Trivia For September 15, 2025

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Question 1:

What number comes next in this sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36?

49

  • The sequence represents squared integers starting with 1² up to 6². The next value would be 7², which is 49.

Question 2:

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was primarily settled by this sect, who were notable for their intolerance of other religious viewpoints.

Puritans

  • International Religious Freedom Day is October 27, to commemorate the Boston martyrs, Quakers executed in the mid-17th century by the Puritans on Boston Common for their religious beliefs.

Question 3:

The courtship of Petruchio and Katherina forms the main plot of this Shakespearean comedy.

The Taming of the Shrew

  • Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship; however, Petruchio "tames" her with various psychological and physical torments, such as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. Discussion of the play's misogony has become the subject of considerable controversy and scholarship.

Question 4:

Although Michael Jordan played most of his NBA career with the Chicago Bulls, he also played two seasons with what other team?

Washington Wizards

  • During his career, Jordan was primarily a shooting guard. However, during his stint with the Wizards he mostly played small forward. His final NBA game was on April 16, 2003, in Philadelphia.

Question 5:

In an insult aimed at the selection committee, Irving Welsh referred to the Nobel Prize given to this person as "wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies."

Bob Dylan

  • Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," and was the first musician to win the award. It was an enormously controversial selection.

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