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Has Anyone Ever Done It #2

Try to guess whether anyone in history has ever done these remarkable, or remarkably stupid, things!
Nitpicker alert: Feel free to add the words "that we know of" to every question
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Last updated: January 13, 2021
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1. Been able to lick their nose with their tongue, without surgery
Yes
No
2. Captured a giant squid and put it in an aquarium
Yes
No
3. Lived to 150 years old
Yes
No
4. Dunked in a WNBA basketball game
Yes
No
As of 2018, six different players have dunked
5. Run a mile (1.609 km) in less than 4 minutes
Yes
No
Roger Bannister became the first person to do it in 1954
6. Been struck by lightning twice
Yes
No
7. Escaped from ADX Florence, America's only "Supermax" prison
Yes
No
8. Climbed Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen
Yes
No
9. Cloned a human
Yes
No
10. Been hit by a meteorite
Yes
No
11. Refused a Nobel Prize
Yes
No
Jean-Paul Sartre was the first to refuse one in 1964
12. Seen the dark side of the moon
Yes
No
Apollo 8, in 1968, was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon. The first unmanned mission happened in 1959.
13. Shot a birdie or better on every hole in a round of golf on a regulation 18 hole course
Yes
No
The record for most birdies in a single round is 10
14. Given birth while serving as Pope
Yes
No
There has never been a female pope, although in the Middle Ages people made one up
15. Given birth to more than 20 surviving children?
Yes
No
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Level 85
Jan 13, 2021
There is no *dark* side of the moon (just a *far* side, which is bright half the time), so I said no one has seen the non-existent object.
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Level ∞
Jan 13, 2021
The terms "dark side of the moon" and "far side of the moon" are synonymous even though the far side is not really dark.
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Level 72
Jan 13, 2021
Well, I've certainly seen the "Dark Side of the Moon" album.
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Level 63
Jan 14, 2021
That counts.
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Level 88
Jan 14, 2021
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
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Level 69
Jan 14, 2021
People have seen "The Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973. It was a beam of light shot through a prism on a black background.

In any case there are so many things wrong with this question, because despite it hinting that it isn't asking about the Pink Floyd album that fact is unclear and it could also be a trick question. And the Moon is also spelled with a capital M.

Just change the question to "the far side of the Moon" so it's clear for everyone.

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Level 71
Jan 15, 2021
And then a decent nitpicker would ask, 'Far side from where?"
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2021
From Earth. Moon is stationary (not rotating on an axis) relative to Earth, so the far side is always the far side and there is no ambiguity to that.
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Level 77
Oct 18, 2023
Golly, and the Dark Ages weren’t actually hundreds of years of night? And the dark web isn’t just using the Internet with your computer monitor off? And a dark horse isn’t an even a horse???
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Level 76
Mar 14, 2021
Of course there is a dark side of the moon. It is nothing but its night side. In fact, everyone has seen it, whenever the moon is close to the sun, showing a thin crescent, or during a solar eclipse. Besides, if "dark side" was synonymous with "far side", then the near side should also be called "light side". But I've never heard it referred to as such.
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2021
Which sides gets light and darkness is always changing... because the Moon's orientation relative to the sun is changing. So that terminology does not have much practical usage. Whereas near side and far is constant (relative to Earth) so it makes perfect sense.
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Level 92
Jan 13, 2021
I would bet that #9 & #13 have both happened, just without verification.

I'm sure someone has cloned a human at this point and I'd be shocked if some pro didn't walk the local Muni course and birdie every hole at some point in history.

