10 questions · 5 categories

Ten questions.
The obvious answer
is usually wrong.

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Ten questions, one screen each. No sign-up, no timer games — just how much you actually know.

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Question 1 / 10 · Geography

Which of these is not a real country?

Question 2 / 10 · Science

Under all that white fur, a polar bear's skin is what colour?

Question 3 / 10 · Geography

Which country spans the most time zones?

Question 4 / 10 · Film

In the 1900 book, Dorothy's slippers were not ruby. They were…

Question 5 / 10 · Science

The element with the symbol W is…

Question 6 / 10 · History

The shortest war on record lasted about how long?

Question 7 / 10 · Music

Which instrument has the most strings?

Question 8 / 10 · History

Which of these was invented first?

Question 9 / 10 · Geography

The most common surname on the planet is…

Question 10 / 10 · Science

How many bones are in an adult human body?

Final score

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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