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: geography, nature, science, sports, arts, history, food and drink and literature.

1. Geography

   What is the currency of Japan?

   • AThai baht
   • BSingapore dollar
   • CBahraini dinar
   • DJapanese yen(the answer)

   Answer: Japanese yen. Japan's currency is the Japanese yen.

   Source: wikidata.org

2. Nature

   Which of these animals is the fastest runner?

   • AKomodo dragon
   • BGiant panda
   • CLion(the answer)
   • DKoala

   Answer: Lion. The lion can run at roughly 80 km/h, well ahead of the others here.

   Source: nationalzoo.si.edu

3. Science

   Which element has the chemical symbol V?

   • ATechnetium
   • BRhodium
   • CDubnium
   • DVanadium(the answer)

   Answer: Vanadium. V is the chemical symbol for Vanadium (atomic number 23).

   Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

4. Sports

   New Zealand's men's rugby team is nicknamed what?

   • Athe Springboks
   • Bthe Wallabies
   • Cthe Lions
   • Dthe All Blacks(the answer)

   Answer: the All Blacks. New Zealand's national rugby union team is famously known as the All Blacks.

   Source: worldrugby.org

5. Arts

   Which Japanese director's 1954 film Seven Samurai influenced action films worldwide?

   • AYasujiro Ozu
   • BAkira Kurosawa(the answer)
   • CKenji Mizoguchi
   • DMikio Naruse

   Answer: Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's samurai epics brought Japanese cinema to global audiences.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

6. History

   The Toltec civilization, which influenced later Aztec culture, had its capital at which city in central Mexico?

   • ATeotihuacan
   • BChichen Itza
   • CTenochtitlan
   • DTula(the answer)

   Answer: Tula. The Toltec capital of Tula flourished from roughly the 10th to 12th centuries CE.

   Source: britannica.com

7. Food and drink

   Gluten, the protein that gives bread dough its stretch, is found mainly in which grain?

   • ARice
   • BWheat(the answer)
   • CCorn
   • DMillet

   Answer: Wheat. Gluten forms when two proteins in wheat flour combine with water and are worked by kneading.

   Source: britannica.com

8. Science

   Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?

   • AManganese
   • BCobalt
   • CNickel
   • DEuropium(the answer)

   Answer: Europium. Europium has atomic number 63, the highest of these four.

   Source: pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

9. Literature

   Which Turkish novelist, author of My Name Is Red, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006?

   • AYashar Kemal
   • BNazim Hikmet
   • COrhan Pamuk(the answer)
   • DElif Shafak

   Answer: Orhan Pamuk. Orhan Pamuk became the first Turkish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2006.

   Source: nobelprize.org

10. Arts

    Which Flemish painter is especially known for crowded scenes of peasant life, such as The Peasant Wedding?

    • APieter Bruegel the Elder(the answer)
    • BJan van Eyck
    • CHieronymus Bosch
    • DPeter Paul Rubens

    Answer: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel the Elder filled his canvases with lively, detailed scenes of ordinary village life.

    Source: britannica.com

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