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Every day Daily Trivia asks the same ten general knowledge questions to everyone who plays, from an easy opener to a hard last pair. Once a day's quiz has closed at midnight ET, its questions and answers are published here: the four options as the game showed them, the right one marked, a line explaining it and the source we checked it against.
Today's questions are never on this page, so the game stays fair; play today's quiz, then come back tomorrow for the answers. Past days can also be played again from the Daily Trivia archive, which is a good way to practise before a quiz night. A replay deals the day's own ten questions for every day from ten days before the game's latest update onwards; an older day deals ten others from the practice pool, without that day's crowd numbers, so its own questions and answers are only on this page. For other questions with a single right answer, try which came first?, and for quick-fire geography the world capitals quiz.
Past quizzes
Recent questions by topic
History
- The Toltec civilization, which influenced later Aztec culture, had its capital at which city in central Mexico?Answer: Tula
- Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence in which decade?Answer: The 1950s
- The Parthian Empire, a long-lasting rival of Rome in the east, was centred in the region of which modern country?Answer: Iran
- The Fatimid Caliphate, which founded the city of Cairo, was centred in which region before expanding into Egypt?Answer: North Africa (Tunisia)
Geography
- What is the currency of Japan?Answer: Japanese yen
- Which currency is used in North Korea?Answer: North Korean won
- Which of these countries is landlocked?Answer: Laos
- Which of these countries had the smallest population in 2023?Answer: Monaco
Science
- Which element has the chemical symbol V?Answer: Vanadium
- Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?Answer: Europium
- Which of these elements has the highest atomic number?Answer: Antimony
- Which element has the chemical symbol Cu?Answer: Copper
Nature
- Which of these animals is the fastest runner?Answer: Lion
- Fog forms near the ground mainly when moist air cools until it reaches what?Answer: Its saturation point (dew point)
- A dinosaur bone usually becomes a fossil over millions of years mainly through what process?Answer: Minerals slowly replacing the bone
- Reptiles are described as cold-blooded mainly because they rely on what to regulate body temperature?Answer: External heat sources like the sun
Arts
- Which Japanese director's 1954 film Seven Samurai influenced action films worldwide?Answer: Akira Kurosawa
- Which Flemish painter is especially known for crowded scenes of peasant life, such as The Peasant Wedding?Answer: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Which Norwegian composer wrote the incidental music for Peer Gynt, including "Morning Mood"?Answer: Edvard Grieg
- Pansori, a long solo narrative chant accompanied by a single barrel drum, is a traditional performance art of which country?Answer: South Korea
Literature
- Which Turkish novelist, author of My Name Is Red, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006?Answer: Orhan Pamuk
- James Joyce's novel Ulysses follows ordinary Dubliner Leopold Bloom over the course of how much time?Answer: A single day
- Which Athenian hero navigated a labyrinth with a ball of thread to slay the Minotaur?Answer: Theseus
- Marcel Proust's novel cycle In Search of Lost Time famously opens with a narrator's memories triggered by tasting what?Answer: A madeleine cake dipped in tea
Sports
- New Zealand's men's rugby team is nicknamed what?Answer: the All Blacks
- Which winter sport involves sliding a heavy granite stone across ice toward a target?Answer: Curling
- Which country hosted the first Pan American Games, held in 1951?Answer: Argentina
- Which country won the first-ever Olympic men's volleyball gold medal, at the 1964 Tokyo Games?Answer: the Soviet Union
Food and drink
- Gluten, the protein that gives bread dough its stretch, is found mainly in which grain?Answer: Wheat
- Which spice comes from the dried stigmas of a crocus flower?Answer: Saffron
- Sushi, built around vinegared rice, developed as part of which country's cuisine?Answer: Japan
- Which continent is the original home of the coffee plant?Answer: Africa
How the questions are checked
Each written question was checked twice before it could be scheduled: once against its cited source and once by a reviewer answering it blind, without seeing the key. Questions built from data, such as a capital city or the height of a mountain, come from public datasets like Wikidata and the World Bank and were checked against them. Answers that can change, such as a sporting record, show the date they were last checked.
What the quizzes cover
The ten questions of a day mix history, geography, science, nature, the arts, literature, sport and food and drink. Each day runs from two warm-up questions to two that most people find hard, so a typical score is somewhere in the middle and a perfect ten is something to share.
Common questions
When do the answers appear?
The next day: each day's quiz closes at midnight Eastern Time (New York), and its answers are published here as soon as it does. Today's questions are never shown.
Can I still play a past day?
Yes, from its page or the archive, but only a recent day plays its own questions: the game carries each day's ten from ten days before its latest update onwards. An older day deals ten other questions from the practice pool, without that day's crowd numbers, and its own questions and answers stay on this page. A past day is played for fun: it does not count towards a streak or the leaderboard.
What if an answer is wrong?
Every question was checked against a source, but mistakes happen. Daily Trivia lets you flag a question from its answer sheet when you think it is wrong.
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