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Level ∞
Jan 13, 2021
9 possibly. 13 absolutely not, except for Kim Jong-il obviously.
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Level 57
Jan 14, 2021
The fact that this quiz fails to acknowledge Comrade Supreme Leader's incredible golf skills is not only shameful, but treasonous to the Juche Revolution!
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Level 56
Jan 14, 2021
Didn't she sing "Angel of the Morning"?
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Level 42
Jan 15, 2021
Except for Kim Jong Il? That means yes
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Level 75
Mar 14, 2021
Some claim they cloned human cells, but not a viable human. The South Koreans say they had division of human cells in the 1990s but stopped very early. I think it was in the 1980s I saw a film called "Green Cows, Quaggas, and Mummies" made by a group of scientists at a university who study future trends - maybe New Mexico? They wanted to splice a plant gene into a cow to see if it could photosynthesize its own nutrients - the forerunner of GMO. (At the time we thought they were crazy.) They claimed someone had already started replicating human cells for medical purposes, but stopped the experiment early on because of ethical reasons. They were waiting for the super computer to be completed so the human genome could be mapped before they went on. They wanted to regenerate a quagga from tissue of one in a museum and maybe even try regenerating a mummy at some point, but they didn't really think a viable human being could be cloned and they worried about the ethics of even trying.
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Level 58
Mar 16, 2021
and surely Donald Trump has claimed to have scored a hole in one on every hole of some course somewhere?
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Level 84
Jan 15, 2021
I see no reason to believe that anyone has cloned a human. I also see no reason to want to do so. The lambs that were cloned from Dolly aged rapidly and suffered from ailments that affect much older sheep... sheep the age of Dolly. If you clone a 30-year-old human, the clone's cells will be 60 when they're 30. They'll be starting off with cells that are the same age as the person who was cloned, condemning them to a short life. If you want kids so badly, adopt or foster.
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Level 95
Jan 13, 2021
Love these quizzes; keep them coming!!
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Level 75
Jan 13, 2021
#14 seemed too ridiculous not to be true, sneaky QM...!
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Level ∞
Jan 13, 2021
I have to admit that I sometimes put these "confidence tests" into my quizzes.
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Level 75
Jan 21, 2021
I read "Given birth while serving the pope", not "as the pope". Oops
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Level 41
Jan 14, 2021
Methuselah in the bible lived to 969 years old
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Level 82
Jan 14, 2021
Thor in The Avengers said he was more than 1500 years old.
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Level 79
Jan 14, 2021
Thor in The Avengers is fictional.
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Level 65
Jan 26, 2021
no hes real
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Level 89
Mar 14, 2021
Spoiler: They're both fictional real.
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Level 71
Mar 14, 2021
Well, Queen Elizabeth is real, and she's immortal.
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Level 52
Oct 18, 2023
Still think that?
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Level 73
Apr 8, 2021
Yeah but she's still not passed the age requirement yet
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Level 71
Apr 26, 2021
Among many others...I was thinking the same.

Aren't there other quizzes with factual references to the Bible or do they all have an *according to the Bible* note? It hasn't been disproved.

