Trivia For August 31, 2026

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Question 1:

In Greek mythology, who beheaded Medusa?

Perseus

  • Medusa is described as a woman with living snakes in place of hair; her appearance was so hideous that anyone who looked upon her was turned to stone.

Question 2:

Among this writer's most well-known works are A Time to Kill (1989), The Firm (1991) and The Pelican Brief (1992).

John Grisham

  • Grisham worked on his first book, A Time to Kill, for three years. It would be rejected by 28 publishers before a small, unknown publisher bought it. In 1996, the book was made into a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey.

Question 3:

This term was originally meant to ridicule those who belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, but has now become a common descriptor for its members.

Quaker

  • Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible. The term Quaker refers to a time that the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake before the authority of God.

Question 4:

One of the first commercially available handheld computers was this line of personal digital assistants sold by Apple between 1993 and 1998.

Newton

  • The Newton was years ahead of its time, but the devices were expensive and plagued with bugs, especially the much-hyped handwriting recognition software. When Steve Jobs regained control of Apple, he killed the product line.

Question 5:

In 1784, the State of Franklin was proposed as a potential 14th U.S. state. The area is located in what is now this U.S. state.

Tennessee

  • Franklin had become a state, its boundaries would have included the 12 present-day Tennessee counties of Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Washington, Greene, Hawkins, Unicoi, Cocke, Hamblen, Jefferson, Sevier, and Blount.

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