Trivia For September 11, 2026

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Question 1:

The mathematical study of continuous change is called this.

Calculus
  • Calculus was developed independently in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.


Question 2:

The cacao tree is native to this continent.

South America
  • The cacao tree was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in equatorial South America.


Question 3:

Who followed Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister after she resigned in 1990?

John Major
  • Major was PM from 1990, until his defeat to Tony Blair's Labour Party in the 1997 general election.


Question 4:

Name the author of Wolf Hall (2009), the first book in a trilogy of historical novels about the rise and fall of sixteenth-century statesman Thomas Cromwell.

Hilary Mantel
  • Both Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies (2012) would win the Booker Prize. The third book in the series, The Mirror & the Light, was published in 2020. The trilogy has sold more than 5 million copies. Mantel would pass away in September 2022, at the age of 70, from complications from a stroke.


Question 5:

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Robie House is a National Historic Landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in this U.S. city.

Chicago
  • Robie House is owned by the University of Chicago and is regularly open to the public as a historic house museum operated and maintained by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.


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