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Trivia For October 16, 2026
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Question 1:
According to legend, this European capital city was originally founded on Palatine Hill.
According to Roman mythology, the hill was the location of the cave where Romulus and Remus were discovered by the she-wolf Lupa. Later, Romulus would murder his brother and found the city on the same hill.
Question 2:
Fill in the blank: The Persistence of _____ is an iconic 1931 surrealist painting by artist Salvador Dalí. It is well-known for its depiction of a melting clocks in a dreamlike landscape.
Dalí said the idea for the melting watches came to him after watching a round of Camembert cheese melt in the heat. The painting is located at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
Question 3:
Order these historical events by number (earliest to latest): 1-Battle of Bunker Hill; 2-Boston Massacre; 3-Boston Tea Party
The Boston Massacre was in 1770, the Tea Party was in 1773 and the Battle of Bunker Hill was in 1775.
Question 4:
Cachaça is a distilled spirit associated with what Latin American nation?
Cachaça is made from fermented sugarcane juice. It is by far the most popular spirit in Brazil with almost 300 million liters produced annually. Apprximately 98% of the production is consumed domestically.
Question 5:
Photons and gluons are both massless particles that have been confirmed to exist. What other massless particle has been theorized since the 1930s, but is still hypothetical?
According to theory, a graviton would contain the force of gravity, just as light is made of tiny packets of energy called photons. The concept originated in 1934 from the work of Soviet physicists Dmitry Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin as they tried to apply quantum mechanics to gravity.
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