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Do you remember the time- line of the past?
Average Score: 8
59% knows the answer to this question:
"Mariner 9 was launched in 1971 towards which planet?
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"Which historical figure is associated with exile on St. Helena?"
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An old History quiz!
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44% knows the answer to this question:
"During which civil war did the battle of 'Kernstown' take place?
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"In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin?"
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Take the road through this history quiz
Average Score: 6
79% knows the answer to this question:
"What South American country took its name from the Incan word for "cold winter"?
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"What other than "Krauts" was the colloquial name the Allied soldiers used for German soldiers during WWII?"
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Can you keep your cool in this History Quiz?
Average Score: 6
91% knows the answer to this question:
"What was the Soviet bloc's 1954 equivalent to NATO called?
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"Based in Vienna, what was Simon Wiesenthal and his Jewish Documentation Center looking for?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 6
50% knows the answer to this question:
"Whose 770-K Mercedes-Benz was captured by an American soldier during the last days of the war and is now on display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa?
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"Dracula, first published in 1897, was written by whom?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
71% knows the answer to this question:
"Which of these people lived in a castle in Transylvania, Romania?
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"Who invented the ballpoint pen in 1938?"
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Blub blUb blub BlUB!
Average Score: 6
71% knows the answer to this question:
"What caviar-producing fish was once so abundant in the Hudson River that it was called Albany beef?
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"Homarus americanus is usually olive green or greenish brown, but it turns red when you cook it, as a pigment called astaxanthin is freed. What animal is this?"
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Are you a bookworm?
Average Score: 5
80% knows the answer to this question:
"What character was called Sherrinford Hope in an 1886 story, where he had a sidekick named Ormond Hacker, but was renamed for the author's cricket buddy and an American philosopher?
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"Which novel begins with the line "Early in the spring of 1750...." ?"
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Hungry for some brain food?
Average Score: 5
67% knows the answer to this question:
" The name of which Italian food translated means 'trouser' or 'stocking'?
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"Hoisin sauce is also known by what "municipal" name?"
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Can you get 30% right in this challenging music quiz?
Average Score: 5
74% knows the answer to this question:
"Notable for its album cover nudity, whose Two Virgins album was the first recorded by any of the Beatles without the others?
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"After seeing this woman at a Hollywood club, Phil Spector was convinced she was right for "River Deep--Mountain High." Who is she?"
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Take the science quiz and share the result with your friends.
Average Score: 5
64% knows the answer to this question:
"What is both the number of bits to a byte in computing and the number of furlongs to the mile?
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"What irreversible liver condition gets its name from the Greek word for "yellowish-orange," because of the jaundice that often accompanies it?"
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Quiz about Classical music, only for the connoisseur!
Average Score: 5
70% knows the answer to this question:
"F Scott Fitzgerald had a cat named for this Polish composer, who in turn supposedly wrote Waltz #4 in F Major after a cat walked across his piano keys. Who?
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"What famous music from Wagner's Die Walkure is actually playing before the curtains even go up?"