Trivia For March 23, 2026

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Question 1:

Mary I, aka Bloody Mary, was the daughter of this English monarch.

Henry VIII
  • As a Catholic, Mary tried to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father. During her five-years as queen, more than 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake, resulting in her sobriquet.


Question 2:

Fill in the blank with a color: In popular culture the sight of a _ elephant is used to symbolize the hallucinations caused by drinking too much alcohol.

Pink
  • In a well-known scene from Disney's Dumbo (1941), Dumbo and Timothy hallucinate singing and dancing pink elephants after inadvertently getting drunk.


Question 3:

What disease is caused by the variola virus?

Smallpox
  • The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, making smallpox the only human disease to have been ever been totally eradicated.


Question 4:

Baroness Orczy wrote a series of novels featuring what heroic figure who rescues aristocrats during the French Reign of Terror?

The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel is the secret identity of Sir Percy Blakeney. In his day-to-day life Blakeney appears to be a wealthy English fop. However, in secret he leads a group of heroic English aristocrats who are engaged in rescuing their French counterparts.


Question 5:

What news aggregation and social media website was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian and Aaron Swartz?

Reddit
  • Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In March 2024, Reddit became independent, debuting on the stock market with the ticker symbol RDDT.


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