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The Answer is a Number - Whammies

Answer these questions with a single digit from 0 to 9. But be careful! Three wrong answers ends the quiz.
Quiz by Elboy
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Last updated: January 21, 2025
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First submittedJanuary 10, 2025
Times taken45,753
Average score46.4%
Rating4.89
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Hint
Number
"Countries" of the United Kingdom
4
Official capitals of South Africa
3
Planets in the Solar System
8
Rings on the Olympic flag
5
Wonders of the Ancient World
7
Countries starting with Z
2
Cipher, nil
0
Faces of a cube
6
"Ocho" in Spanish, "Acht" in German
8
-stan countries
7
Great Lakes of North America
5
Hogwarts Houses
4
Countries starting with Q
1
pH of pure water
7
Hint
Number
Cities destroyed by atomic bombs
2
Countries touching the Pyrenees
3
III + VI
9
U.S. states bordering the Pacific
5
Henry VIII wives
6
Deadly sins
7
Musicians in a quartet
4
Earth's natural satellites
1
Colors on the flag of Australia
3
Countries bordering Haiti
1
4
2
Pawns of the same color in chess
8
Countries starting with X
0
African countries completely on islands
6
64 Comments
+5
Level 67
Jan 10, 2025
Cool! I think one more whammy doesn't hurt :P
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Level 71
Jan 10, 2025
Let's see how the score evolves with 3.
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Level 36
Jan 10, 2025
I think the Earth's natural satellite question/category should be edited. Possibly just pluralizing it to make it the same as the rest? Other than that great quiz!
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Level 36
Jan 10, 2025
also the time could probably be decreased to something like two minutes because i had either finished or died well before the timer on every attempt, and i'm a fairly slow typer
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Level 71
Jan 10, 2025
Thanks for the feedback. The timer is now set at 2 minutes and I've changed satellite to plural to have the same wording as the rest of the hints.
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Level 76
Jan 20, 2025
I could have used a little more time. Knew them all except pH
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Level 85
Jan 10, 2025
Great use of whammies!
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Level 71
Jan 10, 2025
Oof, 27 out of 28. That last one about the African islands tripped me up :P
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Level 75
Jan 19, 2025
Me too. Forgot the biggest one of them and lost 2 lives. 😂
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Level 81
Jan 10, 2025
Not trying to brag--I'm merely presenting a statement of fact. I got 28/28 with over a minute to spare. However, a lot of these questions were right up my alley. I've taken other quizzes, where I can't even get half the answers. I thought this was a good mix of questions, and it was fun. Well done.
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Level 62
Jan 10, 2025
FIRST TRY BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY NO WHAMMIES NEEDED
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Level 69
Jan 10, 2025
Please accept 5
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Level 87
Jan 11, 2025
. . . just in general?
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Level 68
Jan 11, 2025
5
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Level 60
Jan 20, 2025
The polite version of Luniz "I got 5 on it"
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Level 67
Jan 10, 2025
I would say it's too easy, I got full score first try and I'm kind of an average JetPunker (Unless it comes to geography), so yeah, none of the questions even required thinking.
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Level 69
Jan 14, 2025
A lot of people seem to forget about Madagascar, Alaska, Hawaii and Andorra
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Level 66
Jan 20, 2025
Level 66 and you’re an “average Jetpunker”. You, my friend, are good.
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Level 83
Jan 20, 2025
You say "Unless it comes to geography" but this was a heavily geography-slanted quiz (I counted either 14 or 15 geography questions, out of 28, so about 50%). So any claims about being average should probably take that into account here. 🤷‍♂️
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Level 90
Jan 10, 2025
Seemed easy to me, but the fact that only 60% knew (or could figure out) that there are 4 musicians in a quartet may suggest that others would disagree.
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Level 65
Jan 11, 2025
The 40% that didn't get quartet likely ran out of lives before reading that question.
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Level 86
Jan 11, 2025
Destroyed by Harry Potter once again!
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Level 47
Jan 11, 2025
Countries of the UK threw me a bit. I thought it was a trick question until I realized that the countries were countries. Just not sovereign countries.
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Level 71
Jan 11, 2025
26/28
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Level 87
Jan 11, 2025
TIL that definition of "cipher."
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Level 83
Jan 11, 2025
The UK one threw me, I didn't think Northern Ireland was considered a country like the others, wikipedia seems confused on this point as well
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Level 65
Jan 11, 2025
I can't see anything on Wikipedia suggesting Northern Ireland isn't part of the UK. Are you sure you didn't look up Great Britain by mistake?
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Level 75
Jan 11, 2025
That Northern Ireland isn’t considered a country is not the same thing as it not being part of the UK. Gibraltar isn’t a country but it’s part of the UK.

Whether Northern Ireland is considered a country or not is highly unclear, but many Brits are taught that it’s one of the four constituent countries (too awkward to say three constituent countries and one more important region thingy, plus a dozen or so less important ones wait we didn’t mean to insult them) and it isn’t sovereign so everyone else doesn’t really care.

