Here’s our megaquiz for the year! Below are 10 questions picked from every quiz we wrote in 2020. If you want more questions, just hit refresh and we’ll grab you another 10. Good luck!
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Cumulus clouds have flat bases and appear fluffy or cotton-like.
Canaries come from, and are named after, the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa.
There are only two northern white rhinos left, named Najin and Fatu, and both are female.
Cucumbers are fruits, which is why most types have seeds in them.
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon, and sometimes other elements.
In 1990, quail eggs hatched in the Soviet space station Mir.
Scientists have dated fragments of ancient flutes to 42 000 years ago!
Mimas is the innermost of Saturn’s major moons, and it’s famous for its gigantic crater.
Antarctica is the driest continent, with most of the continent getting less than 200 millimetres of snow and rain per year.
There are 25 different human bitter receptors recorded in the bitterDB database. But not all humans have all 25 receptors!
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2 January, 2021 at 12:35 am
Hey, I got 9 right, missed moons of Pluto, but you gave me an 8/10. Looks like you program did not account for the extra 5 question, just the first five since I aced the last 5.
2 January, 2021 at 6:20 pm
Hi Terry,
Thanks for the feedback! Sadly, the quiz changes every time you load it, so I can’t get the same bug to appear. But let us know if it happens again, and I’ll dig a bit deeper.
If you want another quiz, just press f5 on the quiz page to refresh the page.
3 January, 2021 at 2:15 am
Hi David,
I thought there might be a larger problem, though very minro,` and you would get a number of responses so I wanted to be first. :-} All is good.
Thank you