Daily Trivia Quiz - Day 61 (2025-12-10)

Question 1

Which household pet is effectively blind to sweet flavors because of a broken taste receptor gene?

Accepted Answer

Domestic cats

Question 2

What causes mysterious fairy rings—near-perfect circles of mushrooms that appear in lawns and forests?

Accepted Answer

A single underground fungus growing outward in a ring over time

Question 3

In computing, why is starting a computer sometimes called booting or bootstrapping?

Accepted Answer

Because a tiny starter program helps the system pull itself up by its bootstraps

Question 4

How does the temperature of a lightning bolt compare with the surface of the Sun?

Accepted Answer

A lightning bolt is several times hotter than the Sun's surface

Question 5

Why do many modern restaurant menus avoid printing currency symbols like $ next to prices?

Accepted Answer

Removing currency symbols makes diners focus more on food than on the feeling of spending money

Question 6

Why is the overall leader's jersey in the Tour de France colored bright yellow?

Accepted Answer

It matched the yellow newsprint of the race's original sponsoring newspaper

Question 7

Which animal has a donut-shaped brain with its esophagus running through the middle?

Accepted Answer

Octopus

Question 8

Which electronic instrument is played without touching it, using only hand movements in the air?

Accepted Answer

Theremin

Question 9

Why do some people say cilantro (coriander leaves) tastes like soap?

Accepted Answer

They have a gene that changes how its smell is perceived

Question 10

Which composer kept writing symphonies even after losing his hearing completely?

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven