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The pop music quiz results in most people failing.
Average Score: 5
100% knows the answer to this question:
"Using Booker T's MGs as their band, who had a hit album called Briefcase Full of Blues and even opened for Steve Martin?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"What tenor from Naples was sent fleeing from his hotel room during the San Francisco earthquake?"
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Take the challenge and prove yourself as a genuine historian.
Average Score: 8
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What scandal destroyed Richard Nixon's administration?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"A weepy Princess Diana told Panorama that "there were three of us in this marriage" with Prince Charles. Who was #3?"
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A challenging 10-question pop quiz covering various eras.
Average Score: 7
100% knows the answer to this question:
"Ray and Dave Davies were brothers in which band?
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"Whose song Mo Money Mo Problems became his second posthumous #1 hit, replacing I'll Be Missing You, a song made about his death?"
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Do you have an affinity for the past?
Average Score: 8
100% knows the answer to this question:
"In 1368, for the first time, all of China was conquered from the south. What dynasty, famous for its blue and white porcelain vases, replaced the Yuan?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Lee Harvey Oswald almost certainly shot John F. Kennedy. But who, most definitely, shot Lee Harvey Oswald?"
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A perfect 10 is achieved by only 10% of participants in this History Quiz.
Average Score: 7
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What color was Mao's "little book"?
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"Emperor Trajan ordered the construction of Timgad, or Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi, in the deserts of what present-day country, where it was drowned in sand again by the 7th century?"
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A challenging pop music trivia quiz.
Average Score: 6
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What musical is set largely in the Kit Kat Klub, a last bastion of decadence in pre-Nazi Germany?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Who used a Fender Stratocaster named Brownie to record Layla and is shown with a Stratocaster named Blackie on his Time Pieces cover?"
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Challenging POP Music quiz.
Average Score: 7
100% knows the answer to this question:
"John Lennon called them his favorite band. Their first big hit was "Rock Lobster" and their last was "Love Shack." Who?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Jamie Reid, who produced this band's "ransom note" debut album cover, also designed a poster of the Queen with a safety pin through her lip to promote its second single. What band is this?"
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Just 10% succeed in acing this History quiz.
Average Score: 6
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What country saw a fierce political rivalry between Liberal William Gladstone and Conservative Benjamin Disraeli?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"By the time Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin became the Soviet minister, he'd adopted what explosive new name?"
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Aim for a score of 6 or higher on this History Quiz.
Average Score: 9
100% knows the answer to this question:
"William Frederick Cody got his nickname because he had claimed to have killed 4,000 of what animal, while working with the Kansas Pacific Railroad?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"What future wife did Hitler meet through the woman's boss, Heinrich Hoffman, a Munich photographer?"
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Only a small fraction, less than 5%, can achieve a flawless score in this music quiz.
Average Score: 6
100% knows the answer to this question:
"Naturally, who decided to name his first daughter Tulip Victoria, given his biggest hit and the mother's name?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Whose first greatest hits album, released in 1990, was called The Immaculate Collection?"
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You won't be able to achieve a 4/10 on this Pop Music Quiz, we guarantee it.
Average Score: 6
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What band wasn't actually named for the rulers of a medieval kingdom in what is now part of Portugal and Spain, even though it looks that way?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Finish The Lyric: "It's turning, while my guitar"?"
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Are you up for the challenge of answering these 10 questions in the Pop Music Quiz?
Average Score: 6
100% knows the answer to this question:
"What band did Trent Reznor name for something used to make coffins?
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And do you know the answer to this one?
"Tommy and Gina were "halfway there" in Living on a Prayer, and came back in It's My Life, two Reagan-era songs by whom?"