Trivia For May 9, 2026

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Question 1:

Which U.S. state's nickname is the "Hawkeye State"?

Iowa

  • There are several theories about the name, including that it comes from the Ioway, a local Native American tribe which also gave the state its name. Another theory is that the name comes from a character in the book Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank: BRICS stands for the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and _____.

South Africa

  • The acronym was originally coined by banker Jim O'Neill as BRIC to designate a group of emerging market nations. South Africa was added in 2010. More recently, BRICS expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), forming BRICS+. The countries comprise more than a quarter of the global economy and nearly half the world's population.

Question 3:

The Les Paul is an electric guitar that was first sold in 1952 by this manufacturer.

Gibson

  • The original Les Paul was a commercial failure with poor sales. A later model, the Gibson SG, was a smashing success and made the original version much more popular.

Question 4:

From 1998 to 2004 the world's tallest buildings were the Petronas Twin Towers, located in this Asian city.

Kuala Lumpur

  • The towers were designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli. They remained the tallest buildings in Malaysia until 2019, when they were surpassed by The Exchange 106.

Question 5:

Meryl Streep, Gillian Anderson and Lindsay Duncan are among the actresses who have played this British political leader.

Margaret Thatcher

  • Meryl Streep portrayed Thatcher in the 2011 film The Iron Lady; Gillian Anderson played Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix's The Crown; and Lindsay Duncan starred in the 2009 BBC television drama Margaret.

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