9,866: 5th best. Useless data w/o context. How many tests have you taken? Any proof of no cheating (basically only on 1st takes? -- that's on Quizmaster)
I got a very “professional” 10/10. Today my educated guesses all ended up being right, although I was very lucky to get surveyor and fisherman. I don’t even know who George Everest is, but figured lots of people were surveyors in the 1700s. And I used Indiana Jones logic for the fishermen to help me avoid choosing poorly.
I still find it wild that Europe didn’t know Everest existed until the 1850s. Somehow I missed the fact that the mountain was named after a random British guy. It’s called Sagarmatha in Nepalese, so maybe it’ll revert to that one day.
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but I thought he only mentioned Jesus being a carpenter, not anything about fisherman. Is that from a different scene?
Okay, I was curious so I tried poking around more. Doesn't look like fishermen are mentioned at all in any Indiana Jones film. You must have confused "carpenter" with "fisherman"
Oh, the message there is just that Jesus Christ was humble. He wouldn't have a flashy goblet, and he probably wouldn't have many people in the high professions among his closest followers. The film didn't mention fishermen, but I applied the principle in the film to this scenario.
Yep, plus if you have ever been to Mt. Vernon (George Washington's estate outside of Washington DC) you would be familiar with his life story and multitude of jobs he held. Those founding fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, etc.) were truly renaissance men, personal foibles/wrinkles notwithstanding.
I nearly chose precious metals for the apothecary because, I mean, they still dispense medicines, but then I stuck to the premise, just cos the answer seems easy and obvious to me, doesn't mean it is for everyone.
I've never read to kill a mockingbird, shame on me. So guessed wrongly on that question.
I tossed up for tax collector and surveyor for Everest and chose the wrong one. In hindsight why would they name a mountain after a tax collector, but tbh, I didn't even know who George Everest was.
I remembered that Mount Everest was first measured as the highest in the world in the Great Indian Survey of 18XX, so I guessed the unknown George Everest must have been the surveyor if he got his name on it.
Dangit, made through a couple of tricky ones only to fall at the final hurdle even though fisherman was my first instinct 😅 Ahh well, 9/10, can't complain, was probably lucky to get the Washington one too.
Same, getting 9/10 usually put me at spot 8 on my leaderboard... and on the rare occasion I get a 10 I very likely end up at spot 4, spot 3 if I am lucky..
I thought question 2 was going to be a trick question, so I hesitated for ever, I mean that is exactly what an apothecary does now... am I missing something completely obvious here??
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That was kinda cool. Wish I had something with 3s, but no.
I've never read to kill a mockingbird, shame on me. So guessed wrongly on that question.
I tossed up for tax collector and surveyor for Everest and chose the wrong one. In hindsight why would they name a mountain after a tax collector, but tbh, I didn't even know who George Everest was.
I had no idea on question #1 (but guessed it right), then failed on To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In short, skill issue.