Forum Trivia Contest: July 7, 2025

Tom Davis and Ellyn Bush

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  1. Forum: His New York Times obituary stated that Phil Sunshine was a perfect example of an aptronym. What is the definition of “aptronym”?

  2. Pyramids: Which country has twice as many pyramids as Egypt?
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  3. San Francisco: What comes next? Filbert, Union, Green, Vallejo?
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  4. Broadway: What is the highest-grossing Broadway show of all time?
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  5. Typewriter: What is the only US state whose name can be spelled using only letters from one row of a QWERTY typewriter keyboard?

  6. History: In what year did the French Revolution start?
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  7. Vocabulary: What is a “reduplicative”?
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  8. Animals: What mammal has the highest blood pressure?
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  9. Islands: Which are the only two US states where more than half the population lives on islands?

  10. Geography: What are the two South-American countries that have no ocean coastline?
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  11. Bastille Day: Where are the keys to the Bastille?
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  12. Literature: What 20th-century novel begins with the line “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”?
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  13. Music: Which American composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue, a 1924 piece that blends classical music with jazz elements?

  14. Movies: Which 1940 Disney movie was a box office failure on its first release but later became one of the company’s most famous and critically respected films?
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  15. Fruit: What famously smelly fruit, banned on many forms of public transportation in Southeast Asia, is known as the “king of fruits”?
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  16. Tongues: What animal has a tongue whose length is more than 3 times its body length? Charles Darwin predicted the existence of this animal years before it was discovered.
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  17. Computer History: How many columns were there on IBM punched cards?
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  18. Place the following three events in chronological order:
    Voting Rights Act passed (USA)
    Six-Day war (Middle East)
    Bangladesh independence (South Asia)

  19. Bones: What is the smallest human bone?

  20. Forum Wordle: Find the only common English word that is a solution to the following Wordle puzzle:

  21. TB: How many prisoners were in the Bastille when it was stormed?


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