Daily Trivia for May 8, 2025

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Daily Trivia for May 8, 2025

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Level 66
May 8, 2025
Got everything but 2 and 6 — the former I definitely should have gotten.
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
Dang.....had to deliberate on Q7 but guessed right, missed Q10
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Level 53
May 8, 2025
2/10 First 2 questions made me think this was dental themed.
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Level 83
May 8, 2025
Sheesh, 4th worst score ever. My instincts were bunko tonight.
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
Oh stop that! What did you miss? I go back and forth on whether I'm better right before I go to bed or better in the morning....I think I'm better before I see all you smart folks on the leaderboard!
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Level 73
May 8, 2025
7/10

Surprised with the amount of people who clicked Machu Picchu on Q10. Isn't it not a settlement?

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Level 66
May 8, 2025
I did....but thinking through it further, in the 1870s not sure how far into South America had been explored to even think of Machu Pichu at all. And it was much more than a settlement, kingdom of the Incas. On the other hand, I thought that history of Roman Empire would pretty much have known that Troy was not mythical. Which leaves me with Camelot and Shangri-La. I should have gone with Shangri-La....still wrong! 😒
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Level 83
May 8, 2025
I was pretty sure that Spanish Conquistadors saw Machu Picchu firsthand and it was known to be real. I somehow conflated Xanadu and Shangri-La. Troy definitely was the only logical answer. 😓
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
Going down the quick rabbit hole that might aid on future quizzes "It is thought that the Spanish conquistadores did not track down Machu Picchu because it had actually been abandoned by the Incas shortly before the arrival of Spanish soldiers to the Cusco area during their conquest of the Incas in the 1530's. In 1911, an intrepid Yale professor named Hiram Bingham located what he called the “lost city of the Incas” in the highlands of Peru.' Why was it abandoned? Another rabbit hole to fall down!
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Level 68
May 8, 2025
I thought of the 17 year cicada and decided they must be able to live three times that long. (along with 50% of everyone else apparently). 8/10
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
And don't forget, cockroaches can live a week without their head!
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Level 68
May 8, 2025
I once trapped a cockroach under a glass and it was still alive after two months
+2
Level 56
May 8, 2025
cruel and interesting
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Level 68
May 8, 2025
Oh, I guess it was cruel, but I didn't intend it to be. I was in the middle of another task and just purely forgot to come back and remove it
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Level 57
May 8, 2025
Where was the glass that you hadn't seen it for 2 months?
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Level 27
May 8, 2025
it spent those two months plotting its revenge
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Level 68
May 8, 2025
@jacob On a shelf in my garage

@itzingenious No wonder I was scared to let it go... I may have just created my archnemesis

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Level 48
May 8, 2025
Casio mentioned, let's gooooooooooo
+3
Level 60
May 8, 2025
Wooh, 8/10 again

quite slow so it was only my 5th best ever

I have a Casio watch lol

+2
Level 66
May 8, 2025
I've had Casio G-Shock watches for years and a solar calculator that is at least 20 years old...
+1
Level 53
May 9, 2025
Yep, I also had a casino watch and calculator.
+2
Level 47
May 8, 2025
5/10…don’t think I’m properly awake yet! Will go back to quizzing in the evening.
+1
Level 74
May 8, 2025
This is my excuse every morning. I keep playing first thing though.
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Level 53
May 9, 2025
Me too, as soon as my eyes open.
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Level 70
May 8, 2025
8/10. Couldn't decide between Casio and Toshiba, and I don't know that it would have made any difference, but confidently clicked cicdas without reading any other choices. Oh well.
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Level 89
May 8, 2025
9/10 today, and probably could've done worse on another day. Wasn't entirely confident on Monaco vs. Singapore, and the Hunger Games one was a three-way guess for me, but the one that actually caught me out was the insect lifespan question; I had no idea termites could live that long, went with cicadas instead (like the majority so far haha)
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
It's only the queen that lives that long.....the boys only a couple years (I only know that because I live in a cedar forest and learned it from my timber logging guy)...wonder what the world would look like if that was the case for humans?..hmmm🤔
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Level 68
May 8, 2025
Adding about a trillion dollars worth of debt every hundred days, and destroying your society via dysgenics. Not a fun experiment.
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Level 65
May 8, 2025
I was really happy to be so close to beating you, only 7 points behind. I guessed correctly on the gums and insect questions, got Casio wrong, knew all the others. That's definitely (in the time we've been friends) the closest I've been to you, and it's my 9th-best score of all time.
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Level 62
May 8, 2025
8/10, yay! Sometimes if I slow down I can actually read the question and not just click without thinking. Amazing!
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Level 77
May 8, 2025
Question 5: "What's the farthest planet visible that is to the naked eye?"

I think this should read: "What's the farthest planet that is visible to the naked eye?"

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Level 80
May 8, 2025
OUCH ~ 6
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Level 15
May 8, 2025
2/10

unlucky

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Level 75
May 8, 2025
Worst score ever lol
+2
Level 60
May 8, 2025
Incredibile the answers to the question 10. In Italy, and I think in Europe in general, is such a famouse thing.
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Level 53
May 9, 2025
I'm European and didn't know, I guessed. My reasoning was: Camelot and Shangri-la are fantasy and machu Picchu is a volcano, so must be Troy. Not saying that's true, just that that's what I thought haha
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Level 20
May 8, 2025
1/10 worst ever today it was hard
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
I'm betting on a Pope theme tomorrow....
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Level 73
May 8, 2025
I'd better brush up on my Papal knowledge
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Level 66
May 8, 2025
There is a LOT of fertile Papal history to plow.....I'm going to resurrect up on my catechism. Does it strike anyone as interesting that this is the first American Pope?
+4
Level 55
May 8, 2025
Habemus papam!
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Level 63
May 8, 2025
Got my first 10/10 in like 6 months lol I'm really surprised
+3
Level 27
May 8, 2025
New pope!
+2
Level 68
May 8, 2025
Chicagooooooooooooooo!!!!!! Daaaaa pope.
+2
Level 76
May 8, 2025
Kicking myself for missing the planetary question. I had it but doubted myself and changed at last second
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Level 65
May 8, 2025
9/10 on a day when apparently very few people scored that high?? What???? This never happens!
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Level 65
May 8, 2025
I'm fairly disturbed by the percentage of quiz takers (53% as of now) who thought Machu Picchu was believed to be mythical until the 1870s when it was dug up. Like do they think there was a second dark ages when everyone forgot about the 16th century (less than 300 years ago at that point) and Pizarro etc? Do they think all the ruins got buried and forgotten in that time? What's the logic there exactly? 😂
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Level 66
May 26, 2025
Not sure what you mean but here you go:

“ Considered a masterpiece of Inca architecture, it was gradually abandoned after the collapse of the Inca Empire in the 16th century, and then ignored for centuries outside the local population. This has given it a reputation as a "forgotten city". Machu Picchu was explored in 1911 by the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), assistant professor of Latin American history at Yale University, who made it known in a reference work. “

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Level 53
May 9, 2025
Got 7/10. Chose agriculture for the hunger games, Singapore and cicada, like so many others.