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Our Most Difficult Knowledge Quiz Will Let Us Guess What Grade You're In! By: Ian Fortey Estimated Completion Time 4 min

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About This Quiz

Remember way back when you first started going to school and everything was like "this is a circle?" Yeah, things were pretty simple back then. But then it got complicated, and you had to do social studies and science and math. One day, they made you dissect a frog. Then you had to find Canada on a map. And then before you knew it, you were doing quadratics. What the heck is a quadratic? No one remembers. Or do they?

You can't help but forget stuff as you go through life, but hopefully, a few things stayed in there. Some people seem to remember everything they've ever learned and are all super-geniuses now building apps and space shuttles and cool new ways to top a taco. Wherever you're at with your knowledge, we can probably make an educated guess all on our own about what grade you're ranking in at based on your answers. Just try some of these questions and see how much you know and how much you only think you know. Just be prepared ahead of time; some of these may only seem easy if you're fortunate enough to have learned the answers. Some of these are going to be very difficult. Think you can handle it? Then grab your pencil and let's go!

START QUIZ chain45154/Moment/Getty Images You need a time machine to go back and visit the country of Siam. What is it today? Rattanakosin Kingdom Thailand Kitty? Asia SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Adam Gault/Digital Vision/Getty Images Roll the dice and see if you can get this one right. Without looking, how many dots are there in total on a single, standard die? 21 22 15 19 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION moodboard/Cultura/Getty Images As of the year 2019, how many countries are there in the world? 195 185 225 175 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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NASA/Photodisc/Getty Images How many space shuttles did NASA build for flight, even if all of them didn't quite make it up there? 6 5 10 7 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION bgwalker/E+/Getty Images William Shakespeare famously wrote 37 plays. How many sonnets did he write? 154 162 67 198 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Paul Bradbury/OJO Images/Getty Images Everyone likes a monotreme, right? Which one of these is, in fact, a monotreme? Platypus Koala Subway cars Flu virus SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Comstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images Sure, Snapchat is great and all, but what were people using in 1996 to send each other messages on the old, old internet? ICQ AIM Telegrams Facebook Messenger SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment/Getty Images Gaming is a good way to pass the time. So, uh, which chess piece can only move on a diagonal? The Bishop The Queen The little one The King SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Eugenio Marongiu/Cultura/Getty Images Your friend just got a jestrum piercing. So, like, what did they get pierced anyway? Upper lip Labret Not the ear? Clavicle SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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kenny hung photography/Moment/Getty Images California is where everyone seems to want to go. Where did the actual word "California" even come from? It was a mythical island. Another name for the Baja Peninsula West Coast It's some kind of Native word SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Akaradech Pramoonsin/Moment/Getty Images Everyone's been pretty worried about bee populations in the last couple of years. How many different species of bees, besides honey bees, are there? Over 20,000 15,000 or so 600 or 700 5,000 or so SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Lingbeek/E+/Getty Images Are you much of a world traveler? What's the capital city of Nigeria? Abuja Lagos Kenya Kinshasa SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Anna Gorin/Moment Open/Getty Images Pie is tasty, but pi is more complex. Even though pi never ends, it's made up of the 10 digits we all know. What's the first number to repeat itself in pi? 1 3 14 4 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION christian.plochacki/Moment/Getty Images What's your deal if you suffer from triskaidekaphobia? Fear of the number 13 Fear of heights Stomach cramps Fear of risk-taking SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION JodiJacobson/E+/Getty Images Want to visit Knoxville? You better know how to spell the state it's in! Tennessee Tennesee Tenesee Tenessee SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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B2M Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images According to Greek mythology, if you get super sleepy and start dreaming, which of these gods are you most likely to see? Morpheus Dionysus Thor Hercules SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Warner Brothers Stephen King has written more horror than you've ever read. What was his first novel to crack 1,000 pages? "IT" "The Stand" "Carrie" "Pet Sematary" SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION 10'000 Hours/Digital Vision/Getty Images Facebook is so big, even your grandma uses it now. What year did it first become available to the general public? 2006 2007 2010 2009 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Dulyanut Swdp/Moment/Getty Images Our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. According to NASA, how many stars are in this galaxy with us? They don't actually know. 100 billion to 400 billion Like, a lot 1 billion SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Justin Lewis/DigitalVision/Getty Images You can't enjoy a crunchy taco if you don't have teeth, probably. How many teeth is the average adult sporting? 32 30 40 28 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Carol Yepes/Moment/Getty Images Dogs are pretty much the best people in the world. How long have dogs been domesticated? 20,000 to 40,000 years 15,000 years 2,000 years 10,000 years SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/Getty Images Horror movies are bigger than ever now, but they've been around for a while. What's considered the earliest horror movie ever from 1896? "Le Manoir du Diable" "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" "The Exorcist" "Nosferatu" SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION RUNSTUDIO/DigitalVision/Getty Images Which of these numbers is 5 more than one half of one-third of double 75? 30 50 5 75 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Underwood & Underwood / Wikimedia Commons There are a few stories about really famous people going missing and never being found again. Who was the female pilot who vanished in 1937? Amelia Earhart Bessie Coleman Amelia Bedelia Tokyo Rose SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Portra/Digital Vision/Getty Images If you have to go see a nephrologist, it means you may have a problem with what part of your body? Kidneys Liver Eyes Lungs SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION RgStudio/E+/Getty Images Gaming is huge and worth some mad cash these days. What's the best-selling game of all time? "Tetris" "Minecraft" "Fortnite" "World of Warcraft" SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Rehulian Yevhen/Image Source/Getty Images You need air to breathe, but what the heck is air anyway? Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane and some argon. Nitrogen and oxygen Oxygen, hydrogen, helium, all that stuff. Oxygen, CO2 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION

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Tim Robberts/Digital Vision/Getty Images What is Esperanto? A constructed language A country A drink A car model SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Manuel Breva Colmeiro/Moment/Getty Images You can string a guitar a number of ways, but how many strings are on your typical guitar? 6 4 3 12 SCROLL TO NEXT QUESTION Image Source/Image Source/Getty Images Obviously, you want to graduate summa cum laude. That is, if you know what it means. "With highest praise" "With honors" "Good job" "Top of the class" FINISH QUIZ

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