Daily Trivia for December 26, 2024

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Daily Trivia for December 26, 2024

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26 Comments
+9
Level 47
Dec 26, 2024
Well, 9/10. Sorry, New Zealanders, I thought your country was uninhabited in the 1700s.
+3
Level 76
Dec 26, 2024
You are now probably aware of that, but the Maori people reached the coast of todays New Zealand in X-XI century.
+3
Level 68
Dec 26, 2024
No offense taken. We were uninhabited in 1000 AD, though
+3
Level 56
Dec 26, 2024
7/10. But I knew the last one because my brother's Hungarian name day is tomorrow/today, and his name in English is Stephen.
+6
Level 71
Dec 26, 2024
What about Good King Wenceslaus? I thought more people would know the Feast of Stephen based on that.
+4
Level 89
Dec 26, 2024
10/10, almost got thrown by my own question there though because it's been changed quite a bit from my original submission 😅
+3
Level 83
Dec 26, 2024
I stared at that one a bit too long. Came out right in the end though.
+1
Level 66
Dec 26, 2024
Well, missed the first one, and the last 3
+1
Level 77
Dec 26, 2024
Damn, fell at the last hurdle. Would've been a new personal best!
+1
Level 75
Dec 26, 2024
Also fell the last hurdle
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Level 47
Dec 26, 2024
Question, are there any illiterate writers?
+2
Level 65
Dec 26, 2024
probably not, but i clicked on it anyway
+3
Level 70
Dec 26, 2024
Maybe. If they dictated all their writings.
+1
Level 25
Dec 26, 2024
Yes. Saint Kabir orally gave his dohas(verses) and hey were written b his discipels.
+1
Level 81
Dec 26, 2024
maybe a few cartoonists!
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Level 79
Dec 26, 2024
not the best example since there's debate over if he was an actual person, but we say Homer "wrote" the Iliad, in that sense its author, even though if he did it would have been through oral tradition
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Level 70
Dec 26, 2024
9/10. For some reason reading the question, I decided sperm whales didn't have teeth. And I totally guessed on the last 2.
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Level 64
Dec 26, 2024
9/10. Thanks to "Good King Wenceslas" for helping me guess the feast of Stephen. Happy St. Stephen's day, everyone!
+2
Level 80
Dec 26, 2024
5/10...nailed it!
+2
Level 61
Dec 26, 2024
6/10

Back in the old days, I would have still been 1st on my leader board, cause I had no friends. Now I have some friends and I am last.

This feels better and more right. Thanks friends!

+2
Level 72
Dec 26, 2024
Always the French that ruin a perfect score:)
+1
Level 53
Dec 26, 2024
6/10 This could've been my high score.
+3
Level 33
Dec 26, 2024
Y’all I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and when I saw that question it totally threw me off guard. Took me a second to recover haha
+2
Level 47
Dec 26, 2024
The Radium Girls are the girls who made the radium watch dials. look them up sometime, their story is horrific and fascinating
+1
Level 64
Dec 27, 2024
7 / 10.

little info regarding Church, seychelles got me wrong..

somewhere had read about george sand..just cud not get clicked in my mind.

+2
Level 68
Jan 13, 2025
Me sings badly, "Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen...."

Fun Fact: George Eliot was also a woman. Maybe that will help someone someday. She and George Sand were both 19th century women writers. Perhaps there is a conspiracy among the Georges.