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Trivia For May 15, 2026
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Question 1:
How many pawns are on the board at the start of a standard chess game?
Pawns are the most numerous piece on a chessboard. Each player begins the game with eight pawns placed along their second rank.
Question 2:
The February 1898 explosion of this ship in Havana harbor helped precipitate the Spanish-American War.
Subsequent investigations over the years suggest that the explosion was not sabotage, but rather was due to a coal bunker fire that spread to the Maine’s gunpowder stores.
Question 3:
The scientific study of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics is called this.
Organisms are grouped into taxa and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a more inclusive group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy.
Question 4:
How many countries border Brunei?
Located on the island of Borneo, Brunei is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak (apart from its coastline on the South China Sea). Indonesia also shares on the island, but Indonesia and Brunei's borders don't touch.
Question 5:
Fill in the blank to complete the name of the 1998 Turkish novel by Orhan Pamuk: My Name is ____.
The novel, about illustrators (or miniaturists) in the late 16th century Ottoman Empire, established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
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