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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 5:48pm ET 10/5/26
  • 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!

SOCIAL STUDIES Q1. Sparrow's Sea: Calypso king Harry Belafonte, Captain Jack Sparrow, and some 7,000 islands all call what sea home?



WORD PLAY Q2. Cuddly Characters: Remove the first letter and you get a non-wizard. Or change the second letter and you get a particularly comfortable type of cuddle. What type of transportation crime are we looking for?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q3. Park Pleas: Sparked in 2011 in New York's Zuccotti Park under the rallying cry "We are the 99%," what anti-inequality protest movement took its name from a command aimed at Wall Street?



POP CULTURE Q4. NY Natives: A Long Island native perpetually in "a New York State of Mind," what ivory-tickling man would sooner be an entertainer than some uptown girl's arm candy?



WORD PLAY Q5. Complimentary Cliches: Fill in the well-worn compliment-turned-cliché usually attributed to English clergyman Charles Caleb Colton: "Imitation is the sincerest form of ______."



SOCIAL STUDIES Q6. Calgary Celebrations: Every July, Calgary hosts "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth," a ten-day rodeo that shares its name with what word for a thundering, panicked rush?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Brand Bets: What all-beef hot dog brand promises it "answers to a higher authority" by harkening to an ancient language beginning with aleph, bet, and gimel?



MISCELLANEOUS Q8. Machinery Motifs: Will Smith's 1999 flop "Wild Wild West" is a classic example of what subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and aesthetics prominently inspired by 19th-century industrial machinery and design?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q9. Popular Places: Though other stuff happened there, Antietam, Thermopylae, Verdun, and Waterloo are notable as what type of locations that also get slapped on Wisconsin and Ohio every couple years?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Perky Pursuits: Did these questions leave you feeling perky? A word tied to one particular drink has been hiding inside every answer above. What beverage, whose international day gets celebrated on October 1, have we been sneaking past you all round?



TIEBREAKER Car Costs: October 1, 1908 saw the release of the first Model T to the public for purchase. The lowest price it ever sold for was $260 in 1925, but what would you have paid if you bought it on day one?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 10/5/26