Ten questions.
The obvious answer
is usually wrong.
Ten questions, one screen each. No sign-up, no timer games — just how much you actually know.
Which of these is not a real country?
Under all that white fur, a polar bear's skin is what colour?
Which country spans the most time zones?
In the 1900 book, Dorothy's slippers were not ruby. They were…
The element with the symbol W is…
The shortest war on record lasted about how long?
Which instrument has the most strings?
Which of these was invented first?
The most common surname on the planet is…
How many bones are in an adult human body?
All ten.
Clean
sweep.
Ten for ten. Nothing left to prove here — go make someone else try it.
8 of 10.
Sharp.
Eight or better on a set built to mislead you. Send it to someone who reckons they would do better.
6 of 10.
Solid
round.
More right than wrong, on questions where the first instinct usually isn't it. The ones you dropped are worth looking up.
4 of 10.
Half
and half.
The traps caught you about as often as they didn't. Which makes the next round the interesting one.
2 of 10.
Rough
round.
Some of these are genuinely mean. Take it again — you will remember at least three of them.
The answer key
Ten questions, and until now not one word about why. Here is the whole set with the answer to each, marked against what you pressed.
Five categories, not five equal ones
The front of this quiz says five categories. It does not say that two of them are one question each, which changes what a category score can possibly mean.
What a coin gets
Four options a question, ten questions: — different ways through. If you had pressed buttons without reading any of them, this is the shape of what you would have got. Every figure below is the arithmetic of chance, not a count of other people — we do not have that, and House Rules explains why we will not pretend otherwise.
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Four ways to cheat badly
You do not have to read a quiz to answer it. Press the same letter ten times and you still get a score. Here is what each of the four gets on this particular set of questions.
One question from a different sentence
The verdict at the top of this screen is not a number, it is one of five labels, and the five are not the same size.
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