Daily quiz answers for Tuesday, November 10, 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 1917, Canadian forces captured Vimy Ridge in a famous World War I battle.⭐⭐
France celebrates Bastille Day each year on July 14.⭐
Spartacus led a famous revolt of slaves against Rome in 73 BC.⭐
Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by English Puritans seeking to reform their church.⭐
In 1879, Zulu warriors crushed a British force at the Battle of Isandlwana.⭐⭐⭐
In 1876, Queen Victoria took the additional title Empress of India.⭐
For over 1,000 years, the Republic of Venice was led by an elected ruler called the Doge.⭐⭐
In 1807, William Wilberforce won his long campaign to abolish Britain's slave trade.⭐⭐
The ancient city of Ife is sacred to the Yoruba people of Nigeria.⭐⭐⭐
The 1707 Acts of Union joined England and Scotland into one kingdom.⭐

Materials like silicon and germanium, which conduct electricity only partly, are called semiconductors.⭐⭐
The sharp, flat front teeth used for biting into food are called incisors.⭐
Vinegar gets its sour taste from acetic acid.⭐⭐
Whales breathe air through a blowhole on top of their head.⭐
The ionosphere is an upper atmosphere region that can reflect radio waves back to Earth.⭐⭐⭐
The antimatter partner of the electron, which carries a positive charge, is the positron.⭐⭐⭐
Velcro was invented after an engineer noticed burrs sticking to his dog's fur.⭐⭐
The largest living member of the cat family is the tiger.⭐
Thanks to worldwide vaccination, smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980.⭐
In dim light, the pupils of your eyes get bigger.⭐

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper.⭐⭐
Tacos are a traditional dish from Mexico.⭐
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.⭐⭐
In golf, getting the ball in the cup with your first stroke is a hole-in-one.⭐
A kayaker moves the boat with a double-bladed paddle.⭐
Nepal's national flag is the only one in the world not shaped like a rectangle.⭐⭐⭐
In Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab obsessively hunts the great white whale.⭐
The Hindenburg, destroyed by fire in 1937, was a famous German airship.⭐⭐
In The Simpsons, Homer works at a nuclear power plant.⭐
In the original Pac-Man arcade game, the four ghosts are Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.⭐⭐⭐

Garrett Brown's body-mounted camera stabilizer for smooth moving shots is the Steadicam.⭐⭐⭐
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for playing Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs'.⭐⭐
Comic-strip cat Garfield's favorite food is lasagna.⭐
Charlie Brown's daydreaming beagle in the 'Peanuts' TV specials is Snoopy.⭐
In 'Aladdin', the Genie is trapped inside a magic lamp.⭐
In 'Blade Runner', the bioengineered humanoids hunted by Deckard are called replicants.⭐⭐
Bela Lugosi played the title vampire in 1931's 'Dracula'.⭐⭐
The BBC nature series 'Planet Earth' is narrated by Sir David Attenborough.⭐
In James Cameron's 'Avatar', the blue-skinned Na'vi live on the moon Pandora.⭐
Vin Diesel plays street racer Dominic Toretto in 'The Fast and the Furious'.⭐⭐

Bizet's opera about a fiery cigarette-factory worker in Seville is 'Carmen'.⭐⭐
Jazz legend Miles Davis was famous for playing the trumpet.⭐
Bruno Mars sang on Mark Ronson's 2014 hit 'Uptown Funk'.⭐
Édith Piaf's stage name is Parisian slang for a sparrow.⭐⭐
Detroit rapper Marshall Mathers is better known by the stage name Eminem.⭐
Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind' was first written about Marilyn Monroe.⭐
A passage performed by one musician alone is called a solo.⭐
The sousaphone, a wrap-around tuba for marching bands, is named after a famous composer of marches.⭐⭐
Britney Spears's 2000 hit was 'Oops!... I Did It Again'.⭐
Bagpipes are most strongly associated with the music of Scotland.⭐