Ridiculously Hard Trivia

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media Gratings trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and today we're cranking up the difficulty with some ridiculously hard trivia questions that will challenge even the most dedicated quiz masters. Question one, what is the only US state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state? Question two? In chemistry, what is the name of the theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion ceases? Question three? Which Shakespeare play contains the stage direction exit pursued by a bear?

0:57 Question four? What is the most abundant game in the Earth's atmosphere after nitrogen and oxygen? Question five? In what year did the Library of Alexandria, one of the ancient world's greatest centers of learning, suffer its final destruction. We'll be right back with these brain busting answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal today's ridiculously hard answers. Question one, which state capital shares no letters with its state? Answer? Pierre, South Dakota. The capital city Pierre shares absolutely no letters in common with South Dakota, making it unique among all fifty US state capitals. This stumps many people who try to think through all the capitals systematically. Question two, what's the temperature where molecular motion stops? Answer a salute zero, which is negative two hundred seventy three point one five degrees celsius or negative four hundred and fifty nine point six seven degrees fahrenheit. At this theoretical temperature, all atomic and molecular motion would cease completely. It's impossible to actually reach absolute zero, but scientists have gotten incredibly close in laboratory settings. Question three, which shakespeare play has exit pursued

2:28 by a bear? Answer the Winter's Tail. This famous stage direction appears in Act three, Scene three, when the character Antigonus flees from a bear. It's one of the most memorable and unusual stage directions in all of Shakespeare's works. Question four, what's the third most abundant atmospheric gas? Answer ar gone, which makes up about zero point nine to three percent of Earth's atmosphere, while nitrogen seventy eight percent and oxygen twenty one percent dominate. Argon is the third most common gas, though most people would guess carbon dioxide, which is actually much less abundant at only zero point zero four percent. Question five When was the Library of Alexandria finally destroyed? Answer? Six hundred forty two AD, when Arab forces under ahmer Iban al As conquered Alexandria. While the library had declined over centuries and faced multiple earlier attacks, this marked its final destruction as a center of learning that had existed for nearly one thousand years. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of a I technology.

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