Daily Trivia for February 27, 2025

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Daily Trivia for February 27, 2025

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Level 53
Feb 27, 2025
3/10 Worse than yesterday's.
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Level 17
Feb 27, 2025
8/10 the Volkswagen one tricked me and the Acrophobia got me too.
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Level 83
Feb 27, 2025
Yeah, that Volkswagen question is tricky. Filthy, even.
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Level 16
Feb 27, 2025
Im glad we all hate Volkswagen
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Level 44
Feb 27, 2025
Great quiz. 9/10. Missed out on the dial number thing.
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Level 89
Feb 27, 2025
As someone whose childhood phone number had 2 zeroes in a row, I vividly remember how long it took to dial it.
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Level 44
Feb 27, 2025
Haha kudos to the memories good sir! Unfortunately I never got to experience them.
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Level 77
Feb 27, 2025
What were the other plane crashes locations significant for? I recognize Clear Lake, Iowa as the site of where the plane crashed for the "day the music died" but I don't recognize the significance of the other cities (besides the answer, Lockerbie)
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Level 49
Feb 27, 2025
Tenerife was the location of a runaway crash between a KLM and Pan Am plane in 1977 due to poor visibility and vague control tower replies
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Level 68
Feb 27, 2025
Tenerife - deadliest aviation accident

27 March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The Incident occurred in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run, colliding with the right side of Pan Am Flight 1736 still on the runway. The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the Pan Am plane, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the latter aircraft. A total of 583 fatalities

Lockerbie - deadliest UK terrorist attack. Blamed on Libya; theorized CIA/Israeli involvement

Pan Am Flight 103 Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, the Boeing 747 was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard, and 11 residents on the ground. A total of 270 fatalities

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Level 46
Feb 27, 2025
9/10 :)
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Level 86
Feb 27, 2025
Fell for trick question 2, and didn't know question 9. So 8 out of 10 today
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Level 53
Feb 27, 2025
Just 5/10. Apart from the Bill Gates question, all the other ones I got wrong were known by less than half the quiz takers. So I suppose that makes me feel better.
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Level 68
Feb 27, 2025
8/10 today. That rotary phone question was tricky (at least for a Gen Z anyways), and I mistook acrophobia for agoraphobia and went with crowds 😅
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Level 37
Feb 27, 2025
Did the exact same thing for the acrophobia question.
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Level 17
Feb 27, 2025
Same with me on the Acrophobia question.
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Level 55
Feb 27, 2025
Me too :-(
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Level 64
Feb 27, 2025
7/10. Slackness and inefficiency.
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Level 30
Feb 27, 2025
I dont see how people fell on question 2. How can a car brand that started in 1930's that's literally known for being common in 1930's Germany trace its origin to WW2?
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Level 52
Feb 27, 2025
By not knowing those things 🤷‍♀️
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2025
Well, World War 2 also started in the 1930s (OK, very late, but still). but, not everybody (including me) knows car date histories, but do know that Hitler and Volkswagen are linked together.
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Level 68
Feb 27, 2025
"What brand of car traces its origins to vehicles used in WWII?"

I'm sure Volkswagen vehicles were used in WWII. Then all you have to do is bicker over the definition of "origin*s*", and find conflicts or actions that could be considered related to WWII.

Or just argue that the founding of Volkswagen was a deliberate action with the intention of supporting a planned war effort.

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Level 60
Feb 27, 2025
I just remembered VW traces its origins to Hitler. I figured that since it was the car brand of the Nazis and was involved in preparing for the war, it counted as being related to WW2
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Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
"That's literally known for being common in 1930s"

Where are you getting this from? The first Volkswagen wasn't commercially available until 1938 and whilst there were plans to mass produce them by the time WWII had started the factories built to do it had failed to produce a single Volkswagen.

