Trivia For September 4, 2026

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Question 1:

Fill in the blank: The three major constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, ___, and argon.

Oxygen

  • Oxygen (O₂) is the second-most abundant gas by volume after nitrogen. It makes up approximately 20.95% of Earth's atmosphere by volume.

Question 2:

Name the animal on the California state flag.

Bear

  • The flag derives from a short-lived revolt in 1846 when U.S. immigrants to the area north of San Francisco rebelled against Mexico, which at the time was in control of that territory.

Question 3:

First introduced in 1919, the Tank is a line of wristwatches made by what luxury goods manufacturer?

Cartier

  • The watch gets its name from its resemblence to the tanks used on World War I battlefields.

Question 4:

The Chinchorro people, who lived on this continent, are most famous for creating the world's oldest mummies—predating the Egyptians by millennia.

South America

  • The Chinchorro lived on the extremely arid Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and southern Peru from about 7000 to 1500 BC.

Question 5:

Etiquette expert Judith Martin is better known by this pen name.

Miss Manners

  • Martin began writing her advice column in 1978.

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