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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jonpaul Guinn
Edited by Eli Robinson

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  • Submit your answers by 1:58pm ET 9/28/26
  • 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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Autumn is arriving, and that means longer nights, slipping on icy roads, choking on caramel apples, and getting lost in a haunted house.

Fall can be dangerous! We’re here to help with a quiz on some of the stickier situations you might encounter in cozy season.



Grab a warm cider and let’s get started!

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Stuck Strategies: A few years after a Massachusetts family called 9-1-1 to get out of a corn maze, Kotaku ran a guide to not getting lost in the first place: hug one wall and keep turning the same direction. Sound familiar? That's basically the house strategy for what 1980 arcade classic where four ghosts chase a corn-colored hero around a maze?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Dog Disasters: Squirrels may love 'em, but the Royal Kennel Club warns that the tannins inside can wreck a dog's liver and kidneys. Keep the pooch away from what oak tree nuts with the cute little hats?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Knife Kits: Michael Myers would be proud. About 44% of Halloween-related injuries come from what activity that the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says you should do with a purpose-built kit, not your sharpest kitchen knife?



MISCELLANEOUS Q4. Actionable Advice: Secure the top. Set it at a 4-to-1 angle. That's all-season advice for what piece of equipment that goes with chutes, snakes, and firefighters?


SCIENCE & TECH Q5. Dastardly Diseases: Cujo caught his case from a bat. If something furry sinks its teeth into you, the ER opens with a dose of RIG, the immune globulin that blocks what foamy-mouthed disease before it can reach your nerves?



MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Feral Fliers: One is fuzzy, round, and golden-brown. The other is sleek, bright yellow, and shares its name with a Showtime series about a high school soccer team. An apiarist wants you to tell harmless honey bees apart from what picnic-crashing wasps?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Categorizing Coverages: Deer collisions peak in October and November, and State Farm will tell you a deer strike doesn't count as a “collision” at all. It falls under what all-encompassing “C” coverage that also handles theft, hail, and falling branches?



MISCELLANEOUS Q8. Apple Aches: Push in the stick and you puncture the apple, letting juice seep up into the caramel — which is why an unrefrigerated caramel apple can start growing what bacteria, named for the same antiseptic pioneer who lent his name to a mouthwash?



SCIENCE & TECH Q9. Belly Buttons: Aye aye! If you come across someone choking on candy corn, abdominal thrusts start with your fist just above the belly button, a spot doctors know by what tidier term, sharing its root with the cord you were born attached to?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q10. Animal Avoidance: That same instant fall starts here, spring starts down there. You could dodge every hazard on this list by flying to what country where the only things left to worry about are box jellyfish, funnel-web spiders, and roughly 1,500 other animals?



TIEBREAKER Time Titles: The season was "harvest" long before it was "autumn," and "autumn" long before it was "fall." In what year was the phrase "fall of the leaf" — the ancestor of the word we use today — first attested?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 9/28/26