For the better part of a decade, I've been a part time trivia host at a few local bars, and have written a couple thousand trivia questions for these events. Our regulars are in general above average trivia players, but nevertheless, every now and then a question stumps everyone. Whether it's because the question was particularly difficult, the crowd was particularly small, or everyone that night was particularly dim, I can't say. But I thought this would be a good place to give them another go, as we have a lot of fiendishly smart people, as well as a wider audience. Beyond having a 0% get rate when I initially asked them, there is no category or theme to any of these. See if you can outsmart my regulars. [Note: After the first few rounds of this quiz, my suspicions are confirmed that these are often particularly difficult questions. In general they are meant to be; we work on a progressive difficulty level system in each round, and these are almost always late-round questions for a particularly smart crowd. Nevertheless, if I were to rewrite some of these old quizzes today, I would probably alter many of these questions to give more of a clue (an opinion I held on many before posting them here, but a bit more so now).]
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3 | LaudermithM | 452 | 97 |
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4 | GrahamJ | 426 | 96 |
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5 | OBrienJ | 422 | 95 |
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6 | FanoeG | 411 | 93 |
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6 | AdamKing | 411 | 93 |
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8 | Egantx7 | 409 | 92 |
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9 | RautY | 407 | 90 |
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10 | Kloefkorn | 406 | 89 |
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11 | ChengB | 400 | 88 |
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12 | GuessonGuessonGuess | 399 | 87 |
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13 | GriffinJoe | 394 | 86 |
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14 | GoodmanDL | 391 | 85 |
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14 | RalliP | 391 | 85 |
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16 | rouquinne | 382 | 83 |
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17 | DoyleE | 381 | 82 |
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18 | Flyingmnky | 376 | 80 |
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18 | VenguswamyK | 376 | 80 |
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20 | Sean | 375 | 79 |
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21 | rfgold | 372 | 78 |
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22 | BradburnA | 355 | 77 |
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23 | EverettJ | 345 | 75 |
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23 | HolstJ | 345 | 75 |
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25 | RosenbergR | 343 | 73 |
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26 | claysonh | 333 | 72 |
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26 | HallR | 333 | 72 |
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28 | akambour | 329 | 70 |
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28 | petkunm | 329 | 70 |
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30 | LuskT | 327 | 68 |
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31 | IvixorB | 320 | 67 |
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32 | ElendilPickle | 317 | 66 |
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33 | JeziorskiM | 314 | 65 |
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34 | KreitzerJ | 309 | 64 |
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35 | BringMoreLegos | 304 | 63 |
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36 | LeeS | 296 | 61 |
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36 | MercureT | 296 | 61 |
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38 | HensleyB | 295 | 60 |
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39 | Tarn | 292 | 59 |
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40 | srs | 290 | 56 |
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40 | MatherV | 290 | 56 |
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43 | Matto | 288 | 54 |
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44 | Crow-T-Robot | 272 | 53 |
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45 | FrankensteinP | 269 | 52 |
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47 | BillPennington | 267 | 50 |
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48 | Snuffleupagus | 260 | 48 |
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48 | LiptonM | 260 | 48 |
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51 | RossS | 246 | 46 |
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52 | KonkelT | 239 | 45 |
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55 | LivenickT | 227 | 42 |
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57 | PalmiterA | 218 | 39 |
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58 | BednarczukJ | 210 | 38 |
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59 | twarner50 | 205 | 37 |
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60 | Adamlowemartin | 199 | 36 |
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60 | BeningoS | 199 | 36 |
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62 | KeenS | 196 | 34 |
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63 | YuC | 193 | 33 |
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74 | LashleyM | 140 | 21 |
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