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Trivia For October 4, 2026

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Question 1:

What animal appears in the logo of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)?

Lion
  • The MGM lion is named Leo. Since 1916, there have been eleven different lions used for the MGM logo. In 2021, MGM introduced a new CGI logo instead of using a real animal.


Question 2:

New York City is split into five boroughs. Four of them are Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. What is the fifth?

Staten Island
  • With a population of approximately a half million, Staten Island is the least populated borough and also the least densely populated and most suburban.


Question 3:

In 1819, this poet composed six famous odes, including "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale".

John Keats
  • Keats wrote the first five poems, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Psyche" in quick succession during the spring of 1819, and he composed "To Autumn" in September.


Question 4:

Fill in the blank: Hanlon's razor is an adage that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by _______."

Stupidity
  • Hanlon's razor was first published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980), and it became well known after its inclusion in the Jargon File (1990), a glossary of computer programmer slang.


Question 5:

In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what number is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?

42
  • In the series, the answer was determined after 7.5 million years of calculation by a computer called Deep Thought. In 1988, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a chess-playing computer that they also named Deep Thought, after the fictional one.


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