DayQuizzDayQuizz answers for Thursday, September 3, 2026
All 60 questions and answers from that day's DayQuizz, subject by subject. Today's set is live now, and the answers appear here tomorrow.
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- Words ending in the same sound, like 'cat' and 'hat', rhyme.⭐
- A phrase like 'jumbo shrimp' that contradicts itself is an oxymoron.⭐⭐⭐
- A poem of fourteen lines is called a sonnet.⭐
- A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 pattern is a haiku.⭐⭐
- When a sentence runs past the end of a poetic line, it is called enjambment.⭐⭐⭐
- A word that imitates a sound, like 'buzz', is an example of onomatopoeia.⭐
- A direct comparison made without 'like' or 'as' is a metaphor.⭐⭐
- Deliberate extreme exaggeration is called hyperbole.⭐
- Repeating the same beginning consonant sound is called alliteration.⭐
- The rhythmic pattern of stressed syllables in a poem is its meter.⭐⭐
Spanish
- The Spanish word for 'table' is mesa.⭐
- The Spanish word for 'bed' is cama.⭐
- The Spanish word for 'door' is puerta.⭐
- The Spanish word for 'key' is llave.⭐⭐
- The Spanish word for 'towel' is toalla.⭐⭐⭐
- The Spanish word for 'drawer' is cajón.⭐⭐⭐
- The Spanish word for 'window' is ventana.⭐⭐
- The Spanish word for 'house' is casa.⭐
- The Spanish word for 'kitchen' is cocina.⭐⭐
- The Spanish word for 'chair' is silla.⭐
Math
- 2⁻² = 1/4⭐⭐⭐
- The square root of 36 is 6.⭐
- 3⁴ = 81⭐⭐
- 5³ = 125⭐⭐⭐
- Any nonzero number raised to the power of 0 equals 1.⭐⭐
- 5² = 25⭐
- The square root of 81 is 9.⭐
- The cube root of 27 is 3.⭐⭐
- 10² = 100⭐
- 2³ = 8⭐
History
- American astronauts first landed on the Moon in 1969.⭐
- The Korean War fighting ended with an armistice in 1953.⭐⭐
- The Soviet-led military alliance was known as the Warsaw Pact.⭐⭐⭐
- The U.S. strategy of limiting Soviet expansion was called containment.⭐⭐⭐
- The Cold War was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.⭐
- The 1962 missile crisis centered on Cuba.⭐⭐
- NATO was founded in 1949.⭐⭐
- The Soviet Union formally dissolved in 1991.⭐
- The first human to travel into space was Yuri Gagarin.⭐
- The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.⭐
Science
- Light bouncing off a mirror is an example of reflection.⭐⭐
- Light bending as it passes from air into water is called refraction.⭐⭐
- Energy that comes directly from the Sun is called solar energy.⭐
- Sound cannot travel at all through a vacuum.⭐⭐⭐
- Sound travels from place to place as waves.⭐
- The standard scientific unit of energy is the joule.⭐⭐⭐
- White light separates into a spectrum of colors when it passes through a prism.⭐⭐
- You see lightning before you hear thunder because light travels faster than sound.⭐
- Stored energy waiting to be released is called potential energy.⭐
- The energy an object has because it is moving is kinetic energy.⭐
Trivia
- The dance form performed in pointe shoes is ballet.⭐⭐
- From anywhere on Earth, the Sun appears to rise in the east.⭐
- The scientific study of fossils is called paleontology.⭐⭐⭐
- The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is Sicily.⭐⭐
- The capital city of Canada is Ottawa.⭐
- The gas that gives soda its fizz is carbon dioxide.⭐⭐
- The longest mountain range on land is the Andes.⭐⭐⭐
- The main ingredient in an omelet is eggs.⭐
- A penguin is a bird that cannot fly.⭐
- A rectangle contains 4 right angles.⭐