| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Compounds of this element are mostly responsible for the classic rotten-egg smell. | sulfur | 91%
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| U.S. founder who wrote the satirical “A Letter to a Royal Academy,” requesting that science make farts smell better | Benjamin Franklin | 73%
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| Finish the saying: "Whoever smelt it..." | "dealt it" | 73%
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| 1974 western comedy with a famous beans-around-the-campfire fart scene | Blazing Saddles | 64%
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| One of the two gases that can make farts flammable | methane | 64%
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| 1975 comedy film with the taunt “I fart in your general direction.” | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 64%
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| Flatulent Disney warthog | Pumbaa | 64%
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| James Joyce novel whose “Sirens” episode ends with Bloom’s musical onomatopoetic fart | Ulysses | 64%
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| One of the two gases that can make farts flammable | hydrogen | 55%
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| Work containing “The Miller’s Tale,” in which Nicholas “let[s] fly a fart as loud as it had been a thunder-clap" at Absolon | The Canterbury Tales | 55%
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| Inflatable gag device whose modern rubber version was invented in 1930s Toronto | whoopee cushion | 55%
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| According to the schoolyard rhyme, these are "the musical fruit." | beans | 45%
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| Slang term for pulling the covers over a person's head while flatulating | Dutch oven | 45%
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| Joseph Pujol, "Le Pétomane," exhibited controlled “flatulist” performances at this famous French venue. | Moulin Rouge | 45%
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| Animated series featuring fart-joke Canadian duo Terrance and Phillip | South Park | 45%
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| In 2001, Buck Weimer received this prize for inventing an undergarment with replaceable charcoal filter. | {Ig} {Nobel} Prize | 36%
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| Superhero persona portrayed by Howard Stern, notably at the 1992 MTV VMAs | Fartman | 27%
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| The scientific study of farts | {flat}ology | 27%
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| In this 14th-century work, the protagonist witnesses a demon mobilizing his troops by using his rear as a trumpet. | Inferno | 27%
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| Ancient civilization with the oldest recorded joke (1900 BC): a proverb about a flatulent bride | Sumer | 27%
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| 2016 film with Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse | Swiss Army Man | 27%
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| Shakespeare comedy where Dromio jokes that words are “but wind” and should be broken “in your face,” not “behind” | The Comedy of Errors | 18%
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| Children's book by Shinta ChĹŤ subtitled The Story of Farts | The Gas {We} {Pass} | 9%
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