FRIDAY QUIZ 12/06/20
The Perils of Perception: A Quiz on Misconceptions
Test your knowledge on surprising statistics and insights regarding perception versus reality! This engaging quiz challenges common beliefs with thought-provoking questions across various topics including immigration, health, food, wine, and even modern conspiracy theories.
Get ready to explore:
- Immigration Statistics
- Food and Wine Knowledge
- Cultural History
- Flat Earth Theories
The Perils of Perception
Ipsos has been running its global Perils of Perception studies since 2012, exploring the gap between people’s perceptions and reality.
It examines why people around the world are so wrong about things like causes of death, climate change, the sex lives of young people, immigrant numbers, overcrowding in prisons and much more…
The Perils of Perception
Ipsos has been running its global Perils of Perception studies since 2012, exploring the gap between people’s perceptions and reality.
It examines why people around the world are so wrong about things like causes of death, climate change, the sex lives of young people, immigrant numbers, overcrowding in prisons and much more…
What percentage of the UK population are immigrants (i.e. Not born in the UK)?
19
17
11
14
What percentage of total food consumed in the UK is imported?
40
48
38
30
What percentage of infants aged under 12 months in the UK, have had all the World Health Organisation recommended vaccinations for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough, Polio and Measles?
74
85
94
72
Thinking about people who are killed by other people in the England & Wales in the last 2 years, what percentage of people were killed by sharp objects such as knives?
28
34
39
43
What`s the most cultivated grape variety for wine production in the world (by area)?
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Syrah
Chardonnay
Which European Country Has the Largest Area Growing Vines?
Italy
Spain
Germany
France
What country consumes most wine, per capita?
Italy
Spain
Portugal
UK
What`s the pressure Champagne normally develops in a standard bottle?
3 to 4 bar
4 to 5 bar
5 to 6 bar
6 to 7 bar
What is a Lambic?
Wine
Beer
Cheese mould
Meat cut
Which of these items naturally contain glutamate?
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Cheese
All of them
What`s the length of a cigar commonly known as Churchill?
6 ¼”
7 ½”
7”
6”
What Cigars brand was founded in 1966 by order of Fidel Castro and initially only producing Cigars given as gifts to those in political conduct such as diplomats and heads of state?
Montecristo
Romeo Y Julieta
Hoyo de Monterey
Cohiba
Guess the name of the highlighted cigar shape:
Perfecto
Torpedo
Culebra
Piramide
Modern flat Earth societies are organisations that promote the belief that the Earth is flat while denying the Earth's sphericity.
Modern flat Earth societies are organisations that promote the belief that the Earth is flat while denying the Earth's sphericity.
According to Flat Earthers, what lies at the centre of the flat earth map?
Antarctica
Arctic circle
Australia
Pacific Ocean
According to the flat earth society map what is at the edge of the earth?
Wall of mountains
Circle of Rocks
5G wireless towers
Wall of ice
According to the flat earth society who guards the “edges” of the earth?
UN
NASA
NATO
Bill Gates` army
What do flat earthers mostly call people who believe the earth is a geoid?
Nasabelievers
Roundheads
Globetards
Baloonheads
Now believed by many historians to be a myth, what does the Latin expression “JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS” means?
A lord had the right to take the first daughter of any family as his wife.
A lord had the right to have sex with any woman on the first night of the year
A lord had the right to have his first daughter married to anyone he wanted
A lord had the right to have sex with a married woman on the first night of her marriage.
19. How tall was Napoleon Bonaparte (without the hat)?
1.55m
1.68m
1.60m
1.72m
Potuguese explorer Magellan (real name Fernão de Magalhães) is often credited to be the first to circumnavigate the earth, but in fact he never made it home. Where did he die before completing his voyage?
Taiwan
Japan
Philippines
India
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