Today's Trivia Questions

18

They are characters from Shakespearean plays The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream : Ariel, Miranda, and Phoebe, but scientists have used their names for another purpose. What is it?

15

On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire agreement brokered by mediators from which three countries?

14

The Bullfinch Pub in Boston is better known by what name?

5

A perfect number is one whose proper factors add up to the number. For example, 6 = 1+2+3. What's the next "perfect number"?

17

What is the name for the long crisp bread loaf which French people buy and carry home under their arms?

15

In the film, The Lion King, the voice of the hyena was played by which humorous woman?

8

The shape of a DNA molecule is usually referred to by a two-word phrase, one of whose words refers to its three-dimensional spiral shape. What is this phrase?

9

There are two ways to describe numbers: as cardinal numbers and as ordinal numbers. What is the first ordinal number?

55

What is the name of the experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois that hopes to complete construction of its detector in April 2026 to test if a muon can transform into an electron?

7

In order of area: What are the three largest countries in the world?

2

Actors actually climbing mountains: a. What is the name of the 1993 mountain adventure movie starring Sylvester Stallone? b. What was the name of the 1975 Swiss mountain adventure film starring Clint Eastwood?

7

In 17th Century England, official documents were tied or bound by a certain material, and as a result, today we have an idiom based on that fact. What is it?

5

In Buddhism, what is the Eightfold Path a guide to?

3

It's an eight letter word: Good students have it and nice banks give it. What is it?

17

Which 2024 Jonathan Glazer film won the Oscar for Best International Feature?