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April Fools' Quiz #6

Can you guess the 100% factual answers to these questions?
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Last updated: January 8, 2019
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First submittedJanuary 8, 2019
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What country invented the word "soccer"?
America
What is the correct plural of the word octopus?
Octopi
What creatures do etymologists study?
Insects
In the Bible, they were named Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar.
What are they better known as?
The Three Wise
Men
What company makes chicken nuggets with a disgusting substance known as "pink slime"?
McDonald's
What's the biggest city on the island of Hawaii?
Honolulu
What area is devoid of animal life due to a nuclear disaster that happened there in 1986?
Chernobyl
What American city has the highest levels of lead in its drinking water?
Flint
Just a tiny drop of this can be detected by a shark from over a mile away. What is it?
Blood
What is the biggest country in Central America?
Mexico
What is the southernmost point on the continent of Africa?
Cape Horn
On what British holiday do people punch each other?
Boxing Day
What can humans see that dogs and cats can't?
Colors
What country is the island of Transylvania a part of?
Australia
What type of animal sleeps standing up, but is sometimes tipped over by
thrill-seeking rural teenagers?
Cow
In what country are the citizens known as "Sherpas"?
Nepal
Who ran through the streets of Boston yelling "The British are Coming" and ringing a bell?
Paul Revere
What sport's greatest champion was named Jack Nicholson?
Golf
What species of ape did humans evolve from about 4 million years ago?
Chimpanzees
What article of clothing indicates an expert level of karate skill?
Black Belt
cpgatbyu
+9
Level 85
Jan 8, 2019
The current OED lists "octopi" as an acceptable plural.
kogatora
+1
Level 93
Jan 8, 2019
same pattern as the plural of hippopotamus and wotaclotamus
JWC1202
+8
Level 74
Jan 8, 2019
I think the question counts in this category because it suggest that octopi is the correct plural not just an acceptable plural.
Yanni47
+6
Level 77
Apr 1, 2019
Am I the only one who tried octopussy for that one?
AdamH
+2
Level 72
Apr 1, 2019
And dictionaries list figuratively as a definition of literally. Language evolves faster than grammar scolds would like.
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Apr 1, 2019
Well, the OED is not just any ol' lame dictionary.
roleybob
+8
Level 75
Oct 29, 2019
Nah, Octopi is equal to roughly 25.13
NMI
+1
Level 88
Apr 15, 2020
Ba ha ha!
mschiesser
+3
Level 91
Jan 8, 2019
Honolulu is on the island of Oahu, not the island of Hawaii. Based upon the way the question is worded I would expect the answer to be Hilo.
cpgatbyu
+30
Level 85
Jan 8, 2019
I think the goal in these April Fools quizzes is to give a wrong answer that many people think is right.
camus
+53
Level 78
Jan 8, 2019
God, can't you people read? It says the answers are 100% factual right in the instructions.
redsplat
+20
Level 74
Jan 8, 2019
To be fair, they might just be bad at math.
PotatoBoy
+7
Level 66
Jan 10, 2019
best comment ever
BlackLab
+2
Level 65
Apr 1, 2019
It's bacon!
cpgatbyu
+4
Level 85
Jan 8, 2019
It's called the midnight *ride*, not the midnight *run*.
Walacama
+2
Level 81
Apr 1, 2019
Great movie!
al314
+28
Level 89
Jan 8, 2019
Must force myself not to read the comments on an April Fools quiz.
mrnafe
+14
Level 82
Jan 8, 2019
I can't help myself
JWC1202
+2
Level 74
Jan 8, 2019
I know, right?
JackBeNimble
+8
Level 80
Jan 9, 2019
It's worth it because of the responses!
RobNobody
+9
Level 76
Apr 1, 2019
Are you kidding? The comments are the best part!
plattitude
+13
Level 92
Jan 8, 2019
Consider just accepting wise men? Especially as the count of 3 is just as fact-based as the rest of the quiz.
IsleAuHaulte
+13
Level 89
Jan 8, 2019
its hard to guess wrong answers.
redsplat
+18
Level 74
Jan 8, 2019
Everything looks good, except the punching holiday question. It's not just a British holiday. Traditionally, people punch each other in all Commonwealth countries on that day.
samiamco
+7
Level 69
Jan 8, 2019
I have to confess, until I was like 28, I thought that Boxing Day was actually to celebrate and honor the sport of pugilism. Then I spent my first Christmas in Canada and felt deeply, deeply stupid.
laura80
+7
Level 86
Jan 9, 2019
Haha! samiamco!

