Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 226 (2026-06-25)

Question 1

Besides looking like food or habitat, what cue can make floating plastic an ecological trap for marine animals?

Accepted Answer

Odors released by biofilms on the plastic surface

Answer

Plastic emits a stable frequency identical to moonlight

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Plastic automatically imitates fish movement

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Plastic lowers seawater temperature for spawning

Question 2

The star in starboard looks like it means star, but what is the word actually connected to on a ship?

Accepted Answer

The steering side of an old vessel

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The side used for watching stars at night

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A board where star charts were stored

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A sailors’ code for distinguishing hemispheres

Question 3

What problem does the corrugated bend in a flexible straw mainly solve?

Accepted Answer

It lets the straw change angle without being easily crushed shut

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It stores extra drink like a tank

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It filters caffeine out of coffee

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It measures temperature

Question 4

Why were museum textiles long treated as less “high art” than painting or sculpture?

Accepted Answer

A hierarchy that ranked useful craft and feminized labor lower

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Textiles have no patterns at all

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Paintings can never enter homes

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Sculpture never requires manual labor

Question 5

Why might a coffee shop prefer a buy 10, get 1 free card over simply discounting each cup?

Accepted Answer

To encourage repeat visits and motivation to complete progress

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To measure customers’ caffeine tolerance

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To make staff remember every customer’s birthday

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To make every cup take exactly the same time to prepare

Question 6

What two climate issues do deep eaves on traditional southern houses mainly address?

Accepted Answer

Strong sun and frequent rain or humidity

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Magnetic-field changes and moon phases

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Indoor noise and furniture color

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House numbers and street width

Question 7

What group force is strengthened when check-ins make a personal behavior public?

Accepted Answer

Peer monitoring created by visible commitment

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Temperature control caused by weather

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Exercise ability caused by device battery level

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Travel speed caused by location names

Question 8

Why does repeated exposure to something tend to make people like it more?

Accepted Answer

Mere exposure effect

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Conformity effect

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Default effect

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Sunk cost fallacy

Question 9

What “helpers” inside termites let them take part in the global methane cycle?

Accepted Answer

Gut microbes that break down woody fibers

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Wing pigments that turn sunlight into methane

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Volcanic ash stored in their antennae

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Shells that absorb salt from seawater

Question 10

The word quarantine comes from what historical practice?

Accepted Answer

A forty-day isolation period

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A port code with forty rules

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A medical team of forty people

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A travel pass used by forty islands