Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 85
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Play today’s sevenWhich instrument normally has 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black?
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✓The piano, whose full name “pianoforte” means “soft-loud”
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The Oscar-winning song “Let It Go”, sung by Idina Menzel, comes from which Disney film?
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✓Frozen, which became the highest-grossing animated film of its time.
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Sauerkraut, the classic German side dish, is made by fermenting which vegetable?
- Cabbage
- Cucumber
- Beet
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✓Cabbage, and “sauerkraut” literally means “sour cabbage”
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Which is the only US state made up entirely of islands?
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✓Hawaii, a chain of about 137 islands stretching some 1,500 miles across the Pacific.
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Which Roman town was buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, preserved under ash for centuries?
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✓Pompeii, so well preserved that a loaf of bread survived in one of its ovens.
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In golf, what is a score of one stroke under par on a hole called?
- A birdie
- An eagle
- A bogey
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✓A birdie, from old American slang in which “bird” meant anything excellent.
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The word “alphabet” comes from the first two letters of which ancient language’s alphabet?
- Greek
- Latin
- Sanskrit
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✓Greek: alpha and beta, themselves borrowed from Phoenician aleph and beth.
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