I am Canadian and I missed this answer because it has never occurred to me to associate boxing day with the sport of boxing. Facepalm when I saw it.

Carry
+10
Level 63
Feb 13, 2019
I didn't know the answer. Apparently it's not Slapsgiving.
Kahikatea
+2
Level 76
Apr 1, 2019
we start by drinking a drink called punch until we are punch-drunk
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Jul 4, 2019
I see where you're getting confused - the trick with the Boxing Day one is that we actually punch each other all year round
Jiaozira
+5
Level 70
Mar 6, 2020
In Canada, the tradition is to apologise after punching someone, or after being punched. I heard they punch kangaroos in Australia but I've never been.
FadKrashmor
+3
Level 71
May 5, 2020
Well this really was a hard one to answer. British people don't normally wait for public holidays to hit each other, it's traditional in towns every Friday after about 11:30 pm, also on the first day of every month, so many public holidays might coincide.
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 66
Apr 4, 2024
As someone from the UK, this threw me. Do they call it St. Stephens Day in the USA or what?
pitzikat
+4
Level 74
Jan 9, 2019
I love this quizzes. The questions/answers are fun and then the comments are even more fun.

Kudos, Quizmaster. The April Fools quizzes must be very hard to compose.

Tramp
+4
Level 76
Jan 11, 2019
Happy... Janurary fools?
sumguy
+6
Level 84
Jan 13, 2019
Boxing Day made me laugh, but I got it right away. I've never heard of anyone saying "Cape Horn" before, though. Is that really a thing?
JoshPen
+5
Level 79
Jan 13, 2019
Cape Horn is the name for the southern tip of South America.
TenThousand
+7
Level 76
Jan 16, 2019
Now that's another April Fools answer! The southernmost tip of South America is not Cape Horn! See the Cape Horn Wikipedia entry which states Although [Cape Horn is] not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez Islands)…
Fianchetto
+1
Level 73
Apr 4, 2024
Cape of Good Hope isn't even the southernmost point in Africa. It's Cape Agulhas anyway.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
I never heard anyone make this mistake, either, but I guess people might confuse Cape Horn, Cape Town, and the Cape of Good Hope. Why not? I don't think it's a common misconception, though. Several of these questions fall into the same category... plausible mistake... but not a common misconception. Which doesn't match with the first 5 installments.
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Apr 1, 2019
I think the mistake is probably helped by confusing it with the Horn of Africa?
JhonnyEn
+2
Level 25
Feb 1, 2019
America is not a country but a continent. USA apparently is not a valid answer tho...
roleybob
+7
Level 75
Feb 6, 2019
*rolls eyes* here we go....
Carry
+7
Level 63
Feb 13, 2019
USA worked fine for me as a type-in.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
He's as good at typing as he is at geography.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
Please put "what is the name of the continent where you would find both New York City and Buenos Aires?" on April Fools Quiz 7
Olober
+2
Level 57
Mar 8, 2019
As a Brit, the first thing I tried that came to mind was "first of the month" haha. It took me ages to figure out it meant boxing day- I didn't realise that was specific to us
Jiaozira
+3
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
It's not, it is observed here in Canada and in other Commonwealth countries too. We used to joke about this as kids but I had no idea anyone could be dumb enough to believe it...
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Apr 1, 2019
Hey! I represent that remark! But in my defense, and all Americans, we don't generally put away our Christmas decorations that fast. People will go till New Year's Day at least; traditionalists will go through till Epiphany on the 6th. As for me, I take my decorations down by the end of February, whether the tree is dead or not! :-P
Kahikatea
+1
Level 76
Apr 1, 2019
It's as specific to Britain is it is to pugilism
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Apr 1, 2019
We have Boxing Day here in NZ, but I couldn't think of the answer as I don't associate it with boxing! I was thinking of "A pinch and a punch for the first of the month"!
