User:Spawn Man/Hardest Questions In The World Section

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Welcome to The hardest questions in the world archive, a page dedicated to archiving content featured on the section of the same name on my userpage. All the questions answered on the section on my user page will be found here for everyone to look through. Additionally, a second copy of the leader's board will be posted here. Unfortunately, questions & who answered them from before this archive started could not appear here. Full rules for the section are on my user page. -- Spawn Man

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  • Most questions correct: Kirill Lokshin; 10 correct answers.
  • First user to reach 10 correct answers: Kirill Lokshin.
  • First user to reach 20 correct answers: None yet...
  • First user to reach 50 correct answers: None yet...


  • Most correct trivia answers: Phaedriel ♥ tell me; 8 correct trivia answers.
  • First user to reach 10 correct trivia answers: None yet...
  • First user to reach 20 correct trivia answers: None yet...


  • Most correct brain teaser answers: Martyman-(talk); 6 correct brain teaser answers.
  • First user to reach 10 correct brain teaser answers: None yet...
  • First user to reach 20 correct brain teaser answers: None yet...


  • Longest unanswered question: What is the original type of glogg made from? (Time Unanswered: 12 days). Answered by Martyman-(talk).
  • Fastest correct answer: Finish this quote by John Howard; "The backyard barbeque will not..." (Time answered in from time question was posted: 7 minutes). Answered by Sango123 (e).

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  • Kirill Lokshin, 10 correct answers; 7 T & 3 BT. (RH).
  • Phaedriel ♥ tell me, 9 correct answers; 8 T & 1 BT. (RH).
  • Martyman-(talk), 7 correct answers; 1 T & 6 BT. (RH).
  • MPF, 7 correct answers; 7 T.
  • Dforest, 5 correct answers; 3 T & 2 BT.
  • Sango123 (e), 4 correct answers; 4 T. (RH).
  • R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine), 4 correct answers; 4 T.
  • James James, 3 correct answers; 1 T & 2 BT.
  • Weien, 3 correct answers; 2 T & 1 BT.
  • Gurubrahma, 2 correct answers; 2 BT.
  • JonONeill, 1 correct answer; 1 BT.
  • SoLando (Talk), 1 correct answer; 1 T.
  • Dwaipayan (talk), 1 correct answer; 1 T.
  • ZeWrestler Talk, 1 correct answer; 1 T.
  • BillC, 1 correct answer; 1 T.
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Question & Answers:[edit]