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Level 72
Jan 20, 2025
Close, but Gibraltar is not legally part of the UK, it's an overseas territory. Reverendmeat has a valid point, NI isn't always considered a "country" as originally Ireland by itself was one of the 4 UK "countries" so now some consider the UK to be the 3 other countries + the "province" of NI.
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Level 71
Jan 12, 2025
"the four great countries of the union: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland"

Primary source about UK: The UK Constitution

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Level 65
Jan 20, 2025
But this source has no authority. It's a parliamentary report of what a UK constitution might look like. The UK currently doesn't have a constitution.
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Level 72
Jan 20, 2025
The UK has no constitution
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Level 71
Jan 21, 2025
Valid point. As a report from the House of Commons this source seems quite official and valid.

We can argue on how to designate the 4 great parts/countries/nations/historical regions forming UK, anyway I suggest keeping the things simple and using common sense.

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Level 83
Jan 12, 2025
Wikipedia says Northern Ireland "is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.[13][14][15][16][17]".

I'm clearly not the only one who is confused on this.

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Level 67
Jan 15, 2025
I think the province and region stuff would be from a Unionist Irish perspective.
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Level 69
Jan 20, 2025
Wales is also a principality, but it's still a constituent country. Things can be more than one thing.
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Level 72
Jan 20, 2025
Reverendmeat is correct here. Even as a Brit I lost a life on the first question as there is no consensus on what NI is. Usually this doesn't matter in Jetpunk but since you only have 3 lives in this quiz, the question should probably be removed
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Level 70
Jan 13, 2025
...the points I've lost on Harry Potter questions.
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Level 67
Jan 13, 2025
I didn't think it was too easy as others are saying and I think 2 minutes is not enough time. I often finish JetPunk quizzes with tons of times left over that are "too easy". This was not one of them.
+3
Level 49
Jan 14, 2025
Forgot about Hawaii and Alaska for a second, got all the others in one try
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Level 50
Jan 20, 2025
Damn! I was looking for any explanation for that one. Cos I also only put 3 states, and completely forgot about those 2.
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Level 71
Jan 14, 2025
Got very lucky; misread the South African question and thought the number of official languages was required. I only could think of Afrikaans, English and Zulu. Turns out there's 12
+3
Level 79
Jan 14, 2025
Dang, lost a life. Great use of whammies!
+1
Level 80
Jan 19, 2025
Please consider editing the North American great lakes to U.S. great lakes. The Great Slave and Great Bear Lake of Canada might be considered great lakes, too, for a total of 7.
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Level 59
Jan 20, 2025
9 planets!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 65
Jan 20, 2025
Pluto was downgraded.
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Level 67
Jan 20, 2025
I spent far too long counting African island nations on my fingers, again and again, wondering why I can only find 5
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Level 49
Jan 21, 2025
I always forget Madagascar because it's so big I don't even see it as an "island country"
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Level 39
Jan 20, 2025
Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Sao Tome and Cape Verde, what is the other one?
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Level 61
Jan 20, 2025
Comoros
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Level 68
Jan 21, 2025
For me the seychelles was the tough one to remember, its pretty far out
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Level 65
Jan 20, 2025
Only 36% knew that Earth has just one moon? I'm shocked.
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Level 43
Jan 20, 2025
Had to skip the two US geography ones. I’ve no idea about their lakes and only a rough idea of the location of the states.
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Level 72
Jan 20, 2025
I had no whammies, but even going down the list at full speed without taking time to count or think, there wasn't enough time to finish. An extra minute would be a little more fair.
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Level 32
Jan 20, 2025
Henry the VIII WHAT?? Don’t you know the song?!!

Divorced, beheaded, and died

Divorced, beheaded, survived!

I’m Henry the 8th I had six sorry wives some might say I ruined their lives

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Level 37
Jan 20, 2025
Some of the low "% correct", are a bit worrying! I mean, the √4?! And how many musicians in a quartet?!
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Level 71
Jan 21, 2025
+30 sec added due to recurring comments about the timer being too short. Changes pending.
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Level 42
Jan 21, 2025
What does "Cipher, nil" mean ? (I'm French)
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Level 71
Jan 21, 2025
Bonjour !

These words are synonyms for "nothing". Cipher is an old word derivated from Arabic "ṣifr".

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Level 53
Jan 29, 2025
I've watched enough QI to know that there is no safe answer to any question similar to "how many moons does the Earth have?" Sometimes it's 1, sometimes it's 0, sometimes it's many.
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Level 35
Jan 31, 2025
is mauritius in africa or india?
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Level 71
Feb 3, 2025
Mauritius is an island country which belongs to the African continent. It is located in the Indian ocean.
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Level 62
Feb 10, 2025
Is there a reason Harry Potter is everywhere on Jetpunk? Do adults watch these? I know everything I know about the franchise from missing questions on this site. Apparently there were 4 houses. Now I know that too!
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Level 71
Feb 12, 2025
Harry Potter is simply very popular all over the world, not just on JetPunk.

This is a series of novels, not only movies, and yes some adults read/watch it I guess :)