Multiple choice general knowledge

Which scenario gives you the best chance of survival?

  1. Flip 5 tails in a row or get your head cut off

  2. Roll snake eyes or eat cyanide for dinner

  3. Roll a 7 twice in a row or be drawn and quartered

  4. Get dealt 2 aces (standard 52 card deck; 2 cards dealt) or jump from the top of the Empire State Building
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Explanation

The coin flip (1/32 chance = 3.125%) is vastly more survivable than the alternatives: cyanide is nearly always fatal, snake eyes have 1/36 chance (2.8%), rolling 7 twice is 1/36 chance, and drawing 2 aces from a 52-card deck is extremely unlikely (1/221).

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