# New Year's Eve Quiz challenge. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007 "2016-12-31T23:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/1 "2016-12-31T23:00:14Z")
Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader? I’m not sure that I am. LOL Jeff Foxworthy asked some tough questions. This quiz asks 19 questions that most kids should be able to answer. Requires about 5 to 10 mins to take. Can their parents do as well? I missed one. Question 12. I eliminated two obvious wrong answers. Giving me a 50/50 shot at guessing right. Geography was never my best subject and I studied it 45 years ago. I’ve slept since then. 😃 There are several questions that requires a bit of thought. Question 19 frustrated me but I finally figured it out. > **[Most Adults Cannot Answer This Basic Kids Fact Sheet](http://www.playbuzz.com/michaelcheeks10/most-adults-cannot-answer-this-basic-kids-fact-sheet#half)** > > You are literally exceptional if you get 16/19. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/2 "2016-12-31T23:41:03Z")
Missed number 19. Oh, right. Forgot about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/3 "2016-12-31T23:45:02Z")
19/19, although you can hear sounds in space. How do you think the astronauts spoke to each other on the way to the moon? You just need a pressurized compartment. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/4 "2016-12-31T23:52:33Z")
17/19. I messed up on Stalin and Lenin, and thought the bombing at Pear Harbor was a year later. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/5 "2016-12-31T23:55:27Z")
Got all 19. Surprised it wasn’t harder. Thought the wording on one question was bad. They should’ve specified bubonic plague, not just plague. A plague can mean any kind of widespread disease. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/6 "2017-01-01T00:06:34Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Got all 19. Surprised it wasn’t harder. > > Thought the wording on one question was bad. They should’ve specified bubonic plague, not just plague. A plague can mean any kind of widespread disease. Same here. Took a little over a minute. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/7 "2017-01-01T00:09:14Z")
I missed 2, one was the scrambled letters, I should’ve put more thought into it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/8 "2017-01-01T00:27:03Z")
I wonder if kid’s would do that great on this quiz? Stuff we find easy, they might not have covered in school. I’d hope kids would at least get 14 out of 19 right. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/9 "2017-01-01T01:06:12Z")
I got 18 right. Missed 19 but got #6- longest river wrong. > [@aceplace57](#): > > I wonder if **kid’s** would do that great on this quiz? … My bold. Every time you use an apostrophe to make a word plural, a puppy dies. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/10 "2017-01-01T02:00:23Z")
Question 6 is pretty controversial. For many years the Nile was considered the longest. Now some say it’s the Amazon. Google hits alternate saying one is longer than the other. Difficult to say because rivers have so many twists and turns. Any length you see cited is an estimate. I used to tell my daughters to put down whatever the teacher said in class. A test isn’t the time to debate which river is longer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/11 "2017-01-01T02:51:58Z")
Only one I missed was #6. Frigging geography. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/12 "2017-01-01T02:57:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I got 18 right. Missed 19 but got #6- longest river wrong. Me, too. But I claim fuzzy measurements. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/13 "2017-01-01T03:01:05Z")
Notice 229 views and 11 responses? I know exactly what that tells me. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/14 "2017-01-01T03:19:58Z")
19 out of 19. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/15 "2017-01-01T03:34:50Z")
18/19. The Amazon was longer when I was in school; must be the depletion of the rain forest making it shorter. That, or the Gill-Man damming up all the tributaries. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/16 "2017-01-01T03:36:48Z")
18 out of 19. I picked the Amazon as the longest river. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/17 "2017-01-01T03:59:04Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 18 out of 19. I picked the Amazon as the longest river. Same here. Seems to be a trend. Question is, How do the majority of 5th graders do? I find it hard to believe that “most adults” can’t ace this. Bullshit clickbait. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/18 "2017-01-01T04:05:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My bold. Every time you use an apostrophe to make a word plural, a puppy dies. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/19 "2017-01-01T04:15:03Z")
Same here with the Amazon. Got the rest. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/20 "2017-01-01T05:43:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Every time you use an apostrophe to make a word plural, a puppy dies. This. Lots of dead puppies on these boards. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007.md?page=2)