Daily Trivia for August 18, 2025

Each day, we offer a new 10 question multiple choice quiz. The quizzes are timed, and you get more points for answering quickly. Try it today!

33 Comments

+11

Level 54

Aug 18, 2025

Yess, my vast music knowledge finally came in handy

Level 83

Aug 18, 2025

Dangit!!! I was on a coin flip on Raleigh and Drake and went the wrong way. Pretty happy with myself to get the rest of them, though.

Level 83

Aug 18, 2025

I randomly looked up noise pop because I liked the song Rill Rill by Sleigh Bells, and Wikipedia links eventually got me to shoegaze music. Funny how randomly knowledge is accrued.

Level 53

Aug 18, 2025

That's the joy of it, and because it was so random you also know how your learnt it.

Level 52

Aug 18, 2025

I only knew Raleigh from watching Blackadder 2!

Level 53

Aug 18, 2025

Not a good day for me, just 5/10. I missed 1, 5, 6, 8 & 10. I had a feeling about otters holding hands but was put off by "sea" for some reason. Was deciding between blue and white for the stars and went for white cos of "white hot". Never even heard of any of the music choices. Played Mario about twice in my life, so just picked the obvious Dino. Went for Phoenician.

Level 64

Aug 18, 2025

5/10, the last 5 killed me

Level 59

Aug 18, 2025

Gee this was a difficult one

Level 46

Aug 18, 2025

I got shoegaze because thats all I listen to!

Level 70

Aug 18, 2025

Only getting 4 right on a Monday is not a good omen for the rest of the week.

Level 89

Aug 18, 2025

Quite proud of my 10/10 today because, from the stats, it looks like a few of these were quite difficult! Knew shoegaze from a black metal band someone showed me recently, and blue stars I remembered from my school days (I was also baffled back then that it wasn't white, because you never hear of something being "blue hot"). The Babylon question was harder; I knew it wasn't Sanskrit or Phoenecian, but did consider Aramaic for a minute, lost most of my bonus time on this one before going on the hunch that Akkad and Babylon were both in the same general region of Mesopotamia.

Managed a 9,899, so close! 😅

Level 80

Aug 18, 2025

Nice work, I rolled through the first seven and then and just didn't know the answers to 8-10. And each one of my guesses were wrong. I forget where I knew shoegaze from but when I saw that as an answer I was comfortable hitting it.

Level 95

Aug 18, 2025

Same story for me. I was 50-50 on each of the last three and guessed wrong each time.

Level 64

Aug 18, 2025

At least the two that I missed were for wrong answers with higher percentages than the right ones. Surprised Raleigh's percentage is so low, though, as that's basic grade school history. (For Americans, I guess; I only know about the Severn from JetPunk.)

Level 57

Aug 18, 2025

Got the first 6 then missed the rest 😮‍💨

Level 44

Aug 18, 2025

8/10, missed 6 and 7. Pretty hard one today

Level 80

Aug 18, 2025

Really had no clue on questions 8-10. And I mean no clue. Missed 'em all. First three "ok, I got this". Next four, confidence growing "nice, 7 for 7". Final three questions, welcome back to earth.

Level 80

Aug 18, 2025

Got the first 6, had no clue on the last 4

Level 66

Aug 18, 2025

6/10 Difficult quiz. Shoegaze? Akkadian?

Level 83

Aug 18, 2025

The first major culture to arise in the Mesopotamian region was ancient Sumer. They likely invented the wheel and syllabic written language (cuneiform). They were eventually conquered by Sargon the Great of the Akkadian empire, who became the primary military power of the region. Akkadian became the lingua franca of the entire region for about a thousand years starting in 1500 BCE. Aramaic came in around 500 BCE.

Level 83

Aug 18, 2025

Hmmm. That question is a little flawed. The most spoken language by common Babylonians was Aramaic in the Neo-Babylonian period, which is generally considered part of ancient Babylon. Akkadian was still around even at this time, though, so it’s the stronger answer.

Level 66

Aug 18, 2025

8/10....missed the music genre and Babylon only solace was that on both those questions my wrong answers were in the majority with other.....

Level 45

Aug 18, 2025

I actually did really well today! I beat more than 50% (86%, to be exact) of people, which is unusual.

Level 73

Aug 18, 2025

Shoegaze is a phenomenal genre!

Level 69

Aug 18, 2025

AKKADIANS LONG AGO