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Does it Exist?

Can you guess whether these things actually exist in real life?
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Last updated: January 12, 2022
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First submittedJanuary 12, 2022
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1. Are there any rocks from the planet Mars here on Earth?
Yes
No
They were ejected from Mars after an asteroid impact and landed here on Earth
2. Does the town of Jericho from the Bible still exist?
Yes
No
It has a population of around 20,000
3. Is there a theme park called Legoland?
Yes
No
4. Has anyone ever transplanted a pig heart into a human?
Yes
No
5. Is there an actual U.S. military presence at Area 51?
Yes
No
6. Do people still get smallpox?
Yes
No
It was officially eradicated in 1980
7. Is there still a country named Zaire?
Yes
No
Zaire changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997
8. Are there any trees taller than the Empire State building?
Yes
No
Tallest tree: 115 meters. Empire State building: 443 meters.
9. Are there any monkeys native to the Western Hemisphere?
Yes
No
10. Does bullfighting still happen in Spain?
Yes
No
11. Is there a vaccine for chicken pox?
Yes
No
First developed in Japan, the vaccine has been in use in the United States since 1995. Older people like me just had to suffer.
12. Are there any private citizens with a net worth of at least $1 trillion USD?
Yes
No
13. Do people still get leprosy?
Yes
No
In 2018, there were 209,000 leprosy cases globally, mostly in the Third World
14. Are there freshwater dolphins?
Yes
No
15. Are there any World War One veterans still alive?
Yes
No
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Level 95
Jan 18, 2022
Wait, wasn't there a pig heart transplant just a few days ago? Or is this one of those trip you up "gotcha" questions because the heart was from a genetically altered pig?
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Level 83
Jan 18, 2022
I was thinking along the same lines, but I also wonder if the quiz was written before that.
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Level ∞
Jan 18, 2022
Wow, that's crazy. I made this quiz a couple weeks ago, and didn't notice the news. The answer has been changed.
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Level 30
Mar 18, 2022
I believe he died between one msg & the next. I would think the answer is still no
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Level 68
Feb 9, 2022
Well, this makes me feel a little better since it was so recent. I knew about pig valves, but not the whole heart. I clearly don’t keep up well enough with the news, but this was a cool thing to go look up!
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Level 86
Jan 18, 2022
Kramer: A pig man! I saw a pig man!
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Level 88
Jan 18, 2022
You get a few pig men walking around...and suddenly I'm looking a whole lot better!" ;)
+1
Level 64
Feb 9, 2022
Are you sure it wasn't a Manbearpig?
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Level 77
Jan 18, 2022
I honestly thought the Legoland one was a trick question. I thought the big stores were Legoland but there wasn't an actual theme park. Turns out i'm in the elite 1% that got one wrong.
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Level 79
Jan 18, 2022
Also in your elite company here.
+2
Level 83
Jan 19, 2022
Aren't there quite a few? I know there used to be 4, I've been to 3, but I think there are more now.
+3
Level 63
Jan 20, 2022
Yes, there are a few now. Around 10 I think. I've been to the original one in Billund, Denmark as a young kid back when it was the only one.
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Level 78
Jan 18, 2022
Didn't Spain outlaw bullfighting a few years back?
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Level 84
Jan 18, 2022
Zero sympathy for any matador that gets gored while torturing a bull. Always root for the bull.
+3
Level 78
Jan 19, 2022
We've got a humanitarian here
+2
Level 54
Jan 29, 2022
Toreeeeeero, eres asesino por vocación
+2
Level 75
Feb 9, 2022
I get it, but save a little vitriol for whoever it is that's profiting from the spectacle. The matador doesn't own the ring or the event.
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Level 74
Feb 9, 2022
He owns the decision to step inside the ring and torture an animal.
+4
Level 74
Jan 18, 2022
No, it remains legal and practiced, although some Spanish cities have banned it.
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Level ∞
Jan 19, 2022
Catalonia banned it which is probably what you're thinking of. Technically, it's unbanned in Catalonia now but there haven't been any since 2011:

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

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Level 52
Jan 22, 2022
Catalonia did, and maybe some other provinces, but there are still parts of the country where it's legal.
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Level 68
Feb 9, 2022
In my town, luckily, it's been baned for some years.

Most people in Spain want it abolished, but there are always bozos and "rednecks" that enjoy such cruel and unhuman acts. We'll manage to abolish it eventually

