Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 56 (2025-12-05)

Question 1

How does a Venus flytrap know the struggling bug in its maw is worth digesting?

Accepted Answer

It counts touches: two trigger hairs close the trap, five more start digestion

Question 2

Which solar plants store daylight in molten salt tanks so they can keep generating electricity hours after sunset?

Accepted Answer

Concentrated solar power towers with molten-salt thermal storage

Question 3

Which animated sitcom has aired new episodes every week since 1969, making it the world's longest-running TV cartoon?

Accepted Answer

"Sazae-san"

Question 4

What looks like a unicorn horn but actually works as a sensory organ packed with millions of nerve endings?

Accepted Answer

A narwhal's spiraled tusk

Question 5

Where does the world's tallest waterfall really roar underwater instead of above it?

Accepted Answer

Beneath the Denmark Strait, where dense Arctic water plunges 3.5 km under warmer Atlantic layers

Question 6

Why do Barkley Marathons runners rip pages from books hidden along the course?

Accepted Answer

Each torn page proves they reached every unmarked checkpoint on the off-trail loop

Question 7

Why do guests at a formal Japanese tea ceremony crawl through a 70-centimeter-high door called the nijiriguchi?

Accepted Answer

The tiny entrance forces everyone—samurai included—to bow and leave swords outside

Question 8

Which East African lake turns birds into statues because its alkaline water calcifies anything that falls in?

Accepted Answer

Lake Natron in Tanzania

Question 9

How do sea cucumbers squeeze through crevices barely wider than a coin?

Accepted Answer

They liquefy connective tissue on command, then stiffen it again once through

Question 10

Why did engineers reshape Japan's bullet train nose to resemble a kingfisher's beak?

Accepted Answer

It eliminated sonic booms when exiting tunnels and cut energy use