Trivia For April 3, 2026

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Question 1:

What shape is the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas?

Pyramid

  • Named after the city in Upper Egypt, the casino features an ancient Egyptian theme with a recreation of the Great Sphinx of Giza located facing the Las Vegas Strip.

Question 2:

What 1854 bill created two new U.S. territories and allowed the residents to vote in a referendum on whether or not to allow slavery?

Kansas–Nebraska Act

  • The act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise which outlawed slavery in the territory north of latitude 36° 30′. After the passage of the act, pro- and anti-slavery elements flooded into Kansas to establish a population that would vote for or against slavery, resulting in a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas".

Question 3:

Name the film composer who created the musical scores for six Christopher Nolan films: the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk.

Hans Zimmer

  • Nolan and Zimmer haven't worked together since 2017's Dunkirk, leading to speculation that they had a falling out.

Question 4:

Fill in the blank: In finance, a dead ____ bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining asset.

Cat

  • The phrase comes from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height". The earliest citation dates to December 1985 when the Singaporean and Malaysian stock markets bounced back after a hard fall during the recession of that year.

Question 5:

In 1965, this spacecraft performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars.

Mariner 4

  • Mariner 4 captured the first photographs of another planet ever returned from deep space; the images of a cratered, dead planet without surface water largely changed the scientific community's view of life on Mars.

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