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Average Score: 6

41% knows the answer to this question: "A Chinese eunuch named Cai Lun (or Ts'ai Lun) is credited with using bark, hemp, rags and fishnets to invent something in 105 AD. What? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Named for Friedrich Mohs and determined with a sclerometer, what does the Mohs scale measure?"

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What is your level of familiarity with our world?

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Average Score: 5

68% knows the answer to this question: "Found more or less along the 180th meridian, the International Date Line cuts through which ocean? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The peony and plum blossom have traditionally been what Asian country's national flowers?"

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Art falls under the hard level category.

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68% knows the answer to this question: "Caligula considered moving the statue of this god to Rome and replacing the god's face with his own. Theodosius moved it to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in a fire in AD 462. What portable Wonder of the World was this? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "During my lifetime, I only sold one painting, for $75, but almost a century after I died, another of my paintings set an all-time auction record: $82.5 million. Who am I?"

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82% knows the answer to this question: "Formerly home to grand masters of the Knights of Saint of Jerusalem, Valletta is today which Mediterranean country's capital? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What fascist dictator established the Valley of the Fallen, north of El Escorial, to honor his war dead?"

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Music originating from the 1960s.

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42% knows the answer to this question: "Pop artist Richard Hamilton designed what blank album cover and had them individually numbered, even though it was a "limited edition" of 600,000 British copies? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "What band did Groucho Marx invite to his LA home in 1977, since they had named two albums (A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races) for Marx Brothers' movies?"

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Average Score: 6

82% knows the answer to this question: "As Gil Grissom knows on CSI, what is forensic entomology? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The US gallon is based on the old British Queen Anne's gallon, used for wine. The Brits adopted their imperial gallon in 1824, based on their old ale gallon. Which is bigger?"

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57% knows the answer to this question: "Thanks to Rowan Atkinson dressing as one in a skit on Not the Nine O'Clock News, primatologists are now referring to a collective of what animal as a whoop instead of a band? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The 2014 Biology IgNoble honored the discovery that what pets turn in circles before pooping, because they're aligning themselves with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines?"

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Average Score: 5

33% knows the answer to this question: "What river, the longest on its continent, carries more water than do the longest rivers on every other continent combined? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "There are an estimated 150,000 graves on the Mount of Olives, mostly people of what religion?"

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40% knows the answer to this question: "In 1962, Yukio Horie invented the first practical fiber-tip pen to accommodate which country's system of writing? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "As cities get crowded with phones, they can shoehorn in new overlay area codes. The first one, in 1992, was 917. Where?"

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Average Score: 4

34% knows the answer to this question: "How many legs does an insect have? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Members of what Anabaptist denomination are genetically vulnerable to branched chain ketoaciduria, aka maple syrup syndrome, for the way it makes babies smell?"

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62% knows the answer to this question: "What do you get when water vapor freezes on to a cold surface, particularly overnight? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "If I wanted to wrestle with an eusuchian congregation of bulls and cows, what reptiles should I find?"

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90% knows the answer to this question: "This country has half the world's lakes. Take away those lakes, and it's no longer the world's second largest country. What is it? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Czech it out! Named for Charles IV, Charles Bridge crosses the Vltava River in what city?"

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