Yearly since 2003, the umbrella group for quizzing outfits across the globe has placed on the granddaddy of information competitions. Nothing within the tiny, nerdy world of trivia confers extra authority than successful the World Quizzing Championships.
Rivals should try to reply 240 questions, reminiscent of the next, from 2022: “Taking part in for Bangalore in opposition to Pune within the IPL in April 2013, who set a brand new document for the quickest century in skilled cricket by reaching 100 off 30 balls?”
If it makes you are feeling higher, the median variety of appropriate solutions the 12 months of that take a look at was 64. Then once more, the next was a query in that championship too: “What’s the seven-letter title of the signature burger that may be ordered in each Burger King?”
The following contest is that this summer time, however within the meantime, you could have a couple of whoppers ready for you on this week’s Atlantic Trivia. Take into account them coaching.
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Monday, February 2, 2026
- The character Eponine “smiled a bit, and died” in Marius’s arms in what ebook that follows her demise with pages and pages describing Paris’s Nineteenth-century sewer system?
— From Walt Hunter’s essay on assigning college students lengthy, tough books - Stephen Fishbach, the creator of a brand new novel about actuality TV, seems on what long-running present for 2 seasons—one set in Cambodia and the opposite in Brazil’s Tocantins highlands?
— From Julie Beck’s evaluation of Fishbach’s ebook - Chile, Argentina, South Africa, and New Zealand are among the many 29 nations that share decision-making energy over what internationally administered geographic space?
— From Christian Elliott’s article on the chance and promise of geoengineering
And by the way in which, do you know that since going up within the late Eighties, the Eiffel Tower has been painted greater than half a dozen completely different colours? The construction was “Venetian purple” at its building and through the years has been brown, “yellow-brown,” “brownish-red,” and “reddish brown,” in keeping with the monument’s official web site.
All proper, so not that completely different on the colours. Nonetheless, every hue is admittedly three shades apiece; the underside third of the tower is painted darker than the center third, and the center darker than the highest in order that the paint job appears uniform in opposition to the gradient of the blue(ish) sky.
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Solutions:
- Les Misèrables. Hunter, a professor, writes that each one of Victor Hugo’s sewer discuss, frankly, bored him when he learn the ebook as a child, however that a whole lot of the reward of one thing like Les Mis comes from its size. Educators ought to belief that as we speak’s college students can nonetheless dive into an advanced, hefty ebook and find yourself discovering it worthwhile, he says. Learn extra.
- Survivor. The whole lot on Survivor (and the numerous reveals prefer it) comes right down to “The Edit”—the way in which editors bundle a competitor’s look right into a tidy narrative of the producers’ selecting—Julie writes. Fishbach’s new ebook, she says, thoughtfully explores what occurs after we get misplaced in The Edit of our personal lives. Learn extra.
- Antarctica. These 4 nations are closest to the icy continent, which is ruled by far fewer events than the 193 members of the United Nations. The smaller variety of Antarctic Treaty nations would possibly make constructing a 50-mile underwater seawall to guard a melting glacier a bit extra possible to coordinate than geoengineering measures that may require UN buy-in, Elliott writes. Learn extra.
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