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Trivia For January 9, 2026
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Question 1:
The Iran-Contra affair was a scandal that erupted during the administration of what U.S. president?
The scandal involved senior officials in Reagan's government who facilitated arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986 in order to fund the Contras, a right-wing rebel group in Nicaragua.
Question 2:
Created in 1215, the Articles of the Barons is better known today by this name.
King John met the barons opposing him at Runnymede, on the south bank of the River Thames. After ten days of negotiation, they agreed to terms. Years later, this agreement would be renamed Magna Carta, meaning "Great Charter".
Question 3:
With somewhere between four and seven million adherents, the largest Christian group in the Middle East are the Copts, located in this nation.
According to tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church was established by the apostle Saint Mark during the middle of the 1st century AD.
Question 4:
The novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera covers the events around the invasion of this city by the Soviet Union.
The book relates the story of two women, two men, a dog, and their lives during the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.
Question 5:
"Q" is one of two letters that does not appear in the periodic table either as an element name or symbol. What is the other?
"Q" has been used in the past as a placeholder, e.g. element 114 was temporarily called ununquadium (symbol Uuq) before it was officially named Flerovium (Fl). "J" doesn't appear because it isn't used in either Latin or Greek, from which most element names arise.
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