Actually Leif Erikson from Iceland discovered America well before Christopher Columbus. Leif Erikson was born in c.970 to c.1020 and discovered it but didn't colonies it, hence why he is unknown of. So he discovered it before Christopher Colombus's great great grandparents were born.
Dont know anything about this reference, but now I cant get the word pota- toe out of my head. No idea what pota is though, but apparently it has toes..
Lol, Kiwirage, I saw your comments on previous April's fools quizzes since yesterday and actually thought you were serious. I couldn't quite understand since I knew you'd been on this site for a long time (as your score proves too). Kudos for this link ;)
That will never get old. Seriously. The best April Fool's prank in history. (I mean YouTube, not kiwirage, although I think kiwirage is pretty awesome too, so no offense!)
I learned very early in life that Twinkies do have expiration dates. Trust me when I say that it is the worst thing you will ever taste. I couldn't get enough of them before that bite. I've never eaten another since -- that's been some 40 years.
I had one 5 years out of date once. It still looked like food, just like a MacDonald's French fry stops decomposition when it cools to 70° the first time and you find an undated example in every used car if you dig hard enough.
Alexander the Great was born in ancient Pela a city that is in Greek borders since the birth of Alexander the Great ,Macedonia is the southern part of former Yugoslavia and the name is not official yet
for the time being the correct name of, Macedonia is FYROM Former
Pella was within the borders of Greece ever since the birth of Alexander? Really? So.. Alexander was born after 1913? Because that's when Pella passed into the hands of Greece from Bulgaria, after previously being under the control of the Ottomans. That's interesting. I thought Alexander was much older than that. Learn something new (i.e. invented) from nationalist propaganda every day...
They believe it because:every diagram of the circulatory system they ever see has the veins carrying deoxygenated blood shown in blue, and the arteries carrying oxygenated blood shown in red (when in reality the blood is dark red and bright red, respectively)blood and blood vessels seen through skin look blue (due to red light being more readily absorbed by the skin)when people don't get enough oxygen, they turn bluish (this is for the same reasons as above, just applied to darker red blood)most elementary school teachers are not science specialists, and even those who are don't generally do a lesson on "what color is blood," nor do middle or high school science teacherskids (and adults) love showing off with an "I bet you didn't know this!" fun fact that they heard somewhereIn short, it fits what they know just enough to be plausible, no one has taught them otherwise, and it makes them feel smart to know this "little-known fact."
A young horse is a foal, filly or colt NOT a pony, a pony is a small horse. It has been proven that Alcohol does NOT kill brain cells just slows the growth of new ones.
...as any fool knows a pony's head is smaller in proportion to its body than a horse's head is to its body...a falabella is a horse but a very small one as it can be picked up and put in your pocket...it's a pocket sized horse, not a pony which is £25, now i come to think of it...unlike a monkey which is £500...and is neither a horse nor a pony...ok?...
Like half of these are wrong. Fortune cookies are from The United Republic of the Vatican City and Greenland, a young horse is a teenneigher, alcohol cells are killed when you consume them too, petroleum is made of dragons not dinosaurs, you should never end a sentence with any word you end it with a comma, Monte Carlo is the capital of Mongolia, I invented the lightbulb, and I also discovered North America, the correct plural of potato is potati,
I thought the correct capital of the incan empre was cairo (or gizeh) you know like a oversees territory where they got the pyriamds from.
But seriously, bintang is the most popular beer in australia. (Btw I just found out a small beer is called a pony in australia haha) The spicy green paste has to be pesto. Cook discovered north america. And one should obviously never end a sentence with a swear word.
Machu Picchu was not actually the capital of the Incan Empire, Cuzco (or Cusco, if you spell it that way) was. Machu Picchu is just the most ICONIC remnant of the empire. That doesn't make it the capital.
4 years? 4 years and people are still missing the fact that all of the answers are wrong, they are meant to be wrong. Purposely they were given the wrong answer to the questions. The quiz is the April Fool's day quiz, anyone who spends time correcting the answers to try and show some sort of intellectual superiority are the fools.
FOOLS, FOOLS, FOOLS, up and down the comment section, you should all have your levels reset to 0 and have to start over for your lack of attention to detail on a joke quiz.
From quick glance over some of the 200+ statements, it is quite funny how a lot of people have a serious gripe or dispute over ONE of these answers, suggesting they actually think the other 19 are correct (notwithstanding that they don't get the point of the quiz)!
There're a lot of people correcting the pony and the fortune cookies and such, but it's interesting to see which questions HAVEN'T been corrected. Unless I'm mistaken, I haven't seen anyone try to "correct the questions about Nelson Mandela, Julius Caesar, and prepositions. I wonder if that means those are the most widely believed of these answers? Or if those questions just don't attract the sort of super-pedants that the others do?
Oh, god, I didn't even realize that it was an april fools quiz. I'm super organized and I think that everything has to be correct, these kinds of quizzes make my brain go nuts
Ya know, HPaddict, I am very proud of you for admitting your brain fart. I am pretty sure that everyone else who did that was so embarrassed that they just deleted their entire accounts and started fresh with new usernames. To you, HPaddict, I tip my hat in respect. I mean, I would, if I was actually wearing a hat. So it's a metaphorical hat. You get the idea.
It's been very entertaining to read this comments section. So many folks obviously don't get the point of the quiz and then see only one or two things wrong with it, and that's amazing in itself. But not only that--there's way more people who feel obligated to reply to those comments with their own snarky comeback pointing out the idiocy of whoever tried to correct an answer. You literally can't leave any of those comments alone!
Very funny (potatos, mega-LOL), and makes you think as well. Also I really thought vodka came from potatoes, so you learn something every time. Didn't know about pony either.
Anyway, yeah it was not "fresh" by any stretch.
for the time being the correct name of, Macedonia is FYROM Former
Yogoslavian Republic of Macedonia
Or is it the name of one of the Ents in LOTR?
But seriously, bintang is the most popular beer in australia. (Btw I just found out a small beer is called a pony in australia haha) The spicy green paste has to be pesto. Cook discovered north america. And one should obviously never end a sentence with a swear word.
FOOLS, FOOLS, FOOLS, up and down the comment section, you should all have your levels reset to 0 and have to start over for your lack of attention to detail on a joke quiz.