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Level 76
Oct 18, 2023
Just because something "hasn't been disproved" doesn't mean we should accept it as fact.
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Level 69
Oct 18, 2023
True.
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Level 64
Jan 14, 2021
"Given birth while serving as Pope " might have referred to the medical act of assisting the mother giving birth.. wouldn't it?
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Level 71
Jan 14, 2021
I think it's in reference to an apocryphal tale about a woman who was supposedly elected pope and then gave birth. It's not true, of course, but people love scandalous history!
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Level 84
Jan 15, 2021
A doctor or midwife doesn't "give birth" to his or her patients' babies.
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Level 76
Mar 14, 2021
Nah, that's called "delivering" a baby, not "giving birth" to one.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2021
You can also call it "birthing a baby" if you're helping -- or birthing a calf if you're helping around the farm. But you're only "giving birth" if the kid is coming out of you.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2021
Which makes me think of Aliens. Presumably you're not giving birth if an alien is erupting from your chest cavity. But since you're helping, are you birthing an alien?
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Level 67
Jan 15, 2021
In the bible people lived longer than 150.
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Level 84
Jan 15, 2021
On Star Trek, too. What's your point?
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Level 55
Nov 15, 2023
Some consider the Bible as a historical book, and rank its efficacy somewhere north of a Gene Roddenberry story.
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Level 78
Mar 14, 2021
Nicolas Flamel in Harry Potter was over 700 when his Elixir of Life ran out.
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Level 52
Mar 14, 2021
About question #3... I remember being told a tale about an Old West town whose mayor was immortal. Supposedly, he held the same body, but would shift identity every 60 years or so as to not get people suspicious.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2021
But they didn't get suspicious that all their mayors had uninterrupted terms for decades? Chill bunch.
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Level 60
Mar 14, 2021
Question 15 is VERY True cuz A Russian Prince named Vsevolod III had more than 20 children and has the nickname "the big nest", This also applies to a Moroccan Sultan, Ismail, who is generally thought to have more than a thousand children.
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Level 67
Mar 14, 2021
Men do not give birth. And something cannot be "very" true. It's either true or it isn't.
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Level 60
Mar 17, 2021
Some men give birth, for example some trans men. 2021 says hello.
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Level 66
Aug 19, 2023
If you can give birth, you're a woman. Sorry.
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Level 71
Mar 14, 2021
Faro never said that the Vsevolod III and Ismail gave birth. He just said they had a bunch of kids.
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Level 60
Mar 14, 2021
Correct.
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Level 67
Mar 14, 2021
But the question Faro is referencing asks if anyone ever *gave birth* to more than 20 children. So if he's saying it's "very true" because a prince and a sultan had more than 20 children, then yes, he is suggesting they gave birth.
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Level 60
Mar 15, 2021
No. I'm saying like they had lots of children, So I am saying their wives gave birth.
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Level 76
Apr 22, 2021
But then that has nothing to do with the question, since the question is about giving birth to more than 20 children.
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Level 70
Mar 14, 2021
UK TV (Channel 5) is currently showing a series about Britain's largest family, '22 Kids and Counting'.
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Level 55
Mar 14, 2021
Trick question. Apollo 8 has seen the FAR side of the moon. We all see the night side of the moon when it's not full.
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Level 57
Mar 14, 2021
Plenty of folks lived past 150 in the Good Book.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2021
What does that make everyone else's books, The Bad Books? Snort.
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Level 50
Mar 14, 2021
The cloning human question is incorrect. Embryonic stem cell research requires cloning humans via somatic cell nuclear transfer. Perhaps the question intended to ask about cloning a human and allow the cloned human to live to a certain age?
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2021
The question is correct. It doesn't ask if a human cell has been cloned, it asks if a human has been cloned.
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Level 50
Mar 14, 2021
An human embryo is an entire human, not merely a cell or group of cells of a human. That's a proper stage of human development from fertilisation through 8 weeks. All cloning of any species begins mono cellular, just as life would sexually for any mammal, and develops progresses as it otherwise would (this is how Dolly the Sheep was cloned). So this is done with humans in ESCR at the very least if not for some other purpose. If we are talking about a cloned human living until adulthood, then you're absolutely right, and I think that's probably what most people are thinking, but the specific question at hand doesn't make any age stipulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer#Stem_cell_research

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Level 73
Mar 14, 2021
I'm amazed so few female basketball players have dunked, considering that there have been quite a few 6'4+ players
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Level 39
Mar 14, 2021
Methuselah lived to 969.. Pretty sure that's older than 150😌
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Level 84
Dec 17, 2023
Let's see his long form birth certificate.
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Level 68
Mar 14, 2021
Like @KiwiQuizWhiz said. Methuselah lived to around 970. People should be able to click yes and get it right
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Level 77
Mar 15, 2021
But then all questions in all quizzes would be suspect because every religious belief would have to be taken into account. True or false: Almost all land belonged to a supercontinent called Pangea at the end of the Paleozoic era. Shintoism specifically says that the islands that make up Japan were created first, as they are today, so False should be accepted? I'd think this line of reasoning would make many quizzes needlessly complicated.
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Level 36
Mar 14, 2021
1 mile is 1.600 meters not kms
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2021
Um, no. 1.600 metres (aka 1.6 metres) is the height of a short-ish person. Unless you meant 1,600 metres? That would be a mile. Regardless, the clue is still correct, 1 mile = 1.609 km.
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2021
In some countries, commas are used like decimal points, which is probably why @anasiken31 is confused.
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Level 71
Mar 15, 2021
"Been able to lick their nose with their tongue, without surgery" I can do that.
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Level 68
Mar 15, 2021
Conspiracy theorists have trouble with this one.
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Level 44
Mar 16, 2021
Actually Methuselah lived for 969 yrs in the Bible so this quiz is not accurate and therefore shouldn’t be featured thank you very much 😡
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Level 66
Jun 21, 2021
Is there any scientific proof that Methuselah actually existed?
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Level 78
Jul 9, 2021
Before we get into the Methuselah argument, let's take a step back and first review the absolute verifiable scientific proof that without a doubt, no one in the history of mankind has ever lived to be 150 years old. Because we're basing things on hard science and verifiable records, not just opinions and/or conjecture, right?
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Level 76
Oct 18, 2023
Note the caveat for nitpickers in the instructions to add "that we know of" to every question. If we went by your standard, it would be impossible to ever claim anything. Has a human ever set foot on Mars? I've read plenty of books in which people did. Can you prove that there wasn't a super-genius in the year 3000 BCE who built a rocket capable of the trip? Or is it reasonable to assume something extraordinary like that hasn't happened that we know of until actively proven otherwise?
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Level 47
Oct 25, 2023
The bible is fictional not reality.
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Level 68
Mar 16, 2021
any mother who has given birth to identical twins has cloned a human.
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Level 84
Dec 17, 2023
I've got to give props to that answer.
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Level 59
Jan 22, 2022
Wow got 100% first try
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Level 41
May 12, 2022
Kim Jon Un has got a whole in 1 on every course of an 18 hole golf course... It's in his propaganda. Read it. lol

