Trivia For February 16, 2026

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Question 1:

Although born in Massachusetts Bay colony, Benjamin Franklin spent most of his life in the territory that would eventually become this U.S. state.

Pennsylvania

  • Franklin would became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette at the age of 23. He would later help found what would become the University of Pennsylvania.

Question 2:

Giant catacombs under this city house the remains of over six million people, making it is the world's largest ossuary.

Paris

  • Most of the bodies were previously buried in cemeteries around the city, but overcrowding forced the authorities to find someplace else to store the remains. Ancient stone quarries under the city were utilized to store the bodies, in a large-scale effort undertaken in the late 18th century.

Question 3:

What is the name for the phenomenon that causes the light from an object that's moving away to have a longer wavelength?

Redshift

  • In 1868, British astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by the method.

Question 4:

Fill in the blank with a number: According to the Pareto Principle, roughly 80% of consequences can be attributed to _____% of causes.

20

  • Management consultant Joseph M. Juran developed the concept in the 1940s, after reading the works of Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto, who wrote in 1906 about the 80/20 connection while teaching at the University of Lausanne.

Question 5:

Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution (1957) is a legal drama based on a play by what writer?

Agatha Christie

  • The 1953 play was itself an adaptation of a 1925 Agatha Christie short story, called "Traitor's Hands."

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