Hardest Daily Trivia Questions of 2024

On the JetPunk Daily Trivia, 10 randomly selected trivia questions are offered each day. Below are all the questions where the correct answer was guessed by only 25% of people or less. Do you have what it takes to answer them all correctly?
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Last updated: January 4, 2025
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1. Who proposed a plan to bulldoze much of Paris, rebuilding it with 18 identical concrete skyscrapers surrounded by parks and wide roads for automobile traffic?
May 5th, 2024 - 23%
Adolf Hitler
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gustave Eiffel
Le Corbusier
2. In 2023, what country set the record for the most crude oil ever produced by a single country in a single year?
May 23rd, 2024 - 17%
Angola
Russia
Saudi Arabia
United States
3. What was the first country to make currency known as a "Dollar"?
May 28th, 2024 - 18%
Guinea
Spain
United States
The Vatican
4. A cone has a volume of 1. What is the volume of the cylinder which has the same height and base?
June 2nd, 2024 - 24%
1
√2
2
3
5. What, according to Ernest Hemingway, happens "gradually and then suddenly"?
June 7th, 2024 - 4%
Falling in love
Getting old
Going broke
Losing one’s mind
6. What is a factotum?
June 8th, 2024 - 23%
An area of total surveillance
A jack of all trades
A piece of parchment used multiple times
A small model of a larger system
7. What was discovered in 1801 and (at the time) considered one of the eight planets of the solar system?
June 11th, 2024 - 18%
Andromeda Galaxy
Ceres
Mercury
Pluto
8. What type of tea gets its special flavor from orange peels?
June 23rd, 2024 - 22%
Chai
Earl Grey
Jasmine
Oolong
9. 13 of Oregon’s 36 counties have voted to secede from Oregon. What state do they wish to join?
July 5th, 2024 - 25%
California
Idaho
Washington
Their own new state, tentatively named Cascadia
10. What is the biggest moon in our solar system?
July 24th, 2024 - 24%
Ganymede
Io
The Earth’s moon
Titan
11. What historical individual’s family tree has been traced for 80 generations – over 2500 years?
August 13th, 2024 - 15%
Augustus
Buddha
Confucius
Genghis Khan
12. Who was allegedly a customer of BALCO, the Bay Area Lab Company?
August 18th, 2024 - 22%
Barry Bonds
Bill Clinton
Matthew Perry
Steve Jobs
13. Who has been president of El Salvador since 2019?
August 29th, 2024 - 24%
Bernardo Arévalo
Nayib Bukele
Daniel Ortega
Claudia Sheinbaum
14. What killed about 400 Americans each year in the early 1900s but only about 30 today?
August 31st, 2024 - 23%
Lightning strikes
Lung cancer
Shark attacks
Smallpox
15. Which of these animals is a strict carnivore?
September 1st, 2024 - 22%
Common dolphin
Grey wolf
Grizzly bear
Snapping turtle
16. Where are Mount Odin, Mount Thor, and Mount Asgard?
September 5th, 2024 - 9%
Antarctica
Canada
Greenland
Norway
17. Which U.S. president had, at one time, an approval rating over 90%?
September 7th, 2024 - 25%
George W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
18. What is the only country outside of Africa that has a cheetah population?
September 24th, 2024 - 23%
India
Indonesia
Iran
Saudi Arabia
19. On what island do dragon blood trees live?
October 25th, 2024 - 25%
Java
Madagascar
Socotra
Tasmania
20. Where does Hello Kitty live?
November 4th, 2024 - 15%
Hong Kong
London
Los Angeles
Paris
21. What country has over 180 million sheep – by far the most of any country?
November 6th, 2024 - 19%
China
Iran
New Zealand
United Kingdom
22. Which of these canals is the longest, at around 565 kilometers in length?
November 12th, 2024 - 24%
Erie Canal
Leeds-Liverpool Canal
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
23. The two official languages of Pakistan are Urdu and ...
November 19th, 2024 - 24%
Bengali
English
Hindi
Punjabi
24. What is the most populous island in the United States?
November 20th, 2024 - 24%
Hawaii
Long Island
Manhattan
Nantucket
25. Who is Cristiano Ronaldo named after?
November 27th, 2024 - 22%
Christian Dior
Christopher Columbus
Ronald McDonalds
Ronald Reagan
26. "The Bund" is a historic waterfront district in what city?
December 2nd, 2024 - 16%
Hamburg
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Shanghai
27. Who did the Beatles travel to India to meet in 1968?
December 16th, 2024 - 21%
The Bhagwan
The Dalai Lama
The Maharishi
Mahatma Gandhi
28. What equation seeks to calculate the probability of intelligent alien life in the Milky Way?
December 18th, 2024 - 25%
Boltzmann equation
Drake equation
Kelvin equation
Penrose equation
29. Which of these fruits is a "drupe"?
December 19th, 2024 - 25%
Cantaloupe
Peach
Raspberry
Strawberry
30. What did Hungarian-born physicist Edward Teller invent?
December 29th, 2024 - 23%
The Geiger counter
The hydrogen bomb
The quantum computer
The X-ray machine
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11 Comments
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Level 68
Jan 4, 2025
Well done. I believe that last answer ought to be the H-bomb, however.

I got 21/30 after getting the first eight incorrect and then all the others correct, then the one assigned wrongly. I enjoyed this

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Level 66
Jan 4, 2025
Right, forgot to change it off the default answer.
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Level 88
Jan 4, 2025
Teller invented the hydrogen bomb, not the Geiger counter. I think the Geiger counter was invented by Geiger.
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Level 77
Jan 4, 2025
Actually, it was developed by Hans Geiger and Walther Müller in 1928, based on the technique invented by Geiger in 1908. It is also called the "Geiger–Müller tube". But since Müller was only a PhD student under Geiger, his name usually gets dropped.
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Level 77
Jan 4, 2025
24/30 if you count the H-bomb question. Kicking myself over three of the other ones, but overall quite pleased that I seem to remember the answers well.
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Level 83
Jan 4, 2025
Dang. Missed 3. Bush, Iran, and the French guy who I don’t know at all.
+1
Level 89
Jan 4, 2025
Le Corbusier, the cone, factotum, and Oregon for me. Slightly kicking myself about factotum because I could see the Latin roots (fac = do; totum = everything) but I didn't change my answer because I could've sworn I went for that last time and got it wrong lmao
+2
Level 48
Jan 4, 2025
I still can't believe Going broke was the right answer and was guessed only by 4% of people.
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Level 48
Jan 4, 2025
And btw ronald mcdonald is misspelled
+2
Level 71
Jan 4, 2025
I thought Earl Grey Tea got its flavor from bergamot. Never saw orange peel on any labels--and I have consumed many cases of the stuff!
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Level 89
Jan 4, 2025
Very nice quiz! Got 26/30, forgot a couple of the older ones, interesting to see that the Hemingway one is still the hardest ever, that one definitely stuck with me haha

Also quite proud that 5 of my questions were included here :D