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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 6:16pm ET 7/27/26
  • 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)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

Hey there gumshoes! We could use your help again solving this week's mystery round.



You'll need to answer questions 1 - 9 and then help us figure out how they're all connected in question 10! Happy hunting!

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Tackle Tools: Reel, line, and terminal tackle are three of the four main tool types needed for angling. What’s the fourth and almost certainly the longest?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Dog Details: The star of a kids' book series by Eric Hill is a dog with what blotchy name, ranked as the #1 classic dog name of all time by bark.co?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q3. Established Exchanges: In 1933, New York exchanges for rubber, raw silk, metal and hide rolled together into COMEX, where the COM is short for what fungible stuff?



MISCELLANEOUS Q4. French Food: An old French word for "serving of food" gave us what sloppy-sounding term for a military dining facility?



MISCELLANEOUS Q5. Production Protocol: Film and music producers both use what term to denote a single continuous recorded performance?



MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Analyzing Apparel : Side seam, patch, welt, flap, kangaroo, and slash are all types of what apparel thing?



SCIENCE & TECH Q7. Mighty Mixtures : Ask Barry Allen: in 1887, German inventors Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke combined magnesium powder and potassium chlorate to create what photography effect?



MISCELLANEOUS Q8. Service Speak: While collisions by food service workers are funny in the movies, it’s best for an aspiring restaurant to have their team avoid running into each other. That’s why you’ll often hear wait staff yelling what term to signify they are about to pop out from behind a wall?



MISCELLANEOUS Q9. Voluminous Veggies: According to a 2020 USDA study, what is the most commonly consumed vegetable in the U.S.?



Q10. We saved this quiz for the middle of July, as all of the answers are commonly found after what summer adjective?



TIEBREAKER Water Weight: It’s commonly cited that a watermelon is mostly water. But is it? According to watermelon.org, what percentage of watermelon is water?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 7/27/26