Mangesh & Jason
Introducing ‘The Ultimate Brain Challenge’
by Mangesh & Jason - October 16, 2008 - 12:00 AM

dojo.jpgDo you love learning about history, but lack the proper outlet to show off just how much you know? Well my friends, today is going to change your life. (Or at least give you a brand new way to kill time at work.)

To coincide with the release of The Mental Floss History of the World, we’re launching a whole new section of our site—‘The Ultimate Brain Challenge.’ The game is filled with hundreds of history-based trivia questions. We’ve also hired a surly sensei to nudge you toward becoming a black belt in history.

Are you up to the challenge? Step into the Dojo and begin your training.

(And don’t forget, if you preorder The Mental Floss History of the World through Amazon before October 27th, you’ll also get six free months of mental_floss magazine. For details, check out our FAQ.)

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Comments (11)

  1. Could you guys include a mute button?

    posted by Sam on 10-16-2008 at 5:43 am

  2. I kept getting the same question over and over again, about Benjamin Franklin being a French ambassador. Am I doing something wrong?

    posted by Orange on 10-16-2008 at 11:49 am

  3. I am seeing the intro video, then a button that says “play again.” If I click on that or the “start game” button, it just plays the video again.

    How do you get to the questions?

    posted by Jess on 10-16-2008 at 1:23 pm

  4. I’m having the same problem as Jess. However, I found that by clicking the refresh button, I could advance.
    I second a mute button!

    posted by Samantha on 10-16-2008 at 1:42 pm

  5. I can’t even get to the questions. It just keeps playing the intro video over and over when I click “start game.”

    posted by bre on 10-16-2008 at 1:59 pm

  6. I found an error with one of the questions. The questions is, “Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetary is located on his former estate:”. Robert E. Lee is what the quiz accepts as the correct answer, although George Washington, another answer option, would also be correct. The house was owned and constructed by President Washington’s adopted Grandson George Washington Parke Custis as a living memorial to President Washington. He lived there with his wife until they died in 1953 and 1957. The house was then passed on to their only child Mary Anna Randolph Custis and her husband (and distant cousin) Robert E. Lee.

    posted by Cassandra on 10-16-2008 at 3:05 pm

  7. For the question about the first domesticated livestock, my answer was counted wrong – saying the answer is something else. But the explanation is consistant with my answer. Upon looking it up online to double-check…I found I was in fact correct.

    posted by Nerak on 10-16-2008 at 3:22 pm

  8. It says my email is already being used! Any way I can play without signing in?

    posted by Tricia on 10-16-2008 at 3:26 pm

  9. Well, I got through the whole thing. Kind of a let down. When are you going to add more topics? I could have used fewer Mongol questions.

    posted by Baudolino on 10-16-2008 at 10:18 pm

  10. Please use a book that uses actual research. Native American/Canadian women were NOT used as beasts of burden. This myth is perpetuated continuously by academics who base this on diaries that were inaccurate to start with (Based on european perceptions that women should be dainty flowers) and that were further sensationalized by the publishers to sell more copies to “shock the whities” back in Europe.

    posted by Tristan on 10-16-2008 at 11:22 pm

  11. And the Cork, Ireland question is also wrong

    posted by Ailis on 10-17-2008 at 6:06 pm

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