Time for another April Fools' Quiz… by this point so many people are in on the joke half the comments are just satire. Sadly, we have to wait until the first of April to get any genuine comments, it seems.
Never mind...I just looked back through some of the older April Fools' quizzes and remember now desert/dessert is a running joke! ;) Even this question is somewhat of a repeat from #3...
True, but I'm pretty sure neither edition ("Genus" or "Genius") were released in 1937. Seems like there are two falsehoods in the clue. Isn't that a bit extreme?
If I had to guess, it's probably banking on people thinking the game is much older than it really is. I'm not sure why 1937 was chosen specifically, but it works just as well as, say, 1934.
I'll admit I thought the game was from the earlier half of the century. The cards at my local barbecue certainly look it, but perhaps that's more a testament to my skills than anything.
It'd be cool to have a blurb after the quiz for each answer showing why it's a misconception similar to the way multiple choice quizzes sometimes clarify the answer.
I know these are all commonly believed to be true, but did you mean to include two ruses with the Trivial Pursuit question (edition name and release date)? I believe the former would have been enough to suffice, based on the parameters of this quiz.
Roe v Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court meaning abortion rights were returned to the states. Abortion was not categorically banned in the US with this ruling. The media and bad actors mischaracterized this court decision for political purposes.
The abortion question is simply not in good taste. It comes across as saying, "Don't whine so much, it's not like they ACTUALLY outlawed it," when it of course has caused a huge amount of suffering with the restrictions it allows states to impose.
Australia's tallest mountain is mount Kosciuszko in the NSW snowy mountains at 2283m on the mainland. The highest on Australian territory is Mawson's peak on Heard Island.
Very impressive quizmaster, it always amuses me that there's a misconception about people misconceiving. It's like disinformation about disinformation, very meta.
Dunning and Kruger found that unskilled people overestimated their skill and skilled people slightly underestimated their skill. However, the unskilled people's self-ranking was still lower than the skilled people's self-ranking.
Why did it take me reading the comments to figure out that this Quiz is not supposed to be accurate. I was so upset about the 3rd last question of Kwanzaa being celebrated in Africa >.
I appreciate the touches like "Karma" Sutra, which I didn't notice at first. Really wasn't sure what were typos and what were deliberate quizmaster mistakes - but I guess they were all deliberate.
- Which Russian tsar was executed when Soviets stormed the Winter Palace in 1917?
- What was the anthem of the Confederate States?
Having said that, I don't love what I perceive to be the implications of the questions 1 and 8, as well, namely:
The Great Barrier Reef is fine (it absolutely is not, it's just not expected to disappear by 2030)
And that Russia doesn't interfere in foreign elections (they do, just didn't hack voting machines)
Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Nehru .
I assume we are all April fools
Edit: Just googled it. The french original is brioche. So "cake" is a really bad translation.
Fun quiz, though.
Took his job.