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  • Question: What is the original type of glogg made from?
  • Time Unanswered: 12 days.
  • Answer: Red wine, brandy and sherry.
  • Answered by: Martyman-(talk).
  • Question: Bird's poop is called what?
  • Time Unanswered: 8 days.
  • Answer: Splay, a combination of "spread", "splat" and "display".
  • Answered by: Weien.
  • Question: Inosculation is the natural form of what other word?
  • Time Unanswered: 6 days.
  • Answer: Pleaching.
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: Who was the Assyrian God of war?
  • Time Unanswered: 4 days.
  • Answer: Ishtar (Innana).
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: What is dwile flonking?
  • Time Unanswered: 2 days.
  • Answer: Dwile flonking is an English pub game.
  • Answered by: Phædriel♥ tell me.
  • Question: A crate weighs three quarters of a crate plus three quarters of a pound. How heavy is it?
  • Time Unanswered: 2 days.
  • Answer: 3 pounds.
  • Answered by: Martyman-(talk).
  • Question: If 8 grapefuit, 7 oranges & 3 lemons weigh the same as 3 oranges, 6 grapefruit & 6 lemons, if a grapefruit weighs 2/3 as much as a lemon & if a dozen oranges weighs 3 kilos.... How much does a lemon weigh?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: Lemon = 600g.
  • Answered by: JonONeill.
  • Question: Finish this quote by John Howard; "The backyard barbeque will not..."
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: "...Be abolished!"
  • Answered by: Sango123 (e).
  • Question: A couple who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1995, were both born on August 16th, seven years apart. The man is 2,555 days older than his wife. In what years were they born?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: The man was born in 1896 & the woman in 1903.
  • Answered by: Weien.
  • Question: A preganant goldfish is called a what?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: A twit.
  • Answered by: MPF.
  • Question: Where have Mungo Men been found?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: Australia.
  • Answered by: Kirill Lokshin.
  • Question: Vampyroteuthis infernalis means what?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: V. infernalis says "vampire squid from hell" in Latin.
  • Answered by: James James.
  • Question: One night, Sally went to bed at 10:15 & read her book. Three quarters of an hour later, she put out her light & fell asleep. Later, she awoke again. Looking at her alarm clock, she saw the hands were exactly overlapping. A little over fifteen minutes later, she noticed all the digits on the radio alarm were all the same. Falling asleep again, she slept for the next four & a half hours before getting up for breakfast. What time did Sally get up?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: Sally got up at 8.03 (hands overlap at about 3.18, plus 15 is 3.33, add 4 and a half hours).
  • Answered by: James James.
  • Question: Jack made a bet with Jill. "I bet you one pound, that if you give me two pounds, I will give you three pounds in return". "Sounds good to me", said Jill. But is it?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: It's a bad bet. Jack can simply give Jill nothing, lose the bet and pay a pound. He's a pound up on the deal.
  • Answered by: James James.
  • Question: Maddona's maiden last name is what?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: Ciccone.
  • Answered by: Kirill Lokshin.
  • Question: In what year was France declared a republic?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: 1792.
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: In earth days, how long is Mercury's year?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: 88 days.
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: A single googol is a 1 with how many zeros following it?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: A gogool is a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: What do the following three sentences have in common?: Madam, I'm Adam. Able was I ere I saw Elba. Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age.
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: They are all palindrome sentences, that is, even if you spell them reverse, you'd end up with the same sentence.
  • Answered by: Gurubrahma.
  • Question: The ages of a son & father are the same with the digits reversed. Nine years ago, the father was twice as old as the son. How old are they now?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: The father is 63, and the son is 36.
  • Answered by: Phædriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: Where did German poet Hans von Thummel choose to be buried?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: In the heart of an oak tree.
  • Answered by: Sango123 (talk).
  • Question: The Dutch word, Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamheden means what?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: "Preparation activities for a children's carnival procession," or literally, "for children Carnival procession preparation activities".
  • Answered by: Sango123 (talk).
  • Question: Which city is Marathon closer to in Greece? Athens, Thebes, Corinth or Argos?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: I would guess Athens, since it was presumably in Athenian territory at the time of the battle.
  • Answered by: Kirill Lokshin.
  • Question: There are 5 rings around Saturn, called A ring, B ring, D ring & two others. What are the names of the other two rings?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: C and F, if you mean just the major rings; there are a couple of little ones, though.
  • Answered by: Kirill Lokshin.
  • Question: In 1925, what did Victor Lustig sell for scrap metal twice?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: The Eiffel Tower.
  • Answered by: MPF.
  • Question: How would you go about boiling a two-minute egg if you only had two sand timers - one for five minutes & the other for three minutes - to time it with?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: Start both timers going. Start the egg boiling when the first run runs out and stop it after the second one.
  • Answered by: Martyman-(talk).
  • Question: A beggar collecting cigarette ends can make a new cigarette out of 4 ends. One morning, he collects a total of 32 ends. How many cigarettes can he smoke that day?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: 10 cigarettes. He could make 8, & then make a further two from their ends after he smoked them.
  • Answered by: Martyman-(talk).
  • Question: What is the difference between a fumarole & a geyser?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: A fumarole emits gasses (mainly carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide), a geysir emits boiling water and steam.
  • Answered by: MPF.
  • Question: The largest single number unit, a 1 followed by a billion billion zeros, is called a what?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: A googolplex.
  • Answered by: Phaedriel ♥ tell me.
  • Question: What is a drey?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: A squirrel's nest.
  • Answered by: Sango123 (e).
  • Question: What is the Australian Blue ant?
  • Time Unanswered: 0 days.
  • Answer: The Australian Blue ant is a flower wasp.
  • Answered by: Phaedriel ♥ tell me.


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