All these questions were guessed less than 25% of the time in our general knowledge quizzes. Do you have what it takes to be a trivia genius and get more than 1/3rd correct?
Ugh. Three there that I thought about but didn't bother guessing because I didn't think I was right. Love these genius quizzes, there's a challenge here.
Agreed. Most of these are very hard, but in a good way. The variety too makes it a more interesting challenge. I only got 2 right the first time around. Need to step up my game and memorize!
i remember as a kid i saw a rat king in my basement when i went to go get my red racer wagon with double stripes that my mom wouldnt go down and get... this was... gosh.. well over 50 yrs ago but it is freshh in my mind as if it were yesterday. the things your mind wont let you forget....
They're all questions from previous General Knowledge quizzes but they have been selected as the hardest ones so technically there's no difference in types of questions, standard of knowledge required etc. and the only thing that makes the questions outstanding is that the JetPunk population found them harder on average
Maybe because you have allready seen these question in the regular ones? (And perhaps have forgotten, but your subconscious stored the info. So you sort of retain the answers and the questions seem less hard)
I couldn't believe it when "nautilus" wasn't accepted for the octopus/squid relative question. When I saw the answer, I realized I had been picturing the right animal but mixing up the names. :(
Fun fact: In one of the Dungeons & Dragons book there is a monstrosity that is essentially a swarm of rats formed into an ogre-like creature called the rat king.
actually, -i being the plural form of words ending in -us originates in latin, and the word octopus comes from greek, meaning the proper plural form of octopus is octopodes, pronounced ock top a deez
Only if you're working specifically in an 8-bit programming framework, which isn't specified. Saying you need those leading zeroes in just regular binary is like saying you have to write it 00000017 in decimal.
(Oh, and as pointed out, 1001 is actually 9 in binary, not 17.)
English history is in no short supply of claimants to the throne. By hook or by crook, it was no easy feat to corral real support from the double-dealing nobles of the day, and, even then, keeping it was in not guaranteed.
He was indeed. Saxon kings were proclaimed by the Witan (council of wise elders) rather than by automatic primogeniture, although the king’s son was often the one chosen. They tried to elevate Edgar, but is was all in vain as The Conqueror had almost total control by this point.
Thank you, bonus track from Watsky's "x Infinity" (high school me's favorite rap album), for teaching me the answer to the rarest correct answer on this quiz.
Can a certain combination of words that are synonyms for a deity, succeeding in a competition, and a male offspring count for the name of the Anglo-Saxon king?
Haven't heard the game called 'Exquisite Corpse' before - is that an American thing? I've always known it as 'Consequences' but that might be a British name specifically.
It would be nice to accept the answer to the binary question with leading zeros (not required or desired, of course, but acceptable) and lots of us are going to think of writing that as '0001 0001'.
There is currently an effort to restore cheetahs to India, a few were recently released into the wild. Keep an eye on that, the question might need to be changed.
I got rat king because of a recent addiction in my class of saying a kid is a “rat servant” who answers to the “rat king” and lives in the Minneapolis sewers. Yesterday a teacher asked us if we knew what a rat king was and showed us a picture.
Damn lol I only got 2 and the only reason I got the caves answer was because I recently watched a video of a story featured in one of those caves where the factoid of it being the longest was brought up
Could you accept Sepia as an type-in for the Cuttlefish question? According to Wikipedia, "Sepia is a genus of cuttlefish ... encompassing some of the best known and most common species".
Got 6 correct and got 3 points, wow! Being a responsible and just nationalist enough Turk I was hoping that yoghurt was not considered Greek- YOGHURT(or yoğurt) IS TURKISH AND GREEK YOGHURT IS UNORIGINAL! sorry I got carried away
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_of_Cascia
Fun fact: In one of the Dungeons & Dragons book there is a monstrosity that is essentially a swarm of rats formed into an ogre-like creature called the rat king.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralisation
(Oh, and as pointed out, 1001 is actually 9 in binary, not 17.)