Trivia For December 18, 2025

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Question 1:

According to the song "America the Beautiful," what color are Anerica's "mountain majesties"?

Purple

  • The song's lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates as a poem. She was inspired by a train trip she took from Massachusetts to Colorado. The poem was originally entitled "Pikes Peak," and the "purple mountain majesties" is specifically a reference to that mountain.

Question 2:

This country was banned from competing in the Olympics between the years 1964 and 1992.

South Africa

  • South Africa was readmitted to the IOC and allowed to compete again in 1992 after apartheid laws were repealed and a new, non-racial national Olympic committee was established.

Question 3:

The Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian state first introduced in this 1985 dystopian novel.

The Handmaid's Tale

  • In Margaret Atwood's book, Gilead is a theocratic military dictatorship that establishes a rigid, hierarchical social structure based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, was published in 2019.

Question 4:

After a mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1787, nine of the mutineers settled on this Pacific island.

Pitcairn Island

  • The island was named after midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a 15-year-old crew member who was the first to sight it. The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitians who had accompanied them.

Question 5:

According to ancient Greek poet Hesiod, this god was the son and husband of Gaia, with whom he fathered the Titans.

Uranus

  • Hesiod's Theogony is the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology. It tells the origins of the gods, including how Uranus rose to power, was overthrown by Cronus, and who in turn was overthrown by Zeus.

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