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Impossible History Quiz. Can you score a 6/10 or better?
Average Score: 8
86% knows the answer to this question:
"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?
Average Score: 5
48% knows the answer to this question:
"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
Average Score: 8
35% knows the answer to this question:
"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
88% knows the answer to this question:
"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?
Average Score: 5
86% knows the answer to this question:
"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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Blub blUb blub BlUB!
Average Score: 6
80% knows the answer to this question:
"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
Average Score: 4
75% knows the answer to this question:
"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
40% knows the answer to this question:
"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
Average Score: 4
78% knows the answer to this question:
"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."
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Can you get at least 5 answers correct in this challenging general knowledge quiz?
Average Score: 4
30% knows the answer to this question:
"Professor Rob Leonard became one of the world's leading figures in forensic linguistics. And he was in what band, which played at Woodstock?
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"Ben Affleck stank up the screen with what girlfriend of his, in both Gigli and Jersey Girl?"
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Very hard History quiz you probably will fail to succeed
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Average Score: 8
92% knows the answer to this question:
"In 2009, archaeologists found Bluehenge about a mile away from what other structure?
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"Who had a dream that his "four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"?"
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Are you born in the 40's or 50's ?
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Average Score: 7
84% knows the answer to this question:
"I changed my name in 1978 and didn't release another pop album until 2006, when An Other Cup came out. Who was I?
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"The Everly Brothers fell asleep in one during a date in "Wake Up Little Susie." Alanis Morissette had a much more adult date in one in "You Oughta Know." Where were they? "
