Trivia For August 31, 2025

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Question 1:

This salt water lake was once called the Lake of Sodom; it's surface area has shrunk by one-third since the 1960s due to the diverting of water from its source.

Dead Sea

  • At its current rate of depletion, the Dead Sea may go completely dry within 50 years.

Question 2:

Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate in this dystopian novel.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

  • In an appendix to his novel, George Orwell explains the principles of the language. Many of the terms have entered English, including Big Brother, doublethink and thoughtcrime.

Question 3:

Also known as the kneecap, this is a small, plate-shaped bone located in front of the knee joint.

Patella

  • The patella is the largest sesamoid bone (i.e., embedded within a tendon or a muscle) in the body. Babies are born with a patella of soft cartilage which begins to ossify into bone at about four years of age.

Question 4:

In April 2014, the mobile and devices division of this company was sold to Microsoft in a deal valued at $7 billion dollars.

Nokia

  • Following the acquisition, the Microsoft Mobile division released a series of Windows Phones designed to compete with Android and the iPhone. Despite some good reviews, the phones failed to gain traction and by 2017 Microsoft was out of the mobile phone business.

Question 5:

The Évian Accords were a set of peace treaties signed on March 18, 1962 allowing this former French colony to become an independent nation.

Algeria

  • On July 1, 1962 , a referendum on the Accords were held in Algeria, where 99.72% voted for independence and just 0.28% against. Algerian leaders declared July 5 (the 132nd anniversary of the French arrival in Algiers) to be Independence Day.

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