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April Fools' Quiz #1

Can you guess the 100% factual answers to these questions?
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What body part does the average person only use 10% of?
Brain
What type of animal commits mass suicide by jumping off a cliff?
Lemmings
What is the only man-made object visible from space?
Great Wall of China
In what country was President Obama born?
Kenya
And what religion does he practice?
Islam
What precocious composer wrote "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" at the
tender age of 5?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What is the largest country in Central America?
Mexico
What is the closest living relative of the Giant Panda?
Red Panda
Whose birth is known as the "immaculate conception"?
Jesus's
What type of animal can give you warts if you touch it?
Toad
What is the capital of Turkey?
Istanbul
What is another term for schizophrenia?
Multiple Personality
Disorder
What kitchen device causes pacemakers to malfunction?
Microwave
Who said "I am a jelly donut" during a speech in Berlin?
John F. Kennedy
What vegetable is known to improve eyesight due to its high Vitamin A content?
Carrots
Who said "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"?
Joseph Stalin
What famous conqueror was far shorter than the average soldier of his time?
Napoleon
What common beverage is "basic", the opposite of acidic?
Milk
What will stay in your digestive tract for at least seven years if
you accidentally swallow it?
Chewing Gum
What type of animal doesn't get cancer?
Sharks
100 Recent Comments
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Level 27
Apr 1, 2017
This I said pretty funny, but it's a real dick move to put something that is the cornerstone of the world's largest religion as a false statement. Go ahead and believe what you want, but whether this is true or not is for the individual to decide. The Jesus question should be removed.
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Level 48
Apr 1, 2017
I'm surprised this is the first comment to this effect. I've grown a thick skin but agree it was a dick move.
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Level 65
Apr 2, 2017
You don't even know your religion! The Immaculate Conception refers to the Virgin Mary having been born without original sin. You (and many others) obviously confuse this with the virgin birth of Jesus.
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Level 67
Apr 2, 2017
Mike B. is correct. I was raised in a very Catholic household and very Catholic schools. The Immaculate Conception refers to the belief that Jesus's mother Mary was conceived "with an immaculate soul" by her mother, St. Anne. Mary was born without sin, which is why she is always depicted with blue (for purity) and Jesus with red (for his blood sacrifice). The conception of Jesus by Mary is the Virgin Birth. It's not the same as the Immaculate Conception at all. The quiz is not suggesting Christianity is silly. It is poking fun at the many people who wrongly think the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth are the same.
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Level 68
Apr 2, 2017
Thanks for clearing that up with a clear explanation. Appreciated.
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Level 71
May 5, 2020
Think you are jumping at shadows to complain about the question. Why so defensive? Myself, I thought the joke was about confusing conception with birth.
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Level 92
Jan 5, 2023
That, too. Doesn't matter whose conception we're talking about, conception doesn't = birth.
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Level 60
Apr 1, 2017
I laughed quite a lot throughout this quiz, it was pretty funny. Reading the comment section kinda made me lose hope in humanity, with so many people saying the quiz is inaccurate because of... 1 or 2 questions, not realising it was all false...
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Level 69
Jul 4, 2017
You're only just NOW losing hope in humanity?
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Level 69
Apr 1, 2017
I think this quiz is based on things that people have been led to believe at some point, whether from April fools jokes or otherwise. Some of these things have some basis in fact though not entirely true and some are completely wrong. It is what it is, probably not meant to be funny, though lighthearted, just stating these inaccurate beliefs. It is a shame some people seem to have misunderstood or even taken offence. It was a great quiz
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
And some questions are leading, there is only one answer that can be given. (so even if you have never heard rumours about it you can get the "correct"answer ) Like what african animal with a trunk has a gestation of 9 months. The only answer you can give is really elephant. Though it is incorrect (gestation period is atleast double that) Still fun though :)

The leading questions might also be part of the reason some do not realize ALL answers are incorrect. If it is about a subject you know nothing about, how would you know the obvious answer is wrong.Though that applies a bit more to the others in this series. Most of these are suspicious either way. Besides actually the one most argued about, where obama was born, if you dont follow american politics how would you know, where he was, or supposedly was or was not born. And the stalin and perhaps the shark one. Most others smell like a set up

