Trivia For March 11, 2026

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Question 1:

What animal is often used to represent the Republican Party in the United States?

Elephant
  • The elephant first appeared in a Republican context in an 1864 pro-Abraham Lincoln newspaper. In the late 19th century, political cartoonist Thomas Nast, a Republican supporter, popularized the elephant as a Republican symbol. He also is responsible for associating the Democratic Party with the donkey.


Question 2:

The idiom "flying too close to the sun," arose from the Greek myth about this boy, who wore wax and feather wings that melted in the sun's heat.

Icarus
  • Icarus's father, Daedalus, fashioned the wings for himself and for Icarus, as they were imprisoned in the labyrinth of King Minos, of Crete.


Question 3:

There are five countries in the world that officially maintain a Communist ideology. Four of them are China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. What is the fifth?

Laos
  • With a population of 8 million, Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It has been officially Communist since 1975 when the Pathet Lao party overthrew the king and declared Laos a people's republic.


Question 4:

After being printed for 245 years, the last physical edition of this reference work was released in 2010.

Encyclopædia Britannica
  • The reference work was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland, in weekly instalments that came together to form three volumes. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopedia.


Question 5:

Radiocarbon dating has shown that until approximately 2000 BC, Wrangel Island, off the coast of Russia, supported an isolated population of this now-extinct species of megafauna.

Woolly mammoth
  • The discovery of frozen carcasses in Siberia and North America, along with prehistoric cave art, have allowed the woolly mammoth to be among the best studied of any prehistoric animal.


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