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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 5 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Pub finale round: Which island is the world’s largest when continents are excluded?

    Answer: Greenland

    Greenland covers roughly 2.16 million square kilometers, most of it beneath an ice sheet.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub nature round: Which mammal is covered with large protective keratin scales?

    Answer: pangolin

    Pangolin scales are made of keratin, the same protein found in human fingernails.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub music round: Which free-reed instrument is strongly associated with Argentine tango?

    Answer: bandoneon

    The bandoneon arrived in Argentina from Germany and became a defining voice of tango ensembles.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Pub art round: Which sculptor created The Thinker?

    Answer: Auguste Rodin

    Rodin originally conceived The Thinker as part of his larger sculptural project The Gates of Hell.

  2. 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.

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

    Answer: Edvard Munch

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

  4. 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.

  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 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 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Pub food round: Which red spice is made from dried ground peppers?

    Answer: paprika

    Paprika can taste sweet, hot, or smoky depending on the pepper variety and drying method.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Pub inventions round: Which rotary engine converts energy from high-pressure steam into mechanical work?

    Answer: steam turbine

    A steam turbine uses expanding steam to spin rows of blades and can drive an electrical generator.

  2. Pub finale round: Which national capital lies between Sydney and Melbourne?

    Answer: Canberra

    Canberra was selected as a compromise between rival Australian cities Sydney and Melbourne.

  3. Pub inventions round: Which machine enabled rapid reproduction of movable-type pages in Europe?

    Answer: printing press

    Movable-type printing made individual letters reusable, lowering the labor needed for repeated pages.

  4. Pub music round: Which wind instrument developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia uses a long hollow tube?

    Answer: didgeridoo

    Didgeridoo players can use circular breathing to maintain a continuous drone.

  5. Pub inventions round: Which spinning device resists changes to its orientation?

    Answer: gyroscope

    A spinning gyroscope conserves angular momentum, helping instruments sense or maintain orientation.

Daily round

  1. Pub sports round: What color jersey identifies the overall Tour de France leader?

    Answer: yellow jersey

    The leader’s yellow jersey is called the maillot jaune, matching the yellow paper once used by L’Auto.

  2. Pub nature round: Which large flightless bird of New Guinea and Australia has a helmet-like casque?

    Answer: cassowary

    The cassowary’s strong legs carry a long inner toe claw used for defense.

  3. Pub science round: Which blood cell type transports most oxygen using hemoglobin?

    Answer: red blood cell

    Mature human red blood cells have a biconcave shape and lack a nucleus, leaving more room for hemoglobin.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub nature round: Which tree group includes the tallest living trees?

    Answer: redwood

    The tallest coast redwoods exceed 110 meters and grow naturally along the foggy Pacific coast.

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 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 landmarks round: Which tidal island commune in Normandy is crowned by a medieval abbey?

    Answer: Mont-Saint-Michel

    Mont-Saint-Michel becomes surrounded by water during high tides because it stands in a tidal bay.

  4. Pub landmarks round: Which palace and fortress complex overlooks Granada in Spain?

    Answer: Alhambra

    The Alhambra’s best-known palaces were created by the Nasrid dynasty, the final Muslim rulers of Iberia.

  5. Pub sports round: What high-jump technique takes athletes over the bar back-first?

    Answer: Fosbury Flop

    Dick Fosbury won Olympic high-jump gold in 1968 using the back-first technique that took his name.