Daily quiz answers for Wednesday, November 11, 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

One fifth of 100 is 20.⭐
Pipe A fills a tank in 3 hours and pipe B in 6 hours. Working together, they fill it in 2 hours.⭐⭐⭐
A number is tripled, then 7 is subtracted, giving 32. The number is 13.⭐⭐⭐
10⁵ = 100000⭐
A tap drips 5 mL every minute, which is 300 mL in one hour.⭐⭐
In the sequence 2, 6, 18, 54, … the next number is 162.⭐⭐
An $80 jacket is discounted by 35%. It now costs $52.⭐⭐
3² × 2 = 18⭐
Half of 64 is 32.⭐
If x − 13 = 7, then x = 20.⭐

George Washington commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution.⭐
The Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 was code-named Operation Overlord.⭐⭐
The 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill was fought just outside the city of Boston.⭐⭐
In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed Rome's calendar, adding a leap day every four years.⭐
In the US Civil War, the Northern side was known as the Union.⭐
The Vikings worshipped Odin and Thor, the god of thunder.⭐
Jewish rebels made a last stand against Rome at the desert fortress of Masada in AD 73–74.⭐⭐
Louis Pasteur developed a rabies vaccine and the heat treatment of milk named after him.⭐
The Inca ruler Pachacuti turned the kingdom of Cusco into a great empire in the 1400s.⭐⭐⭐
The Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved in 1806.⭐⭐⭐

St Peter's Basilica stands inside Vatican City.⭐
Lake Volta, one of the world's largest artificial reservoirs, lies in Ghana.⭐⭐⭐
Valencia, the city where paella was born, lies on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.⭐
The German port city of Hamburg lies on the River Elbe.⭐⭐
Vietnam shares land borders with China, Laos and Cambodia.⭐
The capital city of Costa Rica is San José.⭐⭐
The walled coastal city of Dubrovnik is in Croatia.⭐
The larger of the two Kansas Cities lies in the US state of Missouri.⭐⭐⭐
By area, the largest country in Africa is Algeria.⭐⭐
Zürich lies in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.⭐

Lithium, sodium and potassium are soft, highly reactive metals called the alkali metals.⭐⭐
Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when heat and pressure change limestone.⭐⭐
The higher you climb a mountain, the thinner the air becomes.⭐
The opening in Earth's crust through which a volcano releases lava and gases is a vent.⭐
The scientific study of animals is called zoology.⭐
Insects, spiders and crabs all have jointed legs and belong to the group called arthropods.⭐⭐
Malaria is spread to humans by the bites of infected mosquitoes.⭐
People with the inherited disorder hemophilia have blood that does not clot properly.⭐⭐⭐
The SI unit of magnetic flux density is the tesla.⭐⭐⭐
A giant ocean wave usually caused by an undersea earthquake is a tsunami.⭐

Shakespeare's Hamlet is the prince of Denmark.⭐⭐
The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Ernő Rubik of Hungary.⭐⭐
Molten rock is called magma underground and lava once it erupts onto the surface.⭐
Words with the same meaning, like 'big' and 'large', are called synonyms.⭐
In Tolkien's epic, Frodo must destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.⭐
In a relay race, each runner hands a baton to the next teammate.⭐
From its old Italian roots, the word 'disaster' literally means 'bad star'.⭐⭐⭐
In English Scrabble, the letters Q and Z are each worth 10 points.⭐⭐
The computer mouse was invented in the 1960s by Douglas Engelbart.⭐⭐⭐
A rattlesnake warns enemies by shaking the rattle on its tail.⭐

Fried potato pancakes called latkes are a classic Hanukkah food.⭐⭐
The Day of the Dead, honoring departed loved ones, is a famous tradition of Mexico.⭐
After his conversion on the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus became the apostle Paul.⭐
In religious art, a ring of light shown around a holy figure's head is a halo.⭐
The ceremonial blade carried by initiated Sikhs is the kirpan.⭐⭐⭐
Initiated Sikhs belong to the Khalsa, a community founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.⭐⭐⭐
In Genesis, God creates the world in six days and rests on the seventh.⭐
Shinto, with its many shrines and spirits called kami, is the traditional religion of Japan.⭐⭐⭐
The Jewish mystical tradition centered on a book called the Zohar is Kabbalah.⭐⭐⭐
The Hindu god who preserves the universe and takes forms such as Rama and Krishna is Vishnu.⭐⭐

In Babylonian myth, Marduk slew the sea goddess Tiamat and made the world from her body.⭐⭐⭐
The food of the Greek gods, eaten alongside nectar, was called ambrosia.⭐
Odin gave up one of his eyes to drink from Mimir's well of wisdom.⭐⭐
Robin Hood's giant friend was jokingly nicknamed Little John.⭐
Jason and the Argonauts sailed in search of the Golden Fleece.⭐
In Scottish and Irish folklore, a selkie is a seal that can shed its skin and become human.⭐⭐
The fierce Hindu goddess Kali is often shown with dark skin and a garland of skulls.⭐⭐
In legend, King Arthur held court at the castle of Camelot.⭐
Ponce de León is said to have searched Florida for the Fountain of Youth.⭐
The mythical unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.⭐⭐