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Level 77
Apr 1, 2017
Stupid. Stopped after the Obama question. Idiots.
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Level 61
Apr 1, 2017
Maybe you would have done more of the quiz if you had read the title first?
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Level 44
Apr 17, 2017
Why didn't you take the time to read the title of the quiz?
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
Idiots act first and ask questions later, or not at all..
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Level 69
Jul 4, 2017
Shew! Leni sure showed us!!
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Level 54
Apr 1, 2017
The origin behind the carrot one is that during WWII, the British didn't want the Germans to know their planes were equipped with radar so they started a myth that the carrots their pilots ate gave them the ability to see in the dark.
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
As I Have heard it, it was simply a matter of supply and demand, there was a surplus of carrots during the war while many others foodproducts were rationed. So they tried to popularize the carrot as much as they could. With cartoons, and lots of different campaigns and government recipes, like carrot on a stick (instead of an icecream since sugar was scarce and very valuable). So the propaganda was aimed at its british citizens, eat carrots so you can see better in case of a blackout. What better way to convince people to eat something than to use things they are woried about (especially since there was already a relation between carrots (vit a) and eyesight) Could have coincided and been convenient to use it as a coverup of radar from the germans, but that is the byproduct/afterthought, I believe. The (original) focus of the lie was aimed at the british citizens.
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Level 71
May 5, 2020
Two birds with one stone huh? Well if disinformation coincided with elevating the humble carrot in the estimation of the populace, why not?
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Level 45
Apr 2, 2017
I could've sworn that Kim Kardashian wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star aged 5...
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Level 47
Sep 26, 2017
You are right. Mozart wasn't half the musical genius Kim was.
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Level 51
Dec 14, 2020
If you mean Kim as in Kim Jong-Un, you are very right. After all, he composed William Tell, The Blue Danube Waltz, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star all in one trip to his nuclear facilities.
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Level 56
Apr 2, 2017
I learn more from the April Fools quizzes than from any other! Thanks for correcting me!
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Level 47
Sep 26, 2017
This comment was prime.
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Level 60
Apr 3, 2017
I wanted points so I took the quiz but I refused to type some of the answers so I guess I'll take my one point and leave. lol #bigbrotheriswatching
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Level 37
Apr 3, 2017
My teacher said you could see the great wall of china from space so I'm like cool fact so I tell my sister and she says no you can't and now I truly understand this is a myth.
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Level 33
Aug 31, 2017
Don't you understand that ALL the questions are myths?
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Level 83
Mar 3, 2019
I believe he/she does.
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Level 22
Apr 5, 2017
Obama is Kenyan so the joke is on you.
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Level 62
Apr 23, 2017
Trump was born on the Moon. Trust me. The birth was fantastic. Really, really terrific.
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Level 25
Feb 27, 2018
Insane. +1
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Level 71
Apr 1, 2019
Nutty +1
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Level 76
Jan 27, 2023
It was an incredible birth, it really was. He got a call from the king of Mexico. He said, well he said that he was going to pay for the wall. It's fantastic and really, really terrific.
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Level 60
Apr 1, 2024
This comment is still gold 7 years later
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Level 47
Apr 6, 2017
Is it a good thug or a bad thing that my scores were above average?
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Level 47
Jan 17, 2018
Nope. Just means you know what's wrong. :)
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
or thought they were right, or a combo, who can tell.
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Level 34
May 7, 2024
It's a good thug
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Level 36
Apr 21, 2017
To Helen790: If by that you mean, there were no United States of America when the first seven presidents were born, then you are absolutely right. They were born in what were then British Colonies.
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Level 68
Jun 21, 2017
Cringed internally while typing all of these.
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Level 69
Jul 4, 2017
I cringed externally.
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Level 61
Jul 13, 2017
Literally 2/3 of these are untrue
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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2017
Nope. They are all 100% true.
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Level 31
Jul 20, 2017
No XD, they're all untrue apart from about 5
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
Still literally 2/3 are 100% untrue. Just, the other 1/3 is aswell.
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Level 47
Sep 26, 2017
What they meant was that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these is false. That is what an April Fools' quiz is all about.
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Level 78
Feb 27, 2018
Well, it is TECHNICALLY correct that "literally 2/3 of these are untrue." It's just that the other 1/3 are ALSO untrue.
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Level 31
Jul 20, 2017
An average person doesn't use 10% of their brain. That was proven false ages and ages ago. I remember when they said 5% then 7% now 10% but scientists proved it false and we actually use 100% of it.
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Level 31
Jul 20, 2017
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and Chewing Gum does not stick inside of you for 7 years if you swallow it, that's also proven false. It's impossible for "food" to be stuck in your digestive for 7 years.
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Level 47
Sep 26, 2017
Or you can understand that this is an April Fools' quiz, where every answer is a joke.
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Level 77
Jul 20, 2017
Stupid quiz
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Level 47
Sep 26, 2017
Buddy, you just posted this same comment like, eight times. It is an April Fools' joke, so the answers are purposely false.
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Level 38
Jul 20, 2017
You gotta love that when you give people the opportunity to be ironic and facetious, they use it to be idiotic.

