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To help with your snark...

I think I manage to snark well enough without help, but thanks.

Wholemeal bread, which I assume is what 'wheat' means.
Wheat typically means bread made from flour that has not been bleached.

Ah, right. And as a not-American, I was supposed to derive the definition from the word 'wheat', was I? In this country, bread is not defined as 'wheat', probably on the grounds that it is all made from wheat unless otherwise stated. I used the word 'wholemeal' to be clear, because that is the kind of bread I eat. But I am glad to know what 'wheat' means in the context of American bread, so thank you.

Hand operated!
That is what standard is.

I dare say, but i would call a tin opener a tin opener, and if it were an electric one, I would call it an electric tin opener. The word 'standard' does not come into my description of any tin opener, and, as there are different kinds of hand-operated tin opener, I wouldn't know which kind was meant. My answer was an attempt to be clear. Sorry it didn't work for you.

Neither. There's a whole world out here!
I live in the US and use neither. Mainly becasue both I an a housemate are allergic. Pretty sure the meme creator simply took two random brand names.

Oh, indeed, the creator of the question took two random brand names—I mean, I assume from the question that these are the two leading brands of… whatever, in the US. And yet I have heard of neither Comet nor Soft Scrub. I literally do not know what these products are for. Are they for washing up (washing dishes, in your parlance), or washing clothes, or cleaning kitchen/bathroom surfaces? Or something completely different? I don't know, because those products are not (as far as I know) sold here.

Yes, and I call it a wardrobe.
Okay... I was taught that a closet was built in where as a wardrobe was a piece of stand alone furniture but okay?

Okay, indeed. My Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines a 'closet' as "A room for retirement, a private room, a side room or recess for storing utensils, provisions etc,' and 'short for Water-closet', ie a toilet.

Frankly, we don't really have 'closets' in my everyday. We have wardrobes. As it happens, my wardrobe is a wall-length fitted wardrobe, which presumably you would call a closet. I don't. Surely you must be aware that different words have different uses and definitions in different versions of the English language? If not, I suggest you research the word 'thong'.

Electric. But I do use a standard one sometimes, for variety. I think it does a slightly different job.
So you do know what standard means!

Good grief.

I don't really know what 'retro' means
retro is a hipster way of saying old.

Well, I grasped that, but you see, I'm English. As far as I am concerned, nothing I possess is 'old'. My house had its 101st birthday this year, but it isn't an 'old' house. My sister lives in a 16th-century farmhouse—that's old.

Also, 'old' and 'retro' are different concepts. and 'a hipster way of saying old' tells me that 'hipsters' don't have much respect for language.

As defined by the Free Dictionary, 'retro' basically means 'of or designating the style of an earlier time'. By that definition, my answers to question 46 are all perfectly reasonable. Nonetheless, I don't know what 'retro' means to the person who put up the quiz. For a person born in the 21st century, a Britney Spears CD could be 'retro'. For me, it'd just be 'stuff'.