Trivia For November 5, 2025

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Question 1:

What queen supposedly replied "let them eat cake" when told that the peasants had no bread? (Historians believe the story is apocryphal.)

Marie Antoinette
  • The French phrase is "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche." it can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution when Antoinette was nine years old and before she had ever been to France.


Question 2:

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland in September of what year?

1939
  • The German invasion began on September 1, 1939 and the Soviets attacked on the 17th. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the country.


Question 3:

Fill in the blank to complete the acronym for NASCAR: National Association for __ Car Auto Racing.

Stock
  • Stock car racing originally used production-model cars, hence the name. Today, however, the cars are purpose-built for the track.


Question 4:

Name the Josephine Tey mystery novel that re-examines the alleged crimes of Richard III through the eyes Alan Grant, a Scotland Yard Inspector from the mid-20th century.

The Daughter of Time
  • According to a 1990 survey by the British-based Crime Writers’ Association, The Daughter of Time is the best crime novel of all-time.


Question 5:

This collaborative, global event has occurred four times: 1882-1883, 1932-1933, 1957-1958 and 2007-2008.

International Polar Year
  • The first International Polar Year was proposed by an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, Karl Weyprecht. The goal was to have a coordinated scientific approach to researching the polar regions.


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