The website "Trivia Genius" thinks I'm an idiot

[DFW]

Well, they might be right, but not because of their trivia question.

They were fishing for people to give them their email addresses, of course, but they asked "what is the softest metal in the world?" and gave the following four choices to pick from: Gold, Tin, Cesium, Copper.

Umm, ever heard of Mercury, guys? Its chemical symbol we use even today is "Hg" for the ancient Greek "hydragyros," or "water silver." As in "liquid at room temperature."

I'd say that whoever is behind "Trivia Genius" needs to work on their genius status. Maybe get some lessons from Trump?

[Redleg]

1. Yes- they should have asked "which of these is softest?"

Or perhaps malleable might be a better term.

[DFW]

2. I don't think they were looking for PhDs in metallurgy

More like more email addresses to spam.

You had to give them your email address to continue.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. "the softest metal in the world" is Richard Cheese's cover of Slipknot (obviously NSFW)