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Faithful Encarta quiz-takers, ever wonder how much smarter you've become over the years from taking our kicky little quizzes? Find out with this roundup of our favorite questions. Hurry, Encarta quizzes will go dark on October 31, 2009!
Name Myths Quiz (Image credit: Culver Pictures)
Don't be fooled by these menacing monikers.
Princes Quiz (Image credit: Tim Graham/Corbis)
Are these royal fellas charmers or chumps?
Quiz Archive
Animals and Nature
Fischer's Lovebirds (© Oxford Scientific Films/Steve Littlewood/Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Theodore A. Parker, III. All rights reserved.)
All things spring quiz
Animal extremes quiz
Animal quiz: What's your animal IQ?
Animal movie trivia quiz
Autumn quiz
Beach trivia quiz
Bird quiz: Are you a bird brain?
Cats quiz
Cold myths quiz
Creepy crawly quiz
Dinosaur quiz
Dog quiz
Endangered animals quiz
Extreme weather quiz
Fire Quiz
Flower myths quiz
Flower power quiz
Fooled by nature quiz
Grizzly safety quiz
Gross pests quiz
Hurricane quiz: Eye of the storm
Meow: The purrrfect kitty quiz
Mother Earth quiz
Natural Selection quiz
Nature's killers quiz
Panda quiz
Perfect disaster quiz
Pets quiz
Political pets quiz
Sea creatures quiz: Mysteries of the deep
Shark attack quiz: What are the odds?
Shark myths quiz
Shark quiz
Showbiz animals quiz
Snake quiz
Spiders quiz
Summer quiz
Turkey quiz
Vampire (bat) quiz
Watery world quiz
Weather myths quiz
Weird animal quiz
Wind Quiz
Winter quiz: Are you hot when it's not?
Winter myths quiz
Arts and Culture
Still Life, Tulips by Emil Nolde (© Emil Nolde/North Carolina Museum of Art/Corbis)
Architecture quiz
Art of the Renaissance quiz
Art quiz: Who dunnit?
Art quiz II
Da Vinci quiz
Dance craze quiz
Greek mythology quiz
Jazz 101 quiz
Mythology around the world
Mythical places quiz
Rock 'n' roll quiz
Food and Drink
Sources of Dietary Fiber (© Charles D. Winters/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
Aphrodisiacs quiz
Candy quiz: Tricky treats
Celebrity chefs quiz
Cheese quiz
Cooking 101
Desserts quiz
Fad diets quiz
Fall food quiz
Food facts and fallacies quiz
Junk food quiz
Morning coffee quiz
Saucy sauces: a condiments quiz
Wine quiz
Geography
Goode's Homosline Projection (© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
Asia quiz
China quiz
Cities, big and small quiz
City names quiz
City nicknames quiz
Deserts quiz
Geographic extremes quiz
Island survival quiz
Italy quiz
Latin America quiz
Middle East geography and history quiz
New York quiz
State capitals quiz
State flags quiz
State flags quiz II
State nicknames quiz
State superlatives quiz
Where in the world are you?
Where in the world are you? II
Where in the U.S. are you?
World capitals quiz
World capitals: What do you know?
World flags quiz
World flags quiz II
World geography quiz
History and Politics
Napoleon Bonaparte (© Photo Researchers, Inc./G. Tomsich)
Archaeology quiz
American civil rights movement quiz
American Civil War quiz
American Revolutionary War quiz
Ancient Egypt quiz
Asian American heritage quiz
Bad guys quiz
Benjamin Franklin quiz
Black history quiz
Captivating conquerors and other war heroes
Christopher Columbus quiz
Explorers and adventurers quiz
Famous fathers quiz
Famous feminists quiz
Famous last words quiz
Famous lovers quiz
First ladies quiz
Gay rights movement quiz
Gladiators quiz
Great Depression quiz
Haunted history quiz
Highs and lows of 1968 quiz
History quiz: 1930
Infamous gangsters quiz
Legends of the law
Lost civilizations quiz
Medieval torture quiz
Military leaders quiz
Military myths quiz
Murderous monarchs quiz
Native American history quiz
Pearl Harbor quiz
Pilgrims quiz
Pirates quiz
Presidential myths quiz
Presidential politics myths quiz
Presidential trivia
Presidential U quiz
Princes quiz
Princesses quiz
Spy secrets
Trials of the centuries quiz
U.S. citizenship test: Could you pass?
Vice presidents quiz
World War I quiz
World War II quiz
Holidays
Fourth of July (© Ariel Skelley/Corbis)
Can you recite the "Twelve Days of Christmas?"
