One of my worst ever!

How is El Salvador named after Jesus?

Not my best day, 6/10 but 1st on my leaderboard, perhaps the only one....

Who *actually* knew the answer to the ninth question?

I am sure that the existence of el salvador is well known.

And salvador-savior-salvager-whatever isn't the most complex linguistic connection.

But who could connect the two and did not just guess?

I think playing Paradox Games has its perks. I saw Jesus and my stupid brain instantly thought of "Kingdom of Jerusalem".

Turns out it's El Salvador but at least I got it right, though unintentional.

Just noticed that I can go back and do the quizzes I missed, the comments are answering so many questions I had about an overall leaderboard and cheating.

You know it was a tough one when 7/10 gets you better than 75% of test takers and #1 on your leaderboard (for now).

It made me laugh so hard that more people thought black swans are fictional than Australian! I’ve seen a lot of them in NZ and Aus - but also they are the example we were taught in philosophy to demonstrate the limits of inductive reasoning: Europeans inferred that all swans where white, but seeing on black swan in Australia falsified that belief.

I have issues with question 6. I did some looking up of articles and facts and I found out that indeed you can end up with a helium-4 atom from fusing 4 hydrogen-1 atoms while releasing 2 positrons and things like this happen in the Sun, but it's quite an oversimplification. And it doesn't include the fact that there are different isotopes of hydrogen and different isotopes of helium and they appear in intermediate steps of the fusion, as it happens for example in stars.

My answer was 2, because the reaction in most common research is between deuterium (hydrogen-2) and tritium (hydrogen-3) and you need only those two atoms of hydrogen, you just need the correct hydrogen isotopes.

Somebody on Quora meanwhile insists that the answer is 3, because helium-3 is a perfectly stable isotope of helium, with two protons and one neutron.

In general it seems like this question needed to be more specific and there wasn't enough context given.

9/10. Chemistry got me today. Or physics. Science.

6/10 but if I took a beat to look at 10 I would've gotten it right

This was one of my better days in the past few weeks! I'm surprised that so many people are talking about its difficulty.

i got 10/10 no big d.

huge flop for me

I thought of El Salvador and still didn't choose Jesus. I guess because "Jesus" isn't in the country name. I thought about it for some time, too. That shows you how dumb I am.

6 correct and 66th percentile. Oh, no! The number of the beast!

el salvador is a stretch i feel like but 7/10

The Jesus question was poorly worded imo. Question was framed like the answer was 'Jesustan' or 'Jesustania' or some such. Better phrasing might be sth like, 'a country named in the honour of' etc

Oof, that Hydrogen quantity to Helium question is something else. I appreciate when I'm motivated to learn here!

Thanks.

Honestly I thought that it was Buddha because it's similar to Bhuthan, that is a Bhuddist country.

I didn't thought of El Salvador.