Daily Trivia for October 2, 2025

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Daily Trivia for October 2, 2025

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+21
Level 46
Oct 2, 2025
No one expects the spanish inquisition!
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Level 68
Oct 2, 2025
Actually, people had every reason to expect the Spanish Inquisition. They'd send letters giving people one month's notice before taking any action, and when they arrived they'd make a formal announcement.

The Spanish Inquisition was probably one of the more expected things in old Spain 😅

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Level 53
Oct 2, 2025
I never realised it went on for soooo long!!!
+2
Level 89
Oct 2, 2025
Same here, that threw me at first, I had to rule out all the others to get there
+4
Level 76
Oct 2, 2025
I didn't expect that either ;)

Edit comment aimed at Jeg's, Frankii must have posted at the exact same time as me, it showed up simultaneously with mine

+2
Level 23
Oct 2, 2025
haha
+2
Level 74
Oct 2, 2025
41% did.
+5
Level 61
Oct 2, 2025
8/10

I made it to the Spanish Inquisition. Then, nothing but unexpected questions.

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Level 77
Oct 2, 2025
I got them all right, but I don't like 2 and 4.

2 - insects have ganglions, which are not the same as vertebrates' brains. So technically, out of the options only the cat has a brain.

4 - I've heard the garage story about Apple, Microsoft and Google. Since it's false in all cases, I'm not sure why Apple is the correct answer - except that it's the oldest one. But I guess much of my confusion on this one comes from not being American.

+8
Level 92
Oct 2, 2025
I agree with point #4! Googling shows positive hits for Google and Microsoft as well.
+6
Level 48
Oct 2, 2025
I agree with the 4th one as well. And to make things even worse Microsoft (1975) is older than Apple (1976)
+3
Level 53
Oct 2, 2025
Yes, I picked Facebook, which was stupid, before reading all the options. But had I read them, I'd have picked Microsoft cos I've heard Bill Gates started it in his garage.
+6
Level 89
Oct 2, 2025
For #2, that was the logic that had me pick cockroach before reading the other options properly. However, I can see that if I'd taken the time, starfish would have been the obvious odd one out.

For #4, I actually hadn't heard that story about Google or Microsoft, so I guess I got a bit lucky there 😅 I've definitely heard it about Amazon though, and it does seem to be a common refrain in the "rags to riches" mythology.

+3
Level 76
Oct 2, 2025
You either have your ideas on the loo, under the shower or in your garage :D
+1
Level 89
Oct 2, 2025
I always have my best ideas when I'm trying to sleep and doing anything about them would mean getting up 😂
+2
Level 75
Oct 2, 2025
300th quiz. Avg Score 8394, Avg correct 8.52 /10. 72 x 10/10, high 9901 2x (I clean up on animals, history, geography, Oscars; get killed on tech, video games). I have no idea how this ranks, don't really care.

Just waiting for a quiz that's all dinosaurs/electoral college/Motown/film noir...

+10
Level 79
Oct 2, 2025
If you didn't care, you would not have posted this. I would guess those stats are excellent. So good on you
+2
Level 71
Oct 2, 2025
Maybe he's wondering when someone will explain if to him, instead of being a bit mean?
+5
Level 64
Oct 2, 2025
All I know is that they're doing better than me by 3/4 of a question per quiz lol
+2
Level 76
Oct 2, 2025
@ultimatt not necessarily, you can care about you own score and not care about how it compares to others. And you can still want to share it, just for the sake of sharing.
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Level 89
Oct 2, 2025
Those are pretty solid stats, they'd probably put you on my LB most days
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Level 53
Oct 3, 2025
Don't get that, people came be on my LB with 1/10, just not at the top. 😂
+3
Level 66
Oct 2, 2025
Pursuant to Q2 - cat's, insects, have a bilateral symmetry, a brain so to speak, with a neural net. Jellyfish too. Starfish have radial symmetry, meaning they can regenerate when sliced up. Somebody else will explain it better. However, it is a niche question. As this was a niche 10/10 for my weird brain
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Level 76
Oct 2, 2025
Jellyfish are not bilateral, and interestingly starfish are bilateral as larvae, they evolved from bilateral organisms. Their radial symmetry as adults is almost a sort of convergent evolution with other groups like the jellyfish and sponges

