Trivia For June 19, 2026

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Question 1:

Fill in the blank to complete a popular idiom: The pot calling the kettle _.

Black

  • The idiom refers to a situation where an somone is accused of a fault that the accuser shares. The idiom may be of Spanish origin.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank: Popular in mid-18th century America, tarring and ____ was a form of public torture and humiliation, historically used for vigilante justice.

Feathering

  • In the run-up to the American Revolutionary War, tax collectors and other officials who tried to enforce laws the colonists saw as unjust, were often subjected to the punishment. One of the most publicized cases involved John Malcolm, a Boston resident and supporter of the Crown, who attacked a the Patriot shoemaker named George Hewes.

Question 3:

The Futura typeface was released in 1927. Based on geometric shapes, the typeface is closely associated with what German design movement?

Bauhaus

  • Futura was developed as a contribution to the New Frankfurt project, a radical affordable housing project in Frankfurt, Germany that many renowned modernist architects at the time were involved in.

Question 4:

According to legend, Saint Patrick used a shamrock to instruct the Irish in this Christian doctrine.

Holy Trinity

  • Stories about Patrick's use of the shamrock first appeared in print in the 18th century. Depictions of Saint Patrick often show the saint with a cross in one hand and a sprig of shamrocks in the other.

Question 5:

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation in this U.S. state featuring ten Cadillacs buried nose-first in a field near the historic Route 66.

Texas

  • The large-scale sculpture was created in 1974. Visitors are permitted to spray-paint the vehicles with graffiti.

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