It's like, a metaphor for the human race...

I just love the people that say, some of these questions are wrong!

Really?

I guess it's good that idiots makes themselves easily identifiable...

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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
Though often the replies make me cringe even worse. When people blindly copy/respond with things like "You idiot don't you realize they were ALL false!!" When the person in question obviously had ( already) realized that, and were just going in depth about a certain subject. Like an anecdote or simply along the lines "Ah I really thought this one question actually wás the case but see now that it isnt"

They dont even seem to read the comment ( same thing as they are blaming the person they are commenting of) and immediately feel the urge to scream, you idiot, didnt you see it was all wrong!!

Ok rant over :)

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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
this was not aimed at swanbabe, he/she just mentioned the subject that was bothering me.
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Level 33
Aug 31, 2017
Why don't you add Glasgow being the capital of Scotland?
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
That is aberdeen..
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Level 46
Dec 4, 2017
for "basic beverage" I first wrote pumpkin spice latte xD
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Level 35
Jan 23, 2018
Wow.... it was worth it just to read the comments....well played quizmaster..
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Level 31
Mar 26, 2018
Who else thinks that everybody posting dumb comments on this quiz should have their JetPunk levels reset to zero?
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Level 72
Dec 28, 2018
Im pretty sure quizmaster isnt gonna read corrections for this quiz so im not gonna bother. But I expected wall of china/chinese wall to be accepted. That is the way it is known in most languages, (and up untill the 19th century in english as well). And thought jesus wasnt accepted and only jesus's but think the error might ve been on my side typing jezus. (How it is written in my language).
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Level 72
Dec 28, 2018
Ow yea, did anyone else type warthog for the animal that gives you warts? (I guess they made up that toads gives you warts, because otherwise there would be too many princes/or the ones that made it up just wanted to keep the princes for themselves..)
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Level 55
Mar 3, 2019
Go back and read the quiz title, George...
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Level 25
Mar 17, 2019
the capital of turkey is ankara, not istanbul.
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Level 38
Mar 26, 2019
Golden nitpicker of the year award 2019 goes to...
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Level 59
Sep 29, 2020
Nice job, but who here is a jelly donut?
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Level 80
Jan 4, 2021
And the English name for 'Ankara' is actually 'Angora'.
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Level 79
Apr 7, 2021
Actually, the capital is still Constantinople. You can even spell capitol using the letters in Constantinople. You think that's a coincidence? Seriously though, Constantinople should really be a type-in answer.
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Level 90
Apr 1, 2019
Some of these are very hard to guess. I've never heard the whole shark line.
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Level 69
Apr 1, 2019
I think the shark thing was made up by MLMs to get people to buy their shark cartilage supplements or something.
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
My guess was naked molerat and then tried to remember the english word for em.. darn I cant even think of it in my own language though I can clearly see it ah yea degenkrabben, so horseshoe crab (nope would have come up with that, searched it just now). Because I know both are investigated/used for special medicinal purposes.
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Level 48
May 3, 2019
I don't like misinformation. this is silly.
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Level 75
Oct 29, 2019
Feel free to ignore April Fools quizzes from now on if you like
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
I agree if the title wasnt clearly there, then it was misleading and miseducating (yea, thats a word..) people on purpose. So no sillyness about the quiz itself.

Though I partly agree, reading the comments made me someon uneasy, lets saw someone only realised one or 2 were wrong. And didnt really know too much about the rest. Now they will have false affirmation, imprinting of new wrong info, that those are correct.

Like those, that didnt get it, beforehand might not have know what, if any structure was able to be seen from space, now they might think it is the great wall of china..

