Trivia For September 17, 2025

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Question 1:

How many figures are in Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Last Supper?

Thirteen

  • The painting shows Jesus with the Twelve Apostles at the moment when Jesus announces that one of his apostles will betray him.

Question 2:

James Carville coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid" while advising this U.S. presidential candidate.

Bill Clinton

  • The phrase was directed at the campaign's workers and intended as one of three messages for them to focus on. The others were "Change vs. more of the same" and "Don't forget health care."

Question 3:

Who wrote Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), one of the defining novels of the Western genre?

Zane Grey

  • One of the most popular Western novels of all time, the book features many plot points that would come to be genre tropes, including cattle-rustling, horse-theft, kidnapping and gunfights.

Question 4:

This 13-letter word has been used to describe the European movement of the 17th and the 18th centuries that emphasized rationalism and empiricism.

Enlightenment

  • The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were individual liberty, representative government, the rule of law, and religious freedom.

Question 5:

First discovered in 2008, Loki's Castle is a field of five active hydrothermal vents in what ocean?

Atlantic Ocean

  • The vents are of geological interest as they occur in a relatively stable region of the Earth's crust with diminished tectonic forces and consequently fewer hydrothermal vents.

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