Daily Trivia for February 21, 2025

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Daily Trivia for February 21, 2025

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39 Comments
+4
Level 53
Feb 21, 2025
7/10 That's great!
+3
Level 53
Feb 21, 2025
9/10 i thought it was deepest free dive cause of that guy who they took a picture of right when his lungs filled with water
+1
Level 68
Feb 21, 2025
In hindsight I realized they'd probably have divers with emergency air available
+1
Level 66
Feb 21, 2025
Some guy dove deep to recover the remains of his friend. Sadly, he ended up dying in the process, but he did manage to recover his friend. It wasn't a free dive. High concentration of oxygen and something else.
+2
Level 55
Feb 21, 2025
5/10 decent. Had absolutely no idea for 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9. Had a lucky guess though, and misjudged 10.
+6
Level 83
Feb 21, 2025
I’ll take the slowish 10/10. I believe I remember seeing a clip of the news story on one of the attempts to break the water speed record. Pretty horrifying to see, honestly. I wish they wouldn’t try to break it, but apparently a few teams are planning on making attempts in the near future.
+1
Level 48
Feb 21, 2025
Jetpunk premium, need I say more
+2
Level 89
Feb 21, 2025
You're top of my leaderboard so far, so looks like slow and steady really does win the race today! 😛
+2
Level 83
Feb 21, 2025
Nickelz is at the top of mine, but he egregiously cheats.
+2
Level 83
Feb 21, 2025
I think having a score of 9971 is more accusatory than I could ever be. ;)
+1
Level 69
Feb 21, 2025
i mean what do you consider cheating? if you mean searching the answers, i don't do that.
+2
Level 83
Feb 21, 2025
Lol. Whatever you did to get 9971 is definitely cheating. I assume looking over the whole quiz, refreshing the page, and then just clicking really fast the answers you already know. That's cheating.

The distribution of your scores is pretty obviously suspect, too.

10/10: 38%; 9/10: 9%; 8/10: 13%; 7/10: 13%; 6/10: 12%; 5/10: 9%

This indicates that your most common scores should be 7 and 8. But your normal curve is way out of whack. It's so egregious that I assumed you were just openly cheating, lol.

+9
Level ∞
Feb 21, 2025
Yes. 9971 is clearly not enough time to read and answer the question.

That's why we had to get rid of the leaderboard.

What surprises me is that people would still cheat.

+2
Level 89
Feb 21, 2025
Ahh I removed him from mine a couple of weeks ago for that exact reason XD I'd struggle to get scores that high even knowing all the answers and their positions in advance lmao
+3
Level 80
Feb 21, 2025
Reminds me of the usual topper of my leaderboard (dcc) who has regular scores between 9930 and 9950+. My personal "best" result is officially 9942, which I admit I only got by cheating. Yet that result is still way lower than dcc's top ten. Also, their score distribution is even more telling:

10/10: 82%; 9/10: 7%; 8/10: 6%; 7/10: 2%; 6/10: 2%

Their worst results came mostly in the early months (May - July 24), but since then, apart from a few exceptions, it was top scores all the way. I mean, even the best quiz champions in the world wouldn't be able to achieve such consistant results, and at such speeds.

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Level 89
Feb 22, 2025
I think that might be another one I ended up unfriending 😅 There's been about half a dozen where I was sick of seeing obviously fake scores at the top every other day. A couple more I'm suspicious of due to a recent uptick in their score distributions, but nothing horrendously egregious so far.
+2
Level 68
Feb 21, 2025
Gotta go fast. And live life to the fullest.

Offshore power boat racing from the 70's-90's has been popular on youtube too

+1
Level 83
Feb 21, 2025
7/13 attempts have led to the boater dying. It’s over 50%. :(
+3
Level 86
Feb 21, 2025
Had question 6 and 9 wrong.
+2
Level 53
Feb 21, 2025
A slow 8/10 for me and 5th on my leaderboard, but I'll be 6th once Frankiilynx has done it.
+2
Level 46
Feb 21, 2025
10/10 Excellent
+2
Level 64
Feb 21, 2025
Happy with 9/10 today. My first and second guesses for number 10 were both wrong. Kei te pai
+5
Level 74
Feb 21, 2025
You beat or equaled 98% of test takers

You are #1 on your friend leaderboard!

This is your 18th best score all-time

Knew the first nine questions and was thinking forever about the last one. Decided for the correct answer by excluding the others based on the year given. I assumed all others should have more recent records.

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Level 88
Feb 21, 2025
Great job! I got my 294th best score of all time. Also known as my worst score of all time.
+2
Level 89
Feb 21, 2025
9/10, fell at the last hurdle today, I was pretty sure it wasn't the first two options, but had no idea about the other two.

Honestly though I got a fairly lucky guess on the Ocean's Eleven question so I'll take that haha

+1
Level 69
Feb 23, 2025
That was the one that caught me out. I saw Sandra Bullock and went YES only to learn NO. Otherwise it was straightforward for me
+3
Level 69
Feb 21, 2025
neodymium mentioned!!!
+2
Level 63
Feb 22, 2025
neodymium mentioned!!!
+2
Level 47
Feb 21, 2025
7/10 not bad but very proud i got the last one right!
+2
Level 44
Feb 21, 2025
Aww I was on for 100% until I had to guess the final question. For some reason I thought free diving records had been set quite recently, so I immediately ruled that out and guessed from the other three.
+2
Level 64
Feb 21, 2025
I'm a pretty good proponent of the Anthropocene, but I can't believe I couldn't remember what we're in otherwise. D'oh. At least I know the name of one Pokemon.
+1
Level 58
Feb 21, 2025
And If I only could, I’d make a deal with God
+2
Level 38
Feb 21, 2025
5/10 only knew 5 and my guesses were really bad today I guess
+2
Level 66
Feb 21, 2025
9. What is the name for our current geological epoch which started around 11,700 years ago?

Holocene...Naturally. How dumb can I be... (Sarcasm)

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Level 66
Feb 21, 2025
8/10 jeesh....I know that bronze is an alloy but einsteinium sounded so silly....like unobtanium in Pandora. I'll have to research dying in a water speed record
+2
Level 47
Feb 21, 2025
9/10…was chuffed to get the last one right though!
+3
Level 49
Feb 21, 2025
I have no idea who Elizabeth Taylor is, so I just guessed the only other person I'd never heard of, and was correct 🤣
+1
Level 46
Feb 21, 2025
YaY! My question made it!
+2
Level 24
Feb 21, 2025
3/10, worst performance maybe ever