No. 81 · Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 81
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Play today’s sevenChampagne can properly come from only one region of which country?
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✓France; in the EU, fizz made anywhere else must go by another name, like cava or prosecco.
Which French emperor finally met his Waterloo in 1815?
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✓Napoleon Bonaparte, beaten by Wellington and Blücher in what is now Belgium.
Galileo supposedly dropped balls from the famous leaning tower of which Italian city?
- Bologna
- Florence
- Pisa
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✓Pisa, whose tower began tilting while it was still being built in the 1170s.
Which animal, bigger than any known dinosaur, is the largest ever to have lived?
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✓The blue whale, whose heart alone weighs about 180 kg (400 lb), as much as a piano.
Spielberg’s mechanical shark, nicknamed ‘Bruce’ by the crew, starred in which 1975 film?
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✓Jaws, and Bruce was named after Spielberg’s lawyer.
In 1961, who became the first human to orbit the Earth?
- Alan Shepard
- Yuri Gagarin
- John Glenn
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✓Yuri Gagarin, whose Vostok 1 flight lasted just 108 minutes.
Carvone’s mirror-image forms smell of spearmint and of which spice, used in rye bread?
- Caraway
- Fennel
- Aniseed
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✓Caraway, the same molecule flipped like a left and right glove.
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