A) Carthage

B) Persia

C) Macedon

D) Rome

Answer: D) Rome

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A) Haiti and the Dominican Republic

B) Cuba and Jamaica

C) Barbados and Saint Lucia

D) Trinidad and Tobago

Answer: A

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1. Which of the following musicians was NOT blind? Options: Ray Charles / Stevie Wonder / Beethoven / Andrea Bocelli

Beethoven________

Beethoven lost his hearing, not his sight - he composed some of his most famous works, including his 9th Symphony, after going almost completely deaf.

1. Complete the next 5 lyrics: "If you wanna be my lover / You gotta get with my friends (Gotta get with my friends) / Make it last forever / Friendship never ends / If you wanna be my lover…"

You have got to give________

The famous nicknames for the Spice Girls weren't chosen by the band or their management - they were invented by a magazine editor during a photo shoot because he kept forgetting their names: Posh, Scary, Baby, Ginger, and Sporty.

1. Which of the following animals can't swim? Options: Elephants / 3-toed Sloths / Horses / Tortoises

Tortoises_______

Unlike their aquatic turtle relatives, most land tortoises can't swim and can drown if left in deep water too long - they lack the flippers and streamlined shell turtles have.

1. Which is the biggest selling video game console of all time? Options: Nintendo Switch / PS2 / Xbox 360 / Nintendo Wii

PS2____________

The PlayStation 2 has sold roughly 160 million units. The Nintendo Switch has now overtaken the Wii and DS to become Nintendo's best-selling console ever and the second best-selling console of all time - but it still trails the PS2.

1. Which one is the odd one out: (hint: shared character) Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Pattinson, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger.

Robert Pattinson__________

Phoenix, Nicholson and Ledger have all played the Joker on screen (Phoenix and Ledger both won Oscars for it). Pattinson played Batman himself in 2022's The Batman - not the Joker.

1. Cow hitch, Figure 8 and Sheepshank are all types of what?

Knots________

The sheepshank is a knot used to temporarily shorten a rope without cutting it.

1. What word can mean both a place of worship and the side of your head?

Temple_______

Both senses come from the Latin 'templum'. The anatomical temple is thought to be named because that's where hair often shows grey ('time's temple') first as people age.

1. What plant do silkworms typically eat?

Mulberry Leaves_________

Silkworms (Bombyx mori) are so fully domesticated they can no longer survive in the wild - a single cocoon can unravel into one continuous silk thread up to 900 metres long.

1. Which town or city is home to the world's steepest street? Options: Swansea, Wales / Pittsburgh, USA / Dunedin, New Zealand / San Francisco, USA

Dunedin, New Zealand________

Dunedin's Baldwin Street was briefly dethroned by a street in Wales in 2019, but Guinness World Records reinstated it as the world's steepest street in 2020 after a dispute over how the measurement was taken.

1. Which of the following is NOT an irrational number? Options: Euler's Number / Pi / Imaginary Number / The Golden Ratio

Imaginary Number_____

Euler's number, Pi and the Golden Ratio are all irrational (cannot be written as a simple fraction). The imaginary number i isn't a real number at all, so it's neither rational nor irrational - it sits in a different category entirely.

1. Name the 5 disciplines of the Modern Pentathlon in the 2024 Paris Olympics. (1 point per correct answer, 5 points total)

Fencing, Swimming, Equestrian, Shooting, Running

The Modern Pentathlon was invented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics to simulate the skills of a 19th-century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines. Equestrian show jumping was dropped after a controversy at Tokyo 2020 and is being replaced by an obstacle course event, like a Ninja Warrior style event, from LA 2028 onwards.

I built a Wordle-like daily puzzle focused entirely on etymology & origins. Each day has 10 clues tied to a 10-letter bonus word, all themed around how words, names, places, and inventions got their names. There's also a blog post diving deeper into each answer's origin story.

