I read both For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Aeneid last year, so those questions were no problem. I missed the tricky Jewish population one and the flamingo one in turn.
Same here but I managed to guess the Hemingway one. It was the China flag and the atmosphere layer that got me. The latter I had a hunch on but I ignored it because I was fairly sure I'd heard exosphere in a different context, whoops 😅
We need a new nearly flightless group of birds every few weeks I think. Would probably be pretty fun to have sub-series within the daily (and ofc easier to think of)
I remember ostrich being an answer choice on that one, but I thought the question was "which of these birds can't fly" and I clicked on ostrich for both questions.
My first 10 in over a month, albeit my second slowest (I really had to think about the biggest group lol). Thought it was over with Hemingway but saved by a guess
I shouldn’t have missed that one. I knew the percentage of left handed people, but didn’t think about it long enough. I should have known that there weren’t 800 millions miners in the world.
Argh, got 6/10 for 5944 points, my second-worst score ever. Two of the questions I guessed at and got wrong, and another two I knew and should have gotten, but I clicked the wrong answer because I was going too fast. Oh well, hopefully I'll do better tomorrow.
I reasoned that one out. 10% of people (supposedly) are left handed and the US doesn't have 105 of the world population and i just didn't think 1 out of 10 people could be miners or lawyers. (Although with all those ads I was tempted to guess lawyers).
I'm a day late on this one, but really enjoyed this particular set of questions. A couple surprising and tricky ones that didn't strictly depend on knowing obscure facts. Kudos to rabble and JuliusLang for writing interesting questions.
I guess it is obvious, but was confused for a while as to what the groups were referring to. I wasn't sure what group of lawyers or miners were being referred to, so that took me ages.
Edit: Turns out there was a 'Which of these birds can fly?' question on September 4th, however the options were different.
Seemed like there was only 1 sensible answer to me, but I was moving pretty slowly