studio hated Tim Burton's title and wanted House Ghosts. Burton hated that, and as a joke suggested Scared Sheetless, which the studio loved. What did the movie end up being called?"
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Only if you score a 7/10 or better you are a true American
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Average Score: 8
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"What Catholic presidential candidate told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association that he believed in an America "where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote"?
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"What city was Ed Koch mayor of?"
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Impossible History Quiz. Can you score a 6/10 or better?
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"What was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in 1848, setting off a "rush" that turned California into a state just two years later?
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"When James Cook reached Botany Bay, he named the region New South Wales. Where was he?"
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Hungry for some brain food?
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"The food pierogi comes from what country?
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" The name of which Italian food translated means 'trouser' or 'stocking'?"
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Only well educated seniors will score a decent score
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"What house in New Orleans has "been the ruin of many a poor boy"?
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"The harp represents this country's Catholics. The fife and lambeg drum represent the Protestants. What country is this?"
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Impossible Science Quiz
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Average Score: 8
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"Insects gather nectar from plants and store it in a special stomach, until it is time to be regurgitated in new form. So, what is honey?
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"An electric light bulb converts electric energy into light and what other kind of energy?"
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Are you a bookworm?
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"What character was called Sherrinford Hope in an 1886 story, where he had a sidekick named Ormond Hacker, but was renamed for the author's cricket buddy and an American philosopher?
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"Canadian novelist David Morrell created what character as a cop-killing psychopath who dies in the end?"
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"What caviar-producing fish was once so abundant in the Hudson River that it was called Albany beef?
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"Which of these is not a Pacific salmon, but is instead a kind of trout that anglers love because of the fight it puts up when it gets caught?"
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10 challenging questions about TV
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"Who reprised his role as DB Russell when his character moved from the original CSI to CSI: Cyber?
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"What do the "South Park" boys call the Ethiopian kid they adopt?"
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Do you consider yourself smart? Prove it now with this hard General Knowledge Quiz
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Average Score: 8
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"Auld Lang Syne is based on a Robbie Burns poem. When is it usually sung?
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"Which of these is not part of the digestive system?"
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Only bibliophiles will get a perfect score
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"A Thomas Hardy title places us far from what kind of frenzied crowd?
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"Give us the word that has been changed (twice) in this line from a poem in Edward Blake's Songs of Experience. Penguin, penguin, burning bright, in the forests of the night."