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Apr 1, 2019
Disturbing also how the media distorts the safety of water in Flint. Water in Flint has improved a lot and is actually safe. People believe what they want to believe though. In fact, I would hazard to guess that most people who read this comment won't click the link or read the article, and instead will continue to see Flint as a place with uniquely unsafe water.
BlackLab
+2
Level 65
Apr 1, 2019
I drink the stuff and wrong is nothing with me.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Apr 3, 2019
What's really sad is that there are many towns and cities in the US with much higher lead levels than Flint, but they aren't getting the attention (or the bucks to fix it.)
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Apr 4, 2019
The more I learn about this the more it makes me angry. Here is a study about lead concentration in children in Flint. Despite a slight uptick in recent years, the lead concentration of tested children in Flint has fallen by huge amounts and is almost exactly at the national level. Here is the money chart from the study. Media coverage on this issue is deeply irresponsible.
COdad77
+1
Level 44
Apr 1, 2019
Octopus is derived from the Latin language. Therefore, the plural of octopus would not be octopi but octopuses. Also, evolution has never been proven, so the question about what apes humans evolve from is arbitrary.
Jiaozira
+4
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
It's a joke quiz for April Fool's Day, you're meant to guess the common misconception for each!
Yanni47
+1
Level 77
Apr 1, 2019
Funny, I thought octopi as a plural would make sense just because it is derived from Latin - that is, when you look at it superficially. Then, of course, you realize that -pus is a separate suffix, the plural of which is not pi - otherwise, people might start complaining how pi is actually Greek...
amm14
+11
Level 66
Apr 1, 2019
The obliviousness of the first point nicely dovetails with the ignorance of the second.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Apr 1, 2019
Yeah, I'm not why sure the previous commenters missed the hidden lede about evolution. I'm wondering how he got to level 45.
mightythor
+10
Level 66
Apr 1, 2019
I just looked up the entomology of the word "soccer".
PaterN
+1
Level 78
Apr 1, 2019
Great! Thanks for the laughs! I'll send you some of our national anthems from Austria (see "April fools quiz 3")!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Apr 1, 2019
Entoms?
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Apr 1, 2019
I never do well on April Fools' quizzes.
Bambulin
+2
Level 75
Apr 1, 2019
Etymologist: an expert in etymology, the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral.

an expert of insects is an entomologist

Cog
+2
Level 75
Mar 1, 2021
But it was all correct apart from that?
kalbahamut
+3
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
Did you make some of these up? I never knew anyone to confuse etymology and entomology, or, worse, Transylvania and Tasmania (I assume that's what you were going for?)... I was totally lost for both of those.

And what's with the Mexico question? Is the reason it's on here supposed to be that Mexico is not a part of Central America? Because if you just google Central America map about 20-25% of the results include it. I don't think there's a canonical Central America that specifically and authoritatively excludes Mexico any more than there's a canonical Middle East that includes or excludes Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, or Armenia. It's a bit open to interpretation.

TWM03
+2
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
I think you should accept Cape of Good Hope for the southern tip of Africa.
muskox
+3
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
oof
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
Oof?
angrobper14
+1
Level 84
Apr 16, 2019
I know what you're doing here... Another good April's Fool swerveball
jsala
+1
Level 50
Apr 1, 2019
jack nicholson in golf?? I assume you are considering jack nicklaus instead.

At least there are 5 or 6 questions which are totally wrong!! Transylvania instead of Tasmania???

Americas a country??

