If this is the case, intelligence these days has a very low bar indeed. Six out of eight, I got eight out of eight without even thinking about it.
A TikToker who specialises in quizzes and trivia has shared a video that will reveal if your general knowledge is above average.
The quiz lover who goes by ‘@mahanlankarani’ often posts videos that allow viewers to test how smart they really are.
In this clip, he asks viewers ‘Is your general knowledge above average? See if you can score at least six out of eight’.
TikTok. ThickTok, more likely. And one who spells ‘you’ as ‘u’. Yeah, says it all.
Yep, 8/8 absolute doddle.
from the name and picture looks like an arab and therefore probably a muslim. He’s fighting against generations of inbreeding and a lifetime of indoctrination from Islam. Probably if you got 4 out of 8 in the background he came from you’d be classed as a genius. 8 out of 8 here though i wobbled a bit on Jupiter.
8/8. 7 answers instantly, 1 second of thought for Jupiter.
I don’t know how anyone older than GCSE age could get LESS than 6.
My second thought was the blue whale, because I scanned the question and saw ‘land animal’ in which case it would have been one of the sauropods. Obviously, when I read the question properly, it was obvious.
Yeah, easy. Eight out of eight, although I must admit I guessed with femur. I can never remember if it’s in the arm or leg. I guessed correctly with ‘leg’.
Fairly typical story from NAR.
“Our winter clothing is on sale at 20% off. A customer (male, forties) comes up to me with a jacket marked $99.99.
Customer: “What’s 20% off of $99.99?”
Me: “20% would be about $20.00, so that jacket will cost you about $79.99 before tax.”
He and his wife then stare at me in amazement.
Customer: “How… how did you figure that out so quickly?!””
The stories are of course all anecdotal and some of them may have been embellished or even completely made up. The majority are from the US where educational standards do seem to be particularly abysmal but stories about general ignorance and stupidity come from all parts of the world.