Daily Trivia for May 24, 2025

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Daily Trivia for May 24, 2025

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+9
Level 66
May 24, 2025
3/10, I don’t know anything about popes or catholic history
+4
Level 41
May 24, 2025
My first ever 0/10. Yeah I don’t either. Some of these categories seem a little odd.
+3
Level 17
May 24, 2025
Sameeee

I have no idea

I'm an atheist so yea

+2
Level 67
May 24, 2025
It requires general knowledge, not faith.
+4
Level 47
May 24, 2025
10/10. I found this one all too easy.
+9
Level 53
May 24, 2025
1/10 This is hpopeless.
+1
Level 17
May 24, 2025
I like that joke. what did you get right?
+1
Level 53
May 24, 2025
#6
+5
Level 40
May 24, 2025
7/10. Having played Assassins Creed helped me out on the last one
+2
Level 68
May 24, 2025
Ended a string of 6 9's in a row. Kinda surprised 6877 only beats 61%; I guess a lot of people pay attention to popes
+4
Level 77
May 24, 2025
I'm happy with getting 7/10 for not being Catholic and knowing much about anything of Papal history
+5
Level 82
May 24, 2025
I, on the other hand would be expected to score higher and, though not infallible, did get 10/10.
+3
Level 40
May 24, 2025
I'm not Christian and I don't come from a Christian background or environment so I guess 5/10 is fine. I haven't seen it but I got the last one correct from a tv series bc I read its plot before haha.
+1
Level 53
May 24, 2025
I didn't know that and haven't watched the series but have heard of it and thought there must be s reason why so took a guess 😀
+2
Level 53
May 24, 2025
I got 8/10 I chose 3% for the popes coming from Italy, I guess it's just more recently that they've been from elsewhere. And chose cardinals as being eligible to be Pope. So does the answer mean the cardinals in the concave could theoretically vote for any catholic baptized male, not just the cardinals present? 🤔
+1
Level 86
May 24, 2025
So, apparently...

The pope does not need to be a cardinal elector nor indeed even a cardinal; since the pope is the bishop of Rome, only one who can be ordained a bishop can be elected, which means that any male baptized Catholic is eligible.

The last to be elected when not yet a bishop was Gregory XVI in 1831, the last to be elected when not even a priest was Leo X in 1513, and the last to be elected when not a cardinal was Urban VI in 1378.

+3
Level 88
May 24, 2025
Yes, most of the popes before John Paul II were Italian, but since him, none have been. He was Polish, Benedict was German, Francis was Argentinian, and now Leo is American. There is a quiz somewhere on the popes' nationalities
+4
Level 36
May 24, 2025
thank god I’m Italian so I smashed this, 10/10 for the first time ever lmaoooo
+2
Level 68
May 24, 2025
Only 6/10 today, after an unlucky misclick 😢

A lot of these I've only learnt in the last month or so, but 3 still I had no clue about

+1
Level 88
May 24, 2025
Leo XIV has not being wearing red shoes, and that is something he picked up from Francis.
+3
Level 49
May 24, 2025
I’m not l Italian, not Catholic, but still got 9/10.
+2
Level 56
May 24, 2025
8/10, had no clue about the last one.

Missed the one about eligibility, I knew it didn't have to be a cardinal or bishop, but I thought they had to be priests.

+2
Level 89
May 24, 2025
8/10 today, thought I was on for a really good time for a minute there but made a couple of slips. Got the eligibility one wrong by going against my instinct, and for the shoes one I thought Gucci was a safe bet, but I guess not 😅

Also, hands up who else only knew Borgia from Assassin's Creed? 🙋‍♂️😂

+1
Level 66
May 24, 2025
Nope I knew it from reading all the Samual Shellabarger historical novels when I was a teenager/young adult. 'The Prince of Foxes' was all about the Borgias. They were the Roman family (Lucretia the poison-queen, illegitamely fathered by Pope Alexander) all about power. The Medicis were Florentines, cultured, supported art, architecture, literature.
+1
Level 89
May 24, 2025
Ahh I'm not familiar with those novels haha, but I did also learn about the Medicis from Assassin's Creed, and later from watching the TV series Medici (which I thoroughly recommend if you haven't seen it, some great performances, especially from Dustin Hoffman and Sean Bean)
+1
Level 91
May 25, 2025
I got the same two questions wrong. For some reason I felt Gucci shoes seemed more plausibly papal than red shoes.
+3
Level 83
May 24, 2025
9/10 fumbled one the last one
+2
Level 44
May 24, 2025
I'm not catholic but I'll take a 9/10. Courtesy to CGP grey and Oversimplified again.
+2
Level 67
May 24, 2025
10 out of 10 not bad for a presbyterian
+2
Level 70
May 24, 2025
5/10. Not catholic. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
+2
Level 58
May 24, 2025
dammit, missed the last one cuz I really had no idea at all
+2
Level 64
May 24, 2025
8/10 I guess I don't know much about popes, just that el papa and la papa are very different things in Spanish.
+2
Level 46
May 24, 2025
8/10, missed 7 and 10
+2
Level 88
May 24, 2025
6/10 - my worst in a while. Was doing great for the first 6, then crashed on the last 4.
+2
Level 55
May 24, 2025
No divine intervention in this one, 4/10
+2
Level 89
May 24, 2025
Thank you for the answer to #10, Horrible Histories!
+2
Level 47
May 24, 2025
Shout out to Patricia Highsmith's "Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes" for the red shoes answer.
+2
Level 66
May 24, 2025
10/10 Helps to be raised Catholic, spent an Irish summer living with the Irish Sisters of Charity, read/watched all the Robert Langdon books (Dan Brown) and Tom Hanks movies, also the Two Popes and Conclave movies, followed the recent conclave and then took several JP Pope-related quizzes of which several questions were on today's DTC. 😊
+2
Level 75
May 24, 2025
Dang kinda unlucky today. Knew 5 of the answers and guessed the other 5 wrong.
+2
Level 83
May 24, 2025
Well dang. There goes the 10 day streak of 9 or better. This was hard!
+3
Level 66
May 24, 2025
Not for me! heehee.....you'll bounce right back up and I'll bounce down🤭
+2
Level 39
May 24, 2025
My best score ever! And I'm not Catholic! If eligibility for pope is "any baptized male Catholic" does that mean a baby could be pope?
+1
Level 83
May 24, 2025
Pope Airbud?
+4
Level 48
May 24, 2025
Best score ever! As a practicing Catholic I would hope so!
+2
Level 76
May 24, 2025
9/10. I knew it was Peter but for some reason my brain selected Paul. Should have been my best score 😔
+2
Level 32
May 24, 2025
3/10 im not catholic lol