Christmas around the world quiz
Christmas quiz
Easter quiz
Groundhog Day quiz
Halloween quiz
Halloween myths quiz
Holiday foods quiz
Holiday shopping madness quiz
Independence days quiz
Independence daze quiz
Jewish holidays
Memorial Day quiz
St. Patrick's Day quiz
Thanksgiving quiz
Thanksgiving myths quiz
Valentine's Day quiz
Valentine's Day myths quiz
World holidays quiz
Language and Literature
Language and Literature (© PhotoDisc)
Celebrity children's-book authors
Celebrity scribes
Complete the quote
Could you out-spell an eighth-grader?
Do great books make great movies?
Expressions quiz
Fairy tale quiz: Happily ever after
Famous misquotes quiz
Famous quotes quiz
Fantasy literature quiz
Grammar pop quiz
Grammar quiz: Are you grammatically incorrect?
¿Habla español? A Spanish language quiz
Harry Potter quiz: Are you a wizard?
Harry Potter quiz, Books II - IV
Harry Potter quiz, Books V - VI
Harry Potter quiz, Book VII
National spelling bee quiz: Could you win?
National Vocabulary Championship quiz
Novel quiz: Famous opening lines
Novel quiz: Famous opening lines, part II
Parlez-vous français? A French language quiz
Phobias quiz
Political lingo quiz
Proverbs quiz: Easier said than done?
SAT quiz: Grammar
Science-fiction quiz
Shakespeare's world quiz
Spelling quiz: Can you avoid these common mistakes?
Spelling quiz: How well can you spell?
Straight from the horse's mouth: Common phrases from the racetrack
Vocabulary quiz: As good as your word
Vocabulary quiz: By definition
Vocabulary quiz: Dictionary or fictionary?
Word origins quiz
Word quiz: Evil twins
Math and Science
Hydrogen Isotopes (© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
Are you a computer geek?
Body quiz: How well do you know your body?
Brain quiz
Chemistry quiz
Chemistry quiz II
Constellations quiz
Cosmos quiz
Could you pass 8th-grade math?
Deadly diseases quiz
Extreme engineering quiz
Failed inventions quiz
Germ quiz
Internet quiz
Internet quiz 2.0
Inventions quiz
Mars Quiz
Medical history quiz
Medical specialties quiz
Name the scientist quiz
Psychology quiz
Space quiz
Stars and planets quiz
Sun Quiz
Volcanoes quiz
Sports
Football Hand Signals (© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
Armchair football quiz
Basketball quiz: Try for a 360° slam dunk
College football bowl quiz
College mascots quiz
Female Olympians quiz
Olympics quiz: Go for the gold!
Soccer quiz: GOOOAAAAL!
Sports lingo quiz
Sports myths quiz
Super Bowl quiz
Winter Olympics quiz
TV and Film
Early Television (Image credit: Hulton Deutsch Collection; THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE)
Beat the Jeopardy! whiz's quiz
Film noir quiz
Hollywood doctors quiz
Hollywood star quiz
Movie myths quiz
Movie quotes quiz: Do you feel lucky?
Movie quotes quiz: The sequel
Movie settings quiz
Oscar mania quiz
Oscar quiz
Play the Jeopardy! champion
Summer blockbusters quiz
TV catchphrases quiz
TV history quiz
TV myths quiz
Weird TV quiz
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous (© Digital Vision Ltd.)
Amusement parks quiz
Are you CEO material?
Are you reincarnated royalty?
Are you superstitious?
Boot camp: U.S. military quiz
Business school reality quiz
Celebrity baby names quiz
Celebrity college quiz
Celebrity designers quiz
Celebrity hometowns quiz
Celebrity majors quiz
Celebrity name game
Celebrity name game II
College prep quiz
Crimes of stupidity quiz
Currency crazy money quiz
Encarta final exam
Do mothers really know best?
Fact or fiction?
Fact or fiction quiz, part II
Famous moms quiz
Gross-out quiz
Legal myths quiz
"Made in America" quiz
Money myths quiz
Money quiz
Monster quiz
Name myths quiz
Odd jobs and crazy careers quiz
Odd jobs of the rich and famous quiz
School myths quiz
Sickness quiz
Stranger than fiction quiz
Superheroes quiz
Superhero quiz: the sequel
Toy myths quiz
Underwear quiz
University trivia quiz
Unusual deaths myths quiz
Urban legends quiz
Wedding myths quiz
Wedding traditions around the world quiz
Weird jobs quiz
What do you know?
What do you remember from school?
Coffee Break
Coffee Break (Gary S. Chapman/Getty Images)
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