RobNobody
+7
Level 76
Apr 1, 2019
Yes, at least!
joeythelemur
+10
Level 84
Apr 1, 2019
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that incorrect answers are on this quiz!!
kalbahamut
+5
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
5 or 6?? I only managed to find a couple. Which others do you think might not be accurate?
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 89
Mar 7, 2020
Did you score a whole grab bag of question marks at a flea market?
morcaca
+1
Level 59
Apr 1, 2021
What if... ALL the questions are wrong?
TWM03
+5
Level 70
Apr 1, 2019
Quite a few inaccuracies unfortunately. Here are the correct answers:

1. Serbia, as Nikola Tesla invented everything.

2. If there are two of them, hexadecapus. If there are more than that it depends.

3. Crocodiles

4. Foolish men

5. Cambridge Analytica

6. Hanoi

7. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

8. One study I saw lead me to believe it was Loafers Glory, North Carolina.

9. Dynamite

10. Kansas

11. Cape Town

12. Valentine's Day

13. The Andromeda Galaxy

14. Sealand

15. The flamingo

16. Any country where people are supposed to be wurpers but can't be bothered

17. Donald Trump

18. Synchronised diving

19. God

20. A shoe which has been split in half just by you putting your foot into it.

IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Mar 7, 2020
Apparently all the answers have changed.
CapeCanuck
+1
Level 45
Apr 1, 2019
Cape Horn is NOT in Africa. It's South America.

Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point of Africa.

kalbahamut
+7
Level 82
Apr 1, 2019
Where is Cape Canuck located? If I had to guess I'd say it's somewhere deep inside Uranus.
tom88
+4
Level 72
Apr 1, 2019
I LOVE how many people just don't understand the point of these quizzes. it's hilarious!
charchar711
+3
Level 68
Apr 2, 2019
As of yesterday, Mexico is actually three countries according to a Fox "news" chyron.
Geogbuff
+1
Level 51
Apr 2, 2019
Wow! Where to start? The Bible doesn't name the wise men and it certainly doesn't give them names. Story is found in Matthew chapter 2. Also, Honolulu is on the island of Oahu--Try Hilo for the island of Hawaii. Mexico is generally NOT considered part of Central America. And finally, humans, like other creatures, never evolved from anything else. We were created by God!
sux2suck
+9
Level 59
Apr 3, 2019
Given your comment, it's clear to me that some people never evolved.
Bencio
+1
Level 51
Apr 2, 2019
Mexico in not located in central America
sux2suck
+4
Level 59
Apr 3, 2019
And your title reading skills aren't located anywhere about a kindergarten reading comprehension level.
leni
+1
Level 76
Apr 2, 2019
Transylvania is part of Romania, not Australia.

You might want to correct that.

Tasmania belongs to Australia.

Mexico is technically North America - not Central. (NAFTA might be a hint)

People believe this stuff -- Let's not misinform children who take these quizzes.

sux2suck
+4
Level 59
Apr 3, 2019
but... but... the whole point of the quiz is that they are all wrong. Glad you didn't have a problem with any of the other answers...
roleybob
+3
Level 75
Jul 6, 2019
Please direct all complaints to Jenny on 867-5309
LoenardChurch
+2
Level 62
Apr 4, 2019
Should accept the planet Transexual for location of the galaxy of Transylvania
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Jul 6, 2019
I met a sweet transvestite from there once.
Moos1005
+1
Level 83
Jul 30, 2019
To me it sounds more like that people would answer Cape of Good Hope/Cape Town for the southernmost African point instead of Cape Horn.
Findlay
+4
Level 82
Feb 17, 2020
I did not get that Transylvania one. I s'pose in retrospect it's a Tasmania thing? Never occurred to me that people might think that. But I wouldn't really be surprised.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 67
Apr 1, 2020
Whatt who thinks it's Australia everyone knows it's Romania
Astana
+1
Level 50
Mar 26, 2024
And it's, um, also not an island?
johnlevy023
+3
Level 79
Nov 30, 2020
Can you possibly accept "bugs" for Insects?
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Apr 2, 2021
I don't see anything wrong with black belt.
KittMonroe
+2
Level 78
Nov 30, 2022
Most of these questions feel like insults to me... I've never seen anyone say Transylvania is part of Australia, or that Nepalese people are all Sherpa. I missed the Jack Nicholson question for the same reason, I've never seen that claim online.
Astana
+1
Level 50
Mar 26, 2024
What exactly is an April Fools quiz? It seems to be a quiz with incorrect yet plausible answers.
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