Trivia For June 25, 2026

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Question 1:

With nearly a half billion native speakers, this is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages.

Spanish

  • Nearly 600 hundred million people speak spanish either as a first or second language, over 7% of the world's population. That places it fourth behind English, Mandarin and Hindi.

Question 2:

Which U.S. president was in office at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

Thomas Jefferson

  • Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The expedition departed St. Louis in May 1804, reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805, and returned to St. Louis in September 1806.

Question 3:

One of the world's oldest monotheistic faiths, Zoroastrianism was founded in what is now this modern-day country.

Iran

  • Zoroastrian religion combines a dualistic cosmology of good and evil with an eschatological outlook predicting the ultimate triumph of their all-wise deity, Ahura Mazda, over evil.

Question 4:

What term is used to describe the small, decorative "feet" attached to the ends of letterforms in some typefaces?

Serif

  • Serifs help guide the reader's eye across a page, creating a horizontal flow that improves readability for printed documents. However, typefaces designed to be legible on computer screens usually omit the serif. These fonts are known as sans-serif.

Question 5:

Dephlogisticated air was the 18th-century name for what gaseous element?

Oxygen

  • The term was coined by Joseph Priestley in 1774 after he first isolated the gas. Under a common theory at the time, it was believed that combustible materials contained a substance called "phlogiston", which was released during burning. Priestley thought this air was "deprived of phlogiston," allowing it to absorb more substance during combustion, causing candles to burn brighter breathing to become easier.

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