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Find out if you're smarter than high school student with general knowledge quiz

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With a new term in full swing, it can be stressful for parents to prepare for the back to school period. But for students, the thought of exams and learning a whole new topic can also feel quite daunting.

High school isn't easy with many kids preparing for their GCSEs or even A-Levels this year. Now if you want to know what being a student feels like, you could try this general knowledge quiz to see if you're really smarter than your kids. Mahan, who boasts 1.6million followers on TikTok, is a guru when it comes to quizzes – and his latest one is no different.

Posting to his fans, he asked: "Are you smarter than a smart high school student? See if you can get most of these right."

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Make sure you answer all 10 of these questions and if you're already up for the challenge, stick a timer on!

And don't cheat! The answers are below the video so make sure you don't scroll down too early.

Questions:
  • What comes first? Thunder or lightening?
  • In what part of the human body is the fastest muscle?
  • Which animal's fingerprints are almost identical to humans?
  • What is the word for a big explosion that results in the formation of a new star?
  • What is a rhino's horn made of?
  • What is the main gas found in fizzy drinks?
  • What is the bottom number in a fraction called?
  • Optics is the study of what?
  • What were the names of Christopher Columbus' three ships
  • What does LED stand for?
  • So how did you find those? If you're ready to check your answers, scroll down below...

    Answers:
  • Lightening
  • Eye
  • Koala
  • Supernova
  • Keratin
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Denominator
  • Light
  • Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria
  • Light Emitting Diode
  • Since the quiz was shared, it racked up 8,500 likes and nearly 200 comments

    One said: "6/10 I barely passed." Another added: "0/10." A third commented: "9/10." Someone else chimed in: "I got 7, pleased with that."

    According to Mahan, another quiz was so hard people are barely getting half correct.

    Others couldn't believe people would have struggled as some got 8 or 9 out of 10 questions right. Meanwhile some TikTok users even went as far to say the quiz wasn't hard at all.

    Although one person said: "10/10. Not a single difficult question."

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