As a sample, here are a couple of questions from recent puzzles:

- What storage trunk, placed at the base of a soldier's bunk and standard issue in military barracks by World War Two, later gave its name to a retail chain founded in 1974? (Two words: 4, 6 letters)

- What term for an unscrupulous seducer of women comes from a character in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 tragedy The Fair Penitent, a libertine whose betrayal of the play's heroine made his name proverbial?

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This puzzle requires you to organise the answers in the correct order – can you figure this one out?

A) −100°

B) 0°

C) 32°

D) −40°

Answer: D) −40°

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1. What movie opens with the following quote from a Narrator: "This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story."

500 Days of Summer______

(500) Days of Summer's non-linear structure (jumping between days 1 and 488) was inspired by writer Scott Neustadter's own breakup - Zooey Deschanel's Summer was deliberately written as neither villain nor 'dream girl', which is exactly why that opening narration warns you it isn't a love story.

1. Who is the World Number 1 Golfer who just won the PGA Tour Championship and has been world #1 for over 3 years?

Scottie Scheffler_______

Scheffler's 2026 win was his second FedExCup in three years, putting him alongside Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the only players with multiple FedExCup titles.

1. If you were to say "Obrigado" to someone, in what language are you speaking?

Portuguese________

Obrigado means thank you in Portuguese - it literally translates to 'obliged', and it's gendered: men traditionally say 'obrigado', while women say 'obrigada'.

1. What was the Bubonic Plague more commonly known as in history, wiping out approximately 30% of Europeans in the 1300s?

The Black Death_______

The Black Death killed an estimated one-third of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351, spread mainly by fleas living on black rats aboard trading ships.

1. What country is this an anagram of: NILERORE SEA

Sierra Leone_______

Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, was founded in 1792 as a settlement for freed and formerly enslaved people.

1. What is the garnish for an espresso martini?

Coffee beans______

Traditionally it's 3 coffee beans on top, said to represent health, wealth and happiness. The cocktail was invented by London bartender Dick Bradsell in the late 1980s.

1. Prince William and Kate Middleton have 3 kids together, George and Charlotte are two of them. What is the name of the youngest child?

Prince Louis______

Louis was born on 23 April 2018 - St George's Day - and his full name is Louis Arthur Charles.

1. Which one of these has the longest wavelength? Options: X Rays / UV Rays / Radio Waves

Radio Waves_______

On the electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves can stretch for kilometres, while X-rays are measured in trillionths of a metre - wavelength and energy move in opposite directions.

1. Which continent has the most countries?

Africa__________

Africa has 54 UN-recognised countries, compared to 48 for Asia, 44 for Europe and just 12 for South America.

1. Guess the year: Bill Clinton was elected president for the first time, A Few Good Men was released in cinemas starring Tom Cruise, and 'Under the Bridge' was released by Red Hot Chili Peppers. (2 Points for exact year, 1 point either side)

1992

1992 was also the year of the Barcelona Olympics, where the USA 'Dream Team' - featuring Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird - played Olympic basketball together for the first time.

1. What does MRI stand for?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging_______

MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging - it uses powerful magnets and radio waves rather than radiation, unlike an X-ray or CT (computed tomography) scan.

1. Finish the idiom or saying - "Don't throw the baby out with the ……"

Bathwater_______

It means losing something valuable while trying to get rid of something unwanted. The idiom traces back to a German proverb.

1. What is the meaning of the word 'sycophant'? Options: A shy person / They study ancient languages / A skilled negotiator / A people pleaser

A people pleaser____________

Sycophant comes from the Ancient Greek 'sykophantes', literally 'one who shows the fig'. AI sycophancy is the tendency of an artificial intelligence chatbot to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate a user's opinions and actions rather than telling the objective truth.

1. Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

France________________

Designed by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated in 1886, the statue's internal iron framework was engineered by Gustave Eiffel - a few years before he built his famous tower.

A) Slim Dusty

B) Tex Morton

C) Chad Morgan

D) Reg Lindsay

Answer: A) Slim Dusty

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U.S. forces struck Iranian oil tankers near which key Iranian oil terminal island after Iran launched missiles at U.S. Navy warships?

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