
Nerds are awesome. They are intelligent, appreciate good science fiction and fantasy, and are always able to point out logical inconsistencies in movies and TV shows. Perhaps you are a nerd. This quiz will be able to determine if you are or not.
Quizzes such as this one can be very difficult. They require you to know a lot about a wide variety of subjects. You have to really have a love of knowledge and studying to do well on quizzes like this. The more of these quizzes you take, the more you learn, however. If you take enough of them eventually youโll be able to yell out all the answers to Jeopardy! questions at the screen whether other people in the room want you to or not. If you can get 14 or more of these 16 general knowledge questions correct then you are a nerd. Thatโs not a bad thing, and we hope you donโt consider it to be.
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Other than "litter", what word is used to describe a group of cats from the same mother?

A kindle
A congregation
A cuteness
A fluff
How many zeros are there in a "trillion"?

16
12
8
10
Outside of the continent of Africa, what is the one country in which lions live in the wild?

China
Pakistan
India
Brazil
What is the name of the river that separates the United States and Mexico?

Snake River
Rio Grande River
Red River
Columbia River
In what novel can you find a character named "Captain Nemo"?

Finding Nemo
Moby Dick
The Old Man and the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
What is the capital city of Austria?

Salzburg
Vienna
Innsbruck
Antwerp
Approximately how many American troops served in World War II?

5 million
16 million
10 million
12 million
What artist painted "The Scream"?

Claude Monet
Rembrandt
Edvard Munch
Vincent van Gogh
In what country can you find the unusual natural wonder known as the Horizontal Falls?

New Zealand
Costa Rica
Australia
Japan
What is the main river that Louisville, Kentucky sits on?

Saint Lawrence River
Yellowstone River
Hudson River
Ohio River
What famous pirate had a parrot named Captain Flint?

Calico Jack
Long John Silver
Blackbeard
Henry Morgan
In what country were the first Winter Olympics held?

Russia
France
Canada
Sweden
What famous author sometimes writes under the pen name Richard Bachman?

Margaret Atwood
J. K. Rowling
Stephen King
George R. R. Martin
What composer wrote "Ode to Joy"?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Who was the United States secretary of state while George Washington was president?

John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Who was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until 1974?

Haile Selassie
Victor Emmanuel III
Menelik II
Amha Selassie
4 Comments
I got 8 out of 16! โ 50%
You passed! You certainly have above average level of general knowledge, falling just below nerd level. Thatโs a good thingโฆ I guess?
I got 5 out of 16!
You flunked! We are sure that you are definitely not a nerd. We hope you learned a few things while taking this quiz.
There are mountain lions in the USA. Arenโt they lions?
15/16.