Daily quiz answers for Friday, October 30, 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

In 1961, President Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the Moon.⭐
Around 1800, the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta built the first electric battery.⭐
In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias became the first European to sail around Africa's southern tip.⭐⭐⭐
London's Great Exhibition of 1851 was housed in the glass-and-iron Crystal Palace.⭐⭐
The Central Asian conqueror Timur is known in English as Tamerlane.⭐⭐⭐
In 1610, Galileo used his telescope to discover four moons orbiting Jupiter.⭐
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species.⭐
China's Han dynasty came to power after the short-lived Qin dynasty fell.⭐⭐
In 1605, Guy Fawkes was caught guarding barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords.⭐
King John of England agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215.⭐⭐

The largest share of the Carpathian Mountains lies in Romania.⭐⭐⭐
Montreal is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec.⭐⭐
Uruguay lies between Argentina and Brazil.⭐
Seattle is the largest city in the US state of Washington.⭐
Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the world's only doubly landlocked countries.⭐⭐⭐
The Azores islands in the Atlantic belong to Portugal.⭐⭐
Red Square lies at the heart of Moscow.⭐
The Weddell Sea lies off the coast of Antarctica.⭐
The capital city of Albania is Tirana.⭐⭐
The capital city of Chile is Santiago.⭐

NASA's Apollo 11 mission first landed humans on the Moon in 1969.⭐
Light travels at about 300,000 kilometers per second.⭐⭐
As they grow, snakes regularly shed their skin in one piece.⭐
The Mohs scale ranks minerals by hardness from 1 to 10.⭐⭐
The broad, flat teeth at the very back of the mouth used for grinding food are molars.⭐
The turning effect of a force about a pivot is called torque.⭐⭐⭐
Modern humans belong to the species Homo sapiens.⭐
The clear, dome-shaped front surface of the eye is the cornea.⭐⭐⭐
Bread, rice and pasta are rich sources of carbohydrates.⭐
Bacterial infections are treated with medicines called antibiotics.⭐⭐

The art movement Impressionism was named after a painting by Monet.⭐⭐
The capital of Germany is Berlin.⭐
Apollo 11's lunar module, which touched down on the Moon, was named Eagle.⭐⭐⭐
The process of heating milk to kill germs is named after French scientist Louis Pasteur.⭐⭐
Hot chocolate is made from cocoa.⭐
Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel.⭐⭐⭐
Bugs Bunny's favorite snack is a carrot.⭐
In Britain, the striped hero of the books known in the US as Where's Waldo? is called Wally.⭐⭐
The Vikings were seafaring raiders and traders who came from Scandinavia.⭐
Rounded to two decimal places, the number pi equals 3.14.⭐

The Trojan War began when Paris took Helen from Sparta to Troy.⭐
The city of Athens was named after the goddess Athena.⭐
The Romans knew the Greek god Zeus as Jupiter.⭐
In Greek myth, souls were ferried across the river Styx to reach the underworld.⭐⭐
Anansi, a trickster of West African folklore, usually appears as a spider.⭐⭐
A werewolf is a person who turns into a wolf, often at the full moon.⭐
The Egyptian god of writing and wisdom, often shown with an ibis head, is Thoth.⭐⭐⭐
The legendary outlaw Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest.⭐
In many Native American traditions, a giant bird called the Thunderbird creates storms with its wings.⭐⭐
A unicorn is a horse-like creature with a single spiral horn on its forehead.⭐