Trivia For July 18, 2026

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Question 1:

Fill in the blank: Located in the center of an atom, the nucleus is a dense, positively charged region composed of protons and ____.

Neutrons

  • Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus in 1911 after conducting a series of experiments to measure how an alpha particle beam is scattered when it strikes a thin metal foil.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank with a city: The idiom "All roads lead to __" was first expressed in English by Geoffrey Chaucer in a 1391 manuscript.

Rome

  • In his text Treatise on the Astrolabe, Chaucer wrote "right as diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome" to explain that despite astronomical and mathematical rules across different cultures (Greek, Arabic, Hebrew), the resulting conclusions about the astrolabe were always exactly the same.

Question 3:

Manuel Noriega was the leader of this nation until he was deposed following a 1989 U.S. invasion.

Panama

  • Noriega was captured and flown to the U.S. where he served a 17 year prison term for money laundering and drug smuggling. He was later extradited first to France and then returned to Panama in order to serve time in prison for crimes committed in each of those countries.

Question 4:

This mathematical term describes a line that touches a curve but does not intersect it.

Tangent

  • The word "tangent" comes from the Latin tangere, "to touch".

Question 5:

Before her solo career, the Icelandic musician Björk was a member of this band from 1986 until 1992.

The Sugarcubes

  • The Sugarcubes' debut album, Life's Too Good (1988), was an unexpected international success, and produced their signature song "Birthday". It is credited as the first Icelandic album to have a worldwide impact and influenced Icelandic popular music.

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