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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 3 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub music round: Which double-reed woodwind commonly gives the orchestra its tuning note?

    Answer: oboe

    The oboe’s stable, penetrating A makes it easy for an orchestra to hear while tuning.

  3. Pub literature round: Who wrote Frankenstein?

    Answer: Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley first published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818.

  4. Pub literature round: Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?

    Answer: Virginia Woolf

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

  5. Pub history round: Which collection of clay soldiers guarded the tomb of China’s first emperor?

    Answer: Terracotta Army

    The Terracotta Army was buried near Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum in individualized ranks of soldiers and horses.

Daily round

  1. Pub language round: What figure of speech joins apparently contradictory terms?

    Answer: oxymoron

    “Deafening silence” is an oxymoron because its paired ideas appear contradictory.

  2. Pub sports round: Which golf competition pits teams from Europe and the United States against each other?

    Answer: Ryder Cup

    The Ryder Cup is normally played every two years using match-play formats rather than total strokes.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub inventions round: Which long-distance communication system sent coded electrical signals over wires?

    Answer: telegraph

    Telegraph operators used codes such as Morse code to represent letters with electrical pulses.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Pub language round: What sentence uses every letter of an alphabet at least once?

    Answer: pangram

    “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a well-known English pangram.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub food round: Which sour-sweet tropical pod pulp flavors many chutneys and sauces?

    Answer: tamarind

    Tamarind pulp surrounds seeds inside brown pods and contributes both acidity and sweetness.

Daily round

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

    Answer: Mercury

    Mercury completes an orbit in about 88 Earth days.

  2. Pub nature round: Which carnivorous plant snaps paired leaf lobes around prey?

    Answer: venus flytrap

    A Venus flytrap counts trigger-hair touches, helping it avoid closing for a single raindrop.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub language round: What term describes a word made by rearranging another word’s letters?

    Answer: anagram

    “Listen” can be rearranged into the anagram “silent.”

  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 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.

  5. Pub landmarks round: Which large statue overlooks Rio de Janeiro from Corcovado Mountain?

    Answer: Christ the Redeemer

    Christ the Redeemer was completed in 1931 and is an Art Deco monument with reinforced-concrete construction.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub history round: Which 1930 protest led by Gandhi challenged the British salt monopoly?

    Answer: Dandi March

    The Dandi March covered roughly 390 kilometers before Gandhi made salt at the Arabian Sea.

  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 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 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.