Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 55 (2025-12-04)

Question 1

Which pop star's 2023 Seattle concerts shook seismometers so hard that geologists dubbed the readings the "Swift Quake"?

Accepted Answer

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour stop

Question 2

Why is Surtsey Island off Iceland closed to tourists and carefully rationed to only a handful of scientists each year?

Accepted Answer

It's a pristine lava island where researchers watch ecosystems colonize from scratch

Question 3

Which underground detector uses 50,000 tons of ultrapure water and thousands of photomultipliers to spot the faint flashes made when neutrinos hit?

Accepted Answer

Japan's Super-Kamiokande observatory

Question 4

Which Mexican city hosts Noche de Rábanos, a one-night festival where families carve giant radishes into dioramas of myths and current events?

Accepted Answer

Oaxaca City

Question 5

What improvisation in James Naismith's first 1891 basketball game forced players to pause after every made shot?

Accepted Answer

He nailed actual peach baskets with solid bottoms to the gym balcony

Question 6

Which country mails new parents a baby box filled with clothes, a tiny mattress, and first-aid supplies that doubles as the infant's first safe crib?

Accepted Answer

Finland

Question 7

What artifact spent years as a fortress building block before scholars realized it held the key to decoding hieroglyphs?

Accepted Answer

The Rosetta Stone

Question 8

How did the Inca empire keep census data and tribute records without a written alphabet?

Accepted Answer

They tied quipu cords whose knot positions encoded numbers and categories

Question 9

What ultramarathon retraces the messenger Pheidippides' real route, forcing runners to cover 246 km between Athens and Sparta in under 36 hours?

Accepted Answer

The Spartathlon

Question 10

Which cave in New Zealand looks like a planetarium because insect larvae dangle mucus threads that glow to lure prey?

Accepted Answer

The Waitomo glowworm caves