This quiz is false jk jk

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Level 78
Aug 19, 2023
And it was on his first ever round of golf. It is amazing what that man has achieved !
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Level 39
May 19, 2022
Even I can lick my nose with my tongue
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Level 64
Dec 16, 2023
Fess up, who else was doing it while answering the quiz?
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Level 66
Aug 20, 2023
I've played too much Mario Golf and its Birdie Challenge that I think that getting 18 birdies is possible lol
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Level 51
Aug 21, 2023
Adam Hadwin shot 13 birdies in the CareerBuilder Challenge event in 2017
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Level 65
Aug 22, 2023
I chose no for #10 since I thought meteors only become meteorite after landing
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Level 43
Oct 2, 2023
The dark side of the moon refers to the side that is unlit by the sun. Every human that has seen the moon has seen the dark side of the moon. The far side of the moon is what was seen by the Apollo 8 mission
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Level ∞
Oct 2, 2023
"Far side of the moon" and "dark side of the moon" are synonymous.

The lunar day lasts 29 Earth days. As the moon rotates, different parts are exposed to the sun. There is no part of the moon which is always unlit by the sun.

However, due to tidal locking, approximately 41% of the moon is never visible from Earth. This part of the moon had never been seen by humans until the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photos on October 7, 1959.

Wikipedia here:

The hemisphere has sometimes been called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unknown" instead of "lacking sunlight"

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Level 74
Oct 18, 2023
There have been plenty of rounds of golf with more than 10 birdies. PGA Tour record is 13. Unofficially there have been legit rounds as low as 55.
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Level 77
Oct 18, 2023
I wish I'd noticed the nitpicker alert.
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Level 38
Oct 18, 2023
The answer to the golf question is correct but the side note ain't. Unusual error from Quizmaster !
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Level 21
Oct 18, 2023
Thank You!
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Level 33
Oct 18, 2023
What about Methusala, Adam, Eve, Noah etc.?
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Level 76
Oct 18, 2023
Religious beliefs do not, on their own, count as verified historical records.
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Level 21
Oct 18, 2023
That's what I'm saying, SPEAK THE TRUTH BROTHER!
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Level 17
Oct 18, 2023
Omg I am so happy, first try and had no errors !! Thank you for that quizz :)
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Level 21
Oct 18, 2023
I don't know if the question means lived to 150 years old exactly or longer. If it's longer, someone in fact has.

Methuselah lived to 969 years old. If it is exactly 150 years old, that I do not know.

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Level 76
Oct 18, 2023
Not everyone shares your religious beliefs.
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Level 57
Oct 18, 2023
Twenty years ago, a Dutch lesbian was cloned.
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2023
What?
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2023
The meteorite one messed me up because for some reason I thought it meant that they were hit with it and survived. Oops.
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Level 67
Oct 22, 2023
For question 2, maybe specify that there's never been a living giant squid in an aquarium? Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida has had the body of Molly the Mollusk, a giant squid, on display for over 20 years now.

Here's the aquarium's website https://mote.org/exhibits/details/exploration-gallery

And another article with pictures of her :)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/molly-the-mollusk