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Trivia For October 3, 2026
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Question 1:
Fill in the blank to complete the idiom: Any ______ in a storm.
The phrase originates in the 1749 novel Fanny Hill, by John Cleland, one of the first widely read pornographic books.
Question 2:
Name the spy plane that Gary Powers was piloting in 1960 when he was shot down and captured by the Soviet Union.
Powers was sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 monthsbefore being released in a prisoner swap. He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles but would die in a 1977 helicopter crash.
Question 3:
Moments after a work by this contemporary artist was sold at a 2018 auction, it was destroyed by a paper shredder hidden in the frame.
The framed copy of Girl with Balloon (2006) had just sold for £1,042,000 at Sotheby's London, a record high for the artist. The partially shredded work has been given a new title, Love Is in the Bin. In October 2021, the work sold at Sotheby's for £18 million.
Question 4:
What five-letter acronym is used to describe a person who opposes new developments, infrastructure projects or housing in their own neighborhood despite claiming to support them in general?
NIMBY is short for "Not in my backyard". The phrase dates from the late 1970s. In 1979 "NIMBY syndrome" was used in the New York Times to describe neighborhood coalitions objecting to the disposal of nuclear waste in their towns.
Question 5:
Approximately 65% of the human body is composed of this element.
Four key elements make up about 96% of total body mass: Oxygen (65%), Carbon (18.5%), Hydrogen (9.5%), and Nitrogen (3.3%).
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