Trivia For January 29, 2026

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Question 1:

According to a story made up by his biographer, this Founding Father admitted to chopping down his father's prized cherry tree because he would not tell a lie.

George Washington

  • Mason Locke Weems wrote A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington which contains this and several other fabricated anecdotes.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank to complete the title of this 1958 film about submarine warfare in World War II: Run Silent, Run _.

Deep

  • Directed by Robert Wise, the film starred Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster and was based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward L. Beach Jr.

Question 3:

The Luddites were a group of 19th-century skilled workers in this country who destroyed automated machinery that they felt threatened their livelihoods.

United Kingdom

  • Although the story is believed apocryphal, Ned Ludd was supposedly an apprentice who destroyed two textile machines in a fit of rage. Today, the term luddite has been applied to those opposed to the introduction of new technologies.

Question 4:

Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty formed this supergroup in 1988.

Traveling Wilburys

  • After recording the single "Handle with Care", the quinete agreed to record a whole album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, which was released in October 1988. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys continued as a quartet and released a second album, incongruously titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990.

Question 5:

Order these events from Chinese history by number (earliest to latest): 1-Mongols establish the Yuan dynasty; 2-Confucius's lifespan; 3-The Terracotta Army is buried with Qin Shi Huang.

2, 3, 1

  • Confucius lived in the 6th century BC; The Terracotta Army was in the early 3rd century BC; and Kublai Khan founded the Yuan dynasty in 1271.

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