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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jamie Ward
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 8:46am ET 1/21/26
  • 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

Winter’s here in full force - the days are short, and everyone’s a bit frosty.



It’s easy to feel a bit blue at this time, but we want to remind you that being blue doesn’t always mean seasonal melancholy or being down.

Every answer in this week's quiz also names a shade of the color blue.

SPORTS & GAMES Q1. High Hands: Poker.org states that the second best hand in most poker games is a straight flush, which is beaten only by someone with the 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace of the same suit - a hand known as what kind of flush?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Versatile Verbiage: What powerful word appears in the initialized names of prog pop band ELO, American tech behemoth GE, and the stunning TASER sidearm?



POP CULTURE Q3. Vilified Videos: Like ‘em or not, nobody puts them in a corner. The two music videos with some of the most dislikes in YouTube’s history are a Justin Bieber bop and a kid’s song about an underwater family that have what four-letter word in their titles?



SPORTS & GAMES Q4. Tall Teams: Being tall is obviously important in basketball, which might be why teams in the WNBA name themselves after lofty things. There’s the Connecticut Sun, Seattle Storm, and Chicago’s team that is named for what region where you’d find both of those other things?



POP CULTURE Q5. Terrific Trilogies: Richard Linklater’s trilogy started with “Before Sunrise,” continued with “Before Sunset,” and concluded in 2013 with “Before ________,” with what time filling in the blank?



FINE ARTS Q6. Stained Styles: Slap a stained glass shade on a leaded lamp and you’ve pretty much got an Art Nouveau mainstay with a style known by what T-name?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q7. Conquering Civilizations: Author Jared Diamond undertook the grand task in 1997 of explaining why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others. Hearkening to three of the keys to success, he titled the book “Guns, Germs, and WHAT?”



SPORTS & GAMES Q8. American Athletes: Football quarterback Roger Staubach went by “Captain America” and basketball center David Robinson “The Admiral”. These nicknames are owed in part to the fact that they played college ball at a Maryland university known by what short name?



POP CULTURE Q9. Smokie Songs: In their home U.K. market they had a number of hits, but fans in the U.S. may wonder who the heck is “Smokie”…That’s because they’re considered one-hit wonders here with their Lewis Carroll-friendly 1972 hit “Living Next Door to _____”?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q10. Collegiate Clinton: The Turf Tavern has a plaque commemorating Bill Clinton “not inhaling” while on a Rhodes Scholarship in what English city with a centuries old Cambridge rivalry?



TIEBREAKER Crayola Count: A 2014 Vox article claimed that 19 of them can be categorized as shades of blue. How many “standard crayon colors” does Crayola make?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 1/21/26