Daily Trivia for September 21, 2025

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Daily Trivia for September 21, 2025

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+14
Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
Got my worst score ever…
+4
Level 80
Sep 21, 2025
Bruh...
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Level 58
Sep 21, 2025
If I knew stereo systems, it would have been a 10/10
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Level 45
Sep 21, 2025
you guys. a mockingjay is not a real bird. it's a thing from the hunger games.
+8
Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
I read the answer as ‘mockingbird’ though now that I think about it, it was the jabberjays that mimicked
+4
Level 68
Sep 21, 2025
It's not over till the mockingjay sings.....
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Level 89
Sep 21, 2025
I also read this the same way, but thankfully guessed correctly 😅 I really should have learned my lesson about doing these before caffeine by now 😂
+1
Level 64
Sep 21, 2025
Jabberwockies also make interesting sounds
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Level 53
Sep 21, 2025
Ahh, fell for that, was also thinking of a mockingbird. I'd hoped to see a nightingale but it wasn't there.
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Level 71
Sep 21, 2025
Probably would have clicked it if the real answer wasn't on top of it.
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Level 65
Sep 24, 2025
I got this question right, but among all those who got it wrong, probably most of them hadn't read or seen the Hunger Games, or if they had, they probably clicked too quickly, thinking it was saying mockingbird. If it had, that answer would also be correct. Some may have thought "mockingjay" was simply a more specific name for a mockingbird, and that they're jays. I myself thought for a while that maybe they were, since they're similar in shape to a bluejay. They're not, but they are both songbirds.
+2
Level 86
Sep 21, 2025
Sounds like I need to brush up on my knowledge of sound
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Level 53
Sep 21, 2025
5/10. My only consolation is that I knew a couple of the low picked correct answers like F(orte), 12 piano keys and tweeter.
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
Last question is a bit misleading. Starlings are well known to “be able to” mimic all those sounds, they have the unusual physiology to do so. The starlings outside my urban house mimic mechanical sounds like car beeps and sirens, never heard them do a chainsaw but they could!

Imagine what the question meant was “which bird is well known FOR producing the sound of a chainsaw”, which would be the lyre bird, although I probably still wouldn’t have included starling as another option.

(EDIT: I don’t really mind about the question I just really love starlings and want people to know how cool they are :D)

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Level 69
Sep 21, 2025
Starlings are mean as can be, they are bullies. I love the way they swoop in to land. They have a staccato walk which is quite martial. Compare them to blackbirds to see difference.
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
and their collective name is a 'murmuration'....why?
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Level 83
Sep 21, 2025
That's just the name of the cool shifting masses they create as large flocks fly together. The term applies to the same effect created by other species as well. Starlings are just particularly well-known for it.
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
Thanks for that! When I lived in So. Oregon there must have been more than 1,000 starlings that lived in a large stand of cotton willows by my creek. When the flock 'whooshed' out or in you would turn your head at the sound....
+1
Level ∞
Sep 21, 2025
I've never heard a starling make any of those sounds...

But changed to American robin.

+2
Level 78
Sep 21, 2025
It's "cacophony."
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Level 52
Sep 21, 2025
Lots of hunger games fans!
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
Strange 10/10, the advantage of being old...I live near Seattle, my dad built stereo speakers from Radio Shack and the first record I remember is him playing a train coming/going (Doppler effect), I play piano, I study whales + I think that was a question on another quiz, I grew up with the Beach Boys, and I went down a rabbit hole on the lyre bird awhile ago....fascinating mimic
+4
Level 89
Sep 21, 2025
Very nicely done! Top of my LB so far, long may you reign 👑
+4
Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
it's a passing moment in time, every dog has its day!
+3
Level 76
Sep 21, 2025
This makes me wonder what my perfect quiz would be about. Which 10 questions would sort of represent me.

Interesting thing to think about.

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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
It would be interesting...questions about times you've lived through, music you've grown up with, interests/hobbies that you've delved into, places you've traveled. The perfect 10/10 quiz that is you!
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Level 89
Sep 21, 2025
Tricky today, 8/10, went for mf on the sheet music question (that'll teach me for quitting piano lol) and I know nothing about stereo systems so that one was a shot in the dark 😂 Got lucky with a 50/50 between lyrebird and mockingjay at the end too
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
or know italian...forte = strong, mezzo = half, p = piano = quiet, pp = pianissmo = very quiet. I'm going to retire to Sardinia
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Level 89
Sep 21, 2025
Ahh, see I knew f was forte but didn't clock that m was mezzo, in my head I thought it could mean something like "maximo", oops XD
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
it's like mezzanine - 'an intermediate floor'
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Level 71
Sep 21, 2025
I remember the speaker system one from the general knowledge quiz - I did that 3-4 times to get all the points...
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
yeah, my dad was very much into music, when stereo came out mainstream, he was all over making a stereo system, we always watched the 'Mitch Miller Show' (bouncing ball lyrics) & Lawrence Welk, mom was big into Sinatra, Perry Como & weird yoga music (must have been an early hippie)
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Level 83
Sep 21, 2025
Funny enough I managed to use organic chemistry to work out what mesoforte means. Meso in organic chemistry means a compound that exists between two stereoisomers, so I figured mesoforte means in between forte and something else. Now it occurs to me that Mesoamerica also would've worked with this logic but somehow didn’t occur to me.
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Level 66
Sep 21, 2025
Brilliant!
+2
Level 65
Sep 21, 2025
You got 7 of 10 correct.
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Level 70
Sep 21, 2025
6 out of 10. I am just plain stupid.
+2
Level 83
Sep 21, 2025
Nah. Some line up for you. Some don't. And this one is on the tougher end statistically.
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Level 80
Sep 21, 2025
Pretty lucky 8/10...laughed a little when I saw the answers for Q4 saw "B" and immediately thought of Samuel L. Jackson.
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Level 67
Sep 21, 2025
mockingjay is a crazy pull
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Level 83
Sep 21, 2025
Hmm, probably won't last, but I'm currently top of my LB with a not-very-fast 9/10. That's new. Almost had a 10/10, but ... well, 'almost' doesn't count for much.
+1
Level 17
Sep 21, 2025
Close counts only in hand grenades and horseshoes.
+2
Level 79
Sep 21, 2025
59% picked a bird that doesn’t exist 🥴
+1
Level 17
Sep 21, 2025
Doppler affect is the name given to the cause not the actual cause. It's the compression or stretching of sound waves that cause it.
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Level 64
Sep 21, 2025
4/10
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Level 61
Sep 21, 2025
Mockingjay 😭
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Level 47
Sep 21, 2025
8/10…but I’m ok with that. This quiz sounded straightforward but as ever the devil was in the details.