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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 3:56pm ET 8/3/26
  • 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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The hottest weeks of the year are here, which means what should be everyone’s favorite season is in full force.



It turns out that “summer” isn’t only a season, but a fun word that finds its way into many different aspects of our society.

Let’s take a look at some of our favorites.

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Significant Seasons: The Stonewall uprising. Apollo 11. Woodstock. You may not remember when these events happened, but if I also told you it’s when Bryan Adams got his first real six-string from the Five and Dime, you may then be able to tell me that these things all happened in the summer of what year?



POP CULTURE Q2. Tot TV: Kind of a mash-up of “What’s My Line?” and “I’ve Got a Secret” for a younger audience, “Figure It Out” extended Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders’ career to TV on what network for the younguns?



POP CULTURE Q3. Disco Divas: “Last Dance,” “MacArthur Park,” “Hot Stuff,” and “Bad Girls," are all absolute bangers attributable to what Queen of Disco?



FINE ARTS Q4. Classic Comedies: Four lovestruck Athenians flee into the woods, where Puck the fairy intern squirts love potion in everyone's eyes and turns the night into a four-way romantic traffic jam. Meanwhile fairy queen Titania falls head-over-heels for Bottom, a local doofus who's been magically given a donkey's head. So goes what Shakespeare comedy?



POP CULTURE Q5. California Classics: Rachel Bilson plays Summer Roberts, who ultimately marries Adam Brody’s Seth Cohen in what early-2000s Fox TV drama set in a place where the weather is great all year round?



POP CULTURE Q6. Hot Hits: The filthy “Hot Girl Summer” was the bop of the 2019 pool season, courtesy of what equine rapper and featured artists Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign?



SPORTS & GAMES Q7. Famous Fights: “The Biggest Party of the Summer” is the typically boastful nickname of what annual WWE event that’s probably the second thing you think of after Wrestlemania?



POP CULTURE Q8. Generational Gaps: Thanks to Bananarama and T-Swift, respectively, Gen X and Z both have their own version of a song about what what type of summer?


FINE ARTS Q9. Karaoke Klassics: Danny: “Summer lovin’ had me a blast” Sandy: “Summer lovin’ happened so fast” So begins the song “Summer Nights,” arguably the greatest karaoke duet of all time, from what ‘70s musical?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q10. Fall Feels: Sometimes we even get summer when it’s cold! What term does weather historian William R. Deedler define as "any spell of warm, quiet, hazy weather that may occur in October or November"?



TIEBREAKER Deneb's Distance: Altair, Deneb, and Vega make up the three pointy ends of the Northern Hemisphere’s Summer Triangle asterism. The farthest away is Deneb, at how many light years from Earth?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 8/3/26