Welcome back to Atlantic Trivia! Are you hungry for more? I hope that while I've been away, you have been enjoying plenty of food for thought-literally. Research shows that berries help improve memory and that a walnut-heavy diet is associated with higher cognitive performance. Fatty fish and leafy greens are linked to slower cognitive decline. Caffeine is a brain boost too.
1 Which US president vomited on the Japanese prime minister? 2 Which literary character was the modern Prometheus? 3 What global event began in 2004 as the Bushy Park time trial? 4 Which consecutive digits made up this year's most perplexing meme? 5 Which medieval coin was worth four pence? 6 What Gascon brandy is France's oldest? 7 Which wild west gunfighter was a dentist? 8 Which element was used in rat poison and pre-X-ray meals?
Today, I was eating bean and cheese taquitos from Trader Joe's (which, I have to say, I really like) and was thinking about just how versatile beans are as a food. And because that's just where my brain goes, I thought, "Let's make a bean trivia quiz." So, I did. There's my inspiration. How much do you know about beans? Well, we're about to find out!
If I have provided you with any factoids in the course of Atlantic Trivia, I apologize, because a factoid, properly, is not a small, interesting fact. A factoid is a piece of information that looks like a fact but is untrue. Norman Mailer popularized the term in 1973, very intentionally giving it the suffix -oid. Is a humanoid not a creature whose appearance suggests humanity but whose nature belies it? Thus is it with factoid.
Welcome back for another week of The Atlantic 's un-trivial trivia, drawn from recently published stories. Without a trifle in the bunch, maybe what we're really dealing with here is-hmm-"significa"? "Consequentia"? Whatever butchered bit of Latin you prefer, read on for today's questions. (Last week's questions can be found here.) To get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily.
1 What is the UK's only (mainly) German-language No 1 single? 2 What three verdicts are available in Scottish criminal trials? 3 Which 70s film had the tagline Hell, upside down? 4 How long is a chiliad? 5 Which Byzantine empress was a bear keeper's daughter? 6 Steel Dragon 2000 in Kuwana, Japan, is the world's longest what? 7 Which big cat's name come from Quechuan? 8 Which lawn game was a medal sport at the 1900 Olympics?
Welcome to Slate's weekly news quiz. It's Friday, which means it's time to test your knowledge of the week's news events. Your host, Ray Hamel, has concocted questions on news topics ranging from politics to business, from culture to sports to science.
