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A perfect 10 is achieved by only 10% of participants in this History Quiz.

Average Score: 7

59% knows the answer to this question: "What color was Mao's "little book"? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "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

72% 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? "

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

53% 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? "

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

44% knows the answer to this question: "What country saw a fierce political rivalry between Liberal William Gladstone and Conservative Benjamin Disraeli? "

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

33% 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? "

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

40% 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? "

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

83% 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? "

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

49% knows the answer to this question: "What band did Trent Reznor name for something used to make coffins? "

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?"

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Can you achieve a decent score on 10 questions regarding popular music?

Average Score: 5

43% knows the answer to this question: "Which New Jersey rocker announced the impending release of the album "Wrecking Ball" in 2011? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "In 2012, where did three women from the punk group Pussy Riot run into Christ the Savior Cathedral to call on the Virgin Mary to expel the nation's strongman leader?"

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Scoring a 7 out of 10 in this trivia is reserved for true historians.

Average Score: 8

61% knows the answer to this question: "Philippe Bunau-Varilla negotiated the treaty by which Panama sold the land for this. As one of Ferdinand De Lesseps' staff, he helped build this. What? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Many American POWs spent years at the Hua Lo prison. What was its nickname?"

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History - Hard level.

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Average Score: 8

78% knows the answer to this question: "What regime united the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy) and Luftwaffe (air force) into the Wehrmacht? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "The earliest hominids made tools from what form of hard quartz, known for producing the sparks that start campfires?"

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'Unanswerable History Quiz'

Average Score: 9

42% knows the answer to this question: "Where was Abraham Lincoln when he was killed? "

And do you know the answer to this one? "Despite British indifference, money came in from the Ottoman Empire, Calcutta and even the Chocktaw Indians, to relieve what genocide of the Irish?"

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