Daily quiz answers for Tuesday, November 3, 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

20 × 7 = 140⭐
$1,000 earns 10% interest per year, compounded yearly. After 2 years it is worth $1210.⭐⭐⭐
The smaller solution of x² − 5x + 6 = 0 is 2.⭐⭐⭐
25% of 36 is 9.⭐
The next odd number after 49 is 51.⭐
A trapezoid with parallel sides of 5 cm and 9 cm and a height of 6 cm has an area of 42 cm².⭐⭐
2⁶ = 64⭐
A rectangle has a perimeter of 30 cm and a length of 9 cm. Its width is 6 cm.⭐⭐
A right triangle has legs of 5 cm and 12 cm. Its hypotenuse is 13 cm.⭐⭐
84 ÷ 7 = 12⭐

England's Queen Mary I is often called Bloody Mary.⭐
Halloween has roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.⭐⭐
The Dreyfus Affair, over a wrongly convicted army officer, divided France in the 1890s.⭐⭐⭐
During the French Revolution, thousands were executed by the guillotine.⭐
In 1822, Jean-François Champollion announced he had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.⭐⭐⭐
Mount Vernon in Virginia was the home of George Washington.⭐
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, in 1957.⭐
At the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, Rome's Scipio defeated the Carthaginian general Hannibal.⭐⭐
The Eiffel Tower was completed for the Paris world's fair of 1889.⭐⭐
The feared pirate Edward Teach was better known as Blackbeard.⭐

Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna are both active volcanoes.⭐
The huge explosion of a massive star at the end of its life is a supernova.⭐
When body temperature drops dangerously low, the condition is called hypothermia.⭐
Pressure is measured in SI units called pascals.⭐⭐
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick described the double-helix structure of DNA.⭐⭐
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.⭐⭐⭐
A huge mass of ice that slowly flows over land is a glacier.⭐
In genetics, a dominant trait appears even if you inherit only one copy of the gene.⭐⭐⭐
The average weather pattern of a region over many years is its climate.⭐
Blue whales feed mainly on tiny shrimp-like animals called krill.⭐⭐

The serial comma, placed before 'and' in a list, is also called the Oxford comma.⭐⭐
The ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.⭐⭐
In the Harry Potter books, the school of witchcraft and wizardry is Hogwarts.⭐
The idea for Velcro came from burrs stuck in the fur of a dog.⭐⭐⭐
Diamonds are made of pure carbon.⭐
The piñata is a decorated container full of candy that is broken open with a stick.⭐
The first crewed hot-air balloon flight took place in 1783 in France.⭐⭐
Napoleon suffered his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.⭐
Many classic chewing gums were made from chicle, a natural gum from the sapodilla tree.⭐⭐⭐
The owl is the night bird famous for hooting.⭐

Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system kernel in 1991.⭐
Nintendo released its handheld console, the Game Boy, in 1989.⭐
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.⭐⭐
The abacus, a counting frame with beads on rods, is one of the oldest calculating tools.⭐
John Harrison's marine chronometer finally let sailors find their longitude at sea.⭐⭐⭐
Thomas Edison's 1877 phonograph could record sound and play it back.⭐⭐
James Hargreaves's spinning jenny of the 1760s let one worker spin many threads at once.⭐⭐⭐
The internet grew out of ARPANET, a network funded by the US Department of Defense.⭐⭐
Britain's Frank Whittle was a key inventor of the jet engine.⭐
The wheel and axle, invented around 3500 BC, made carts possible.⭐

The curvy Coca-Cola bottle was inspired by the shape of a cocoa pod.⭐⭐⭐
Ford's car that made driving affordable for millions from 1908 was the Model T.⭐
The Tim Hortons coffee chain is named after a Canadian hockey player.⭐⭐
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders.⭐
Chanel's most famous perfume is called Chanel No. 5.⭐
The famous golden arches logo belongs to the fast-food chain McDonald's.⭐
The Android mascot is a little green robot.⭐
Harley-Davidson is a famous American brand of motorcycles.⭐
The I and K in IKEA stand for its founder Ingvar Kamprad.⭐⭐⭐
Sega's speedy blue mascot is Sonic the Hedgehog.⭐