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"Who gave the theory of relativity a new spin when he married Elsa Lowenthal, his first cousin on his mother's side and second cousin on his father's side?
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"What radioactive element was named for a planet discovered eight years before the element was?"
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Test how much of a bookworm you are.
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"What future poet became a lord when he was just 10, a year after his nurse supposedly took his virginity?
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"In November 1910, after his sixth son died, he finally left his wife and his estate, but he caught pneumonia and died at the railway station of Astapovo. Ironically, one one of his most famous creations died at a train station, too. Who was he?"
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Do you like to read books? Then this is the right quiz for you!
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"What part of New York did Langston Hughes describe as being a melting pot "of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall"?
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"Who wrote "Lord of the Flies"?"
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Only take this quiz if you can handle a defeat!
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"Which of these inventions is typically credited, not to Benjamin Franklin, but to Jacques Cousteau?
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"In 1839, a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, turned Karl Drais's draisienne into the first bicycle by adding something. What?"
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Internets hardest geography quiz!
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"What city's famous library re-opened in 2002, after having been closed for some 1600 years?
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"Known as the Watertower of Europe, the Alps are the source of all but which of these rivers?"
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Will you fail or succeed ?
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"The Tiergarten boasts the world's largest zoo, as measured by number of animals resident. What zoo is this?
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"The Knesset Building is built on a hill called Sheikh Badr, in what city, from which Arabs were forced to flee in 1948?"
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How much do you know about the world?
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"British explorers called an extinct volcano Diamond Head because they thought the volcanic crystals were diamonds. And it looks down on what beach?
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"Zhongdian County in what country's Yunan Province renamed itself Shangri-La County in 2002?"
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Only smart people can do this geography quiz.
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"The name of the Hindu Kush mountain range means "Hindu Killer." In what Muslim country do the mountains hate the Hindus?
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"What people live in the western Pyrenees, in a region they call Euskal Herria, where they speak a language they call Euskara?"
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Impossible geography quiz
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"The Swords of Qadisiyah, also called the Hands of Victory, are a pair of triumphal arches that consist of a pair of hands holding crossed swords. Where is it?
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"What continent's southernmost tip isn't the Cape of Good Hope, but Cape Agulhas, which is about 160 kilometers east and 65 kilometer farther south?"
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How much do you know about the world?
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"Poveglia has been a quarantine station and a mental hospital. No wonder they say the abandoned island is haunted. Where is it?
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"When followed by "News," it's the name of a Virginia city that is home to Ella Fitzgerald and Allen Iverson. When followed by "Beach," it's the setting for "The O.C." and "Arrested Development." What is it?"
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Share if you dare!
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"Ballistic pioneer Ernst Mach has a number named for him. What is it for?
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"Which of these isn't a common name for Felis concolor, but is actually a variety of lynx?"
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Can you score a 6 or better?
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"Known for its floating, raft-like nests, what is a grebe?
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"What disaster, the strongest of its kind ever in the United States, befell New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811 and 1812, changing the course of the Mississippi?"