Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 40 (2025-11-19)

Question 1

What happens if you eat a cherry pit?

Accepted Answer

Usually nothing (unless chewed, which releases cyanide)

Question 2

What phenomenon causes human eyes to reflect red in flash photos but animal eyes to reflect green?

Accepted Answer

Animals have a reflective layer (tapetum lucidum) that humans lack

Question 3

Which everyday activity burns more calories than jogging for the same duration?

Accepted Answer

Swimming

Question 4

What bizarre Victorian fashion trend involved wearing arsenic-laced items?

Accepted Answer

Green dyed clothing and wallpaper

Question 5

What causes your stomach to growl when you're hungry?

Accepted Answer

Muscle contractions moving air and fluid

Question 6

Which animal has blue blood?

Accepted Answer

Horseshoe crab (copper-based blood)

Question 7

What common food preservation technique was developed to feed Napoleon's army?

Accepted Answer

Canning

Question 8

Which bird is the fastest animal on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Peregrine falcon (242 mph diving)

Question 9

What caused the 'Dancing Plague' of 1518 where people danced uncontrollably for days?

Accepted Answer

Still unknown (theories include ergot poisoning or mass hysteria)

Question 10

Which fruit was once so expensive it was rented for display at parties?

Accepted Answer

Pineapple (in 18th-century Europe)