Daily Trivia for October 7, 2024

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Daily Trivia for October 7, 2024

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+6
Level 89
Oct 7, 2024
My streak is broken 😭 8/10, had absolutely no idea on the Ariana Grande song, and the last question caught me out too haha
+10
Level 83
Oct 7, 2024
I knew the Grande song but had a 50/50 on the trigonometric survey and missed it. In hindsight you wouldn’t need a great trigonometric survey to measure the distance to the sun, since they obviously used physics and gravitational formulas to figure that out.
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2024
Yeah I made exactly the same mistake on that question and had exactly the same hindsight moment immediately afterwards 😅 I knew it had to be something that involved a unit of length but if I'd thought about it for longer I'd have realised angles aren't really relevant unless it's height
+2
Level 77
Oct 7, 2024
Hah, I made the same stupid mistake as both of you and then came to the same realisation … Ruined my perfect score!
+1
Level 75
Oct 7, 2024
Same.

The other one that caught me was the authors into a Disney movie.

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Level 69
Oct 7, 2024
Same thing caught me out too!
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Level 63
Oct 8, 2024
Actually they did use trigonometry to measure the distance to the sun by measuring the time it took Venus to transit the sun from multiple locations on earth at the same time, in the late 1700s. Captain Cook's voyages to the south pacific were actually a part of this global experiment.
+3
Level 67
Oct 7, 2024
Aye, last two wrong
+1
Level 48
Oct 7, 2024
Surprisingly easy questions for me
+1
Level 70
Oct 7, 2024
I would have gotten 10, but I talked myself out of Ariana Grande for some reason.
+1
Level 88
Oct 7, 2024
Same!
+2
Level 64
Oct 7, 2024
The Lion King's wildebeest stampede in the canyon is remarkably similar to a scene in Kipling's original Jungle Book, with Shere Khan down there instead of Mufasa.
+1
Level 84
Oct 7, 2024
Lost the animal 50/50, we need more red pandas!
+2
Level 67
Oct 7, 2024
Doing the daily trivia is the nicest moment of my day! (even though I'm quite rubbish at it) Thanks Quiz Master for all your hard work!
+1
Level 47
Oct 7, 2024
9/10 - just caught out on the pop song…my knowledge in this area ended about 25 years ago!
+2
Level 68
Oct 7, 2024
Damnation, Trigonometry!
+1
Level 33
Oct 7, 2024
4/10... :(
+1
Level 79
Oct 7, 2024
9/10 just missed trig one
+1
Level 53
Oct 7, 2024
5/10 I'm getting better!
+1
Level 58
Oct 7, 2024
Missed Ariana Grande and the Cathay question. I answered Joseon which I KNOW is Korean because I used Korean cosmetics by that name.
+1
Level 67
Oct 9, 2024
9/10 (bad guess on the animals), but wow, top of my leader board, I think for the first time.
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Level 75
Oct 13, 2024
In "At what age would a Jewish person celebrate his "bar mitzvah"?", I suggest replacing "person" with "boy" (or "young man", or I suppose "male person" but that sounds awkward). A girl typically becomes bat mitzvah at 12, though I know some egalitarian Reform communities push it off to 13.