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Daily Trivia for October 24, 2024

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60 Comments
Dontforget
+4
Level 76
Oct 24, 2024
Man I got lucky, 9/10 despite only really knowing 4 of the answers. The rest were educated guesses
Emiosoputoamo
+3
Level 49
Oct 24, 2024
Those are the best, my man
seabird
+3
Level 69
Oct 24, 2024
Me too. I guessed on half of them and somehow got 10/10 3rd best score of all time.
McKenzieFam
+5
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
only 6 today. I KNOW the triangle one!! This is the second time a Pythagoras question has foiled me!

Someone dead ruined my score....again

Tequila1
+2
Level 25
Oct 24, 2024
Was that a CGP Grey reference?
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
It absolutely was
TurkeyCookTime
+8
Level 85
Oct 24, 2024
I feel like the percentages for question 9 show that it really isn't a good question for daily trivia challenge. It's basically just a wild guess because of how obscure it is, and there's no way to narrow it down.
CurtisNewton
+28
Level 60
Oct 24, 2024
You can definitely narrow it down: Guillotin was the inventor, and he would not be the first to go on it. Robespierre was killed by it, but only after the Terror was already in full swing (his death arguably being the end of it). Marie Antoinette was possibly a victim (I honestly do not know), but if she was killed first, we would know.
Historyenjoyer
+6
Level 51
Oct 24, 2024
I second the OP, it's a bad question. Why could Guillotin, the inventor, not have died first on it? I imagined this may have been some interesting historical fact and it would make sense why the question even found its way into the quiz
vermiciousknid
+13
Level 91
Oct 24, 2024
It's really not a bad question, you just didn't know the answer. I didn't know the name of the first victim right off the bat, but found it easy to eliminate the three incorrect choices.
DelaBriQue
+6
Level 66
Oct 24, 2024
She was a victim but she was killed after Louis XVI who was also guillotined. So she could not be first.
Timbo
+5
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
That's exactly the elimination I did, but between Marie Antoinette and Pelletier, I really had no idea. I didn't even know who Pelletier was tbh.
vermiciousknid
+4
Level 91
Oct 24, 2024
I didn't know who Pelletier was either, but I knew the other three people weren't the first to die by guillotine so it wasn't hard to guess the answer.
duckwantbread
+5
Level 66
Oct 24, 2024
Guillotin didn't invent the guillotine, that's a common misconception. Tobias Schmidt invented it, Guillotin was just a doctor that suggested Schmidt's invention would be a more humane form of execution.
Cukshaiz
+7
Level 75
Oct 24, 2024
That was my process as well. Guillotin, invented it, Robespierre used it a ton before he was executed with it, Marie Antoinette was one of many that Robespierre had executed. The only one I didn't know was Pelletier, so it stood to reason that his claim to fame was as the first victim of the guillotine.
rabble
+2
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
Uhm achktually there's a mildly related apocryphal story of the creator of the brazen bull being executed via his own creation

Also, I don't have a basic knowledge of French history

Chokonger
+8
Level 45
Oct 24, 2024
I'd argue that question 6 is worse. While question 9 can still be somewhat deduced from history, even if it's obscure, question 6 is basically "do you live in the USA?". There are thousands of cities in the US and it's unreasonable to expect a European to know which state does any random city belong to.
mpepperdine
+5
Level 79
Oct 24, 2024
Yeah I get that US has the biggest proportion of people doing quizzes on this website, but there’s often too many American-centric questions. The normal ‘general knowledge’ quizzes are guilty of this too. State capital questions are always annoying.
rabble
+7
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
Sometimes I go over to Japanese sites & tell all of them how they should stop talking about Japanese stuff. Idk why they don't get it, they should be making questions about me and my country
mpepperdine
+3
Level 79
Oct 24, 2024
What a silly Americentric comment. Jetpunk is not a uniquely American website.
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 73
Oct 24, 2024
It wouldn’t hurt, no? It’s trivia, after all, it doesn’t have to adhere to where the population is, nor is it bad to adhere to where the population is. I would be fine asking what state Mobile is with what state of Germany Zwickau is.
Timbo
+9
Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
I'm Korean, and have spent less than a month in the US total. But I still know Mobile, Alabama for two reasons! It was the original capital of Louisiane française, and it's Forrest Gump's hometown haha
koreanstudent
+2
Level 73
Oct 24, 2024
Wow, that's smart of you. I would have never guessed question 6 without Jetpunk experiences.
Tipene
+3
Level 64
Oct 24, 2024
I knew Mobile Alabama despite being a New Zealander who has only ever been to California (few days stopover) in the US. I think it’s mentioned in the odd blues, rock and or country song or something. Maybe some western movie or TV. Anyway, I get a lot of towns and cities in the US by word association Memphis Tennessee, Salem Massachusetts etc. I guess it’s the same for lots of people who don’t live in the States. So I don’t see this as an example of a US centric issue with the DQ.
mpepperdine
+2
Level 79
Oct 24, 2024
Memphis and Salem are so much more well known around the world than Mobile
LadyDulcinea
+1
Level 67
Oct 24, 2024
Is this any different from a non-catholic/anglican knowing The Archbishop of Canterbury?
mpepperdine
+2
Level 79
Oct 24, 2024
People 100% know the Archbishop of Canterbury more than a random town in Alabama lol
Dimby
+3
Level 83
Oct 24, 2024
I doubt many outside the Anglican religion care at all to learn the residence of the highest ranking archbishop. I’m not American and I know Mobile from learning about Civil Rights history.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Oct 25, 2024
I know it because im a geography nerd
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Oct 24, 2024
It's a great question.

