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The Stupidest Quiz on Jetpunk
These questions are more complex than they first appear. Prepare to get questions wrong… by trick, by technicality, and by second guessing yourself!
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| First submitted | December 18, 2022 |
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1. What type of blood do arteries carry in healthy adult humans?
The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs. Otherwise arteries typically carry oxygenated blood.
Oxygenated
Deoxygenated
Depends on which artery
2. Imagine that you have a rigid glass sphere filled with helium. When released, it floats in place at shoulder height, neither rising nor sinking. What would happen to the glass sphere if you removed some of the helium gas with a vacuum, such that no outside air got in?
By removing mass from the sphere, you are decreasing its density and increasing its buoyancy.
It would float higher
It would sink
It would stay in place
3. Where did the English head of state reside throughout most of the 20th century?
The kings and queens of England lived primarily in Buckingham Palace in central London.
London
York
England is a constitutional monarchy and therefore has no head of state
4. Imagine you have two + signs on a horizontal plane (++). Imagine that you can rotate them and extend their arms as far as you wish. Rotate and extend the + signs in a configuration that forms as many triangles as possible. How many triangles can be made?
Imagine an x shape and a + shape. The cross can cover two side of the x at once to create two triangles. Because those triangles are side by side, they form a larger triangle.
1
2
3
5. How many vowels are in the following phrase: “Sorry, I have not been to town.”?
The “Y” in “sorry” is a vowel because it makes a vowel sound. The “W” in “town”, surprisingly, is technically a vowel because it forms a diphthong with “o”. There’s a reason it’s called “double U”.
9
10
11
6. A ball-and-socket joint can rotate and move sideways and forward and backwards. This is because they have a mostly round ball that fits in the concave part of another bone. How many ball-and-socket joints do humans typically have?
Two shoulder joints and two hip joints. If you think your wrist might fit this criteria, try holding your forearm and rotating your wrist.
2
4
These joints do not exist in humans
7. How many strikeouts can a pitcher get in a nine-inning Major League Baseball game?
There is no actual limit to strikeouts. If the catcher fails to catch a passed ball on a strikeout, it is still considered a strikeout even if the batter makes it to first base. Therefore, there could technically be more than 27 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, however unlikely.
9
27
An infinite number
8. How many times did Henry VIII legally marry?
Henry VIII had six wives, but annulments represent the legal rescinding of a marriage. Thus, three legal marriages.
Three times
Six times
He had no legal marriages
9. What musical genre is a portmanteau of "rock and roll" and "hillbilly"?
Country music used to be called hillbilly music before hillbilly had negative connotations. Rockabilly acts were rock and roll with a bit of old country music influence, or so the port manteau suggests.
R&B
Rockabilly
These two terms have never combined to make a portmanteau
10. How many strikes can you get in a normal 10-frame game of 10-pin bowling?
A strike gives you an extra point for each pin you knock over in the next two frames. A strike in the tenth resets the pins for these bonus points, and another strike here causes the pins to be reset for the last bonus points you can get on the tenth frame. Thus, 10 frames can have 12 strikes.
10
12
Theoretically, an unlimited number
11. What fantastical people did Gulliver meet in his travels?
Windmills that turned into giants
Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians
No one, since it was all a dream in his head
12. Who is the "shrew" in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"?
A grumpy and unmarried older sister
A witch who puts a spell on a spoiled prince
Shakespeare did not write this play
13. A marathon pays $256 to the winner, half as much to second place, half as much as second to third place, and so forth. Juan came around the final corner to see the fourth place runner, Massimo, limping to the finish line. Juan pushed as hard as he could and passed him right before finishing the race. How much did Juan win?
Passing the runner in fourth means you finished fourth. 256, 128, 64, 32.
$64
$32
$16
14. The meteor that caused a mass extinction event 180 million years ago also created what geographic feature?
It was likely an asteroid or comet that struck the Earth at the Yucatan peninsula. A meteor becomes a meteorite after it strikes the Earth anyway.
Yucatan Peninsula
Grand Canyon
A meteor most certainly did not cause a mass extinction 180 million years ago
15. In terms of official languages, are there more people who speak Pakistani or Ethiopian?
Pakistani and Ethiopian are demonyms, not languages. Urdu is the most spoken language in Pakistan, and Amharic is most spoken in Ethiopia. There are languages that are considered part of the Ethiopian language group, but it's not accurate to say someone speaks just "Ethiopian". Therefore, they're both zero.
There are more Pakistani speakers
There are more Ethiopian speakers
They have exactly the same number of speakers
16. Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
The monarchy was abolished after Nicholas abdicated without any other Romanov stepping up to be tsar.
Nicholas II
Alexander Kerensky
Joseph Stalin
17. What colour’s wavelength is closest to purple’s wavelength on the spectrum of visible light (i.e., in a rainbow)?
Purple is created in the human brain when we see equal amounts of red and blue light. There is no way to create purple with a single wavelength of light.
Violet
Indigo
Purple is not a colour in the visible spectrum
18. What is the largest desert in northern Africa?
This probably does not need explanation.
The Sahara
The Namib
Northern Africa has chaparral, not desert
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The quiz maker is free to disagree. I've never taught W as a vowel nor seen it presented in any foundational phonics curriculum in this way, but it seems like others see it differently.
baseless and unjust. This truly cast a terrible stain upon your reputation as a jetpunk quiz maker. I cannot believe that you would ever do such a thing as to insult the people of Pakistan or Ethiopia.