Rats! 9/10, got the temple question wrong, hesitated for about a minute between India and Thailand but went the wrong way. Thankfully I redeemed myself on the last question because I recently edited a paper that mentioned the Norwegian rat haha
I was in the same boat, and was feeling pretty good about guessing it correctly. Then I got to the last one; my lack of knowledge of Latin continues to haunt me.
Sadly he’s been found guilty of murdering a lab rat. Waiting to be put down he healed a fly, though, and that fly has aged unusually slowly. Of course that fly got accused of killing a maggot. Long story short, there’s a paramecium living an unusually long time in Castle Rock.
When I saw my leaderboard, I was like, Hmm, this is apparently going to be a hard test. I then proceeded to get the first five correct. Oh this isn't so bad. Then I only got one right after that. Rats!
7/10 I'd have done better if it had been more about real rats, like #10 was easy because I know what we have here in New York is the Norwegian brown rat. My dog has killed two.
"In George Orwell’s “1984”, the protagonist hates big brother, until he’s captured and they dump rats on his head. The experience makes him a model citizen: completely altering his personality and behavior. Thus, “1984” is literature’s first ratatouille."
Is what I would've said if I didn't get such a good score.
Thanks to the Penguins of Madagascar for question #2.