For the one with the word becoming shorter, there are other words that work like shore and sorer that should be accepted.
I came up with lunch for something you can't eat before lunch, but both this and the written answer don't work if you've eaten either previously. It isn't specified that it must be on the same day.
Amusingly, I figured out the answer to the Moby Dick question correctly, but was trying to figure out the twist for a while.
The clue reads "What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?". It doesn't specify which two letters, or where in the word to add them. Both shore and sorer can become "shorter" when the appropriate two letters are added.
Got everythig but the cheese. I thought it must be some english phrase that I don't know.
I still don't understand the twist in the Moby Dick question though...
P.S.: I finally got it. Maybe don't write "Moby Dick" in quotes, for me it means that you actually ask about the title. Possibly because I'm a programmer...
P.P.S.: The question about the dictionary is wrong, most dictionaries don't even contain the word "incorrectly"
These are "trick" questions... the point is just to solve the riddle and figure out how they're trying to trick you. Actually quite a few of them are not true if you want to nitpick or be pedantic.
The quotation marks around Moby Dick are necessary for that question to work. If the question was asking how many words were in the novel then the quotes shouldn't be there.
Riddles like this often refer to words literally without the quotation marks (e.g. How many words in the English language? (3); What type of cheese is made backwards?). I mean, I prefer the form of the question with the quotation marks, but it would work without them as long as you didn't say "the novel Moby Dick" or typeset it as a title: "... in Moby Dick."
Many scientists consider humans to be apes, because they classify humans as animals. Those that believe in the creation account in the Bible believe that humans are set apart from the animals, and therefore are not animals nor apes. So, while I got the question right, because I was able to pick up on the "trick", I don't agree with it. Scientists classify humans as animals because it is yet another way they can make known their disdain for the idea of God and creation. For others, it is simply the only conclusion they come to because they refuse to believe in a creator. Putting it on the quiz like this as a trick question seems intentional as a jab toward Christians. Hopefully that wasn't the intention, but it comes across that way.
@ctleng76: Not all Christians are anti-science creationists, and scientists don't formulate theories to show disdain for theistic beliefs. I'm sorry you felt the question was a jab at your beliefs, but I highly doubt it was intended to offend. In any case, this website isn't here to cater to your personal worldview. I don't think classifying humans as apes is controversial for the vast majority of scientists, or to the quiz-taking public in general.
The nice thing about science is that it's true whether you believe it or not. Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related (in the direct, simple-to-understand sense that they have a more recent common ancestor) than are chimpanzees and orangutans; therefore if chimpanzees and orangutans are both apes, humans must be as well. These aren't arguments from "disdain"; they are facts--things which can be proved.
As an individual, you can certainly believe things that are contrary to reality; but the fact that flat earthers exist doesn't mean we have to strike our trivia quizzes of questions about the earth's circumference. The fact that (young-earth) creationists exist or that Bible literalists exist doesn't mean we have to ignore reality to accommodate.
Ah, but the question doesn't say that all widows know where their husbands are at all times, just that all women who know where their husbands are at all times are widows. It's like how all lions are cats, but not all cats are lions.
If the widow is religious, how can she be certain her husband is in heaven, hell, purgatory, reincarnated, or in some other afterlife depending on her religious beliefs?
But at the same time your logic implies the skeleton or ashes of the widow's husband is the exact same being as her husband. There is a difference between her husband and a skeleton of a dead person or ashes of her dead husband.
In which case, assuming she doesn't believe in any sort of an afterlife, she would know that he is, in fact, exactly nowhere at all times, which still fits the criteria.
I tried that any many other things, dozens more came too mind but I stopped trying after like 3 or 4 because there were too many things that could make that sentence work.
There are quite a things that would fit the description. Therefore I don't think this question should be on here. And it is not like you think afterwards ow yea that is the better answer (like the person claiming other options than "short" should be accepted, others might work, but "short" is clearly THE answer)
It really is the odd one out in this quiz. (though I get people's remark about rich people not wanting nothing, they indeed usually want everything, generally it is the poorer people that are content with what they have. But So it is a bit iffy but in the spirit of the quiz acceptable)
Rich people want nothing because they have everything, and poor people aren't rich enough to have anything. So rich people want nothing and poor people have nothing.
