Trivia For June 6, 2026

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Question 1:

Countries with coasts on this sea are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia.

Adriatic Sea

  • The origins of the name Adriatic are linked to the Illyrian settlement of Adria. In classical antiquity, the sea was known as Mare Adriaticum or, less frequently, as Mare Superum '[the] upper sea.

Question 2:

In mathematics, an exclamation point (!) is used as a symbol to indicate what mathematical operation?

Factorial

  • A factorial is calculated by multiplying a positive integer n by all positive integers less than it down to 1. I.e., n! = n * (n - 1) * … * 1.

Question 3:

Two migrant workers named George and Lennie are the primary characters in this 1937 work by John Steinbeck.

Of Mice and Men

  • The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry").

Question 4:

What is the most common color to appear on a national flag?

Red

  • Red is on 77% of country flags, followed by white on 69%, blue on 51%, yellow on 43% and green on 41%.

Question 5:

180 is the highest possible points total in a standard game of darts. But what is the highest score a player can achieve in order to win the game?

170

  • The winning score is called the "checkout". A score of 170 is nicknamed the "Big Fish" and can only be achieved by hitting Treble 20, Treble 20, and Bullseye.

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