# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/41 "2017-01-01T23:23:42Z")
19 of 19. Hardly a difficult quiz; only the last question required more than two seconds thought. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/42 "2017-01-01T23:37:13Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ Well, Harding (I had to look it up). Really? I know very little about the Teapot Dome scandal, but I do know off-hand that Teapot Dome = Harding. It had something to do with oil, something to do with bribery, and it was named for a rock. And it resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that allows congress to force people to testify, or something. That’s all I know without looking it up. But if someone born after 1972 can say that Watergate had something to do with a break-in, something to do with wiretapping, and it led to Nixon’s resignation, that’d be good enough. If the person could throw in Deep Throat and Woodward and Bernstein, I’d be impressed. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/43 "2017-01-02T01:58:34Z")
I would have done fine if I hadn’t clicked “false” expecting “true” to be on the left. :o I knew all of this, except I mightn’t have gotten two of them if it weren’t multiple choice. (I kept trying to come up with a name for Kenya’s capital city that sounded like “Kenyatta,” and “CITCAR” would have taken a while.) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/44 "2017-01-03T02:56:12Z")
19/19. The last one had me puzzled for a few seconds, but then I looked at the answers; as soon as I saw “Ocean” I realised what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Cara\_mel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@Cara\_mel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cara_mel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/45 "2017-01-03T04:55:29Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Notice 229 views and 11 responses? > > I know exactly what that tells me. It was so easy it wasn’t worth mentioning? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/46 "2017-01-03T07:00:35Z")
19/19. There were about 3 that I didn’t feel super confident about, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/47 "2017-01-03T14:10:41Z")
18/19, but that’s because I looked at the response about sound in space and picked the opposite of what I wanted to pick to be “correct”. That’s what I get for trying to cheat I guess. Although I will say I guessed on a few. Capital of Kenya was a total guess, the longest river was an educated one and Pearl Harbor I knew 2 out of the 3 things given were true, so I just said true. I’da been screwed if they put math in there! ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/48 "2017-01-03T20:37:25Z")
I got three wrong so bite me! 4 actually I guess :smack: I got the river one right and Nairobi! Those were easy! :D:D Stalin and Lenin, not so much!-I tired to remember which was last Leningrad or Stalingrad…failed. ☹ My heart doesnt pump blood…pumps hatred for those smarter than me! 😛 The plague was in the 14th century? Oh shit. :dubious: And Citcar? Oh come on…how could I miss that…I’ve been working puzzle books nightly for months now!! :o At least I didnt lie with my results, can we all say that?? :eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/49 "2017-01-04T19:07:38Z")
I got 19/19, but only because question 10 didn’t have 1919 as an option. For some reason, I swore WW1 ended in 1919. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007/50 "2017-01-04T21:16:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 18 out of 19. I picked the Amazon as the longest river. Me too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-quiz-challenge/776007.md?page=2)