Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 183 (2026-04-20)

Question 1

During the Apollo 13 crisis, astronauts had to make a square filter fit a round opening using only onboard materials. What dangerous problem were they trying to stop from building up in the cabin?

Accepted Answer

Carbon dioxide

Question 2

Some recalled airbags did not just inflate too hard. Years later, they could rupture and blast what into the car's occupants?

Accepted Answer

Metal shrapnel

Question 3

If you keep whipping cream after it first turns fluffy, it eventually breaks and separates into two new things. What are they?

Accepted Answer

Butter and buttermilk

Question 4

Male Adélie penguins sometimes sneak over to a neighbor's nest and steal one small item used to help build their own nest. What do they take?

Accepted Answer

Pebbles

Question 5

One bizarre parasite infects a crab, castrates it, and then tricks the crab into caring for the parasite's young as if they were its own. What kind of creature is the parasite?

Accepted Answer

A barnacle

Question 6

In experiments, people have worn glasses that turn the whole visual world upside down. After enough time, many can move around and perform tasks far better than at first. What does that show the brain can do?

Accepted Answer

Recalibrate to altered visual input

Question 7

Victorian audiences watched convincing stage ghosts long before digital effects because theaters hid a person or image and bounced it into view. What made that ghost seem to appear in midair?

Accepted Answer

A reflection in angled glass

Question 8

A peregrine falcon can dive at extreme speed without the rushing air overwhelming its breathing. What do the tiny baffles inside its nostrils help do?

Accepted Answer

Reduce the force of incoming air

Question 9

Detroit hockey fans once started throwing an octopus onto the ice because, at the time, its eight limbs symbolized exactly what kind of playoff target?

Accepted Answer

The number of wins once needed to take the Stanley Cup

Question 10

Some decorative glass can look one color from one side and a different color from the other. What allows the same pane to do that?

Accepted Answer

Thin metal coatings that reflect and transmit different wavelengths