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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 12 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Pub science round: Which planet has the most visually prominent ring system?

    Answer: Saturn

    Saturn’s rings consist mainly of water-ice particles ranging from dust-sized grains to larger chunks.

  4. Pub science round: Which deficiency disease is prevented by adequate vitamin C?

    Answer: scurvy

    Scurvy disrupts collagen formation and can cause bleeding gums, bruising, and poor wound healing.

  5. Pub finale round: Which imaginary line divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

    Answer: equator

    The equator is at zero degrees latitude and is approximately 40,075 kilometers long.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  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 language round: What term describes a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward when spacing is ignored?

    Answer: palindrome

    “Never odd or even” is a palindrome when spaces are ignored.

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

    Answer: Edvard Munch

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

  5. 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.

Daily round

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

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  2. Pub inventions round: Which navigation instrument measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon?

    Answer: sextant

    A sextant uses mirrors so a navigator can view the horizon and a celestial body at the same time.

  3. Pub literature round: Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?

    Answer: Virginia Woolf

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

  4. 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.

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

    Answer: Dante Alighieri

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

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub art round: Who created the woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa?

    Answer: Katsushika Hokusai

    The Great Wave belongs to Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

  3. Pub history round: Which 1868 political transformation restored imperial rule in Japan?

    Answer: Meiji Restoration

    The Meiji Restoration ended Tokugawa shogunal rule and accelerated political, military, and industrial reform.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub nature round: Which Arctic whale has a long spiral tusk, usually in males?

    Answer: narwhal

    A narwhal tusk is an elongated tooth containing millions of nerve endings.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub landmarks round: Which unfinished basilica in Barcelona was designed by Antoni Gaudí?

    Answer: Sagrada Família

    Construction of the Sagrada Família began in 1882, and Gaudí devoted the later part of his life to the project.

  3. Pub food round: Which pungent green condiment traditionally accompanies Japanese sushi?

    Answer: wasabi

    True wasabi belongs to the cabbage family, and many commercial green pastes rely mostly on horseradish.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub science round: Which gemstone is a crystalline form of carbon?

    Answer: diamond

    Diamond’s carbon atoms form a rigid three-dimensional lattice that makes it exceptionally hard.

Daily round

  1. Pub literature round: Who wrote the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four?

    Answer: George Orwell

    George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist and essayist.

  2. 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.

  3. Pub finale round: Which metric unit equals one thousand meters?

    Answer: kilometer

    The prefix “kilo-” means one thousand in the International System of Units.

  4. Pub music round: Which low woodwind instrument uses a double reed and a long folded tube?

    Answer: bassoon

    The bassoon’s long bore folds back on itself, allowing a low register without an impractically tall straight tube.

  5. Pub literature round: Who wrote Frankenstein?

    Answer: Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley first published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub music round: Which percussion instrument has wooden bars arranged like a keyboard over resonators?

    Answer: marimba

    A marimba places tuned resonator tubes beneath wooden bars to amplify their sound.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub music round: Which keyboard instrument plucks rather than hammers its strings?

    Answer: harpsichord

    A harpsichord plucks strings with small plectra, giving it a different attack from a piano.

  5. Pub sports round: Which cricket Test series is contested by England and Australia?

    Answer: The Ashes

    The Ashes name arose after a satirical obituary declared English cricket had died following an 1882 loss.