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Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 1 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Pub inventions round: Which early sound-recording and playback device was demonstrated by Thomas Edison?

    Answer: phonograph

    Edison’s early phonograph recorded sound vibrations as grooves on a rotating cylinder.

  2. Pub landmarks round: Which temple complex appears on Cambodia’s national flag?

    Answer: Angkor Wat

    Angkor Wat was built in the early twelfth century for Khmer king Suryavarman II and was originally dedicated to Vishnu.

  3. Pub art round: Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

    Answer: Johannes Vermeer

    Girl with a Pearl Earring is a tronie, a study of a character or expression rather than a commissioned portrait.

  4. Pub sports round: Which track-cycling event follows a paced start before a sprint finish?

    Answer: keirin

    Keirin originated in Japan, where riders follow a pacer before the final sprint.

  5. Pub finale round: Which board game uses pieces called bishops, rooks, and knights?

    Answer: chess

    Chess bishops move diagonally, rooks move orthogonally, and knights move in an L-shaped pattern.

Daily round

  1. Pub literature round: Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?

    Answer: Virginia Woolf

    Mrs Dalloway unfolds over one day in London and uses shifting interior viewpoints.

  2. Pub literature round: Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  3. Pub literature round: Who wrote Things Fall Apart?

    Answer: Chinua Achebe

    Things Fall Apart depicts the Igbo community of Umuofia during the arrival of British colonial rule.

  4. Pub language round: What device repeats initial consonant sounds in nearby words?

    Answer: alliteration

    “Wild winds whistle” uses alliteration through its repeated initial w sound.

  5. Pub science round: What boundary around a black hole marks the point beyond which light cannot escape?

    Answer: event horizon

    An event horizon is a boundary in spacetime rather than a solid surface surrounding a black hole.

Daily round

  1. Pub science round: Which antibiotic did Alexander Fleming observe from a mold in 1928?

    Answer: penicillin

    Penicillin interferes with bacterial cell-wall synthesis and does not treat viral infections.

  2. Pub finale round: Which living animal has the largest heart?

    Answer: blue whale

    A blue whale heart can weigh well over 100 kilograms, although estimates vary by animal size.

  3. Pub nature round: Which tree is famous for a massively swollen trunk that can store water?

    Answer: baobab

    A baobab’s trunk stores water in spongy wood, helping the tree survive long dry seasons.

  4. Pub literature round: Who wrote Beloved?

    Answer: Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black woman to win that award.

  5. Pub language round: What field studies the origin and historical development of words?

    Answer: etymology

    Etymology traces how pronunciation, spelling, and meaning change as words move through time and languages.

Daily round

  1. Pub literature round: Who wrote Frankenstein?

    Answer: Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley first published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818.

  2. Pub sports round: Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on grass in London?

    Answer: Wimbledon

    The first Wimbledon championship was held in 1877 at the All England Club.

  3. Pub landmarks round: Which archaeological city in Jordan is famous for rock-cut façades?

    Answer: Petra

    Petra prospered as the Nabataean kingdom’s capital at a crossroads of Arabian trade routes.

  4. Pub literature round: Who wrote the Divine Comedy?

    Answer: Dante Alighieri

    Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in Italian vernacular rather than Latin.

  5. Pub food round: Which Andean seed is cooked and eaten much like a grain?

    Answer: quinoa

    Quinoa is a pseudocereal related to spinach and beets rather than a true grass grain.

Daily round

  1. Pub science round: What theoretical temperature is the lowest possible on the thermodynamic scale?

    Answer: absolute zero

    Absolute zero equals 0 kelvin, or −273.15 degrees Celsius.

  2. Pub music round: Which two-string bowed instrument is used in Chinese music?

    Answer: erhu

    The erhu has two strings, with the bow hair passing between them.

  3. Pub sports round: Which cue sport uses 15 red balls and six colored balls?

    Answer: snooker

    A maximum standard snooker break is 147, made by pairing every red with a black before clearing the colors.

  4. Pub science round: Which green pigment absorbs light for plant photosynthesis?

    Answer: chlorophyll

    Chlorophyll absorbs red and blue light strongly while reflecting more green light to the eye.

  5. Pub food round: Which caffeine-free South African plant is brewed as a reddish herbal drink?

    Answer: rooibos

    Rooibos comes from Aspalathus linearis, a shrub native to South Africa’s Cederberg region.

Daily round

  1. Pub music round: Which keyboard instrument creates a bell-like sound with metal plates?

    Answer: celesta

    A celesta strikes metal plates with hammers and was featured memorably in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

  2. Pub history round: Which 1215 charter limited aspects of the English king’s authority?

    Answer: Magna Carta

    Magna Carta was reissued several times, and only a few clauses remain in force in English law today.

  3. Pub art round: Which American modernist became known for large flower paintings and Southwestern landscapes?

    Answer: Georgia O’Keeffe

    Georgia O’Keeffe lived for many years in New Mexico, whose landscape became central to her work.

  4. Pub art round: Which Surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory?

    Answer: Salvador Dalí

    The Persistence of Memory was painted in 1931 and features soft, melting watches.

  5. Pub history round: What name describes the historic trade networks linking East Asia and the Mediterranean?

    Answer: Silk Road

    The Silk Road was a changing network of land and sea routes rather than one continuous road.

Daily round

  1. Pub food round: Which dark bread is traditionally made with rye flour?

    Answer: pumpernickel

    Traditional pumpernickel originated in Germany and uses rye with a long, low-temperature bake.

  2. Pub history round: Which operation supplied West Berlin by air during the 1948–49 blockade?

    Answer: Berlin Airlift

    The Berlin Airlift delivered fuel and food for nearly a year until the Soviet blockade was lifted.

  3. Pub inventions round: Which fastener joins two rows of teeth using a sliding tab?

    Answer: zipper

    Modern zippers use interlocking teeth that a wedge-shaped slider joins or separates.

  4. Pub music round: Which plucked string instrument is prominent in Hindustani classical music?

    Answer: sitar

    The sitar uses sympathetic strings that vibrate in response to played notes and enrich its resonance.

  5. Pub art round: Which Norwegian artist created The Scream?

    Answer: Edvard Munch

    Edvard Munch created several painted, drawn, and printed versions of The Scream.