6/6 but 7/10. Judging by the % of right answers the first six were easy and the Bette Midler question was the easiest of the last 4, so I'm full in trend.
When an answer with a 25% chance of guessing right only has 24% of people getting it right, you can take solace that pretty much nobody actually knew it:)
That's the point, if 50% are picking the same wrong answer then clearly people who don't know the answer aren't picking at random, they're doing an educated guess.
9/10 for me today, sailed through the first 6 but the back end was tricky here. Never heard of the novel, and while I avoided the tsunami trap, I still guessed wrong with pandemic. Bette Midler was a complete guess for me as well though, so I'll count my blessings there haha
9/10 Sailed the first six, decided that a 1957 disaster novel...Cold War, nuke storage paranoia....knew Q8/9.....died in the arena on Q10 - went with ignis for 'fire'....
Dang. My subconscious mind could’ve gotten a 10/10 if I ignored all logic and just went with my hunches. Cox’s Bazaar jumped out at me and 1957 immediately made me think of the Cold War. Alas.
I only got Cox's Bazaar cuz it was a recent question on some other quiz that I didn't know and then I did a dive on Bangladesh. Didn't put it on my travel bucket list.
25 comments and still no jokes about silicon in sand? I haven`t got one either. But I`ve been to beaches in California. And there seemed to be considerable leakage of silicon there. (I did my best.)
How can folks not like sand? Sand is lovely, digging your feet into while walking makes your sole all clean and soft, cleans your calluses, exercises your toes if you curl them while you walk, and what about sand castles? Come on!
My first result under 5/10. And my second worst score ever! I had at least 2 cases of second guessing my gut feeling and choosing poorly in consequence.
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
It’s one of Shute’s better known novels. A Town like Alice is probably his most well known. He wrote many novels between 1925 and 1960. I have read quite a few of them.
Having Chittagong as the first option for the longest beach question is so mean. I clicked it immediately knowing that it was fairly close in proximity to the actual answer. As I clicked it, I saw the answer below and regretted it.
9/10 but I guess it was more intuition than actual knowledgeableness. Got the "On the Beach" question wrong; the right option was too unpredicable for me lol
My best score ever! It helps that On the Beach is one of my favorite novels; when I read Beaches I said, this character has gotta be based on Bette Midler; and Cox’s Bazaar is a bizarre name for a beach. Yay!
6/10
6/10
9/10 with 2 guesses though
todays theme = Mountains!
1. They were founded in CA. CA has mountains
2. Sugarloaf Mountain is also here
3. One US state based off a Spanish word is Montana, coming from the word for mountain
4. The nation he lead had mountains, such as Ben Nevis
5. Also found in mountains
6. Hawaii has 13 large mountains, and most large islands have one
7. Nukes are stored in silos, esp. near mountains and other less populated areas
8. This is a non-native European place name in South Asia. Another non-native European place name in South Asia is Mt. Everest.
9. Born in Hawaii (see q6)
10. Mountain also comes from Latin
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
It’s one of Shute’s better known novels. A Town like Alice is probably his most well known. He wrote many novels between 1925 and 1960. I have read quite a few of them.