Trivia For October 15, 2025

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Question 1:

In American football, the person who directs the offense on the field plays this position; the term has become an idiom for the leader of an operation or project.

Quarterback

  • Another idiom is "Monday morning quarterback" which arises from a fan second-guessing a team's performance the day after the game.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank: In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the _ Revolution to purge any remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.

Cultural

  • The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos across Chinese society. 1–2 million people died and tens of millions more were persecuted. The Revolution sought to destroy the Four Olds (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits), which often took the form of destroying historical artifacts and cultural and religious sites.

Question 3:

Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants, better known by this common name. While many members are highly toxic, others such as tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants are used as food crops.

Nightshade

  • The Solanaceae consists of about 98 genera and some 2,700 species, with a great diversity of habitats, morphology and ecology.

Question 4:

Fill in the blank: Plutarch is primarily known for his biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, called _ Lives.

Parallel

  • The work is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written at the beginning of the second century AD. The biographies are paired, consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny.

Question 5:

How many pence were in a pound before the UK switched to decimalization in 1971?

240

  • The pound was divided into 20 shillings, and each shilling into 12 pence, making 240 pence to the pound. Mixed sums of shillings and pence, such as 3 shillings and 6 pence, was written as "3/6" or "3s. 6d." and spoken as "three and six" or "three and sixpence".

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