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Quiz for only the smartest of the smartest.
Average Score: 6
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"As the Broadway lyric goes, "a kiss on the hand may be quite continental," but what are a girl's best friend?
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"Feeling under the weather, I self-medicate with cysteine, as well as water hot enough to dissolve alliin, piperine and potassium ions. What traditional remedy have I prescribed myself?"
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How much do you know about history?
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Average Score: 7
58% knows the answer to this question:
"In 1912, 1513 people died when what ship sank?
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"Most Italian American immigrants arrived from 1899 to 1924 and about a third of these were from what island?"
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Geography Quiz. How much do you know about cities and countries
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Average Score: 7
38% knows the answer to this question:
"What does the World Book Encyclopedia describe as "a great gash in the earth 1 mile deep and between 14 and 18 miles wide in some places"?
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"Part of the Everglades National Park, Cape Sable in what state is the southernmost point on the US mainland?"
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Pop Music Quiz. Most people fail.
Average Score: 8
90% knows the answer to this question:
"After escaping an abusive marriage, I point blank refused to record a song called What's Love Got To Do With It. But I did and it relaunched my career. Who am I?
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"What Temptations song notes, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day; when it's cold outside, I've got the month of May"?"
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General Knowledge Quiz. Did you pay attention in class?
Average Score: 8
53% knows the answer to this question:
"What web site, which allows you to make video calls over the web, gets its name from "sky peer-to-peer"?
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"As we learned in the 1964 movie, how much sugar makes the medicine go down in a most delightful way?"
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Only a true Historian can answer these 10 questions
Average Score: 8
73% knows the answer to this question:
"What military invasion began on June 6, 1944?
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"In the 200s AD, what country was broken up into a Three Kingdoms period: the Wu south, the Shu in the west and the powerful Wei in the north?"
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How well developed is your common knowledge?
Average Score: 8
64% knows the answer to this question:
"The ruby gets its name from the Latin word for what color?
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"Walt Disney World is located near Orlando, a city in what US state?"
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We bet you can't even score a 4 out of 10 on this one !
Average Score: 8
79% knows the answer to this question:
"Where would you most likely enjoy a six-movement dance called a hula?
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"Her last name, Gudmundsdottir, simply indicates who her dad is, while her first name means "birch" in Icelandic. Who is she?"
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Less than 5% can score a perfect score in this music quiz.
Average Score: 6
49% knows the answer to this question:
"Naturally, who decided to name his first daughter Tulip Victoria, given his biggest hit and the mother's name?
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"Whose first greatest hits album, released in 1990, was called The Immaculate Collection?"
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Challenging Sports Quiz, for the sports fan.
Average Score: 5
70% knows the answer to this question:
"Walk, trot, canter and rack are all types of what?
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"What country did Donald Bradman play cricket for?"
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Most People will fail on this Science Quiz
Average Score: 7
90% knows the answer to this question:
"A 2008 study by the University of Illinois College of Medicine found that CPR works best when you listen to what lyrically appropriate 1977 song?
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"What viral infection, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the upper respiratory passages, is also called coryza?"
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Do you like the past ?
Average Score: 8
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"In 1368, for the first time, all of China was conquered from the south. What dynasty, famous for its blue and white porcelain vases, replaced the Yuan?
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"Lee Harvey Oswald almost certainly shot John F. Kennedy. But who, most definitely, shot Lee Harvey Oswald?"
