Let's play an IQ game! Did you know that the reason we call orange-headed people redheads is that they existed before the word orange did? Orange didn't exist until the fruit did. Of course, it existed, it was simply just called red. Did you know that next week, your watch will be one second slow? It's because the Earth's rotation is slowing, so the days are getting longer.
This means that our 24-hour day is actually a little off. To make up for this, the International Earth Rotation Service, which is pretty much Father Time, has to add a second to "keep the balance."
These seconds are called Leap Seconds. Oh, you didn't know that? Well, studies show that people who enjoy random facts like these have a higher IQ. They seek and crave knowledge. They don't always retain it, but when the subject comes up, their problem-solving skills will always kick in. But you already knew that that's why you're here. You want to test your limits and no matter what your result, you see it as a challenge. A chance to improve. That's where real intelligence comes from.
The will to learn, even in the midst of defeat. Learning from your mistakes is crucial to your own health and your own survival.
To do that, you need to seek out quizzes like this that will help you become a better version of yourself (more or less). If not, then at least they are a fun way to pass the time. So, time to get to it as we take this quiz only to have our very own IQs thrown in our own faces. Will you be 55? 200? Or somewhere in between?
Quiz Writer
Jake didn’t think he’d become a writer when he was growing up in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, but fate had another idea. After barely squeaking through grade 9 English, by the luck of the draw Jake found himself with the most inspiring literature instructor his small town had ever known, and grade 10 English changed his life! Suddenly, evenings once spent at the hockey rink were spent curled up on the couch with the best of Hemingway, Dickens, and John Grisham. A valedictorian address and English degree at the University of Regina later, Jake is proud to call Heywise his favorite place to pen informative quizzes about all his passion projects. If you’re reading a post and pick up a hint of classic English literature, you’re probably reading something by Jake - especially if you come away feeling like a slightly better person for it.
Did you know?
The World Has Spent Millions Of Years On YouTube
This doesn’t have much to do with IQ, but did you know that the second most popular video on YouTube, Gangnam Style by Psy has zapped over 13,000 years of human life (or so they say). Meaning, adding up the number of views it has amounts to 13,000 years. That’s because it has over 3 billion views. Maybe hearing that it has 3,000,000,000 is more impressive. At least sources say that the video has been watched for 13,000 years. This may seem like an exaggeration turning its popularity into satire, but just those 3 billion views add up to over 20,000. That means that isn’t an exaggeration; it’s an outdated fact. If this is true, then the average person (including babies and those without internet) has spent two minutes watching that one video. Every single person.
But that’s nothing compared to the time we spend doing other stuff. Like brushing our teeth, which the average person does for one twenty-four-hour day each year. Or how if you’ve watched every episode of the Simpsons with commercials, that’s about 300 hours of your time. Or thirteen full days of work. If you got paid $10/hr to watch it, you’d have made $3000. What about Law & Order? That would be $5000 if you were paid $10 an hour to watch the whole thing. Even $3500 at minimum wage in US states with the lowest minimum wage.
Now wouldn’t all this be handy if you had time for it? Too bad Mercury is uninhabitable because days on that planet last for two of our years! Funny how time works.
How to Play?
Instructions on how to take a trivia quiz? What? They're easy, right? Well, if it's your first day on the internet or on Heywise, we'd like to take a moment and say, "welcome! We're glad you're here, and you're in for a wild ride."
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