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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Matthew Sherman
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 6:27pm ET 12/3/25
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google 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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Thanksgiving is here this week, which can only mean that it's time to break out the old pie recipes.

Archimedes of Syracuse tells me that his recipe involves taking a nice helping of circumference, and then being very careful as you divide it by diameter.



Let's see what other pye flavors we've got cooking up in our trivia kitchen this week!

SCIENCE & TECH Q1. Ancient Alphabets: If you flew to your family’s Thanksgiving dinner on Delta Air Lines, and your nephew told you that the meal was “sigma” (Internet slang for very good), then you came across two other letters in what language’s alphabet whose 16th letter is pi?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q2. Cold Continents: If you’re trying to keep your leftovers nice and cold, you could try heading south to the Pi Islands. They should do the trick, as they are located at 64 degrees south latitude, on the fringes of what chilly continent?



POP CULTURE Q3. Reliable Reporters: If you’re headed to Springfield for Thanksgiving this year, you’ll want to tune into Arnie Pye With Pye in the Sky as he reports on what for KBBL-TV Channel 6?



POP CULTURE Q4. Cinematic Cats: The summer 2012 blockbuster “The Amazing Spider-Man” featured Campbell Scott as the title character’s dad, Richard Parker. “Life of Pi,” which came out at Thanksgiving later that year, had a very different character named Richard Parker. This one was what species of big cat?



POP CULTURE Q5. Tasty Treats: The Zac Brown Band had much to be thankful for in November 2008, as their first hit, “Chicken Fried,” was rising up the charts. That song mentions sweet tea, homemade wine, and what pie made with a nut that can be pronounced a few different ways?


SOCIAL STUDIES Q6. New Names: Born in 1619 as the Pilgrims were preparing to sail to the New World, Pye Min was a member of the Toungoo dynasty. His brother King Pindale appointed him governor of Prome, but he later led a coup against Pindale and became king himself. This all happened far from the Pilgrims, in what five-letter country now known as Myanmar?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Paula's Pies: You may want to think twice before using the phrase “as American as apple pie,” because the oldest known reference to that dessert is a 1381 cookbook from England. That old recipe calls for figs, pears, and raisins but NOT what then-luxurious ingredient that Paula Deen heaps over a cup of into her apple pie version?



POP CULTURE Q8. TV Toms: Around early ‘80s Thanksgiving tables, ladies swooned over Tom Selleck as Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV, the titular star of a CBS drama where he held what occupation?



POP CULTURE Q9. British Bands: The British label Pye Records has worked with some big names over the years, from Petula Clark to Donovan. But their biggest band was what “You Really Got Me” and “Lola” quartet whose name could be a super awkward conversation topic at your family’s Thanksgiving meal?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q10. Fifteenhundreds Feasts: Most historians trace Thanksgiving back to a 1621 feast shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. But decades before that, in 1565, Spanish settlers and the native Seloy held their own Thanksgiving meal in Saint Augustine in what state whose official state pie is, naturally, key lime?



TIEBREAKER Pumpkin Pie: The Guinness World Record holder for largest pumpkin pie was made in Ohio in 2010. It had a diameter of 20 feet, which means it had a circumference of about 62.8 (20 times pi) feet. The ingredients included 525 pounds of sugar, 1,212 pounds of canned pumpkin, and 2,796 eggs. In pounds, what was its total weight?


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