Interesting Facts Quiz #2
Have you been paying attention to JetPunk's interesting facts? Prove your knowledge by filling in the blanks.
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noldig
+23
Level 57
Mar 20, 2019
Gandhi, me and several billion other people...
Carry
+5
Level 64
Mar 21, 2019
The difference is you'd think Gandhi would have won a Nobel Peace Prize.
kleeduardo
+7
Level 53
Oct 6, 2019
That is plain stupid, how am I going to think of Gandhi necessarily for that answer?
jmellor13
+6
Level 65
Oct 6, 2019
All the questions on this quiz are taken directly from the "Interesting Facts" included at the bottom of each quiz. So it's not just testing your knowledge, but also whether you've been taking note of those facts. One of the Interesting Facts specifically mentions that Gandhi didn't win a Nobel Prize. Aside from that, Gandhi is the most snub among Nobel Peace Prize candidates. I've heard that fact referenced in like ten different contexts. He's the most logical first guess.
jmellor13
+1
Level 65
Oct 6, 2019
"Most notorious snub," that is.
Atkinson
+2
Level 60
Oct 9, 2019
Maybe Gandhi never won a _________ would be a better question. Although I suppose people who guess things like beauty pagent or olympic medal in diving would still have grounds for complaint.
sillie
+5
Level 82
Mar 20, 2019
It confuses me that "wind" is accepted as an answer too to the energy question.
Jerry928
+1
Level 74
Mar 20, 2019
Maybe both answers are true? I'd be interested to know the 1996 and 2016 figures for each; I haven't been able to find the 1996 figures on google.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2019
I wasn't sure about wind ... Seems possible that it has increased by a lot.
cshtthomas
+5
Level 57
Mar 21, 2019
I've never won a Nobel Peace Price. Why can't I put my name in there?
roleybob
+11
Level 75
Mar 27, 2019
Because your name doesn't appear on the Jetpunk Interesting Fact list
QRU
+6
Level 73
Apr 2, 2019
Maybe a typo, my name works fine.
WanHuangdi
+2
Level 74
Oct 6, 2019
Just change your name to Gandhi, problem solved.
Pandora49
+1
Level 51
Mar 22, 2020
Oh no! Better ask QuizMaster!
DannyWozza
+2
Level 89
Mar 21, 2019
It is clear enough that the peace prize question is asking us to consider someone who a lot of people would expect to have won one in their lifetime - corroborated by the fact that the question is comfortably around the half-way point in the answer stats at 84% (at the time of writing)
tschutzer
+7
Level 86
Mar 21, 2019
And most importantly, someone with only a single name. When you start thinking to yourself, "Did Elvis ever win the Nobel Peace Prize," that's when you know you need to take a break from Jetpunk.
cpgatbyu
+5
Level 81
Mar 21, 2019
Bono is at least as qualified as Barack Obama was when he won.
joeythelemur
+1
Level 84
Apr 26, 2019
Moreso.
GeoDude
+3
Level 53
May 5, 2019
Obama is pretty qualified since the person before and after him were nightmares.
WanHuangdi
+4
Level 74
Oct 6, 2019
@GeoDude Not being as bad as the other guys doesn’t make him Nobel Peace Prize material. Drone strikes that kill civilians should not be lauded as something done in the name of “peace.”
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 84
Oct 6, 2019
According to this, it says he was awarded the prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Which, to me, sounds like he won for undoing the damage Bush did that lost other nations' trusts.
jeepy
+2
Level 65
Mar 22, 2019
Well, the clue is about jetpunk facts, and the fact is about Gandhi... However, I agree that the question should be changed. Maybe asking for the name of the prize instead would be better, asking for knowledge of the fact in itself in place of knowledge of what's written on jetpunk.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Jun 7, 2019
But em... that is what the whole quiz is about..
samiamco
+2
Level 72
Mar 27, 2019
I think they were joking, Danny and jeepy :-) And considering nearly 4/5ths of people got the answer right, it feels like a pretty safe question as is.
MayaB
+1
Level 70
Mar 21, 2019
In both quizzes I missed only 2-3 answers. Apparently the interesting facts remain in my head more reliably than I expected.
cpgatbyu
+2
Level 81
Mar 21, 2019
Wikipedia: "In a 1974 case, an 8-year-old boy from Deer Park, Texas, died after eating a cyanide-laced package of Pixy Stix. A subsequent police investigation eventually determined that the poisoned candy had been planted in his trick-or-treat pile by the boy's father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who also gave out poisoned candy to other children in an attempt to cover up the murder, though no other children consumed the poisoned treats. The murderer, who had wanted to claim life insurance money, was executed in 1984. In this case, the distribution of poisoned candy is true, but no children other than the intended victim were harmed."
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2019
And still no one has been poisoned by Halloween candy FROM trick or treating.
redsplat
+2
Level 75
Mar 26, 2019
It was a close call. O'Bryan gave poisoned Pixy Stix to other kids who were trick or treating with his son in an attempt to deflect suspicion. One of the other kids was found in bed with the Pixy Stix, having fallen asleep after being unable to open the package. (O'Bryan had removed the top layer of sugar from the straws and replaced it with cyanide.)
nonono
+1
Level 82
Mar 21, 2019
Only 48% knew CBGB? Either I'm very old, the average jetpunk user is very young, or both.
Djilas
+8
Level 78
Mar 21, 2019
Or we're not from NYC/USA, or interested in punk. I got it right only because it had appeared somewhere on JetPunk.
pinkysbrain
+1
Level 74
Aug 22, 2020
you don't have to be from NYC or USA to know this . you might need an interest in punk although some famous non punk bands ( talking heads , Blondie ) started out playing there . CBGB sadly closed down a few years back.
GeoDude
+1
Level 53
May 5, 2019
5/5 boom. How do people not know CBGB?
rocamorar
+6
Level 73
Jul 18, 2019
Not from the US and uninterested in punk music? (that is, about 95% of the world population)
jmellor13
+2
Level 65
Oct 6, 2019
I don't think being from the US makes much of a difference. Being a New Yorker or a music enthusiast is the key.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Oct 6, 2019
I didn't know the answer I just randomly guessed genres of music and got it.
TheWelshManc
+1
Level 47
Oct 6, 2019
18/20 even though I've never read any interesting fact. Nice.
SWATkun
+1
Level 59
Oct 6, 2019
Tiger should be accepted for Tigers and the forest I know which is not that far from my house is Sundarban not Sundarbans.
PraNic8192
+1
Level 52
Apr 12, 2020
It appears as tigers in the facts, and it is THE Sundarbans, not Sundarban or Sundarbans
GerhardE
+2
Level 28
Oct 6, 2019
Question #2 should accept anybody who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. :-)
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 45
Oct 7, 2019
I got 0 when typing in "no" for North Carolina cuz I thought that for the capital one for a second. I just kept on guessing genres until I got punk, and for Prussia I literally had no clue but it just made sense for some reason
trivialover123
+1
Level 67
May 4, 2020
Istanbul is north of New York City.
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 64
Jan 5, 2021
You mean Albany?
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