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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 8 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Pub inventions round: Which fastener joins two rows of teeth using a sliding tab?

    Answer: zipper

    Modern zippers use interlocking teeth that a wedge-shaped slider joins or separates.

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 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.

  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 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 history round: Which survey of landholding was ordered by William the Conqueror?

    Answer: Domesday Book

    The Domesday survey recorded land, resources, and obligations across much of England in 1086.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub nature round: Which Australian bird is celebrated for remarkably accurate sound mimicry?

    Answer: lyrebird

    Lyrebirds imitate other birds as well as mechanical sounds they hear in their environment.

  3. Pub history round: What name describes the historic trade networks linking East Asia and the Mediterranean?

    Answer: Silk Road

    The Silk Road was a changing network of land and sea routes rather than one continuous road.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  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 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.

  4. 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.

  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 literature round: Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?

    Answer: Virginia Woolf

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

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

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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 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.

  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 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

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

    Answer: Dante Alighieri

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

  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 language round: What term describes a word that imitates a sound?

    Answer: onomatopoeia

    Words such as “buzz” and “hiss” are examples of onomatopoeia.

  4. 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.

  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.