Trivia For January 31, 2026

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Question 1:

Fill in the blank to complete this mnemonic: "Spring forward. __ back."

Fall
  • The mnemonic is a reminder to set clocks one hour forward in the spring and turn them backwards in the fall in order to observe daylight savings time.


Question 2:

Fill in the blank: The American ____ Association was founded in 1878 as a professional organization for those practicing law.

Bar
  • Among the ABA's stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the legal profession.


Question 3:

Published in September 1962 by Rachel Carson, this book on the harms of DDT and other pesticides was an instant sensation.

Silent Spring
  • Silent Spring was vehemently opposed by the chemical and agricultural industries who threatened boycotts and legal action. Former US Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson called her a Communist and asked "Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?"


Question 4:

Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic philosophy associated with this nation's culture.

Japan
  • Wabi-sabi finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and the natural cycle of growth, decay, and renewal. It embraces the idea that things are beautiful precisely because they are not perfect, are constantly changing, and bear the marks of time and use.


Question 5:

The Crystal Palace Exhibition, also called the Great Exhibition, was an 1851 expo in this London park.

Hyde Park
  • Six million people—equivalent to a third of the entire population of Britain at the time—visited the Great Exhibition. Among the famous visitors were Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson.


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