Hozzászólások - manunkind

where's the spelling mistake? is this just spellcheck blindly rejecting a spanish word?

What is a curandero?

a chef who specializes in curry.
a traditional folk healer or shaman.
a rodeo clown.
a teacher of current events.

O_o how is it "incorrect" to say that the correct answer is "none" to:

How many people died when US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River?

sorry, nevermind.

how is this uninteresting lexical knowledge? it's a classic brain teaser about positive hypothesis testing, not about knowledge at all:

If I draw 5 5-centimeter horizontal lines and lay them over 5 5-centimeter vertical lines, forming a perfect 4x4 grid, how many squares have I drawn?

25
16
30
36

again, i just don't see the spelling mistake. can anyone help? thanks.

Who first proposed that the planets have elliptical orbits?

Aristotle
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler

Stekkos, it would be helpful to get those updates added to the quiz question instructions within the game. thanks!

thanks, ImLittleJon. i had no idea!

actually, while the K is for Kathleen, Kathleen is not her actual middle name.

What is the full name of J. K. Rowling?

Joe Kenneth Rowling
Jeffrey Karl Rowling
Jessica Kathleen Rowling
Joanne Rowling

this question was rejected as being uninteresting, but then two days later, i recieved the same question already in the database ("what does the j. k. in j. k. rowling stand for").

can somene help me find the misspelling? thanks.


Who published the Uncertainty Principle?

Erwin Schrödinger.
Werner Heisenberg.
Albert Einstein.
It's uncertain who the author is.

as the best selling book in history, it's a safe bet that more users have read it than the majority of the content i've seen on these quizzes. in fact, the above fact is the answer to one of the accepted quiz questions. what is ambiguous about the answers so i may change it? you commented on "earth" earlier, but whatever interpretation you may have of the word doesn't change which answer is correct, all of the above.

in the story of adam & eve, man was created first, then plants and animals, and finally, woman. this differs from the sequence of the 7 days of creation. that's what makes this interesting.

thank you, ChaoticGemini!

'All of the Above' makes sense because Genesis contains TWO contradictory stories, the 7 days of creation and adam & eve.

any idea what in this question is ambiguous or wrong? Genesis has TWO creation stories (the 7 days of creation and adam & eve). these strories have a different sequence of events.


According to The Bible's Book of Genesis, what was the order of events in creation?

plants, animals, then man.
man, plants, then animals.
light, earth, then life.
all of the above. [correct]

yes, that would make sense. however, that's not what the answer is. i guess we know a little more about genetics today than they did when the myth was written. that's why i find it an interesting piece of trivia.

but i think i'm understanding the confusion better now. by trying to explain the question better, the part human part god could be a little confusing, i suppose.

but the first time i submitted the same question, it was rejected as ambiguous, when i merely described him as divine.

thanks, ChaoticGemini

there have been several quiz questions i've had rejected that i didn't agree with. here's the most recent example. it was rejected because, "Your answers are ambiguous or wrong to this question." but i don't see how it's ambiguous and it's most certainly correct ("two parts god, one part human").

According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was part human and part god. What fraction of Gilgamesh was a god?

one-half
two-thirds
one-quarter
one-eighth