Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 97
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Play today’s sevenWhich 1985 film sends Marty McFly back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean?
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✓Back to the Future, where the DeLorean needs 1.21 gigawatts to make the jump.
80% of players got it
Which country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift?
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✓France, and its iron skeleton was designed by Gustave Eiffel’s engineering firm.
90% of players got it
Which chess piece can only ever move diagonally?
- Bishop
- Rook
- Knight
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✓The bishop, which stays on the same color square the whole game.
70% of players got it
Which duck-billed Australian mammal lays eggs?
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✓The platypus, which has no nipples and oozes milk through its skin.
50% of players got it
Nori, the dark wrapper around sushi rolls, is made from what?
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✓Seaweed, shredded and dried into sheets much like old-fashioned papermaking.
100% of players got it
Yo-Yo Ma is the world’s most famous player of which instrument?
- Cello
- Violin
- Viola
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✓The cello, and his main one is a 1712 Stradivarius nicknamed the “Davidov”
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The word “shampoo” comes from which language, where it meant to massage?
- Hindi
- Arabic
- French
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✓Hindi, from “chāmpo”, a head massage, rooted in a verb meaning “to press”
10% of players got it
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