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Trivia For July 12, 2026
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Question 1:
Jonathan Harker takes a business trip to Transylvania in the first part of this 1897 Gothic horror novel.
Written by Bram Stoker, the character of Count Dracula is the the most portrayed literary character in media according to the Guinness Book of World Records, with over 700 appearances.
Question 2:
What quirky term is used in tennis to represent a score of zero?
Etymologists debate the true origin, but the term is most widely attributed to either the French phrase for egg (l'oeuf) or the idiom "playing for love," meaning playing for nothing but the pure enjoyment of the sport.
Question 3:
The term 'Sloane Ranger' is slang for a young, upper-class person who frequents the areas near Sloane Square in this city.
The term was coined in a 1975 Harpers & Queen article. The late Diana, Princess of Wales was a considered to be an archetypical Sloane Ranger.
Question 4:
Old West frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok is better known by what two-word nickname?
In 1876, "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood. The hand of cards that he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs; black aces and eights.
Question 5:
Name the British scientist who first coined the word meme.
Dawkins coined the word concept in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) as a way of explaining how evolutionary principles can spread ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in Dawkins' book include melodies, catchphrases, fashion, and the technology of building arches.
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