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Daily Trivia

Are most movies made by accident?

on Jun 14, 2026

An observation about film-making from director Peter Bogdanovich: "John Ford said that the best things in pictures happen by accident. And Orson Wells said that a director is a man who presides over accidents."

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What's the difference between Japanese and Chinese chopsticks?

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What was John Quincy Adams' nicknames?

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Daily Trivia / June 14, 2026

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Which was the first dome in the U.S?

Daily Trivia / June 13, 2026

The huge marble dome on top of the State Capitol of Rhode Island was the first of its kind in the United States.

How large is the sun?

Daily Trivia / June 13, 2026

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How many instructions do we have?

Daily Trivia / June 13, 2026

Scientists estimate that they could fill a 1,000-volume encyclopedia with the coded instructions in the DNA of a single human cell if the instructions could be translated to English.