The question isn't "Tell me the capital of Japan" it's "Can you guess the capital of Japan?" The answer to "Can you guess" is either yes or no. Either will be an acceptable answer.
My eighth grade History teacher stopped using that formulation when he asked "Can you describe the terms of the Treaty of Versailles" on a quiz and some wise guy answered "Yes."
Excellent quiz, loved the twists, but come on, who else has never head of Edam? I solved it like ages before I typed it but had just passed it off lmao
The question is not asking for the percentage of soldiers who died during the American civil war. It is just asking what percentage of the soldiers who fought in the American civil war are no longer alive. The civil war happened in the 19th century. Nobody born in the 19th century is still alive.
The one of apes, China doesn't even have a single ape. Indonesia, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo do. You should fix that. Plus, if it were China why? Please explain.
The most common species of ape by far has a population of over 8 billion. It's found in almost every part of the world, with China and India having the largest populations.
China has no other species of great apes except maybe in zoos, but does have a small number of wild gibbons (lesser apes).
Awesome quiz! For the "Why can't a man marry his widow's sister" question, could you put the word "DEAD" as a CONTAINS type-in, because I tried many things such as "man is dead", "the man is dead", etc.
It might help to know that one meaning of "to want" is "to lack, need" ("It wants only a coat of paint to be perfect"). This was once its main meaning.
Surely with today's technology we can observe temperatures on other planets. If the James Webb Telescope can tell the composition of the atmosphere on planets light years away, don't tell me it can't observe what the temperature is on Neptune
Northerner here (England)... We call the evening meal "Tea" anywhere north of Birmingham (Breakfast, Dinner, Tea)... So was struggling when it didn't accept it. Then I realised and had to go all posh by typing Dinner.
I came up with lunch for something you can't eat before lunch, but both this and the written answer don't work if you've eaten either previously. It isn't specified that it must be on the same day.
Amusingly, I figured out the answer to the Moby Dick question correctly, but was trying to figure out the twist for a while.
‘Short’ becomes ‘shorter’ when u add ‘-er’
SORER becomes SHORTER when you add an H and a T.
Nothing in the question specifies that E and R are the two letters you have to add.
I still don't understand the twist in the Moby Dick question though...
P.S.: I finally got it. Maybe don't write "Moby Dick" in quotes, for me it means that you actually ask about the title. Possibly because I'm a programmer...
P.P.S.: The question about the dictionary is wrong, most dictionaries don't even contain the word "incorrectly"
The quotation marks around Moby Dick are necessary for that question to work. If the question was asking how many words were in the novel then the quotes shouldn't be there.
As an individual, you can certainly believe things that are contrary to reality; but the fact that flat earthers exist doesn't mean we have to strike our trivia quizzes of questions about the earth's circumference. The fact that (young-earth) creationists exist or that Bible literalists exist doesn't mean we have to ignore reality to accommodate.
Nosy.
There are quite a things that would fit the description. Therefore I don't think this question should be on here. And it is not like you think afterwards ow yea that is the better answer (like the person claiming other options than "short" should be accepted, others might work, but "short" is clearly THE answer)
It really is the odd one out in this quiz. (though I get people's remark about rich people not wanting nothing, they indeed usually want everything, generally it is the poorer people that are content with what they have. But So it is a bit iffy but in the spirit of the quiz acceptable)
I have lost brain cells trying to figure these questions out
China has no other species of great apes except maybe in zoos, but does have a small number of wild gibbons (lesser apes).
In Dutch we say "pointers" and "pointers plate" if you would translate it literally.
For chris onw i tryed with she is a woman, she is her daugther, only girl was rigth aparently
Also the widow one "she is called dead" or decease should be aldo accepted
The idea is to get the trick not the specific world
Also i didnt get the moby dick one?