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Results From THE CITY's First-Ever Subway Quiz
The ride was rough; the average score was 5 out of 10.
January 20, 2023
The results are in, folks! THE CITY published its first-ever subway quiz in mid-December and more than 40,000 of our readers took it in the first month. One of five gave up before the end; about 80%, or 32,000 readers, completed it.
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Almost everyone who made it to question #5, about a subway station in the Financial District, finished the quiz.
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The hardest question was the last one: In which station can you find this bitcoin machine? If you botched it, you’re not alone. Most people, or about 80%, got that one wrong.
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Question #3 was the next most challenging question, about the tiles in a Manhattan station. Only about 1 in 4, or 24%, of quiz takers got that right.
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The average score overall was 5 correct out of 10. The best day for quiz takers was December 31, 2022, when most readers scored a 6 out of 10. Maybe New Year’s Eve luck?
The worst day was January 1, 2023, when the average score was nearly 4 out of 10. (Perhaps we can blame a post-party malaise.)
Many missed the hints in the pictures for questions #7 and #8. Zooming in on both showed the trains matching the correct answer. Roughly a third of readers got these wrong.
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