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Bar Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 10 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Pub finale round: How many suits are in a standard French-suited deck of playing cards?

    Answer: four

    A standard French-suited deck has hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.

  2. Pub science round: Which instrument records ground motion during an earthquake?

    Answer: seismograph

    A seismograph records a time trace called a seismogram, which scientists use to analyze seismic waves.

  3. 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.

  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 music round: Which orchestral drums can be tuned to definite pitches?

    Answer: timpani

    Timpani players change pitch by adjusting membrane tension, commonly with a foot pedal.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub finale round: Which planet completes the shortest orbit around the Sun?

    Answer: Mercury

    Mercury completes an orbit in about 88 Earth days.

  3. Pub language round: What word is formed by blending parts and meanings of two other words?

    Answer: portmanteau

    The word “brunch” blends “breakfast” and “lunch,” making it a portmanteau.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub landmarks round: Which suspension bridge links San Francisco with Marin County?

    Answer: Golden Gate Bridge

    The Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 and crosses the strait connecting San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean.

Daily round

  1. Pub landmarks round: Which Dubai skyscraper opened in 2010 as the world’s tallest building?

    Answer: Burj Khalifa

    The Burj Khalifa rises 828 meters and contains offices, residences, and observation levels.

  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 inventions round: Which weaving machine used punched cards to control patterns?

    Answer: Jacquard loom

    Jacquard loom cards influenced later ideas for storing machine instructions as punched patterns.

  4. Pub language round: What do we call a word pronounced like another but differing in meaning or spelling?

    Answer: homophone

    “Sea” and “see” are homophones because they sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.

  5. Pub history round: Which merchant alliance linked medieval and early modern northern European cities?

    Answer: Hanseatic League

    The Hanseatic League linked merchant cities around the Baltic and North seas through trade privileges and mutual support.

Daily round

  1. Pub sports round: Which multi-stage cycling race traditionally finishes in Paris?

    Answer: Tour de France

    The first Tour de France took place in 1903 as a promotion for the newspaper L’Auto.

  2. Pub finale round: Which language is written in the script used for the word “العربية”?

    Answer: Arabic

    Arabic is normally written from right to left, while its numerals may run left to right.

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

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  4. Pub food round: Which Italian cured ham is commonly sliced very thin?

    Answer: prosciutto

    Prosciutto crudo is preserved by salting and air-drying rather than by cooking.

  5. Pub inventions round: Which instrument did Evangelista Torricelli develop to measure atmospheric pressure?

    Answer: barometer

    Torricelli’s mercury barometer showed that air has weight and that atmospheric pressure changes.

Daily round

  1. Pub nature round: Which microscopic animal is nicknamed the water bear?

    Answer: tardigrade

    Tardigrades can enter a dehydrated state called a tun when conditions become hostile.

  2. Pub art round: Which Mexican artist is famous for intensely personal self-portraits?

    Answer: Frida Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo used recurring imagery of her body, Mexican identity, pain, and personal experience.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub food round: Which spice comes from the stigmas of Crocus sativus flowers?

    Answer: saffron

    Each saffron flower produces only three red stigmas, which helps explain the spice’s high labor cost.

Daily round

  1. Pub sports round: Which trophy is awarded to the NHL playoff champion?

    Answer: Stanley Cup

    The Stanley Cup was named for Lord Stanley of Preston, Canada’s governor general in the 1890s.

  2. Pub literature round: Which ancient poet is traditionally credited with the Iliad and Odyssey?

    Answer: Homer

    The Iliad centers on a short period during the Trojan War, while the Odyssey follows Odysseus’s return home.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub history round: Which inscribed artifact helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs?

    Answer: Rosetta Stone

    The Rosetta Stone repeats a decree in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and ancient Greek scripts.

  5. Pub nature round: Which Namib Desert plant typically grows only two persistent leaves?

    Answer: welwitschia

    Welwitschia continually grows the same two leaves throughout its long life.

Daily round

  1. Pub sports round: Which gymnastics apparatus has two handles on a padded body?

    Answer: pommel horse

    The pommel horse demands continuous swinging and scissor movements without pausing on the apparatus.

  2. Pub food round: What Japanese name refers to young soybeans served in their pods?

    Answer: edamame

    Edamame are soybeans harvested while still green and tender rather than left to mature and dry.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub literature round: Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

    Answer: Jane Austen

    Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice in 1813 after substantially revising an earlier manuscript.

  5. Pub art round: Which artist co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque?

    Answer: Pablo Picasso

    Picasso and Braque developed Cubism by breaking subjects into multiple geometric viewpoints.