So you think you’re a genius, huh? In that case, you’ll have no problems with this fiendishly mind-bending quiz designed to weed the nerds from the dunces. Good luck trying to prove your intelligence— you’re going to need it if you want to get all of these questions right.
So you think you’re a genius, huh? In that case, you’ll have no problems with this fiendishly mind-bending quiz designed to weed the nerds from the dunces. Good luck trying to prove your intelligence— you’re going to need it if you want to get all of these questions right.
Asunción is Paraguay's capital city, with a population of over 500,000 people. Paraguay itself has a population of over six million people.
16— this pattern is doubling in size with each new number. Computers count in binary using this method, so it's a common pattern in coding.
"Bought" is the past-tense version of "buy," while "brought" is the past-tense version of "bring." "Buyed" and "bringed" are never correct grammar.
The "title role" refers to the actor who plays the character named in a movie's title. In this case, Dustin Hoffman played Captain Hook, the title role in "Hook."
If the day after tomorrow is Wednesday, then tomorrow is Tuesday, and today is Monday. That makes yesterday Sunday.
Rami Malek's performance in "Bohemian Rhapsody" won him the 2019 Best Actor Oscar. He played Freddie Mercury, the front man for the band Queen.
"Reading" is to "read" as "singing" is to "sing." By this scheme, "ride" matches "riding," "write" matches "writing" and "ring" matches "ringing."
China has the largest population of humans in the world, with over 1.4 billion inhabitants. India has 1.3 billion people, the US has a mere 327,200,000 and Russia has the fewest on this list with just 145,500,000 inhabitants.
The letters in the word "forest" can be rescrambled to form the word "softer." "Safest" is an anagram of "feasts," and neither "harder" nor" fortress" can be rearranged into a single word without leaving some letters out.
Multiplying by zero always makes zero, so using the mathematics rule of the order of operations, 10 x 0 = 0, and 0 + 15 = 15.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were initially chosen by historian Herodotus in the fifth century AD. In 2000 AD, a campaign began to find a new list of seven wonders of the world, but Stonehenge still didn't make the cut.
Fish live in water, cows live in fields. Cows very rarely climb trees, and they can swim when they absolutely need to, but they can't swim indefinitely like a fish.
Barack Obama took over the White House from George Bush Jr. (often called George W. Bush to differentiate him from his father), and after two terms, handed the presidency to his successor, Donald Trump.
A pair of shoes is two shoes, and two pairs are four shoes in total. If you paid $40 for both pairs, the average cost of each pair is $20, and each individual shoe cost about $10.
While Queen Victoria is remembered for saying "we are not amused," there's very little evidence to suggest she used this phrase frequently. In fact, in her diary she often wrote "I was very much amused!"
James Howlett is better known by the name Logan, but his superhero name, Wolverine, is an anagram of "wine lover."
The famous Fibonacci sequence is found by adding the previous two numbers together. So 0+1=1, 1+1=2, 2+1=3 and 3+2=5.
Abuja is the capital of Nigeria, Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, Cairo is the capital of Egypt and Accra is the capital of Ghana.
Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird." Artemis Fowl is a different literary character: a wealthy super genius who fights fairies, and who would have no trouble with answering every question on this quiz.
"Cancer" means "crab," and the disease was originally given its name because ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates thought that tumors looked a little like the shape of a crab. The cancer constellation is believed to also look like a crab, hence its name.
Tim is currently two years old, and Julie is six. In two years, Tim will be four and Julie will be eight. On his next birthday, Tim will turn three.
You ride a bike, and drive a car. If you're pushing your bike, something has gone wrong, but the same is true if you're pushing your car. Ideally you should steer both your car and your bike, but through different means.
The snail is twelve inches away from the curb. It crawls five inches on Thursday and five inches on Friday, making ten inches total. The snail rests on Saturday, and then completes its journey the next day, on Sunday.
Each number is a verbal representation of the previous number— 11 is one one, 21 is two ones, 1211 is one two and one one. Thus 13112221 is one three, one one, two twos and two ones.
Vociferant, obstreperous and clamorous all mean noisy. Somnambulant means to be half-asleep.