No. 62 · Friday, September 18, 2026
Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 62
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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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