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There's something quite tricky about each one of these questions. Try and fail to answer them correctly.
Answers must correspond to the yellow box
Jeppy the JetPunk fish says no whining on this quiz!
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Last updated: November 19, 2023
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First submittedOctober 3, 2022
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Question
Answer
What planet has the record for the lowest temperature ever observed?
Earth
What country is home to the greatest number of apes?
India
Can you guess the capital city of Japan?
Yes / No
How many words are in "Moby Dick"?
Two
What percentage of soldiers in the American Civil War died?
100%
What's something you can never eat before lunch?
Dinner
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
Incorrectly
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
a Clock
How many months have 28 days?
All of them
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
Tom’s father had five sons. Their names were Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, and what?
Tom
What type of cheese is literally made backwards?
Edam
Why can't a man marry his widow's sister?
Because he's dead
Greg is the father of Chris, but Chris is not the son of Greg. How is this possible?
Chris is a girl
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
None
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?
a Widow
It’s greater than God and more evil than the devil. Rich people want it, poor people have it.
And if you eat it, you’ll die. What is it?
Nothing
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100 Recent Comments
mpepperdine
+2
Level 75
Oct 28, 2022
I typed in ‘yes’ for the Japan one, then tried ‘no’ and neither worked. What were you supposed to type?
Arp2600
+5
Level 87
Oct 28, 2022
I don't know what you did wrong but both work.
OliviaPG
+10
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
Yes worked for me, are you sure you weren't typing in the wrong box or something?
Triffid
+2
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
Same here, I tried Yes and No, but neither worked.
Gumbledalf
+15
Level 73
Oct 28, 2022
"Has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?" It's obviously Bernd das Brot!
QRU
+2
Level 74
Oct 28, 2022
I scrolled through the comments only to see, if someone already brought it up!
XYU
+1
Level 62
Oct 28, 2022
Very hilarious
MumMeg
+4
Level 57
Oct 28, 2022
We liked this quiz but don’t understand the China/ apes question… can anyone explain please?
stankyC
+22
Level 64
Oct 28, 2022
humans are considered part of the great apes
QuizApe
+18
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
Humans are also apes.
DawnX
+14
Level 54
Jul 31, 2024
username checks out
dunkinggandalf2
+2
Level 69
Oct 28, 2022
That last one took me waaaay more time than it should have...
Julotek
+4
Level 62
Oct 28, 2022
Rayman should work for the 8th question :p
AiJiyao
+2
Level 67
Oct 28, 2022
I tried it too :)
Nachtschicht
+4
Level 60
Oct 28, 2022
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"

kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
Oct 28, 2022
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.

partdavid
+2
Level 72
Oct 28, 2022
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."
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 61
Jun 14, 2023
The question could be reworded to "Which word is always written wrong in dictionaries?" to amend this.
Thisisreal
+1
Level 89
Nov 9, 2024
That’s actually great suggestion, “Written incorrectly/wrong” is much better than “spelled…” imo. “Written” works for both the normal and the tricky meanings, while “spelled” is very clunky for the tricky meaning.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 74
Jul 31, 2024
Of course, the title of the novel is "Moby-Dick," with a hyphen. Does that make the answer "one"?
DawnX
+2
Level 54
Jul 31, 2024
the question is referring to the two words "moby dick" and has nothing to do with the book
KRMJ28
+2
Level 52
Oct 28, 2022
Wow, that last one was brilliant!
ctleng76
+5
Level 65
Oct 28, 2022
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.
TWM03
+10
Level 70
Oct 28, 2022
Agreed, humans are not animals, we are actually fungi.
vermiciousknid
+18
Level 89
Oct 28, 2022
@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.
partdavid
+18
Level 72
Oct 28, 2022
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.

Deru
+1
Level 37
Oct 28, 2022
Yawn. Only got through the first few lines
RobNobody
+15
Level 78
Dec 29, 2022
@Deru - And yet you wrote a longer and more tedious comment just below this one.
jmellor13
+11
Level 67
Oct 28, 2022
Now this is what I call going out of your way to be a victim!
BenjiSG
+1
Level 65
Oct 10, 2024
why are you like this
rabble
+1
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
That was fun, ty
MDawg396
+2
Level 56
Oct 28, 2022
got 14/18! i tried my best okay
Deru
+1
Level 37
Oct 28, 2022
Great quiz QM but what I love the most is the photo you chose for it- awesome!
julesgby
+1
Level 43
Oct 28, 2022
call me dumb, but i don’t get the one with china. i’ve been trying to figure it out for like five minutes.
jmellor13
+8
Level 67
Oct 28, 2022
Humans are technically apes, so China has the most apes because it has 1.4 billion people...i.e., 1.4 billion apes.
KatSip97
+1
Level 69
Oct 28, 2022
Make more of these!
Rozzi
+1
Level 61
Oct 29, 2022
Excellent fun. Thank you.
DanielJS
+2
Level 55
Oct 29, 2022
If a woman has her husband cremated and then scatters his ashes, she wouldn't know where he was all the time!
RobNobody
+9
Level 78
Dec 29, 2022
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.
Savio
+1
Level 66
Jan 20, 2023
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?
RobNobody
+5
Level 78
Feb 3, 2023
Again, it doesn't say ALL widows, just ONLY widows.
Savio
+5
Level 66
Feb 21, 2023
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.
RobNobody
+5
Level 78
Oct 8, 2023
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.
nedlakly
+6
Level 57
Oct 29, 2022
Did anyone else try priest for the Greg and Chris question?
WildStrawberries
+2
Level 51
Oct 29, 2022
"What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?"

Nosy.

