Daily Trivia for August 17, 2024

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Daily Trivia for August 17, 2024

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+6
Level 68
Aug 17, 2024
6/10 😬
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Level 83
Aug 17, 2024
Same 😭
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Level 83
Aug 17, 2024
Oh boy, that was tricky. Missed 3. And that panda/Everest question was super tricky because a French missionary did indeed map the Himalayas, but I guess that was in the 1700s. And I didn’t even bother to read all the way to see “Sichuan”. Whoops!
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Level 89
Aug 17, 2024
Sichuan was definitely the word that made me guess pandas, but I was not confident about it 😅
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Level 73
Aug 17, 2024
Anddddd the questions are impossible to get once again. I don't get how one day there are good questions and the next they are the most random information conceivable
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Level 66
Aug 17, 2024
Different tastes I guess, I'd much rather have hard questions because it means I've learnt something.

Most of these questions aren't impossible anyway, they just require some thinking before you answer. For example the wording of the China question implies Europeans had already visited China before that date. That rules out the Great Wall and Everest because those are both massive and so easily noticeable. Then you can rule out silk because it's a very common fabric in China so it's unlikely no European would have seen someone with it before.

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Level 73
Aug 17, 2024
That was not a hard question, Marco Polo went to China in the 13th Century. I'm talking about questions about very specific topics which aren't informative or logica, thinking, just plain out guess or miss.
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Level 88
Aug 17, 2024
...like Beyonce lyrics (which was the only one I missed.
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Level 89
Aug 17, 2024
9/10 and a fairly slow day for me because some of these were very hard. Got a very lucky guess with the Pandas, an educated guess on the flag question, but somehow fell short on avocado toast, mostly because I think I assumed that one was said by an American 😂
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Level 81
Aug 17, 2024
My worst effort I think, 3/10. Some fiendish questions.
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Level 84
Aug 17, 2024
These last 5 days have not helped my average score at all
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Level 89
Aug 17, 2024
Same here, I was consistently getting 9s and 10s but I've had two 8s in the last 5 days
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Level 84
Aug 17, 2024
You're a level above me, but I had my first sub 7 score on Monday and have lost my mojo since then
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Level 83
Aug 17, 2024
I wonder what the average is across all these quizzes?

Probably 5-6

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Level 89
Aug 17, 2024
Averages are listed in the archive, they usually seem to be in the 6-6.5 range last I remember, some of the harder ones are in the 5s
+1
Level 77
Aug 17, 2024
This was tricky, although no questions, which require (almost) native english skills, which is good. Though these brothers -questions are kind of useless.
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Level 73
Aug 17, 2024
Easily my worst quiz yet, 3/10
+1
Level 64
Aug 17, 2024
Finally no sports questions! :) 9/10 bc I had to guess on the last one. Japan has things like the oldest classical music tradition so I guessed they'd have the oldest flag too. Oh well!
+1
Level 63
Aug 17, 2024
8/10 essa
+1
Level 67
Aug 17, 2024
10/10 and on a Saturday too!!
+1
Level 83
Aug 17, 2024
What does the day have to do with it?

Are they harder on certain days?

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Level 65
Aug 17, 2024
did not do well, got a 6/10
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Level 79
Aug 20, 2024
Pinochet wasn't "President" of Chile, he was the dictator
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Level 50
Aug 24, 2024
Yes! My question is on it!