Trivia For November 20, 2025

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Question 1:

In the English fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs," a wolf is unable to blow down a house made of this material.

Bricks
  • The most well-known version first appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, published in 1890. However, the story is thought to be much older.


Question 2:

What Democratic candidate for U.S. president lost to Richard Nixon in 1972?

George McGovern
  • Nixon would win in a landslide with over 60% of the popular vote. He only lost the electoral votes of Massachusetts and Washington D.C.


Question 3:

Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel are among the past faculty members at the Institute for Advanced Study, a research organization located in what city that's also home to an Ivy League university?

Princeton
  • IAS was founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner. In the 1930s and 1940s, many prominent scientists found a new home at the Institute after fleeing fascism and anti-semitism in Europe.


Question 4:

For nutritional labeling and medical use in the U.S., how many milliliters are equivalent to a standard teaspoon?

5
  • U.S. teaspoons used for cooking are defined to be slightly smaller, equivalent to 4.92892159375 mL.


Question 5:

Although Urdu is considered the national language of Pakistan, this other language is the most widely spoken.

Punjabi
  • Punjabi is primarily spoken in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Over 36% of Pakistanis speak it as their first language.


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