Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 170 (2026-04-07)

Question 1

A soap bubble can briefly develop a black patch just before it pops. What does that dark spot usually mean?

Accepted Answer

The film is extremely thin

Question 2

Some beaches once used 'bathing machines' that looked like little wheeled cabins rolled into the sea. What problem were they meant to solve?

Accepted Answer

Letting people enter the water privately

Question 3

California ground squirrels sometimes face rattlesnakes by making one body part suddenly hotter. Which part do they heat up?

Accepted Answer

Their tail

Question 4

A cuckoo bumblebee does not gather pollen to raise its own workers the usual way. How does it reproduce instead?

Accepted Answer

It lays eggs in another bee's nest

Question 5

Older laundries sometimes added a tiny amount of blue dye to yellowed white fabric. Why would adding blue make linen look whiter?

Accepted Answer

It cancels the yellow tint

Question 6

Spanish can place an upside-down question mark at the start of a sentence. What useful thing does that tell the reader right away?

Accepted Answer

A question is beginning

Question 7

Sometimes you can see streaks falling from a cloud even though the ground stays dry. What is happening to that rain?

Accepted Answer

It evaporates midair

Question 8

A threadlike parasitic vine can grow toward a nearby tomato plant even before touching it. What cue helps guide the vine?

Accepted Answer

Airborne plant chemicals

Question 9

A sundew plant doesn't snap shut like a Venus flytrap. After an insect gets stuck, what do its sticky leaves slowly do next?

Accepted Answer

Curl around it

Question 10

Some caterpillars that feed on latex-rich leaves first slice through the leaf veins near the stem. Why?

Accepted Answer

To interrupt the flow of sticky latex to the part they will eat