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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 6 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Pub language round: Which Japanese verse form is commonly taught in English using a three-line 5-7-5 syllable pattern?

    Answer: haiku

    Traditional Japanese haiku are organized by sound units called morae, which do not map perfectly to English syllables.

  2. 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.

  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 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 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub finale round: How many colors are traditionally named in a visible-light rainbow?

    Answer: seven

    The seven traditional rainbow colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

  3. Pub nature round: Which parasitic plant produces one of the world’s largest individual flowers?

    Answer: rafflesia

    Rafflesia lacks ordinary leaves, stems, and roots and lives as a parasite inside its host vine.

  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 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 landmarks round: What name is given to the monumental stone figures of Rapa Nui?

    Answer: Moai

    Most moai were carved from volcanic tuff by the Rapa Nui people between roughly the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub inventions round: Which medical listening instrument was invented by René Laennec?

    Answer: stethoscope

    Laennec’s first stethoscope was a simple wooden tube rather than today’s flexible binaural design.

  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 art round: Which painter created the Impression, Sunrise canvas that helped name Impressionism?

    Answer: Claude Monet

    Monet’s Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre and was exhibited in 1874.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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

    Answer: Mercury

    Mercury completes an orbit in about 88 Earth days.

  2. Pub finale round: How many colors are traditionally named in a visible-light rainbow?

    Answer: seven

    The seven traditional rainbow colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

  3. 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.

  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 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.

Daily round

  1. Pub landmarks round: Which Inca site stands high in the Andes of Peru?

    Answer: Machu Picchu

    Machu Picchu was built by the Inca in the fifteenth century and sits above Peru’s Urubamba Valley.

  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 sculptor created The Thinker?

    Answer: Auguste Rodin

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

  4. Pub science round: Which technology uses sound echoes to detect objects underwater?

    Answer: sonar

    Active sonar emits sound pulses and measures returning echoes, while passive sonar only listens.

  5. 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.