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May’s Toughest Question:
2026-05-05

Sylvia Plath

What co-author of the "Ariel" collection was forced to use a pseudonym to publish her novel about Esther Greenwood?

Ted Hughes wrote "The Iron Giant" to comfort his son following the death of what spouse and author of the "Lady Lazarus"?

12%

Known for "The Bell Jar" and "Daddy," what poet tragically committed suicide in 1963?

34%

Missed it

46%

May’s Easiest Question:
2026-05-03

Chicken Pox

Calamine lotion is useful for treating symptoms of the varicella zoster virus, the causative agent of what disease?

51%

Often lingering in the body post-infection, shingles occurs from a reactivation of what dormant childhood illness?

41%

Red itchy blisters and lesions are characteristic of what sickness that shares a name with a domestic bird?

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Daily Recap: 2026-05-08

Little Shop of Horrors

A 1960 Roger Corman film inspired what Menken and Ashman work, featuring the song "Mushnik and Son"?

14%

Steve Martin plays a sadistic dentist in the movie adaptation of what Broadway comedy that opens with the song "Skid Row"?

34%

Seymour keeps feeding Audrey II, the homicidal plant at the center of what musical that takes place at a flower shop?

28%

Missed it

24%

Nike

In response to a competitor's "Aztec Gold," the "Cortez" was an early design by what company that also gave us the "Waffle Trainer"?

31%

Known for the KD IV and Zoom Kobe, what apparel brand was founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in Beaverton, Oregon?

43%

"Just do it" and the "swoosh" logo are associated with what shoe company that sells Air Jordans?

24%

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Vikings

The unfortunately named Charles the Fat was forced to pay heavy bribes to what group that also sacked Iona Abbey?

26%

Legendary leaders Ragnar Lothbrok and Ivar the Boneless feature heavily in what six season historical drama?

47%

Later operas and Minnesota football teams popularized the idea what Scandinavian raiders had horns on their helmets?

24%

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Recessive

Attached earlobes, albinism, Tay-Sachs disease, and not having freckles are all are examples of autosomal WHAT traits?

45%

Tending pea plants, Gregor Mendel coined what term for the allele that gets masked in heterozygotes?

23%

Since it requires both parents to pass it on, genetic traits like folding one's tongue are considered what r-term, as opposed to dominant?

24%

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Aperture

Wacky numbers like f/0.95 – f/22 on a camera specify the max and minimum openings of what, uh, hole?

60%

The camera obscura effect of a pinhole camera happens with the help of what A-word that's pretty synonymous with "pinhole"?

19%

Harry Styles doesn't mention the video game "Portal" or a camera in what bop about letting the light in?

Missed it

17%

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