No. 17 · Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 17
Seven trivia questions, with the answers. Try them before you open the answers.
Play today’s sevenWhat is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level?
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✓Mount Everest — about 8,849 metres tall and still growing slightly each year.
Which of these animals is a marsupial?
- Koala
- Sloth
- Lemur
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✓The koala — it carries its young in a pouch, like other marsupials.
Who painted the ‘Mona Lisa’s companion piece, ‘The Last Supper’?
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✓Leonardo da Vinci — the mural is painted on a monastery wall in Milan.
How many players are on a standard basketball team on the court at once?
- Five
- Six
- Seven
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✓Five — two guards, two forwards and a center in the classic lineup.
What is the capital of Spain?
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✓Madrid — Europe’s highest capital city by elevation.
The word ‘robot’ entered English from a 1920 play written in which language?
- Czech
- German
- Russian
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✓Czech — from Karel Čapek’s play ‘R.U.R.’; ‘robota’ means forced labor.
What is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Roman god?
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✓Earth — its name comes from old English and Germanic words for ‘ground’.
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