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Level 69
Jan 19, 2022
I'm surprised the question about rocks from the planet Mars has the fewest correct answers. There was one very famous Martian meteorite which was found on the planet Earth that looked like it had traces of life in it but after closer examination it was concluded that these structures were probably not made by life. I thought that would be a pretty well known story.
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Level 72
Jan 19, 2022
I simply didn't think of rocks which came in a natural way to the Earth. My mind went straight to the scientific missions of the last 20 or so years in which the probes were analyzed by robots on the Red planet itself.
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2022
I didn't know if the quiz would count rocks blasted off by meteorites. I ended up going with that the quiz wouldn't count that, but I was wrong.
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Level 67
Jan 19, 2022
Just missed the first 2
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Level 71
Feb 9, 2022
Same! I initially had the right answer for both, but this meant there would be 5 "Yes" answers in a row, which seemed fishy to me. I ended up changing #1 and #2 to No. I regret my decision now :P
+2
Level 84
Jan 20, 2022
Only 57% know that smallpox was eradicated?
+4
Level 83
Jan 20, 2022
always a chance it could spring up again from some lab, that's already happened
+2
Level 67
Feb 9, 2022
Some of us aren't as smart.
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Level 67
Feb 9, 2022
I'm more amazed that 24% of people think that there is a 1300' tall tree.
+7
Level 65
Feb 10, 2022
I thought it was like the plague, where a few people still get it every year but it's not a big deal anymore and they're easily cured.
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Level 56
Feb 15, 2022
I answered that one wrong because a bunch of diseases that we're once "eradicated" have been making a comeback because of Anti-Vax nonsense although that may have just been diseases that were mostly eradicated but held on in small pockets of the world before having a resurgence in recent years.
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Level 76
Apr 10, 2023
Yeah, those diseases weren't eradicated. You're probably thinking of diseases like the measles, which was very nearly eliminated from the US with only a couple hundred cases per year before resurging due to decreased immunization rates. Even at its lowest point, though, there were still a few hundred thousand cases worldwide per year. Or you might be thinking of something like polio, which is very nearly eradicated but is still hanging on in three countries, with six reported cases in 2021.

Smallpox, though... smallpox is gone. It's the only human disease we have actually eliminated entirely from the wild, with only a few samples left in labs, and there's long been a push to destroy even those. There have been zero cases of smallpox for 45 years, with the last recorded case being a medical photographer who contracted it from a sample at a medical school in the UK.

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Level 78
Feb 23, 2022
On my part, at least, it was an honest mistake. I read just a few days ago that there was a new case of what I thought was smallpox in Malawi and I remember thinking back then "Wow, I guess it hasn't been completely eradicated then...". After taking the quiz I double checked and turns out the article was about polio, not smallpox. The german words for both are quite similar though.^^
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Level 64
Feb 9, 2022
The question about Jericho could be tidied up a bit. There are at least two cities called Jericho mentioned in the Bible. The first no longer exists after it was destroyed by God through Joshua. However then a new city was built in the same location and is mentioned in the gospels. So this question could be answered yes or no depending on which one is meant.
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Level 84
Sep 10, 2023
"A new city in the same location"? That's not a new city; that's rebuilding an old city.
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Level 76
Mar 20, 2024
Not necessarily, it depends on how much was left, if anything, from the old city. If it was completely obliterated, then the new city is completely new, and has no relation to the old one other than being in the same place.

In any case, you're arguing with a person who takes biblical content as historical fact.

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Level 59
Feb 9, 2022
I knew that rocks from Mars would've ended up on Earth like that, but I assumed the quiz maker wouldnt have thought about that bruh
+7
Level 76
Feb 9, 2022
A strange assumption to make on a trivia site, to say the least.
+2
Level 32
Sep 27, 2022
I wonder if any Earth rocks similarly went to Mars.
+1
Level 75
Feb 9, 2022
I fought in WWI
+2
Level 58
Oct 11, 2022
Good for you!
+1
Level 38
Feb 9, 2022
Got all correct in 32 seconds (drop the mike)
+1
Level 34
Feb 9, 2022
I got 14/15 and slipped up because I didn't check the date on question 15 lol
+1
Level 67
Feb 9, 2022
Title reminds me of one of Letterman's great bits, "Is This Anything?"
+1
Level 67
Feb 9, 2022
I managed to get 1/8 of the ones I didn't know right.
+1
Level 80
Feb 9, 2022
Great quiz. Loved it very much. Hope you can do more please?
+4
Level 64
Feb 9, 2022
Bah! I mixed up smallpox and polio.
+2
Level 82
Feb 9, 2022
Dang it, I always overestimate the power of the trees
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Level 43
Sep 13, 2023
As a botany nerd I sometimes do that too :')
+1
Level 73
Feb 9, 2022
31% actually thought there was still WW1 veterans still alive XD
+3
Level 28
Feb 10, 2022
Me who goes to Legoland every year: -__-

Me who thought World War I veterans were still alive: :P

+1
Level 77
Feb 12, 2022
Last time, I saw in the news that there is old desease who are coming back because some people don't want to be vaccinated !!!
+1
Level 66
Sep 3, 2022
Some diseases are erradicated in some countries but not in others, and thus they can do a comeback. However, smallpox is erradicated from all countries in the nature. A comeback is only possible if one of the few biolabs that still have samples do some shit.
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Level 50
Apr 7, 2022
The man with the pig heart transplant died :,(
+2
Level ∞
Apr 7, 2022
Sad. I changed the question slightly.
+2
Level 58
Oct 11, 2022
Most of these are “yes” which threw me off
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Level 34
Sep 9, 2023
I live 60 miles from Area 51. I've seen things.
+1
Level 66
Sep 9, 2023
Let us know when the aliens stop by to visit.
+1
Level 43
Sep 13, 2023
100% on first try, and I just lucky guessed half of them... YOYLECAKE! :D