Daily quiz answers for Wednesday, November 4, 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

A price is cut by 50% and then raised by 50%. It ends at 75% of the original.⭐⭐⭐
11 × 11 = 121⭐
The number exactly halfway between 40 and 70 is 55.⭐
3/5 − 1/4 = 7/20⭐⭐
19 × 4 = 76⭐
14 × 3 = 42⭐
The least common multiple of 12, 15 and 20 is 60.⭐⭐⭐
2/3 ÷ 2 = 1/3⭐⭐
If 2(x + 3) = 16, then x = 5.⭐⭐
1,000 ÷ 4 = 250⭐

A victory won at too great a cost is called Pyrrhic, after a Greek king.⭐⭐
In 1532, Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa.⭐⭐⭐
The Renaissance began in Florence Italy.⭐⭐
In 1609, Henry Hudson explored the river later named after him while sailing for the Dutch.⭐⭐⭐
In 1946, Churchill said an Iron Curtain had descended across Europe.⭐
Julius Caesar introduced a reformed calendar known as the Julian calendar.⭐
The teddy bear was named after US President Theodore Roosevelt.⭐
After the Ottoman conquest of 1453, Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque.⭐
In World War II, Japanese pilots who flew deliberate suicide attacks were called kamikaze.⭐
In 1871, Henry Morton Stanley found the missing explorer David Livingstone in Africa.⭐⭐

A huge system of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity is a galaxy.⭐
A warm front forms where advancing warm air slides up over retreating colder air.⭐⭐
A computer's physical parts are hardware, while its programs are software.⭐
Losing more body water than you take in causes dehydration.⭐
The snail-shaped part of the inner ear that turns sound into nerve signals is the cochlea.⭐⭐⭐
Woolly mammoths were hairy relatives of elephants that lived during the last ice age.⭐
The Hindenburg airship was filled with the highly flammable gas hydrogen.⭐⭐
Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are the traditional five human senses.⭐
Nuclear power plants make energy by splitting atoms, a process called nuclear fission.⭐⭐
A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out beams of radiation.⭐⭐⭐

The adventurer Indiana Jones is famously afraid of snakes.⭐
The first commercially successful dishwasher was invented by Josephine Cochrane.⭐⭐⭐
Blue jeans were popularized by Levi Strauss in the 1870s.⭐⭐
When threatened, a squid squirts out a dark cloud of ink.⭐
Verdi, Puccini and Wagner are all famous composers of opera.⭐
In the western Pacific, a hurricane is known as a typhoon.⭐⭐
The samurai were the elite warrior class of feudal Japan.⭐
Turning 'listen' into 'silent' by rearranging its letters creates an anagram.⭐
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller famous for its shower scene is Psycho.⭐⭐
An eagle's large nest, built high on a cliff or tree, is known as its aerie.⭐⭐⭐

The TV series Twin Peaks (1990) centres on the murder of Laura Palmer.⭐⭐⭐
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted massively in 1991, briefly cooling the global climate.⭐⭐⭐
Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury stole the show at Live Aid in 1985.⭐
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.⭐⭐
Synth-pop band a-ha, famous for Take On Me (1985), came from Norway.⭐⭐
When it was founded in 1995, the auction site eBay was called AuctionWeb.⭐⭐⭐
Shoppers fought over Cabbage Patch Kids dolls during the 1983 Christmas season.⭐⭐
Studio Ghibli's 1988 film about a giant forest spirit is My Neighbor Totoro.⭐
Madonna's 1989 single and album were both titled Like a Prayer.⭐⭐
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers battled monsters in colour-coded suits.⭐