Think about it. If any of the other answers had been the first, you would have heard about it. Therefore, by process of elimination it has to be Pelletier.

This question is intended to be difficult, but it's definitely not impossible for anyone with a basic knowledge of French history who takes the time to think.

Not all questions are easy. This is intended.

FrankiiLynx
+5
Level 89
Oct 24, 2024
That was exactly my train of thought, I've never heard of Pelletier but i knew it wasn't Antoinette or Robespierre, so that only left him or the most ironic twist in history haha
Thespian
+3
Level 40
Oct 24, 2024
Thanks, Quizmaster, I appreciate it :)
SonyVondern
+4
Level 76
Oct 24, 2024
Question 6 is my question! Originally, the possible answers were Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, but it seems that QM has changed them a bit.
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 66
Oct 24, 2024
Well, I picked Colorado haha
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Oct 24, 2024
Yeah, I made it easier. People are still whining that it's too hard though.
AbiA
+1
Level 88
Oct 24, 2024
Mississippi would definitely have made it harder.
FrankiiLynx
+1
Level 89
Oct 24, 2024
My question was rephrased slightly as well, but if I'm honest this version is better anyway, plus I kinda like the idea that I could get caught out by my own question haha
Dontforget
+2
Level 76
Oct 24, 2024
Congrats on getting your question chosen, that's always fun
Patah
+1
Level 72
Oct 24, 2024
Nooo, I misclicked on the Mother Teresa question! This is so frustrating!
Noivern
+1
Level 65
Oct 24, 2024
noooo, i knew the answer to 10, but i clicked on the wrong one
FrankiiLynx
+2
Level 89
Oct 24, 2024
10/10 but some very tricky ones today! Was not expecting have to do geometry this morning 😂
Raul62
+3
Level 48
Oct 24, 2024
Girls just wanna have fun by cyndi lauper literally has 1.4 billion views. Who approves these questions?
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 91
Oct 24, 2024
Yeah... I like the idea behind the question, but the answer choices should have been fact-checked more thoroughly. I got it "right" and earned the point, but the inaccuracy is still irksome.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 24, 2024
Fixed.

In regards to who checks these questions, it's a combination of me and ChatGPT.

If we ever make money on this feature (unlikely) we'll hire someone to double check.

MattTel
+2
Level 49
Oct 24, 2024
Guillotine got me
Tuesday
+9
Level 77
Oct 24, 2024
Did it hurt?
Noivern
+1
Level 65
Oct 24, 2024
probably
NotRike
+1
Level 48
Oct 24, 2024
8/10, made a slip on the Brazi question but overall not bad.
Thequizler2358
+1
Level 31
Oct 24, 2024
Got a new high score !
shrekcena
+2
Level 60
Oct 24, 2024
Ez 10/10 and my first back to back perfectos

Didn't tell me what rank this score was though, did they change it?

FrankiiLynx
+1
Level 89
Oct 24, 2024
I think it only gives you the rank if it's in your top 10 or 20 (I forget which)
KatyM
+1
Level 70
Oct 24, 2024
Must be 20, because mine was 12th best today.
LadyDulcinea
+1
Level 67
Oct 24, 2024
Yay! 10/10 today, but I will admit I guessed on the triangle one.
MovieQuizGuy
+3
Level 64
Oct 24, 2024
I slowed down today and got an easy 10/10--no guesses and I only had to rule out the wrong options on the guillotine question. Man, it would've been ironic if Mr. Guillotine accidentally got himself Guillotined.
dlgreco
+2
Level 67
Oct 24, 2024
9855! Been awhile since I got 10/10. I usually miss on the culture Qs, but I know about Rickrolling.
CoolBreezes
+1
Level 82
Oct 24, 2024
Same here. I’m not good at sports and entertainment questions.
nations12345eat
+1
Level 49
Oct 24, 2024
quizmaster you should really visit the carolinas theres lots of cool things there
KatyM
+3
Level 70
Oct 24, 2024
10/10 but I actually found quite a few of these questions challenging. I had to guess on the '80s. I didn't think it was Tiffany but the other 3 were all quite popular. I had to sit there and do the math on all the choices for the right triangle one. And the Asian non-Communist country was an educated guess at best. The guillotine one was process of elimination, though it was probably meant to be.
Gademotsili99
+1
Level 61
Oct 24, 2024
9/10 by heavenly luck!

I didn't know at least 3-4 answers, like Alabama and Canterbury, but I felt like it

tizzlizz
+1
Level 66
Apr 17, 2025
I agree with Curtis. The inventor wouldn't be the first, I knew Antoinette was beheaded, but that was at the tail end of the French Revolution, I don't recall if Robespierre was but regardless, the educated guess was that was invented before the revolution, leaving Mr. Pelletier.
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