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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 1:48pm ET 9/21/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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We’ve reached the middle of September, which can only mean one thing for beer drinkers out there…it’s time for Oktoberfest!

That’s right, the annual German festival takes place almost entirely in September, thus making it one of the better misnomers out there. (Yes, it touches October by a whisker, but that’s a technicality!)



It’s not the only oddly named thing out there. Here are some more of our faves!

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Loved Legumes: Sold by the bagful at every ballpark and immortalized in a Charlie Brown comic strip, what snack is, botanically speaking, a legume?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q2. Icy Islands: Roughly 4/5 of what island, the planet's largest, sits buried under a permanent ice sheet, its lush-sounding name reportedly a real-estate pitch from Erik the Red?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Stick Snacks: Belgium usually takes the credit for what golden, potato sticks that are sometimes associated with “freedom”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q4. German Games: Stern-Halma was the original German name for the marbles on a star game that was given what way more Eastern name by American marketers?



MISCELLANEOUS Q5. Canadian Creations: Though Ontario, Canada was its birthplace, what polarizing ham-and-pineapple pizza was named for the U.S. state that’s home to the Dole Plantation?



MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Less Liquid: Always a rodeo staple and country-album cover essential, what wide-brimmed cowboy topper carries plenty of swagger but nowhere near the liquid its name brags about?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Austrian Appetites: Austrian bakers brought the recipe over, and Copenhageners themselves call it "Viennese bread". Flaky, buttery, and often stuffed with fruit or cheese, what breakfast favorite is named for a Scandinavian country?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q8. Quippy Quotes: Voltaire famously quipped that none of the three words were accurate in the name of what bygone realm that lasted from 800-1806 CE?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q9. German Groups: The “Deutsch” roots got garbled into the wrong nationality in the name of what German-speaking cultural group that settled the Amish and Mennonite country of the American northeast?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Food Fakeouts: Order this old-school delicacy expecting dessert, and you'll instead be served the thymus or pancreas gland of a calf. What innocently named dish just hit your plate?



TIEBREAKER Strong Shoulders: Steinholding, also known as Masskrugstemmen, is a traditional Bavarian strength and endurance contest where competitors hold a full one-liter beer stein, weighing five pounds, for as long as possible. What’s the American record, in minutes, set by Cody Bane at the 2025 U.S. Steinholding Association National Championships?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 9/21/26