Wait, wasn't there a pig heart transplant just a few days ago? Or is this one of those trip you up "gotcha" questions because the heart was from a genetically altered pig?
Well, this makes me feel a little better since it was so recent. I knew about pig valves, but not the whole heart. I clearly don’t keep up well enough with the news, but this was a cool thing to go look up!
I honestly thought the Legoland one was a trick question. I thought the big stores were Legoland but there wasn't an actual theme park. Turns out i'm in the elite 1% that got one wrong.
In my town, luckily, it's been baned for some years.
Most people in Spain want it abolished, but there are always bozos and "rednecks" that enjoy such cruel and unhuman acts. We'll manage to abolish it eventually
I'm surprised the question about rocks from the planet Mars has the fewest correct answers. There was one very famous Martian meteorite which was found on the planet Earth that looked like it had traces of life in it but after closer examination it was concluded that these structures were probably not made by life. I thought that would be a pretty well known story.
I simply didn't think of rocks which came in a natural way to the Earth. My mind went straight to the scientific missions of the last 20 or so years in which the probes were analyzed by robots on the Red planet itself.
Same! I initially had the right answer for both, but this meant there would be 5 "Yes" answers in a row, which seemed fishy to me. I ended up changing #1 and #2 to No. I regret my decision now :P
I answered that one wrong because a bunch of diseases that we're once "eradicated" have been making a comeback because of Anti-Vax nonsense although that may have just been diseases that were mostly eradicated but held on in small pockets of the world before having a resurgence in recent years.
Yeah, those diseases weren't eradicated. You're probably thinking of diseases like the measles, which was very nearly eliminated from the US with only a couple hundred cases per year before resurging due to decreased immunization rates. Even at its lowest point, though, there were still a few hundred thousand cases worldwide per year. Or you might be thinking of something like polio, which is very nearly eradicated but is still hanging on in three countries, with six reported cases in 2021.
Smallpox, though... smallpox is gone. It's the only human disease we have actually eliminated entirely from the wild, with only a few samples left in labs, and there's long been a push to destroy even those. There have been zero cases of smallpox for 45 years, with the last recorded case being a medical photographer who contracted it from a sample at a medical school in the UK.
On my part, at least, it was an honest mistake. I read just a few days ago that there was a new case of what I thought was smallpox in Malawi and I remember thinking back then "Wow, I guess it hasn't been completely eradicated then...". After taking the quiz I double checked and turns out the article was about polio, not smallpox. The german words for both are quite similar though.^^
The question about Jericho could be tidied up a bit. There are at least two cities called Jericho mentioned in the Bible. The first no longer exists after it was destroyed by God through Joshua. However then a new city was built in the same location and is mentioned in the gospels. So this question could be answered yes or no depending on which one is meant.
Not necessarily, it depends on how much was left, if anything, from the old city. If it was completely obliterated, then the new city is completely new, and has no relation to the old one other than being in the same place.
In any case, you're arguing with a person who takes biblical content as historical fact.
Some diseases are erradicated in some countries but not in others, and thus they can do a comeback. However, smallpox is erradicated from all countries in the nature. A comeback is only possible if one of the few biolabs that still have samples do some shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_on_bullfighting_in_Catalonia
Most people in Spain want it abolished, but there are always bozos and "rednecks" that enjoy such cruel and unhuman acts. We'll manage to abolish it eventually
Smallpox, though... smallpox is gone. It's the only human disease we have actually eliminated entirely from the wild, with only a few samples left in labs, and there's long been a push to destroy even those. There have been zero cases of smallpox for 45 years, with the last recorded case being a medical photographer who contracted it from a sample at a medical school in the UK.
In any case, you're arguing with a person who takes biblical content as historical fact.
Me who thought World War I veterans were still alive: :P