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Trivia For December 29, 2025
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Question 1:
Fill in the blank to complete the title of this novella by Ernest Hemmingway: The Old Man and the ______.
Life magazine published the full novella in its September 1, 1952 issue, and it would subsequently be released as a stand-alone book to record sales. Although early reviews were extremely positive, subsequent critical opinion was more mixed.
Question 2:
This is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Winnipeg is located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Long a trading center for indigenous people, the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water".
Question 3:
Fill in the blank: Buteo jamaicensis is a bird-of-prey with a common name of red-tailed _.
Birds of the genus Buteo are not true hawks, which are of the genus Accipiter. The red-tailed hawk breeds throughout most of the continent, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. The hawks are relatively unfazed by large-scale human activity, with a large population that lives among the Manhattan skyscrapers.
Question 4:
At the time that Europeans first settled in North America, how many nations comprised the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca were the original five nations. In 1722, the Tuscarora people migrated north from the Carolinas and were accepted into the confederacy as a sixth nation.
Question 5:
Name the anthem for the Premier League football club Manchester City that was originally written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934.
The song has been a hit for Mel Tormé, Elvis Presley, and Ella Fitzgerald among others. The original version was called "Prayer" and had different lyrics. After it was cut from the film Hollywood Party, it would eventually be released as a standalone song.
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