Daily quiz answers for Wednesday, October 21, 2026

All 80 questions and answers from that day's DayQuizz daily quiz, subject by subject. Today's set is live now, and its answers appear here tomorrow.

English quiz answers

One third of 90 is 30.⭐
10% of 70 is 7.⭐
2.5 × 4 = 10⭐
11 × 7 = 77⭐
Pens cost $2 for a pack of 3. Twelve pens cost $8.⭐⭐
Five numbers have a mean of 8. Four of them add up to 31, so the fifth is 9.⭐⭐⭐
A square with an area of 49 m² has sides of 7 m.⭐
(8 − 3) × (2 + 4) = 30⭐⭐
The mean (average) of 4, 8 and 12 is 8.⭐⭐
A cylinder with radius 3 cm and height 10 cm has a volume of about 282.6 cm³ (π ≈ 3.14).⭐⭐⭐

The RMS Titanic sank on its first voyage in 1912.⭐
Kublai Khan founded China's Yuan dynasty.⭐⭐⭐
The ancient Olympic Games at Olympia were held in honor of the god Zeus.⭐⭐
The colorful Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) is a famous tradition from Mexico.⭐
The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.⭐⭐⭐
The ruins of ancient Troy lie in modern-day Turkey.⭐⭐
The famous 1969 music festival held on a farm in New York State was Woodstock.⭐
In 1547, Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first tsar of Russia.⭐⭐
Egypt's Great Sphinx has a human head on the body of a lion.⭐
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were philosophers of ancient Greece.⭐

The island of Cuba lies in the Caribbean Sea.⭐
The Caspian Sea borders Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.⭐⭐⭐
The Atlantic Ocean separates the Americas from Europe and Africa.⭐
The Douro River flows through Spain and Portugal.⭐⭐
The currency of South Africa is the rand.⭐⭐⭐
The capital city of Saudi Arabia is Riyadh.⭐
The capital city of Finland is Helsinki.⭐
Tiny Liechtenstein lies between Switzerland and Austria.⭐⭐
The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.⭐⭐
The flag of Canada features a red maple leaf.⭐

Pure ice melts at 0 °C.⭐
Blood travels around the body through tubes called blood vessels.⭐
Table salt is the compound sodium chloride.⭐⭐
Plants release water vapor through their leaves in a process called transpiration.⭐⭐
Earth is the third planet from the Sun.⭐
Most plants make their food in their leaves.⭐
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather happens, is the troposphere.⭐⭐⭐
In a series circuit, electricity has only one path to follow.⭐⭐
Fish take oxygen from water using their gills.⭐
Newton's second law is F = ma.⭐⭐⭐

In Battlestar Galactica, the last humans flee the robotic Cylons.⭐⭐
In Jurassic Park, dinosaur DNA is taken from mosquitoes preserved in amber.⭐
In Stranger Things, the dark parallel dimension is called the Upside Down.⭐
In Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, the aliens' chaotic home world orbits three suns.⭐⭐
In Asimov's Foundation, Hari Seldon predicts the future with a science called psychohistory.⭐⭐⭐
In Firefly, Captain Mal Reynolds flies a battered transport ship named Serenity.⭐⭐
Doctor Who's pepper-pot-shaped enemies who shout 'Exterminate!' are the Daleks.⭐
A being that is part human and part machine is called a cyborg.⭐
In Back to the Future, Doc Brown builds his time machine out of a DeLorean.⭐
Captain Kirk's starship in the original Star Trek is the USS Enterprise.⭐