Trivia For June 17, 2026

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Question 1:

Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist in a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins. What is the name of the first novel in the series?

The Hunger Games
  • Katniss and her family live in District 12, a coal-mining region in a dystopian autocratic nation. She becomes a contestant in a gladiator-style game where she must fight to the death.


Question 2:

Fill in the blank: In mathematics, a binary operation is ______ if changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Commutative
  • The commutative property is a fundamental property of many binary operations, and many mathematical proofs depend on it. As a property of arithmetic, it holds true for addition and multiplication, e.g. "A + B = B + A" and "A × B = B × A".


Question 3:

Fill in the blank: In a 1943 paper, the psychologist Abraham Maslow formulated a theory of human motivation that has become known as Maslow's Hierarchy of _____.

Needs
  • According to Maslow's original formulation, there are five sets of basic needs: physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization. Typically, the hierarchy is depicted in the form of a pyramid.


Question 4:

In 2007, Tim Besse, Robert Hohman and Rich Barton founded what company that allows users to anonymously rate and review their employers.

Glassdoor
  • An incident where one of the founders accidentally left the results of an employee survey on a printer led to the idea for starting the company. In 2018, Glassdoor was acquired for $1.2 billion by Recruit Holdings, an HR tech firm located in Tokyo.


Question 5:

This is the sole remaining country in the world that styles itself a Grand Duchy.

Luxembourg
  • A grand duchy is a country or territory whose head of state bears the title of grand duke or grand duchess. During the 19th century there were as many as 14 grand duchies in Europe at once.


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