Daily quiz #11

Answers · Thursday, 29 October 2026

6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.

Question 1
Which company's logo features a mermaid (a siren)?
- A. Starbucks ✓
- B. Evian
- C. Chicken of the Sea
- D. Tiffany
Answer: Starbucks. A twin-tailed siren from a 16th-century woodcut. The original 1971 logo showed her breasts, which were covered up in 1987 and cropped out in 2011.
Question 2
Which two rappers were shot dead six months apart, in 1996 and 1997, during the East–West Coast feud?
- A. Eazy-E and Dr. Dre
- B. Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. ✓
- C. Biggie and Nas
- D. Tupac and Snoop Dogg
Answer: Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.. Tupac in Las Vegas, Biggie in Los Angeles. Both cases went unsolved for decades; a man was finally charged over Tupac's killing in 2023.
Question 3
True or false: identical twins have identical fingerprints.
- A. True
- B. False ✓
Answer: False. Same DNA, but fingerprints form from pressure and position in the womb, so even identical twins differ. Twins do fool facial recognition and, in rare cases, DNA tests.
Question 4
Which American poet wrote nearly 1,800 poems but saw fewer than a dozen published in her lifetime?
- A. Maya Angelou
- B. Walt Whitman
- C. Emily Dickinson ✓
- D. Sylvia Plath
Answer: Emily Dickinson. Her sister found the poems in a drawer after her death in 1886. Early editors 'corrected' her famous dashes into commas, and the originals were not restored until 1955.
Question 5
True or false: users of American Sign Language and British Sign Language can understand each other easily.
- A. True
- B. False ✓
Answer: False. They are unrelated languages with different grammars and even different finger-spelling alphabets: ASL spells with one hand, BSL with two. ASL is actually closer to French Sign Language, from which it descends.
Ivy's pick
Which 1977 space probe was the first human-made object to enter interstellar space?
- A. Voyager 2
- B. Pioneer 10
- C. Voyager 1 ✓
- D. New Horizons
Answer: Voyager 1. It crossed the edge of the Sun's bubble in 2012 and still sends data from over 24 billion km away. It carries a golden record with greetings in 55 languages, just in case.

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Which company's logo features a mermaid (a siren)?

Which two rappers were shot dead six months apart, in 1996 and 1997, during the East–West Coast feud?

True or false: identical twins have identical fingerprints.

Which American poet wrote nearly 1,800 poems but saw fewer than a dozen published in her lifetime?

True or false: users of American Sign Language and British Sign Language can understand each other easily.

Which 1977 space probe was the first human-made object to enter interstellar space?