Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 197 (2026-05-16)

Question 1

Montenegro’s country-code internet domain became popular for personal branding websites. What is it?

Accepted Answer

.me

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.mn

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.mt

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.mg

Question 2

The country calling code +1 is shared by the US, Canada, and many Caribbean nations and territories. Why do they all share the same code?

Accepted Answer

They are part of the North American Numbering Plan, a shared telephone numbering system created in 1947

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The US claimed +1 first and other countries had to join

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The UN assigned shared codes to reduce numbering conflicts

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Canada and the Caribbean were US territories when codes were assigned

Question 3

The rag-and-bone trade — collecting discarded junk and rags from city streets — inspired the beloved British sitcom 'Steptoe and Son' (1962). Which American show was adapted from it?

Accepted Answer

Sanford and Son

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All in the Family

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The Odd Couple

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Good Times

Question 4

The Julian calendar, used before the Gregorian reform, drifts about 11 minutes per year. Over centuries, this caused a major problem — what was it?

Accepted Answer

The spring equinox kept drifting earlier, misaligning Easter with its intended season

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New Year's Day kept shifting to different seasons

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Harvest festivals no longer aligned with actual harvests

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Lunar eclipses became unpredictable

Question 5

The French Revolutionary Calendar used 12 months of 30 days each. How did it handle the leftover 5 or 6 days at the end of the year?

Accepted Answer

They became special festival days called complementary days

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They were added to the last month to make it 35 or 36 days

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They were ignored and the year simply restarted

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They were distributed evenly across the 12 months

Question 6

Why is a nautical mile especially useful for navigation?

Accepted Answer

It is tied to latitude, making distance easier to relate to positions on Earth

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It equals exactly one land mile

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It was designed for train timetables

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It changes with ocean depth

Question 7

The Mercator projection was designed in 1569 for a very specific purpose — not for showing the world accurately. What was it actually designed for?

Accepted Answer

Navigation — so sailors could draw straight lines for constant compass bearings

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Showing the relative size of countries for political purposes

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Fitting the entire world onto a single printed page

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Accurately representing the shape of coastlines

Question 8

No flat map can perfectly represent Earth's curved surface. Map projections usually trade off which kinds of accuracy?

Accepted Answer

Shape, area, distance, and direction

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Color, scale bar, legend, and labels

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Latitude, longitude, altitude, and depth

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Land, sea, borders, and elevation

Question 9

Why is Web Mercator so common in online maps even though it distorts area?

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It makes tiled, zoomable maps practical

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It shows true area at every latitude

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It was designed only for paper atlases

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It removes the need for coordinates

Question 10

According to the traditional legal status of British town criers, why was attacking one while they were making an official proclamation considered especially serious?

Accepted Answer

They were treated as speaking with the authority of the Crown

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They personally owned the royal notices they read aloud

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They were sworn military guards as well as messengers

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They served as judges during public market disputes