Forum Trivia Contest: December 1, 2025

Tom Davis and Ellyn Bush

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  1. Forum: The walls of the stairway from the entrance of the main building to the second floor are covered with artificial swallows. How many total birds are there (± 10)?

  2. Axis of Evil: What three countries did George Bush and Dick Cheney label “Axis of Evil?”
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  3. Super Bowl: What country is Bad Bunny from?
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  4. Land-locked: A state is land-locked if it has no ocean boundary. It is doubly-land-locked if all its neighbors are land-locked. It is triply-land-locked if all its neighbors are doubly-land-locked. What US state is triply-land-locked?
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  5. Humanity: What mammalian physical characteristic is unique to Homo sapiens (no other mammals, including human relatives, have it)?
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  6. Chemistry: The symbols for most chemical elements begin with the same letter as the element’s name (example: Cu for Copper) but some, like Fe for Iron, do not. There are 9 other elements like Iron. What are they? (5 or more: 1 point; all 9: two points.)
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  7. Nuts: What is the country of origin of the macadamia nut?
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  8. Names: In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from the movie Fantasia, the name of the sorcerer is "Yen Sid." Why?
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  9. Wars: How long did the 100-years war last (± 3 years)?
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  10. Secrecy: What was the password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system before the 2025 theft?
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  11. Movies: Identify four of the following movies given one word that has come to symbolize each of them: “Rosebud,” “Toga,” “Inconceivable,” “Stella,” and “Plastics.” At least four correct for 1 point.

  12. Math: The American Institute of Mathematics is one of the top non-university math research institutes in the world. The combination to their after-hours entrance lock is 2357. Why?
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  13. Physics: What physical constant is approximately equal to one foot per nanosecond?
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  14. Math: Who, in his song “New Math,” said, “Base-8 is just like base-10 … if you’re missing two fingers!”
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  15. Rich People: Name two living singers who are currently worth more than a billion US dollars.
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  16. Currency: When did the UK decimalize their currency?
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  17. Christmas: What is the name of Clara’s godfather in the Nutcracker?
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  18. Presidents: Who was the first US President to visit Hiroshima?
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  19. Trees: What tree, exclusively found in the US, was known as “the redwood of the east” and once covered 25% of the eastern US. It virtually disappeared between 1904 and 1950.
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  20. Vocabulary: “Dumbledore” is an obsolete British name for an insect. What is the modern name?
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  21. TB: How many different official versions of the US flag have there been?
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