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Level 89
Feb 27, 2025
1. No, it's not particularly known for "being common in 1930's Germany" since, as @duckwantbread says, it wasn't even available until the very tail end of the 30s, after WWII had already started. And:

2. Speaking for myself at least, I'm aiming for time on these daily quizzes more than # correct (I can often get 10/10 correct so if I want to improve my score I have to do it as quickly as possible). So as I was speed-running the quiz I quickly scanned the question, saw "car" and "WWII" in the question, followed by "Volkswagen" in the answers and instantly clicked it, only realizing, a split second too late, that I'd misread the question and had fallen for a red herring.

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Level 76
Feb 27, 2025
I think this is daily trivia #300
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2025
8/10. I should have gotten Alexa, but I thought that was too easy to be right. And I thought it was Volkswagen. But, judging by the numbers I was not alone in that.
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Level 50
Feb 27, 2025
9/10

Missed the last one.

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Level 58
Feb 27, 2025
Got the Gene Hackman one after reading his obituary today - unfortunate coincidence :(

Still managed 10/10, 9,918, 3rd best score :)

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Level 89
Feb 27, 2025
I was wondering if it was a coincidence or an incredibly timely response from the Quizmaster.
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Level 81
Feb 27, 2025
RIP Gene
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Level 58
Feb 27, 2025
had a 6/6 run and then fumbled the other four :///
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Level 63
Feb 27, 2025
Yeah, my first 10/10 ever :)
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Level 35
Feb 27, 2025
7/10, happy w it
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Level 47
Feb 27, 2025
5/10 not a good day. Sad to say I got the question with Gene Hackman in it right, only because I’d just read reports of his death that included his hits from his acting career.
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Level 15
Feb 27, 2025
4/10 forgot how old jeeps were...

much worse than yesterday's 10/10

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Level 88
Feb 27, 2025
9/10. According to the stats, the one I missed is the easiest one.
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Level 20
Feb 27, 2025
8/10

Third best score!

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Level 31
Feb 27, 2025
6/10 RIP Panam and KLM deaths and bless their families
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Level 55
Feb 27, 2025
9/10 missed on the wounded president
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Level 64
Feb 27, 2025
But John Schrank didn't!
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Level 79
Feb 27, 2025
this aggression will not stand, man
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Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
8/10 Acrophobia and Roosevelt.
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Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
7/10 bad day at the office.....I have to go see when Roosevelt was shot
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Level 64
Feb 27, 2025
This was probably assembled before news of Hackman's death came out, but what a sad day it is, for his whole family. Not only the best Luthor ever, but he was brilliant in everything he did--The Conversation, The French Connection, Unforgiven, etc. etc.
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Level 65
Feb 27, 2025
Oh wow, first ever 10/10, only took about 6 months of taking the quiz almost every day lol
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Level 60
Feb 27, 2025
Good on ya, mate!
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Level 76
Feb 27, 2025
Congrats
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Level 35
Feb 27, 2025
I was just watching the Lockerbie series! I think it's on Netflix for anyone who wants to watch it (rlly good stuff).
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Level 47
Feb 27, 2025
got 8/10. missed the dial telephone question bc ive never used one and missed the pan am one bc ive never heard of it
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Level 55
Feb 27, 2025
You must be younger. I remember both well.
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Level 89
Feb 27, 2025
9/10, got the rotary phone one wrong after narrowing it down to 9 or 0. Looks like a lot of people struggled today though, only one 10/10 on my friends list so far
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2025
Rest in peace Gene Hackman
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Level 71
Feb 27, 2025
So, after 200 daily quizzes my average score was 7.83. Now, after 300 quizzes, it's gone up all the way to...

7.87

Good to be consistent I suppose!

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Level 55
Feb 27, 2025
Yeah - I celebrate every 0.01 up in my average score.
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Level 59
Feb 27, 2025
The jeep/volkswagon question is incorrect. Volkswagon introduced the Kubelwagon in 1938. It was used to transport officers, and other military personnel during the second world war.This vehicle was essentially the same as the vehicle called the "Thing" which was manufactured again in the 70's for a few years.

The jeep was first introduced in 1940.

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Level 57
Feb 28, 2025
Woohoo! My best score at 8885 but still no 10/10. Did not know the term for fear of heights.