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True or False - Sudden Death

Select every statement which is true but don't select any false ones or you die instantly.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: November 9, 2024
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First submittedNovember 9, 2024
Times taken44,015
Average score53.8%
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Sudden Death. Clicking a wrong answer ends the quiz!
A pair of dice is more likely to roll a 7
than other numbers
Baseball is the most popular spectator
sport in Japan
Brazil is entirely south of the Equator
Caramel is made by heating sugar
China only has one time zone
Humans were partly responsible for
the extinction of the dinosaurs
Italy has never won the FIFA World Cup
Kale and broccoli are from the same species
More people died in WWII than in WWI
Mount Everest is a volcano
Parrots can live longer than dogs
Polar bears live in both the Arctic and Antarctic
Mercury is the hottest planet in our solar system
The island of Sardinia is part of Italy
The planet Neptune has rings
The same side of the moon always faces Earth
There are parts of the Autobahn that have no defined speed limit
There are trees taller than the Empire State building
Turkey's flag is red and white
Two is a prime number
31 Comments
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Level 61
Nov 9, 2024
read the pair of dice question as one die, and was questioning why you would put such a simple question.
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Level 55
Nov 9, 2024
Good one! Not a use of this type of quiz I was expecting. I guess we have many more to see in the upcoming days.
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Level 68
Nov 9, 2024
Indeed! I actually wanted to make some others... but saw they were already done. Everything that came to mind was similar to what was done with Tile Select in the past, then I thought of this :)
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Level 91
Nov 10, 2024
Didn’t know about Neptune’s rings, so guessed that a tree was taller than the Empire State Building!

Not sure if you meant this on purpose, but it turns out that the ESB is 380 metres and Hyperion is 380 feet.

Spooky…

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Level 82
Nov 12, 2024
Hi Stewart,

As you may know, I am a big fan of all your quizzes, so please take this as the friendly and constructive criticism it is intended to be.

I think you should re-phrase the dice statement to:

"7 is the most common roll with two six-sided dice"

Of the 36 combinations, you are more likely to roll NOT 7 (30 combinations), than 7 (6 combinations).

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Level 83
Nov 12, 2024
Came here to say that too. Great quiz otherwise.
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Level 46
Nov 17, 2024
The nickpicking is crazy
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Level 65
Nov 17, 2024
Um, actually it's spelled "nitpicking"
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Level 61
Nov 12, 2024
44 seconds, first try!
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Level 67
Nov 12, 2024
I got it correct because I understood the gist, but technically a pair of dice rolled are more likely to produce a non-seven than a seven.
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Level 94
Nov 12, 2024
But of all the combinations that can be rolled, a 7 is most likely. I think the question is correct as it stands.
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Level 61
Nov 13, 2024
Saying "A pair of dice is most likely to roll a 7..." can be interpreted reasonably as "...compared to not rolling a 7" or "...compared to any other number". It would be less ambiguous if written as EcceHomo suggested above, "7 is the most common roll with two six-sided dice" or "A pair of dice is more likely to roll a 7 than any other single number".
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Level 82
Nov 14, 2024
I thought it might be a trick question, so left it.
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2024
I'm shocked that only 45% got the Neptune rings one, isn't that pretty basic solar system knowledge?
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Level 71
Nov 14, 2024
I don't think it's that much common knowledge. I'm sure a lot of people learnt about the solar system as children and then forgot most of what they learnt with time. But more importantly it's a sudden death quiz so many people 'die' before they reach the question itself.
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Level 57
Nov 17, 2024
Very few diagrams and images I've seen depict Neptune or Jupiter with rings. All show Saturn's rings and many show Uranus's rings. I've always thought that the Uranus rings were more so shown as a way to show the unique axis but I don't know that much about space to say how big the rings are.

Regardless, if people go just off of images (which I'd imagine many Americans do - stupid education system (speaking from experience)), then they very well may not know.

I knew but it is a pretty obscure fact if you weren't taught it.

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Level 70
Nov 17, 2024
Are you thinking of Saturn? Saturn is famous for having big visible rings, whereas Neptune's rings are too wispy to see, and I only vaguely remember hearing they exist.
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Level 85
Nov 12, 2024
Great quiz! Especially in this format. It’s so fun how you leave the iffy ones until last and end up trying to remember the oldest parrot you’ve met…

More please :)

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Level 71
Nov 16, 2024
Haha that was EXACTLY the one I saved for last too! Glad I'm not the only one
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Level 66
Nov 13, 2024
76% know how caramel is made but 52% haven't noticed that the lunar surface always looks the same...
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Level 83
Nov 13, 2024
I really want to know how many people clicked the dinosaur question.
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Level 70
Nov 17, 2024
Well, humans are responsible for the extinctions of some species of dinosaur, such as the dodo and passenger pigeon…
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Level 58
Nov 17, 2024
Yeah, I think they should have specified "non-avian"
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Level 78
Nov 14, 2024
I had always heard that Sumo was the most popular spectator sport in Japan, which i thought was weird. Turns out it IS weird, and i'm wrong. haha
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Level 55
Nov 17, 2024
Love these sudden death quizzes! Keep em coming
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Level 76
Nov 17, 2024
Great quiz, Stewart.

I'm going to put a "sort of" on that China time-zone question. Xinjiang/East Turkestan has its own time zone, which is used for almost everything and is two hours different than the rest of the country. You've just got to know which specific things are on "China time."

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Level 58
Nov 17, 2024
Got it all first try!
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Level 19
Nov 18, 2024
Me too!
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Level 24
Nov 18, 2024
I looked it up and it said broccoli and kale are not the same species
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Level 68
Nov 18, 2024
Try again, because they are all the same plant species Brassica oleracea
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Level 58
Dec 2, 2024
100 percents, let’s go!!! Love this quiz idea :)