Trivia For April 9, 2026

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Question 1:

In the Biblical book of John, Jesus raises this person from the dead.

Lazarus

  • As an idiom, the name Lazarus is frequently used in science and popular culture to reference an apparent restoration to life; for example, the scientific term Lazarus taxon denotes organisms that reappear in the fossil record after a period of apparent extinction.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank: In 1958, Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong initiated the Great _ Forward in a campaign to speed industrialization.

Leap

  • Mao wanted to change China from an agrarian society into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes. It is estimated that the campaign resulted in an estimated 55 million deaths from famine.

Question 3:

What infamous music festival, organized by Billy McFarland and Ja Rule, was scheduled to take place in 2017 in the Bahamas?

Fyre Festival

  • Fyre was marketed as a luxury music festival, but attendees found themselves stranded with minimal food and shelter. McFarland would eventually serve nearly 4 years in prison. In 2025, he was reportedly trying to organize Fyre 2.

Question 4:

The primary civil airport serving the city of New Orleans is named for what musical legend?

Louis Armstrong

  • In 2001, the airport was renamed for Armstrong to to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Question 5:

In June 1411, Charles VI of France decreed that only one village could make this creamy sheep-milk blue cheese.

Roquefort

  • According to legend, the cheese was discovered when a youth sitting in a cave abandoned the sheep's milk cheese he was eating upon seeing a beautiful girl in the distance. Month's later he returned to his meal and the mold (Penicillium roqueforti) had transformed his plain cheese into Roquefort.

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