I assumed that Google was just THAT massive that it would rake in more currency than all of France, but I'm glad that isn't the case. Countries should always be more powerful than companies.
I really liked the use of number of bedrooms as a unit of measurement. For future quizzes I propose the question 'What's bigger: the Waldorf Astoria or the planet Jupiter?'
How I wish you can create quizzes like this for countries?The one which you just have to choose the correct answer from the given options and the questions would be difficult, especially small countries.
Although the mass of Earth is nearly 10x Mars, the diameter (another perfectly reasonable measure of 'big') is less than 2x so the answer is still right, but people thinking about diameter are not massively out.
Technically weight wouldn't apply here at all since weight requires gravity in order to measure, and we are talking about the size of a planet. Mass and weight are two different things.
The heaviest pumpkin is 1,190kg which equates to 1,190,000 grams. The average meal according to Google is around 150 to 200 grams, but the heaviest person it's safe to say didn't get to be the heaviest by skimping on his food, so lets say his(or her) average meal was 300g. That gives us 3967 meals, so 3 meals a day gives us 1322 days or around 3.5 years. And I can't believe I've just spent a few minutes working that out at 0730 on a Sunday morning, what am I doing with my life !
That's a very poor metric. 100 grams of pumpkin contains 26 calories, so you just assigned our hypothetical guy a 234 calorie a day diet. That guy is going to starve.
Assuming you won't starve from eating just pumpkin, which I think is also a poor assumption, as I don't think pumpkin truly ahs enough varied nutrition to stop a human from starving. But say our guy eats 1500 calories a day, he'd need 5.7 kilos of pumpkin a day (that's a lot of pumpkin to eat!), which means it would only last him 208 days
yeah, but the heaviest human ever could probably live for quite some time on a low calorie diet as their body would consume excess fat and muscle in order to keep them alive (not for 3.5 years, of course, I believe it is possible to starve to death and still be obese if you're not getting the right balance of nutrition.) What I want to know is: would he turn orange? =)
But, yes, it has been proven possible for obese people to live for extremely long times with very few calories. One person lived for more a year with essentially no food.
Not all heroes wear capes. We salute you. But, and it hurts to tell you this, the CURRENT heaviest man, not the heaviest one ever, ate far far more than 300g a day. We're talking feeding 50 families of 5 or this guy. And, you didn't take into account nutrients. He would die of malnutrition.
The man who ate "essentially" nothing for a year was on a few supplements. He didn't eat any solid or liquid food, technically but he did eat sugar and vitamins to stay alive.
Interesting that the France/Google question is well adrift at the bottom as least answered correctly. It would be interesting to compare how USA based vs Europe based respondents answer that one.
I only got it by logical deduction. The Old Testament is covering everything between the beginning of the Universe 13,787,000,000 years ago and the birth of Jesus at the confluence of the BC/AD periods. This is clearly a much larger period than the 2023 years the New Testament would have at its disposal even if it were written today.
42% of people (EDIT: 42% of people who use Jetpunk, a subset that is almost certainly smarter than average) think a gene is larger than a chromosome? Oy, we need to improve our science education...
This shocked me too. it is even lower now. Basically half of the people got it wrong, which is what you would expect when people guess something no one knows the answer to... half click A half click B... still shocked.
I do think the jetpunk crowd is smarter than average... Sometimes you see clips where people get asked to point to their country on the map, or how many letters the alphabet has, or even simpler questions but can't think of any atm and they get it wrong.
It doesn't mean extremely smart though, just the bottom half gets filtered out and people have knowledge on specific subjects. Mainly geography.
But even asking this on the street I would have expected a much higher percentage. (Doesn't everyone get taught this? so unless you dropped out after elementary school or never went to school at all, people should know this right?)
Because one is over 5 times the size of the other, so even a little knowledge of, say, the population of the combined Baltic states, or the population of Phoenix alone, is enough.
I've heard the population of Tallinn was less than half a million, so I assumed that the country as a whole had less than two million. The population of Phoenix on its own has about 1.5 million, so I found it an easy enough guess. Plus Arizona is huge.
my rough estimate was (did not deliberately think about it, but what roughly and vaguely came to mind in a split second before answering) about 400kg for the human and 600kg for the pumpkin. So both bigger than my initial gutfeeling.
Great quiz. Minor correction, a Brigade and a Regiment aren't necessarily the same thing. A regiment is a pretty ambigious term which doesn't have a fixed military definition. For example, the household cavalry mounted regiment is smaller than a battalion, but the US Marine regiments are Brigade size.
More recognised taxonomy is section - platoon - battalion - brigade - corps - field army
Probably because most people picture the outer planets to be much larger than Earth. As a kid, I always pictured the planets to generally get larger as you move away from the sun.
I can not fathom that 73% of quiz takers believed Google to have more value than France's budget. One of the top 10 biggest economies in the world. 20%? Ok. 35%? Questionable. 50%? Well, they are guessing a 50/50. BUT 3 FOURTHS?!?Google would have to be everybody's employer if these numbers were true.
How I wish you can create quizzes like this for countries?The one which you just have to choose the correct answer from the given options and the questions would be difficult, especially small countries.
Assuming you won't starve from eating just pumpkin, which I think is also a poor assumption, as I don't think pumpkin truly ahs enough varied nutrition to stop a human from starving. But say our guy eats 1500 calories a day, he'd need 5.7 kilos of pumpkin a day (that's a lot of pumpkin to eat!), which means it would only last him 208 days
But, yes, it has been proven possible for obese people to live for extremely long times with very few calories. One person lived for more a year with essentially no food.
The man who ate "essentially" nothing for a year was on a few supplements. He didn't eat any solid or liquid food, technically but he did eat sugar and vitamins to stay alive.
I do think the jetpunk crowd is smarter than average... Sometimes you see clips where people get asked to point to their country on the map, or how many letters the alphabet has, or even simpler questions but can't think of any atm and they get it wrong.
It doesn't mean extremely smart though, just the bottom half gets filtered out and people have knowledge on specific subjects. Mainly geography.
But even asking this on the street I would have expected a much higher percentage. (Doesn't everyone get taught this? so unless you dropped out after elementary school or never went to school at all, people should know this right?)
Arizona / Estonia
Who would honestly know that? and why?
Definitely one of the easier questions.
Scoring
You scored 10/15 = 67%
This beats or equals 34.3% of test takers
The average score is 11
Your high score is 10
Missed 1,5,8,14, and 15
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More recognised taxonomy is section - platoon - battalion - brigade - corps - field army