No. 83 · Friday, October 9, 2026
Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 83
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Play today’s sevenFox TV launched 40 years ago, on 9 October 1986. Which cartoon family began as shorts on its Tracey Ullman Show?
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✓The Simpsons, who got their own Fox series in 1989.
Alan Turing’s ‘bombe’ machines at Bletchley Park were built to crack which German cipher?
- Enigma
- Lorenz
- Purple
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✓Enigma, whose ever-changing daily settings the bombes raced to find.
Australia’s mountain ash, the world’s tallest flowering plant species, is which tree, the koala’s staple food?
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✓The eucalyptus; Tasmania’s “Centurion” passed 100 m in 2018, before a 2019 bushfire cut its height.
The deepest artificial point on Earth, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, about 12 km down, is in which country?
- Russia
- Germany
- United States
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✓Russia, near the Norwegian border, where Soviet drillers hit the record depth in 1989 after 19 years.
The Orionid meteors, peaking later this month, are dust shed by which famous comet, next due back in 2061?
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✓Halley’s Comet, which also sheds May’s Eta Aquariid meteors.
The 1926 World Series, decided 100 years ago this weekend, is the only one ever to end how?
- Babe Ruth caught stealing
- On a walk-off balk
- On a triple play
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✓Babe Ruth caught stealing second, handing the Cardinals the title.
Before Pet Shop Boys took off, Neil Tennant was assistant editor of which British pop magazine?
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✓Smash Hits, where he interviewed pop stars before becoming one.
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