Super Hard Quiz

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A true or false quiz that is extremely hard...please no mean comments because it was hard. And it's only for fun. :)

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    The ancient chinese philospher Lao Tzu put forth that 'Great Wisdom may resemble foolishness.'

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    Pleonasm is the use of more words than necessary to express an idea, such as child prodigy, a pair of twins, and a free gift with purchase.

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    Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors (but he never ran with them).

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    The term 'őkologie' (ecology) was coined in 1866 by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel. The word comes from the Greek 'oikos' (household), meaning the study of the household on Nature.

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    The # key on your keyboard is called an octothrop.

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    Maine is the only U.S. state whose name has just one syllable.

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    In the early 20th century, the words 'moron', 'imbecle' and 'idiot' were categories used to identify persons who scored low on IQ tests.

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    Mon dieu! Quelle daube, cette chanson=My God! What a crappy song!

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    There's a list of all 50 states running across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on teh back of a $5 bill.

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    The four most common elements in teh universe are hydrogen, helium, oxygen and ignorance.

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    No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4000 years. However, most species have been reduced to anthropomorphic idocy through computer--generated imagery.

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    111, 111, 111 x 111, 111, 111=12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

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    In German folklore, elves are believed to bring bad dreams to sleepers, hence, the german word for nightmare, 'albtraum' means 'elf dream'.

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    A 'jiffy' is a real unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.

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    Thelonious Monk is often regarded as a founder of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody.

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    It is illedgal for children to have unusual haircuts in Mesquite, Texas.

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    There are four state capitals named for U.S. presidents: Jackson, Mississippi; Jefferson City, Missouri; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Madison, Wisconsin.

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    The New Hampshire State Prison for Men makes license plates bearing the state's motto 'Live Free or Die'.

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    In 1951, 'Newsweek' reported the term 'nerd' being used in Detroit, Michigan, to describe a 'drip' or a 'square'.

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    Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument maker, patented the saxophone in 1846.

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