Daily quiz answers for Friday, November 6, 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

Half a year contains 6 months.⭐
The median of 8, 2, 5, 9 and 1 is 5.⭐⭐
If 7x − 4 = 31, then x = 5.⭐⭐
48 × 0 + 5 = 5⭐
The ratio 10:4 in its simplest form is 5:2.⭐
On the line y = 2x, when x = 9, y = 18.⭐
If 7x − 9 = 40, then x = 7.⭐⭐
2.5 m² equals 25000 cm².⭐⭐⭐
A car drives 60 km at 30 km/h and returns at 60 km/h. Its average speed for the round trip is 40 km/h.⭐⭐⭐
10% of 480 is 48.⭐

In his book the Almagest, the astronomer Ptolemy placed Earth at the center of the universe.⭐⭐
Malcolm X was a prominent leader in the American Civil rights movement.⭐
The Gaulish leader Vercingetorix surrendered to Julius Caesar after the siege of Alesia in 52 BC.⭐⭐⭐
The 843 Treaty of Verdun split the empire of Charlemagne among his three grandsons.⭐⭐⭐
Prince Henry the Navigator sponsored voyages of exploration for Portugal.⭐⭐
The Maya civilization built the great city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico.⭐
The nickname Uncle Sam for the US government dates back to the War of 1812.⭐
Vikings raided the island monastery of Lindisfarne in 793, launching the Viking Age in England.⭐⭐
Nikola Tesla pioneered the alternating current (AC) electrical system.⭐
In 1610, Galileo used his telescope to discover four moons of Jupiter.⭐

Asunción is the capital city of Paraguay.⭐⭐
Barcelona is the capital of the Spanish region of Catalonia.⭐
Before it was renamed, Istanbul was known for centuries as Constantinople.⭐
Funchal is the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira.⭐⭐⭐
Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand lies southeast of Australia.⭐
The US state of Oregon has a coastline on the Pacific Ocean.⭐
Brisbane is the capital of the Australian state of Queensland.⭐⭐
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are known together as the Benelux countries.⭐⭐
The Wadden Sea is a vast area of tidal flats along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.⭐⭐⭐
The Isthmus of Panama connects Central America with South America.⭐

The first electric battery was invented around 1800 by Alessandro Volta.⭐⭐
Dogs cool themselves down mainly by panting.⭐
The horizontal rows of the periodic table are called periods.⭐⭐
Every battery has a positive terminal and a negative terminal.⭐
A parachute slows a skydiver's fall by greatly increasing air resistance.⭐
The stomach lining produces hydrochloric acid to help digest food and kill germs.⭐⭐
Max Planck launched quantum theory in 1900 by proposing that energy comes in small packets.⭐⭐⭐
A hedgehog's back is covered with sharp spines.⭐
As you climb higher up a mountain, air pressure decreases.⭐
The body's ability to keep stable internal conditions, like temperature, is called homeostasis.⭐⭐⭐

Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way.⭐
The capital city of New Zealand is Wellington.⭐⭐
In 'HTTP', the first letter H stands for Hypertext.⭐⭐⭐
No two zebras have exactly the same pattern of stripes.⭐
The South American country Ecuador is named after the equator.⭐⭐
The famous painting The Night Watch was created by the Dutch master Rembrandt.⭐⭐
The nine-banded armadillo usually gives birth to identical quadruplets.⭐⭐⭐
'Bonjour' means 'hello' in French.⭐
In a desert, a green, fertile spot with a natural water source is called an oasis.⭐
Michael Jackson's best-selling 1982 album is called Thriller.⭐

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Babel fish in your ear translates any language.⭐⭐
In the 1994 film Stargate, the alien tyrant poses as the Egyptian sun god Ra.⭐⭐
In Terminator 2, the shape-shifting liquid-metal killer is the T-1000 model.⭐⭐
Printed in large, friendly letters on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide are the words: Don't Panic.⭐
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) unfolds at an isolated research station in Antarctica.⭐
Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920s Russian dystopia, a model for later classics, is titled We.⭐⭐⭐
In Pixar's WALL-E, the lonely trash robot falls for a sleek probe robot named EVE.⭐
The yellow Autobot scout in Transformers, often a Volkswagen Beetle or Camaro, is Bumblebee.⭐
Robin Williams plays a robot who longs to be human in Bicentennial Man (1999).⭐⭐
In Star Wars, the scheming Sith Lord who becomes Galactic Emperor is Sheev Palpatine.⭐⭐