Daily Trivia for January 23, 2026

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Daily Trivia for January 23, 2026

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45 Comments
+10
Level 64
Jan 23, 2026
If I've learned anything from Jetpunk, it's that when the question asks which (place) is not a part of (continent), the answer will inevitably Cyprus.
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Level 71
Jan 23, 2026
Sounds like wise words. I don't understand though 😭

"The answer will inevitably Cyprus..."

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Level 43
Jan 23, 2026
Maybe they tried to say "The answer will inevitably BE Cyprus..."
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Level 71
Jan 23, 2026
Oohhhh. "The answer will inevitable Cyprus" sounds cool though.
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Level 83
Jan 23, 2026
Typing errors abound.
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Level 46
Jan 23, 2026
I shouldn't take the quiz so early. 8/10 and only the 48th percentile...
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Level 71
Jan 23, 2026
I've gotten 100th percentile for a 5/10 once... it lasted just long enough for me to take a screenshot, I think...
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Level 43
Jan 23, 2026
7/10
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Level 50
Jan 23, 2026
Same
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Level 40
Jan 23, 2026
10/10!! I knew or guessed based on knowledge most of these. I'm happy!
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
10/10 Sort of same here, took time to think through and make educated choices on Q7,9 & 10...satisfying quiz, rewarding myself with leftover pizza for breakfast
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Level 81
Jan 23, 2026
Leftover pizza shouldn't be a reward, its a given that leftover pizza is eaten for breakfast. A reward would be smoked salmon and poached eggs or Frosties!
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Level 91
Jan 23, 2026
Leftover pizza is an excellent way to start the day! Do you eat it cold, or reheated? I like both ways, but usually prefer cold for leftover pizza, which my partner finds bizarre.
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
I have a cold piece for breakfast....warm up another for lunch...skillet toast the last piece for dinner. Takes me 24 hours to go thru a medium 'Hawaiian Hot Thunder' 🍕
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Level 77
Jan 23, 2026
Question; is the Russian Civil War the same as the Russian Revolution cause I didn't think it was that many that died to be in the top 10
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
There are estimates that 10% of the Russian population died, 1.5 military and upwards of 11 million civilians. It is a crushingly sad part of history.
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Level 71
Jan 23, 2026
The Russian Civil War started with the end of the Russian Revolution but lasted for several years afterwards, basically post-revolutionary unrest between the communist Bolsheviks and other factions over what direction the country would take. Obviously the Bolsheviks ended up winning and establishing the USSR. So while it's not part of the main revolution, it's continuous with it in a sense. Hope this helps!
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
Thank you Watson! I'm listening/reading more on Russian history in light of the Crimea peninsula & now Ukraine. The history is very complex, post any books or podcasts that you would recommend.
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Level 53
Jan 23, 2026
6/10 didn't know the islands, human (chose sapiens not homo), loan or war.
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Level 63
Jan 23, 2026
my first 10/10!
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Level 78
Jan 23, 2026
9/10. Did not know the war.
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Level 50
Jan 23, 2026
10/10 9806 points 🤗
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Level 41
Jan 23, 2026
9/10 today
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Level 65
Jan 23, 2026
8/10 but hey, just to say the 2001 book is of the film, the film is based on the sentinel short story
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2026
This is splitting hairs, but I wouldn’t even say the film is exactly based on The Sentinal. It’s more accurate to say that The Sentinal provided a jumping off point for the story of 2001.
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Level 21
Jan 23, 2026
The early bird may get the worm but tis the second mouse who gets the cheese. - Obama
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Level 44
Jan 23, 2026
easy and quick 10
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2026
Question #6 is inaccurate. 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn’t based on the Arthur C. Clarke’s novel. Clarke and Kubrick wrote the story together using some of Clarke’s short stories as a jumping off point (in particular The Sentinal), then Clarke wrote the novel while Kubrick was making the film.
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Level 28
Jan 23, 2026
Source pls
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2026
My source is me. Film history is my area of expertise, and 2001 is my favorite film. The details are all there on the wiki page, although the fact that the film was released before the novel should be a clue.
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Level ∞
Jan 23, 2026
Thank you. This has been fixed.
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2026
No problem. It’s sort of a misnomer that the film was adapted from the short story too, because the short story really just provided the basis for one element of the film’s overall story, most of which was entirely original. I’m probably being overly pedantic at this point though.
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Level 58
Jan 23, 2026
Tapping away like I have something to say
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Level 65
Jan 23, 2026
You got 9 of 10 correct
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Level 51
Jan 23, 2026
Does question 9 explain why people keep borrowing money from the Saudis?
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Level 24
Jan 23, 2026
5/10
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Level 89
Jan 23, 2026
9/10, fell at the last hurdle, I ruled out the last two options but figured the Russian Civil War was short enough that it wouldn't have equalled the death toll of a 116-year conflict; apparently I underestimated how much more efficient we've gotten at killing 😅

Still, a considerable improvement on yesterday haha

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Level 91
Jan 23, 2026
I had the same thought process and got it wrong too. Oh well, learned something new!
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2026
The Hundred Years War estimates are around 3 million but uncertain due to being complicated by the Black Plague. The Russian Revolution/Civil War wasn't so much killing as civilian starvation, disease, freezing winters, no shelter. The deaths of older wars are difficult because of the collateral civiilian deaths versus direct military to miltary deaths. Still....dead is dead
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Level 89
Jan 23, 2026
Yeah, I remember learning at university that counting war deaths gets complicated when you factor in those from causes other than battle (the example we looked at was the Second Congo War, where there were far more deaths from disease, famine, etc., caused by the conflict than from the actual fighting)

I suppose it's also relevant that there were far fewer civilian casualties in the feudal era, since the population was much less urbanised and warfare mostly consisted of pitched battles between armies, rather than bombardment of cities and attacks on infrastructure.

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Level 37
Jan 23, 2026
Yay, best score! 9,834
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Level 46
Jan 23, 2026
10/10! also my question at the end :)
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Level 67
Jan 23, 2026
10/10 - my 19th best all time!
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Level 61
Jan 23, 2026
10/10 - Last two were guesses, not even educated ones. I got lucky.
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Level 55
Jan 25, 2026
Bet everyone in Australia got the Beef Wellington question correct.