Daily Trivia answers

The ten questions and their answers

Play the day above first if you want to; the answers below are in the order the quiz asked them, with the options as it showed them. Topics: food and drink, arts, science, sports, geography, nature, literature and history.

1. Food and drink

   Which drink is traditionally brewed by fermenting rice?

   • ATequila
   • BRum
   • CSake(the answer)
   • DGrappa

   Answer: Sake. Sake is a Japanese alcoholic drink made by fermenting polished rice with the help of a mould called koji.

   Source: britannica.com

2. Arts

   The step-pyramid temple called El Castillo, built by the ancient Maya, stands at which Mexican site?

   • ATeotihuacan
   • BPalenque
   • CTulum
   • DChichen Itza(the answer)

   Answer: Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza's pyramid was built by the Maya in the Yucatan peninsula.

   Source: britannica.com

3. Science

   What is the chemical symbol for Argon?

   • AAr(the answer)
   • BSb
   • CAt
   • DAs

   Answer: Ar. Argon's chemical symbol is Ar (atomic number 18).

   Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

4. Sports

   Which swimmer retired as the most decorated Olympian in history, with 28 medals?

   • AMark Spitz
   • BIan Thorpe
   • CKatie Ledecky
   • DMichael Phelps(the answer)

   Answer: Michael Phelps. Michael Phelps won 28 Olympic medals across four Games, 23 of them gold.

   Source: espn.com

5. Arts

   Which Russian composer wrote the ballet Swan Lake, premiered in Moscow in 1877?

   • APyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky(the answer)
   • BIgor Stravinsky
   • CSergei Prokofiev
   • DDmitri Shostakovich

   Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake was poorly received at first but later became a staple.

   Source: britannica.com

6. Geography

   Which of these countries had the largest population in 2023?

   • AAustria
   • BBelarus
   • CGuinea(the answer)
   • DKuwait

   Answer: Guinea. As of 2023, Guinea had the largest population of these four, at about 14.4 million.

   Correct as of October 15, 2026. Source: data.worldbank.org

7. Nature

   The Andes mountains in South America were built mainly by the subduction of which oceanic plate?

   • AThe Indian Plate
   • BThe Nazca Plate(the answer)
   • CThe Arabian Plate
   • DThe Juan de Fuca Plate

   Answer: The Nazca Plate. The Nazca Plate sinking beneath South America has pushed up the Andes and fuelled its many volcanoes.

   Source: usgs.gov

8. Science

   Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?

   • ARhenium(the answer)
   • BCopper
   • CZirconium
   • DSelenium

   Answer: Rhenium. Rhenium has atomic number 75, the highest of these four.

   Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

9. Literature

   Persian poet Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, chronicles the mythical and historical rulers of which land?

   • APersia(the answer)
   • BArabia
   • CMesopotamia
   • DIndia

   Answer: Persia. Ferdowsi spent decades composing the roughly 50,000-couplet epic.

   Source: britannica.com

10. History

    The Hittite Empire, a major Bronze Age power that rivalled Egypt, was centred in which region?

    • AMesopotamia
    • BThe Levant
    • CAnatolia(the answer)
    • DThe Caucasus

    Answer: Anatolia. The Hittites built their empire in what is now central Turkey (Anatolia) during the Bronze Age.

    Source: britannica.com

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