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Level 36
May 9, 2019
I question the Obama ones. Those are conspiracy theories, not misconceptions.
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Level 88
Jun 6, 2019
I get that people confuse the term Immaculate Conception for when Jesus was conceived (when in fact it refers to Mary being conceived free from Original Sin in Catholic dogma), but even more basic than that is the fact that conception and birth are not the same, people. I think the question would be better stated, "Whose birth was a result of the "immaculate conception"? and not as it is currently stated because no one's birth is known as conception- conception is not birth for those of you unacquainted with the birds and the bees. And if that is the confusion meant to be illustrated by the April Fools Quiz then it is less clever than it could be.
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Level 65
Jan 16, 2020
Ankara is the capital of Turkey not Istanbul
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Level 78
Jan 19, 2020
Many people think that but actually, a turkey is an animal and can therefore have no capital.
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
Well some do, but only those that got a good sense of entrepreneurship and/or are good at saving. :)
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Level 78
Mar 8, 2020
No, this is a neoliberal lie. They are part of the exploited masses. It is time for them to seize the means of production.
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Level 51
Dec 14, 2020
Yer wrong, Camus. A Turkey's capital is T.
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Level 70
Apr 1, 2020
16. I thought Stalin really said that? interesting
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Level 57
Nov 28, 2020
Who actually did say, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"? I looked it up and all I’m seeing is it being attributed to Stalin.
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Level 75
Dec 21, 2020
Why do some of these seem so easy to believe? Like sharks with their tender beautiful flesh, why shouldn't they be immune to cancer? Conspiracies can be so tempting.
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Level 67
Jul 27, 2021
JFK actually said "I am a jelly donut" in german (Ich bin ein Berliner).

"jelly donut" in german: Krapfen (in southern Germany - the only right way IMO), Pfannkuchen (in Berlin), Berliner (rest of Germany)

There are many funny ambiguitys in german e.g. "umfahren" (to run into) is the opposite of "umfahren" (to circumvent)

Have fun with our language

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Level 69
Dec 20, 2021
Yes, but JFK said the speech in Berlin... meaning those who heard him wouldn't have interpreted it that way. Saying "Ich bin ein Berliner" would have been incorrect if he said it anywhere else in Germany... but he didn't.
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Level 78
Feb 6, 2022
Berliner has two meanings. To Germans in some regions outside of Berlin, it can mean jelly donut. To all Germans, it usually means 'someone from Berlin'. So what JFK said was perfectly correct to all Germans from all regions.
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Level 80
Sep 30, 2024
Ambiguities*
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Level 53
Oct 18, 2021

According to the UN, Mexico is in Central America...

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Level 69
Dec 20, 2021
Just because the UN says it doesn't mean it is true. The UN says Ukraine controls Crimea. Russia has held power over the territory for 7 years now. That doesn't mean that Ukraine doesn't deserve to have it, but that's beside the point. Ukraine does not have sovereignty over the region.

Central America is generally considered to range from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia. Mexico is, geographically, in "Northern" America. The UN uses this map for organizing data. Perhaps they include Mexico in Central America because its demographics are more culturally linked to the region, but that does not mean Mexico itself is within the common definition of Central America. (Cyprus is culturally European, but geographically Asian, therefore mostly considered Asian.)

Also, the map you are using includes Iran and Afghanistan as "Southern Asia." I doubt many geographers consider either to be so, given "Western Asia" and "Central Asia" are also regions on the map.

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Level 77
Feb 6, 2024
"Generally considered" I think you might be stretching the word "generally" there. FYI, not all countries see things the same way the US does. I know, shocking. So, "some countries" would be more accurate. In which case, one could, paraphrasing you, say "just because some countries say it doesn't mean it is true".
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Level 64
Apr 2, 2022
The only one I can't get now, and never will get (or memorise) is the place where Obama was supposedly born. I memorise real details about people, not fake ones.
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Level 62
Aug 27, 2022
By United Nations geoscheme, Mexico is Central America
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Level 67
Sep 6, 2023
Geographically, Central America excludes Mexico, but culturally (and according to the UN themselves) Mexico is Central American.
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Level 25
Dec 22, 2023
Great Quiz!
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Level 47
Mar 6, 2024
I tried naked mole rat, elephants, and whales... too bad I think those are actually true
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Level 34
May 7, 2024
Elephants are 20x less likely on a genetic scale to get cancer, but it still happens. This is caused by the p53 protein, which assists in checkpoints in the miotic cycle
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Level 41
Sep 20, 2024
Obama wasn't born in Kenya but in the USA (in Hawaii). He's not a Muslim; he was not raised in any particular religion and chose Baptism in Christian church as an adult. And the capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul. This quiz not correct in many ways.
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Level 80
Sep 30, 2024
Are you sure?
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Level 56
Oct 6, 2024
Every answer is (deliberately) wrong. The whole quiz is about misconceptions.