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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 9 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 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.

  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 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.

  5. Pub inventions round: Which instrument did Evangelista Torricelli develop to measure atmospheric pressure?

    Answer: barometer

    Torricelli’s mercury barometer showed that air has weight and that atmospheric pressure changes.

Daily round

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

    Answer: Edvard Munch

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

  2. Pub literature round: Which Japanese author wrote Kafka on the Shore?

    Answer: Haruki Murakami

    Kafka on the Shore interweaves two alternating narratives involving Kafka Tamura and an elderly man named Nakata.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub art round: Which Surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory?

    Answer: Salvador Dalí

    The Persistence of Memory was painted in 1931 and features soft, melting watches.

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

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  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 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub food round: Which firm Cypriot cheese is known for holding its shape when grilled?

    Answer: halloumi

    Halloumi softens without melting quickly because its curds are heated during production.

  3. Pub history round: Which 1494 agreement divided newly claimed lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal?

    Answer: Treaty of Tordesillas

    The Treaty of Tordesillas drew an Atlantic dividing line that other European powers did not recognize.

  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 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub music round: Which two-string bowed instrument is used in Chinese music?

    Answer: erhu

    The erhu has two strings, with the bow hair passing between them.

  3. 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.

  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 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 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.”

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

    Answer: onomatopoeia

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

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Pub literature round: Which Japanese author wrote Kafka on the Shore?

    Answer: Haruki Murakami

    Kafka on the Shore interweaves two alternating narratives involving Kafka Tamura and an elderly man named Nakata.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.