Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 182 (2026-04-19)

Question 1

In Victorian Britain, 'penny dreadfuls' became a reading craze because they sold sensational fiction in what especially tempting format?

Accepted Answer

Cheap weekly installments

Question 2

In the Ronan Point disaster, a small gas explosion in one apartment caused part of the tower to peel away floor by floor. What weakness did that expose?

Accepted Answer

Progressive collapse in panel construction

Question 3

Why does a spilled drop of coffee often dry into a dark ring instead of an even brown spot?

Accepted Answer

Particles get carried to the edge as it dries

Question 4

Even in the middle of a frozen polar sea, a patch of open water can remain exposed. What usually keeps that icy window from sealing shut?

Accepted Answer

Wind and currents

Question 5

How can a giant boulder end up sitting alone in a landscape where its rock type clearly does not belong?

Accepted Answer

A glacier carried and dropped it

Question 6

Sometimes a bright band of rainbow color appears high in the sky, stretched almost horizontally rather than curved around the Sun. What kind of clouds usually help create that effect?

Accepted Answer

Thin high cirrus clouds

Question 7

A magician swaps one object for another while your attention is pulled elsewhere, and many viewers never notice. What kind of failure does that reveal in human vision?

Accepted Answer

Change blindness

Question 8

Some ants treat tiny sap-feeding insects almost like livestock, stroking them so a sweet droplet appears. What are the ants collecting?

Accepted Answer

Honeydew

Question 9

In Cockney rhyming slang, a phrase may start as an obvious rhyme but later get shortened until the clue disappears. What part often gets dropped?

Accepted Answer

The rhyming word

Question 10

In the 19th century, some families arranged a formal portrait with a recently deceased relative posed among the living. Why were such photographs made?

Accepted Answer

Because a death might be the only time a family could preserve the person's likeness