Genius Level General Knowledge #3

All these questions were guessed less than 20% of the time in our general knowledge quizzes. Do you have what it takes to be a trivia genius and get more than 1/3rd correct?

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Last updated: September 27, 2017

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First submitted	September 26, 2017
Times taken	30,680
Average score	25.0%
Rating	4.50

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Question	Answer
Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?	Harold II
In what game can you get 50 extra points for a "bingo"?	Scrabble
What is the only 6 letter word that ends in mt?	Dreamt
What is the only country outside of Africa where cheetahs can still be found in the wild?	Iran
What is the number 17 in binary?	10001
What element comes between Uranium and Plutonium in the periodic table?	Neptunium
What type of creature is the closest relative to squids and octopuses?	Cuttlefish
What group of people were freed by Queen Elizabeth in 1574?	The Serfs
What was the last year that was divisible by four that wasn't a leap year?	1900
What is the name for a group of rats whose tails have been tangled together?	a Rat King
Who is the patron saint of lost causes?	St. Jude
What language does the word "yogurt" come from?	Turkish
What French fashion company sells its Birkin Bag over $10,000, but makes it nearly impossible to purchase in order to create the illusion of scarcity?	Hermès
What is the term for a story or drawing made by several people, where each person adds to it without seeing the work of the others?	Exquisite Corpse
What city in Oceania was devastated by an earthquake in 2011?	Christchurch
What is Zeno known for creating?	Paradoxes
What major Asian inland sea has almost entirely dried up?	Aral Sea
Who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais"?	Auguste Rodin
What is a drupe?	A Type of Fruit
What is the world’s longest system of caves?	Mammoth Cave

Level 77

Sep 26, 2017

Ugh. Three there that I thought about but didn't bother guessing because I didn't think I was right. Love these genius quizzes, there's a challenge here.

Level 67

Sep 26, 2017

Agreed. Most of these are very hard, but in a good way. The variety too makes it a more interesting challenge. I only got 2 right the first time around. Need to step up my game and memorize!

Level 74

Sep 26, 2017

I knew about rat king from a Grimm episode. Then I wished I never learned what a rat king was.

Level 59

Aug 4, 2020

I knew about it from a JetPunk interesting fact.

Level 68

Nov 2, 2020

I knew it from a 30 rock episode.

Level 63

Oct 24, 2022

I knew it from a Drawfee episode.

Level 87

Sep 26, 2017

OK, I didn't do too well on this one, but I DO know it's a Birkin Bag, not Birken.

Level ∞

Sep 26, 2017

Fixed

Level 77

Sep 26, 2017

Rat king is scary thing.

Level 33

Oct 29, 2022

i remember as a kid i saw a rat king in my basement when i went to go get my red racer wagon with double stripes that my mom wouldnt go down and get... this was... gosh.. well over 50 yrs ago but it is freshh in my mind as if it were yesterday. the things your mind wont let you forget....

+17

Level 84

Sep 27, 2017

Piece o' cake! I only got 3 correct, and didn't get any points, but that piece o' cake I just had made up for it. Mmm....

Level 65

Sep 30, 2017

nice, lol

Level 63

Jan 20, 2018

A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.

Level 67

Jul 15, 2019

so talking about cake makes you fat?

Level 86

Sep 27, 2017

It's strange, but I don't find those Genius quizzes more (nor less) difficult than the normal ones.

Level 76

Feb 8, 2018

They're all questions from previous General Knowledge quizzes but they have been selected as the hardest ones so technically there's no difference in types of questions, standard of knowledge required etc. and the only thing that makes the questions outstanding is that the JetPunk population found them harder on average

Level 67

Jul 15, 2019

Maybe because you have allready seen these question in the regular ones? (And perhaps have forgotten, but your subconscious stored the info. So you sort of retain the answers and the questions seem less hard)

Level 33

Oct 29, 2022

wow you must be genius!

Level 76

Sep 27, 2017

18/20, still easy compared to a good pub quiz but nice to finally have a bit of challenge - keep em coming!

Level 59

Sep 28, 2017

Got all......................................after seeing the answers.

Level 90

Oct 1, 2017

You have a bunch of high level players commenting on this quiz. But that one infinite throws off the average!

Level 88

Oct 2, 2017

I couldn't believe it when "nautilus" wasn't accepted for the octopus/squid relative question. When I saw the answer, I realized I had been picturing the right animal but mixing up the names. :(

Level 88

Oct 2, 2017

After further research, I have found that nautiluses ARE cephalopods in the same class as the other four, and probably SHOULD be accepted. Quizmaster?

Level ∞

Oct 3, 2017

Nautiluses are in a different subclass than the other three cephalopods.

Level 67

Jul 15, 2019

Nautili? nautilusi? (jk I have no clue, though nautulses feel so off I feel it physically haha, again no indication of truth whatsover..)

Level 73

Jan 25, 2018

This was the hardest of all the Genius Level quizzes. I really struggled, only got 3 right. Kind of embarrassing.

Level 67

Feb 8, 2018

I was in Christchurch last year, and I totally forgot about it. The city still looks pretty beat down.

Level 69

Feb 8, 2018

One tough quiz! But it doesn't equate to genius; you just gotta know the right answers!

Level 73

Feb 8, 2018

For lost causes, you have Saint-Rita too (very well known in Belgium, in France and in Italy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_of_Cascia

Level 57

Feb 8, 2018

Seconded

Level 72

Nov 5, 2020

Completely agree

Level 51

Feb 8, 2018

Way too hard for me haha.

Fun fact: In one of the Dungeons & Dragons book there is a monstrosity that is essentially a swarm of rats formed into an ogre-like creature called the rat king.