MPK93
+1
Level 49
May 15, 2023
I tried that as well :D
shaniquanderson
+1
Level 57
Oct 13, 2023
i tried "a man"
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Apr 17, 2024
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)

McKenzieFam
+1
Level 66
Aug 1, 2024
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.
faceface
+1
Level 48
Jul 31, 2024
I tried "psychic"
hannahgeographyy
+2
Level 60
Oct 29, 2022
am i the only one that doesnt understand the civil war question? can someone explain it to me.
ChallengeMaster
+9
Level 27
Oct 30, 2022
the civil war was in the 1800s so all the soldiers would be dead by now, whether or not they died in the war or just because of old age
hannahgeographyy
+1
Level 60
Oct 30, 2022
oh that makes sense thx
ChallengeMaster
+1
Level 27
Oct 30, 2022
6 minutes left with only one answer left. got them all but yes/no
Haddies
+1
Level 36
Nov 3, 2022
I didn't get the Japan one either, and frankly still don't understand it.
YamatoFans
+5
Level 69
Nov 4, 2022
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.
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 74
Jul 31, 2024
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."
johanna9
+2
Level 43
Oct 30, 2022
yep, this is my kind of quiz. Excellent thank you, more of these please :) :)
charleee
+3
Level 28
Nov 1, 2022
Greg could also be a priest at a church
abeels
+1
Level 84
Nov 2, 2022
Can you “observe” a temperature? Sure you can feel it but can you see it….?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 2, 2022
Observe is used correctly in the question.
YamatoFans
+7
Level 69
Nov 4, 2022
I was taught in grade school science that observe means to use any of your senses to discern something.
MnGoblin
+5
Level 65
Nov 29, 2022
Scientists on earth have made temperatures artificially that are colder than any on the other planets.
tom1riddle1
+2
Level 38
Nov 13, 2022
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
purpledaddy13
+1
Level 34
Feb 24, 2023
Brilliant Quiz!!!
Mgeo
+1
Level 53
Apr 17, 2023
I don't get the civil war one, why is it a given that it's 100%
Savio
+5
Level 66
May 8, 2023
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.
YTBRSosyalEmre
+1
Level 65
May 13, 2023
this quiz is outdated. The 2nd question must be India!
stupiddeaths
+1
Level 46
Jul 13, 2023
Great quiz!!

I have lost brain cells trying to figure these questions out

MadeThisToReply
+1
Level 42
Nov 1, 2023
Ape question should be reworked, india has more humans as of 2023
MartinZh
+1
Level 36
Nov 10, 2023
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.
leontodon
+4
Level 70
Jan 5, 2024
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).

Xtrordinary
+2
Level 68
Jul 31, 2024
There is a reason this is in the trick questions quiz
Unanimous
+1
Level 71
Dec 16, 2023
Great quiz! 5 stars!
kamuez
+2
Level 54
Feb 12, 2024
The chris question is so true especially if you are a fan of MrBeast
peardestroyer
+2
Level 60
May 26, 2024
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.
Aoto327
+1
Level 75
Jul 8, 2024
I love this!
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Jul 31, 2024
What about yesterday's dinner...
quizzfin
+1
Level 79
Jul 31, 2024
I would change the last question. The rich and poor people part just does not make sense since both are wrong. Otherwise an excellent and fun quiz.
Bemused
+3
Level 51
Jul 31, 2024
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.
nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Jul 31, 2024
i got 7 but somehow didnt see the mt everest one, could have gotten 8
afmarsha
+1
Level 64
Jul 31, 2024
Since when do rich people want nothing?
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 66
Aug 1, 2024
Since they brought everything they want.
WanderingWalrus
+1
Level 79
Jul 31, 2024
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
Alouka
+1
Level 68
Jul 31, 2024
English isn't my mother language, so I struggled a bit to find what had a face and two hands, but focusing only on the two hands got me there.
Gekko0923
+1
Level 48
Jul 31, 2024
The first one is ambiguous. It assumes that extraterrestrial beings have not observed temperatures lower than we have.
howard38
+1
Level 61
Jul 31, 2024
I've never met a rich person who wants nothing.
clivey
+1
Level 68
Aug 1, 2024
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.
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 66
Aug 1, 2024
For me it's breakfast, lunch, dinner.
clivey
+1
Level 68
Aug 2, 2024
You must be from the south... and no gravy on your chips!
HarroDutchie
+1
Level 55
Aug 1, 2024
As a non-native English speaker I never heard of the words for hands and face of the clock.

In Dutch we say "pointers" and "pointers plate" if you would translate it literally.

GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 68
Aug 2, 2024
I had dinner for lunch and lunch for dinner. Poor people have more than nothing. Often rich people just want more money.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Aug 2, 2024
Okay
Terrath
+2
Level 28
Aug 2, 2024
For the woman who always knows where her husband is, I put stalker 😂
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Aug 2, 2024
For cheese I tried eseehc
Marsumurcielaga
+1
Level 27
Aug 2, 2024
There should be more aceptqble options in some, for example the window sister i put "he is dead" dead, etc, didnt work

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?

nations12345eat
+1
Level 34
Oct 30, 2024
how is "what country has the most apes?" a trick question?
Thisisreal
+1
Level 89
Nov 9, 2024
Because normally, asking specifically about apes implies “great apes not including humans”, yet here the trick is it includes humans.
Thisisreal
+1
Level 89
Nov 9, 2024
Why is Earth the tricky answer for the temperature question? Is it because no scientist has physically been to other planets/because they produced temperatures colder than any other planet in a lab/because the scientists were on Earth while observing the lower temperatures on other planets/other?
lucas72
+1
Level 37
Nov 23, 2024
Very tricksy indeed

Love it!

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