They also do have a nervous system - its just not centralized (but I believe some have ganglia or eyespots)

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Level 66
Oct 2, 2025
Thanks, you clarified what I meant...I meant that jellyfish have a neural net system, not that they have a bilateral brain. I've read that jellyfish have kind of parellal neural nets that are specialzed like for swimming or finding food. Glad jellyfish wasn't an answer because I probably would have gone in that direction.
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Level 85
Oct 2, 2025
Damn. 2 guesses, both seemed viable, both wrong. I guess that makes them good quiz questions :)
+5
Level 28
Oct 2, 2025
I didn't expect the answer to number 9
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Level 64
Oct 2, 2025
4/10
+3
Level 86
Oct 2, 2025
Darn, missed tge first one and aced the rest. Hate that, when you know from the start you're not getting a 10/10.
+3
Level 68
Oct 2, 2025
Read the question and thought all of them were started in a garage lol. 8/10
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Level 53
Oct 2, 2025
Another 5/10 for me.
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Level 52
Oct 2, 2025
Yay, 10! A few educated guesses needed, but no wild ones 😊
+5
Level 89
Oct 2, 2025
9/10 for me today, should've been a 10 but I was hasty on question 2 and went straight for cockroach before seeing that starfish was an answer 😅 Surprised by how few people know the Soylent Green reference though, I thought that was fairly established pop culture.
+4
Level 76
Oct 2, 2025
Wow 20% of people think that Greek is a Romance language! haha (amazing, especially given the crowd, with above average knowledge, ok perhaps more geographically orientated but still..)
+2
Level 70
Oct 2, 2025
7/10. For some reason I thought Bach wrote the Moonlight Sonata. I really should have known Madagascar, but I figured North Korea didn't let anything in. And I just didn't know the skin disease.
+1
Level 52
Oct 2, 2025
its what michael jackson had btw
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Level 49
Oct 2, 2025
Ugh could've had 8-9/10 if I had only listened to my gut but second-guessed myself almost every time...
+2
Level 64
Oct 2, 2025
Cats have brains? You learn something new here every day.
+1
Level 61
Oct 2, 2025
Well, not orange cats. But the rest do.
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Level 37
Oct 2, 2025
Orange cats only have a brain when their- surprisingly well thought out- plans cause max chaos.
+1
Level 66
Oct 2, 2025
I read someplace that male cats that are calico orange/black are probably sterile.
+2
Level 67
Oct 2, 2025
Best score ever on this one! I feel almost smart today lol
+3
Level 66
Oct 2, 2025
I was pleasantly surprised when my #1 LB lasted through the night, first time I'm pretty sure...I usually take in 'my' morning time & see most everyone else's score. Maybe I feel less pressure when I'm an early 🐦. The only reason I got Q10 is because I had stress-related impetigo when I was younger & figured that 'igo' had something to do with skin. I didn't know the Spanish Inquistion lasted quite that long but I did know that it was the only answer that started in the 15th century & was going strong when Father Serra was founding the California missions in the 17th century.
+2
Level 91
Oct 2, 2025
You're at the top of my leaderboard still, nice job!
+2
Level 66
Oct 2, 2025
You are gracious! Every dog has its day!
+2
Level 32
Oct 2, 2025
7/10
+1
Level 47
Oct 2, 2025
50 years later and so many still believe the lie that soylent green comes from the ocean. You have to watch all the way to the end of the movie.
+1
Level 53
Oct 3, 2025
Well there you go, I didn't even know it was a movie.
+1
Level 86
Oct 2, 2025
Surprised how many people guessed Byzantine Empire. But then I guessed Delian League, which I'd never heard of, and felt quite silly after looking it up.
+2
Level 65
Oct 2, 2025
Seeing the percentages on 5, I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. Proud of my 996 points on that one.