Level 65

Feb 8, 2018

A drupe is also a kind of seashell

Level 65

Feb 8, 2018

http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/Group_Drupe.shtml

Level 40

Feb 9, 2018

Squids and octopuses? Try squids and octopi.

Level ∞

Feb 9, 2018

Wrong!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralisation

Level 67

Jul 15, 2019

Still looks weird, octopusses or octopussies allready looks alot beter. but well... I have no say in it..

Level 36

Sep 7, 2021

actually, -i being the plural form of words ending in -us originates in latin, and the word octopus comes from greek, meaning the proper plural form of octopus is octopodes, pronounced ock top a deez

Level 26

Feb 22, 2018

Pretty sure 17 in binary is 00001001 but okay

Level 48

Feb 24, 2019

That's 9 and the leading 0's are meaningless

Level 77

Oct 24, 2021

Only if you're working specifically in an 8-bit programming framework, which isn't specified. Saying you need those leading zeroes in just regular binary is like saying you have to write it 00000017 in decimal.

(Oh, and as pointed out, 1001 is actually 9 in binary, not 17.)

Level 77

Aug 30, 2018

Challenging and fun. Don't think that I've seen a quiz before where no question has been answered correctly by more than half of the quiz-takers.

Level 79

Oct 23, 2019

Some people list Edgar the Aetheling as the last Saxon king. He never "ruled" as such, but he was proclaimed.

Level 70

Oct 27, 2022

English history is in no short supply of claimants to the throne. By hook or by crook, it was no easy feat to corral real support from the double-dealing nobles of the day, and, even then, keeping it was in not guaranteed.

+16

Level 89

Oct 30, 2019

Accept Kalbahamut for the patron saint of lost causes?

Level 82

Oct 25, 2022

Do you pray to me while tirelessly campaigning to convince everyone they are bad people for enjoying popular films?

Level 89

Oct 26, 2022

What does this have to do with the Oscars?

Level 72

May 11, 2020

The picture is a nice touch

Level 77

Oct 24, 2021

Oh, I didn't even pick up on that! Nice subtle hint.

Level 60

Jul 7, 2021

I got 1 point for only getting two right. The percentages are so low.

Level 36

Sep 7, 2021

i only got christchurch because i was listing off the 6 oceanic cities i know hoping it was in australia or new zealand

Level 41

Oct 29, 2021

I tried this and wasn't expecting to get any (I mean I only got 2 but that's 2 more than I thought I was going to get) haha

Level 24

Oct 30, 2021

i had 0, if youre reading the comments and feel stupid at least ur notme

Level 74

Dec 3, 2021

Since the Zeno question is a repeat of the one on the 100 General Knowledge Questions of Varying Difficulties quiz, stoicism should be an accepted answer or Zeno of Elea should be specified.

Level 79

Feb 9, 2022

Tough quiz, but 13/20 yields 5 points.

Level 77

Oct 27, 2022

That's what I was thinking. It must be the first time I got 5 points despite missing six questions.

Level 79

Aug 24, 2023

Yanni, is that your way of saying you beat me by 1 point? :)

Level 82

Jun 28, 2022

Patron saint of lost causes? St Jude's Children's Research Hospital sounds really bad now...

Level 65

Oct 24, 2022

Thank you, bonus track from Watsky's "x Infinity" (high school me's favorite rap album), for teaching me the answer to the rarest correct answer on this quiz.

Level 68

Oct 24, 2022

How did I know that drupe was a fruit? Got 5. Fun quiz, thanks.

Level 84

Oct 24, 2022

Can a certain combination of words that are synonyms for a deity, succeeding in a competition, and a male offspring count for the name of the Anglo-Saxon king?

Level 53

Oct 24, 2022

I spent 2 minutes guessing years for the leap year question lol...

Level 46

Oct 24, 2022

I got the least known question right! Thank you 9th grade art!

Level 71

Oct 24, 2022

The "bingo" name is only used in North America, elsewhere has different name or is just described as bonus points.

Level 71

Oct 24, 2022

This was quite a challenge, but enjoyable and informative. Thank you

Level 71

Oct 24, 2022

Haven't heard the game called 'Exquisite Corpse' before - is that an American thing? I've always known it as 'Consequences' but that might be a British name specifically.

Level 71

Oct 24, 2022

It would be nice to accept the answer to the binary question with leading zeros (not required or desired, of course, but acceptable) and lots of us are going to think of writing that as '0001 0001'.

Level 61

Oct 24, 2022

There is currently an effort to restore cheetahs to India, a few were recently released into the wild. Keep an eye on that, the question might need to be changed.

Level 74

Oct 25, 2022

Now that was truly tough but I'd rather do the tough ones than the silly, simple ones that make you laugh because of their simplicity.

Level 69

Oct 26, 2022

I don't think I've ever seen the word "dreamt". I think I've heard it spoken. It looks very strange to me.

Level 89

Oct 26, 2022

14 of the answers here are guessed by more than 20% of the quiz takers. The average score is 25% right though.

Level 65

Oct 27, 2022

Rat King is acceptable but 'King Rat' is not? Clavell wrote an entire book on the subject.

Level 56

Feb 7, 2024

Yeah. I was sure I'd got that one with King Rat.

Level 28

Oct 29, 2022

Damn lol I only got 2 and the only reason I got the caves answer was because I recently watched a video of a story featured in one of those caves where the factoid of it being the longest was brought up

Level 75

Nov 20, 2023

Could you accept Sepia as an type-in for the Cuttlefish question? According to Wikipedia, "Sepia is a genus of cuttlefish ... encompassing some of the best known and most common species".

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