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First submitted	July 7, 2021
Times taken	25,838
Average score	65.0%
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Question	Answer
Who owns all the unmarked mute swans swimming in open waters in the U.K.?	King Charles III
What is the only type of mammal capable of true flight?	Bat
Where does a bellhop work?	At a hotel
What painting from the early 1500s is thought to feature Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini?	The Mona Lisa
On what island did Jersey cows originate?	Jersey
What is either a group of owls or a group of legislators?	Parliament
Who did England play against in the world's first "international" football match in 1872?	Scotland
Cherilyn Sarkisian was born in 1946. What is she better known as today?	Cher
Name one of the skimpy clothing items which Mary Quant is credited for inventing in the 1960s.	Miniskirt / Hotpants
Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom?	Athena
Emperor, Rockhopper, Chinstrap, and Macaroni are all species of which type of bird?	Penguin
Which is the smallest of Australia’s six states?	Tasmania
Where did Yuri Gagarin go, in 1961, where no one had ever gone before?	Space
For which film did Steven Spielberg win his first Best Director Oscar in 1994?	Schindler’s List
Whose first novel was "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"?	Charles Dickens
Which European country has a name which ends in K?	Denmark
To which branch of the Indo-European language family do Welsh, Irish, and Breton belong?	Celtic
Proverbially, what favors the bold?	Fortune
Which country owns Madeira, an island off the northwest coast of Africa?	Portugal
What is the northernmost city in England, whose people are known as Geordies?	Newcastle

Level 84

Jul 7, 2021

If the answer wasn't Dickens, I was toast.

Level 79

Jul 8, 2021

Interesting quiz, with a few clues in the questions.

Level 63

Jul 8, 2021

Can you accept LBD or little black dress for miniskirt please? It's the first thing that came to mind.

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Level ∞

Jul 8, 2021

The little black dress was four decades earlier and designed by Coco Chanel.

Level 88

Jul 8, 2021

I got the answer right, but I've never heard that proverb use the word "brave." I've always heard it with "bold."

Level 75

Jul 9, 2021

I've only heard brave, never bold, so I missed it.

Level 89

Jul 11, 2021

It made me think of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Level 82

Jul 11, 2021

Another vote for “brave” here. Possibly a transatlantic difference? Anyway may be worth including both in the question.

Also there’s an erroneous ‘the’ in the question about owls.

Nice quiz though!

Level 84

Jul 11, 2021

I've also only heard "brave".

Level 71

Jul 11, 2021

Did anyone else think at first that question #5 (the one about Jersey cows) was a trick question? I tried most of the rest of the British Isles before finally figuring out that it wasn't a trick and had the most obvious answer ever.

Level 82

Jul 11, 2021

I got it with my first guess. But I think there are probably a lot of people who aren't even aware that there is an island named Jersey. I bet at least a few people were probably trying to think of islands in New Jersey. The only one I can think of is controversially perhaps part of New York, perhaps part of New Jersey - Liberty Island - and there are no cows there that I know of.

Level 56

Jan 25, 2024

I like the idea of a Liberty Island Cow. They could market the milk as "the taste of freedom" or something

A friend of mine from Jersey used to work in America, and when people asked where he was from he used to sometimes have a bit of difficulty getting them to believe that there was a place called Jersey without "new" in front of it.

Level 72

Jul 13, 2021

Mona Lisa and Cher are also right there in the clues!

Level 64

Jul 13, 2021

If you count it as a state, wouldn't Tasmania be the SEVENTH Australian state:

* Western Australia

* South Australia

* Victoria

* New South Wales

* Queensland

* Northern Territory

Level 72

Jul 13, 2021

Northern Territory isn't a state. It's a (wait for it...) territory!

Level 82

Jul 15, 2021

Also... why wouldn't you count it as a state? "If you count Arizona as a state, it's the sixth largest"... see how odd that sounds? Did you mean to write if you count the Northern Territory as a state? Because you shouldn't do that, because, as TheCrusher has pointed out... it isn't. Also, what is that order? If your list were ordered by size, it goes 1, 4, 6, 5, 2, 3.

Level 68

Feb 27, 2022

well if you include territories, then Australian Capital Territory would be the smallest...but it doesn't include territories.

Level 71

Jul 13, 2021

Thanks for a great quiz, and the namecheck.

Level 82

Jul 15, 2021

Definitely thought Jersey cows' origin was going to be like the question on another of these about which animal the Canary Islands were named after.

Also, and I don't know for sure, cos I've just done a bunch of these and they're all muddling together, but I'm pretty sure I've done the Liechtenstein question on another quiz in this series.

Level 60

Aug 29, 2021

Where are all the people complaining that the quiz is "too UK centric?" Why is it that people always get mad about this only if it is about the US?

Level 30

Aug 24, 2022

Isn't Berwick the most norther city in England?

Level 67

Feb 13, 2023

I think it's just a town.

Level 89

Sep 13, 2022

First answer isn't queen anymore...

Level 46

Sep 26, 2022

Shouldn’t the 1st one be updated now?

Level 70

Dec 28, 2022

The Queen should be changed to the King

Level ∞

Dec 28, 2022

Updated

Level 70

Jan 4, 2023

how did the jersey cows question not get 100% is it not massively obvious

Level 62

Jan 25, 2024

is there an isle of jersey? who knew?

Level 56

Jan 25, 2024

Well I was also wondering how fully 29% of people couldn't work it out, but this is presumably the answer. It's a bit like the Tasmanian Devil being better known than Tasmania, which may also be the case I suppose

Level 67

Feb 13, 2023

The Newcastle question should be written as Newcastle upon Tyne, as there are multiple newcastles in England.

Level 66

Nov 21, 2023

You should probably consider accepting "congress" for the clue about owls and legislators. Less commonly used for owls than parliament, but is one of the names for a group thereof. "The most common collective noun for a group of owls is a parliament. Other less common names include a wisdom, congress, hooting and a stare of owls." https://birdfact.com/articles/what-is-a-group-of-owls-called

Level 55

Jan 25, 2024

How about 'La Gioconda' for the Mona Lisa question?

Maybe also 'La Joconde', its name in France?

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