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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jaime Ward
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 1:31am ET 4/22/26
  • 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

Tax Day is April 15!



In celebration of your federal returns being due, each answer will be one letter shorter than the answer before it. We'll start with a ten-letter answer for number one and end with a one-letter answer for question ten, "taxing" away one letter each time. Oh, and other than the letters that we drop, you'll see all the same letters in each answer, just in a different order.

(For example, you could see "filter" as the answer for question 6 and "liter" or "litre" for question 5.)

We hope you enjoy this more than sneaking your return in under the deadline!

SOCIAL STUDIES Q1. Cowboy Cities: Howdy, mon ami! A replica of the Eiffel Tower topped by a cowboy hat sits in what city and state that gave its name to a 1984 Harry Dean Stanton indie film? You need the name of the city and state for the point.



SCIENCE & TECH Q2. Hurting Hosts: Head lice and tapeworms are what kind of P-word organisms that suck off the nutrients of a host species?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Describing Dough: What word can describe both baked goods made using doughs such as filo, puff and choux, and the doughs themselves?



MISCELLANEOUS Q4. Legal Lingo: Literally meaning “by roots”, when each branch of a family receives an equal share of an estate, rather than each person, it is known as per… WHAT?


POP CULTURE Q5. Similar Spoilers: Spoiler alert: “The Parent Trap’”s Hallie Parker and Luke Skywalker discover that, unbeknownst to them, they have a what? Phoebe Buffay grew up with one.


MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Michelin Man: Word on the street is that he fatigues easily. Bibendum, the curvy Michelin mascot, is made entirely from a stack of what objects?



WORD PLAY Q7. Which Word: Hamlet’s last words are “The [BLANK] is silence.” In music, a [BLANK] is the absence of sound. When most people [BLANK] they don’t make much noise, unless they snore. What word fits all the blanks?



FINE ARTS Q8. Triple Titles: Between the spy novels "Berlin Game" and "London Match," author Len Deighton dropped "Mexico __." What racket sport word completes that title?



POP CULTURE Q9. Spielberg Songs: Boy, you're an alien / Your touch so foreign / It's supernatural / Extraterrestrial" So goes the chorus of what Katy Perry hit that shares its name with a Spielberg movie?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q10. License Letters: French license plates use F. German ones use D. On Spanish plates, they rep their country with what single letter?



TIEBREAKER Talking Taxes: Definitely not California, New York, or Hawaii! As of 2026, how many U.S. states don't levy personal income tax on their citizens?


Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 4/22/26