World's Hardest Quiz (aka Impossible Quiz Page 1)
Impossible Quizzes Index
Quiz Questions
- Which seafood are known as kerang in Malay and see hum in Cantonese?
- Mary Morstan became the wife of which famous fictional character?
- National Elephant Day is celebrated on the 13th of March in which country?
- Yokozuna is the highest rank in sumo, it's literal translation means 'horizontal' what?
- Thomas Arne is best known for Rule Britannia, but which popular nursery rhyme did he also write?
- In which year did English violinist and bandleader Wallace Henry Hartley die?
- First made by Jaques of London in 1849 and named after Howard Staunton, they come in a set - what are they?
- A block of which type of intrusive igneous rock broke off to trap 33 Chilean miners underground in 2010?
- In which game might you get 'Ko-fighting' on a 19 by 19 grid?
- Godwin's law is an Internet adage which asserts that that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the name of whom approaches?
- The Perry Index is a widely used index for which set of works?
- In 1936, which female was awarded 'Person of the Year' by America's Time Magazine - the first female to be awarded the title?
- What were Buzz Aldrin's first two words on the Moon?
- What was awarded to James Bond in the film A View to a Kill and in 'real-life' to Nelson Mandela in 1990?
- In the Book of Exodus, what is described as being 'a fine, flake-like thing like the frost on the ground'?
- Which sort of agriculture is used to create a swidden plot?
- Which country is the most populated in the world to have French as an official language?
- What was first known as Hi-Catoctin?
- In 2005, which country saw the Tulip Revolution?
- The CIA world fact book points out that the UK is slightly smaller than which American Pacific State?
- Who was the tallest British king - his skeleton measures 6'4½"?
- Which political party was founded in 1983 to fight the Bermondsey by-election?
Quiz Answers:
- Cockles
- Doctor John Watson (in Sherlock Holmes)
- Thailand
- Horizontal rope (from the most visible symbol of their rank, the rope, worn around the waist)
- A Hunting We Will Go
- 1912 (bandleader on the RMS Titanic)
- The Staunton chess set (this is the familiar standard version of chess pieces we all recognise, and the only one allowed for competitions}
- Diorite
- Go (traditional Chinese board game for two players, older than Chess)
- Hitler
- Aesop's Fables
- Wallis Simpson
- Beautiful view
- The Order of Lenin
- Manna
- Slash and burn
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Camp David (country retreat of the American President)
- Kyrgyzstan
- Oregon
- Edward IV
- The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
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