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The Stupidest Quiz on Jetpunk

These questions are more complex than they first appear. Prepare to get questions wrong… by trick, by technicality, and by second guessing yourself!
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Last updated: March 6, 2024
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First submittedDecember 18, 2022
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1. What type of blood do arteries carry in healthy adult humans?
Oxygenated
Deoxygenated
Depends on which artery
The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs. Otherwise arteries typically carry oxygenated blood.
2. Imagine that you have a rigid glass sphere filled with helium. When released, it floats in place at shoulder height, neither rising nor sinking. What would happen to the glass sphere if you removed some of the helium gas with a vacuum, such that no outside air got in?
It would float higher
It would sink
It would stay in place
By removing mass from the sphere, you are decreasing its density and increasing its buoyancy.
3. Where did the English head of state reside throughout most of the 20th century?
London
York
England is a constitutional monarchy and therefore has no head of state
The kings and queens of England lived primarily in Buckingham Palace in central London.
4. Imagine you have two + signs on a horizontal plane (++). Imagine that you can rotate them and extend their arms as far as you wish. Rotate and extend the + signs in a configuration that forms as many triangles as possible. How many triangles can be made?
1
2
3
Imagine an x shape and a + shape. The cross can cover two side of the x at once to create two triangles. Because those triangles are side by side, they form a larger triangle.
5. How many vowels are in the following phrase: “Sorry, I have not been to town.”?
9
10
11
The “Y” in “sorry” is a vowel because it makes a vowel sound. The “W” in “town”, surprisingly, is technically a vowel because it forms a diphthong with “o”. There’s a reason it’s called “double U”.
6. A ball-and-socket joint can rotate and move sideways and forward and backwards. This is because they have a mostly round ball that fits in the concave part of another bone. How many ball-and-socket joints do humans typically have?
2
4
These joints do not exist in humans
Two shoulder joints and two hip joints. If you think your wrist might fit this criteria, try holding your forearm and rotating your wrist.
7. How many strikeouts can a pitcher get in a nine-inning Major League Baseball game?
9
27
An infinite number
There is no actual limit to strikeouts. If the catcher fails to catch a passed ball on a strikeout, it is still considered a strikeout even if the batter makes it to first base. Therefore, there could technically be more than 27 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, however unlikely.
8. How many times did Henry VIII legally marry?
Three times
Six times
He had no legal marriages
Henry VIII had six wives, but annulments represent the legal rescinding of a marriage. Thus, three legal marriages.
9. What musical genre is a portmanteau of "rock and roll" and "hillbilly"?
R&B
Rockabilly
These two terms have never combined to make a portmanteau
Country music used to be called hillbilly music before hillbilly had negative connotations. Rockabilly acts were rock and roll with a bit of old country music influence, or so the port manteau suggests.
10. How many strikes can you get in a normal 10-frame game of 10-pin bowling?
10
12
Theoretically, an unlimited number
A strike gives you an extra point for each pin you knock over in the next two frames. A strike in the tenth resets the pins for these bonus points, and another strike here causes the pins to be reset for the last bonus points you can get on the tenth frame. Thus, 10 frames can have 12 strikes.
11. What fantastical people did Gulliver meet in his travels?
Windmills that turned into giants
Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians
No one, since it was all a dream in his head
12. Who is the "shrew" in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"?
A grumpy and unmarried older sister
A witch who puts a spell on a spoiled prince
Shakespeare did not write this play
13. A marathon pays $256 to the winner, half as much to second place, half as much as second to third place, and so forth. Juan came around the final corner to see the fourth place runner, Massimo, limping to the finish line. Juan pushed as hard as he could and passed him right before finishing the race. How much did Juan win?
$64
$32
$16
Passing the runner in fourth means you finished fourth. 256, 128, 64, 32.
14. The meteor that caused a mass extinction event 180 million years ago also created what geographic feature?
Yucatan Peninsula
Grand Canyon
A meteor most certainly did not cause a mass extinction 180 million years ago
It was likely an asteroid or comet that struck the Earth at the Yucatan peninsula. A meteor becomes a meteorite after it strikes the Earth anyway.
15. In terms of official languages, are there more people who speak Pakistani or Ethiopian?
There are more Pakistani speakers
There are more Ethiopian speakers
They have exactly the same number of speakers
Pakistani and Ethiopian are demonyms, not languages. Urdu is the most spoken language in Pakistan, and Amharic is most spoken in Ethiopia. There are languages that are considered part of the Ethiopian language group, but it's not accurate to say someone speaks just "Ethiopian". Therefore, they're both zero.
16. Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
Nicholas II
Alexander Kerensky
Joseph Stalin
The monarchy was abolished after Nicholas abdicated without any other Romanov stepping up to be tsar.
17. What colour’s wavelength is closest to purple’s wavelength on the spectrum of visible light (i.e., in a rainbow)?
Violet
Indigo
Purple is not a colour in the visible spectrum
Purple is created in the human brain when we see equal amounts of red and blue light. There is no way to create purple with a single wavelength of light.
18. What is the largest desert in northern Africa?
The Sahara
The Namib
Northern Africa has chaparral, not desert
This probably does not need explanation.
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Level 60
Dec 18, 2022
I had no clue for some questions, but I also missed some to technicalities. You wrote 'heigh' instead of 'height' for the glass sphere.
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Level 77
Dec 18, 2022
Thanks! Fixed.
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Level 60
Mar 6, 2024
Also, the explanation for #9 says "port manteau" instead of "portmanteau". Although that would be an awesome city name!
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Level 51
Dec 19, 2022
A bit more time would be appreciated, as a lot of questions take some time to think through. Didn't get a chance to look at the last few. Other than that, great quiz!
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Level 77
Dec 19, 2022
Sure, added a minute. Thanks!
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Level 40
Apr 18, 2023
the stupidest quiz or is it the smartest quiz ?
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Level 60
Oct 29, 2023
This time, I remembered the trick to the vowel question... but I still got it wrong.