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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 5:45pm ET 10/19/26
  • 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

A pangram is a set of words that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. A “perfect pangram” contains every letter EXACTLY once.



Believe it or not, the answers to questions 1-10 in this quiz make a perfect pangram! So once you use a letter, you won’t need it again.

POP CULTURE Q1. Famous Fill-ins: During Zooey Deschanel’s maternity leave, an apt star of “Transformers” and “Jennifer’s Body” filled in on “New Girl” on what TV network?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Credentialed Caregivers: The nursing profession was unregulated for many centuries before the 1900s, when countries like New Zealand and the U.S. started credentialing them using what two-letter abbreviation?



SPORTS & GAMES Q3. Popular Punches: Cross, hook, and uppercut are three of the four primary punches in boxing. What’s the fourth?



MISCELLANEOUS Q4. Mayim's Major: Playing “Big Bang Theory” neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler wasn't much of a stretch for Mayim Bialik, who picked up what real level of UCLA degree in neuroscience?



WORD PLAY Q5. Approval Approaches: You don’t have to serve in a war or patch up animals to carry out an approval evaluation known by what three-letter word?



SCIENCE & TECH Q6. Korean Kompanies: With a horrifying logo that looks like the top left corner of a dude’s face is collapsing, what electronics manufacturer joins Samsung and Hyundai as one of the most valuable South Korean companies?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Beatles Babes: The Beatles never did explain what Lucy was doing up there with diamonds, but they were awfully specific about what location where she was with them?



SCIENCE & TECH Q8. Short Symbols: Potassium joins tungsten as the only chemical elements whose single-letter symbol differs from the first letter of their name. Potassium’s symbol is K, while tungsten uses what back-of-the-alphabet letter?



POP CULTURE Q9. Reputable Rappers: You’re too legitimate to quit now! Rappers Chris, Hammer, and Ren all add what moniker to the front of their stage name?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Staged Scandals: The 2001 "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" coughing scandal was adapted as a stage play with what title that also describes the thing you are finishing right now?



TIEBREAKER Chinese Characters: English gets by on 26 letters. Chinese does not. How many distinct character entries are in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary, the definitive reference on written Chinese for two centuries?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 10/19/26