{"id":31170,"date":"2025-10-28T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31170"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:22:40","slug":"todays-atlantic-trivia-questions-and-answers-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31170","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Atlantic Trivia Questions and Answers, Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Updated with new questions at 4:35 p.m. ET on October 28, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s said that the 17th- and 18th-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was the last person to know everything. He was a whiz at philosophy, law, logic, science, engineering, politics\u2014the works. But there was also simply less to know back then; the post\u2013Industrial Revolution knowledge explosion killed the universal genius.<\/p>\n

Which is to say that I bet Leibniz wouldn\u2019t know the full oeuvre of K-pop if he were alive today. Or at least not philosophy, law, logic, science, engineering, politics, and <\/em>K-pop. But I bet he would know everything in The Atlantic<\/em>\u2014which is all you need to answer these questions.<\/p>\n

Find last week\u2019s questions here<\/em>, and to get <\/em>Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day,<\/em> sign up for The <\/em>Atlantic Daily<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 28, 2025<\/h4>\n
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  1. In the Punic Wars of the third and second centuries B.C.E., Rome fought what North Africa\u2013based empire<\/strong> (including a few of its elephants)?
    \u2014 From Phillips Payson O\u2019Brien\u2019s <\/em>\u201cThe U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four of these belonging to Jupiter, but scientists now say it possesses 97 of them. What<\/strong> are they?
    \u2014 From Lila Shroff\u2019s<\/em> \u201cNo One Actually Knows What a [REDACTED] Is\u201d <\/em><\/li>\n
  3. What winning word <\/strong>turns a person\u2019s standard-issue garden into one meant to supplement their rations and boost their morale during times of war?
    \u2014 From Ellen Cushing\u2019s <\/em>\u201cThe Innovation That\u2019s Killing Restaurant Culture\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And by the way, did you know that elephants are either left- or right-tusked, the same way that humans are left- or right-handed? The dominant tusk is usually shorter and rounder, worn down by more frequent use. But elephants are far likelier than people to be lefties, so it\u2019s really a good thing that they don\u2019t often have to use scissors.<\/p>\n

    Until tomorrow!<\/p>\n

    Answers: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Carthage. <\/strong>The elephants involved might be a giveaway that the Rome-Carthage model is no longer how warfare works, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is still talking like it is, O\u2019Brien writes. Hegseth\u2019s focus on individual valor over things like production capacity and technological mastery is setting the United States up for military failure. Read more.<\/li>\n
    2. Moons. <\/strong>The 97 number is at least a little fungible in the sense that even in all the centuries since Galileo, scientists still haven\u2019t settled on what a moon really<\/em> is, Lila writes. In the uncertainty, quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets abound. Read more.<\/li>\n
    3. Victory. <\/strong>Ellen writes that restaurant delivery became a \u201csort of 21st-century victory garden\u201d early in the coronavirus pandemic as diners tried to keep their favorite restaurants afloat. Now delivery apps are themselves a threat to restaurant culture. Read more.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      How did you do? Come back tomorrow for more questions, scroll down for previous days\u2019, or click here for last week\u2019s. And if you think up a great question after reading an Atlantic<\/em> story\u2014or simply want to share a beguiling fact\u2014send it my way at [email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n

      Monday, October 27, 2025<\/h4>\n

      From the edition of The Atlantic<\/em> Daily by David A. Graham:<\/p>\n

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      1. Speculators in the United States have been trading contracts for the subsequent sale of assets at a specific price since the late 1800s, which feels awfully far in the past for a financial product known by what name<\/strong>?
        \u2014 From Marc Novicoff\u2019s <\/em>\u201cThe Company Making a Mockery of State Gambling Bans\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
      2. In Marcel Proust\u2019s novel In Search of Lost Time<\/em>, the narrator experiences a flood of childhood memories after taking a bite of what French shell-shaped cake<\/strong>?
        \u2014 From Aleksandra Crapanzano\u2019s <\/em>\u201cThe Mysterious, Enchanting Qualities of Chocolate\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
      3. A new documentary on the author George Orwell and his work takes as its title what erroneous mathematical equation<\/strong>?
        \u2014 From Shirley Li\u2019s <\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s Not Enough to Read Orwell\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        And by the way, did you know that the word chocolate<\/em> comes from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, in which it is xocolatl<\/em>? In the kitchen, Nahuatl also gives us \u201cmesquite\u201d from mizquitl<\/em> and \u201cavocado\u201d from ahuacatl<\/em>, and then, of course, where you say \u201ctomato,\u201d they say \u201ctomatl<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

        Answers: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Futures. <\/strong>This sort of speculation started out with grain prices, but over the decades, people started trading foreign-currency futures, placing bets on future interest rates, and more. Now, Marc reports, the loophole of framing wagers as futures has enabled sports betting to spread even to the states where it\u2019s meant to be illegal. Read more.<\/li>\n
        2. A madeleine. <\/strong>Crapanzano reflects on her own Proustian treat: chocolate, which found her at every turn as she was growing up in Paris. That\u2019s the way things have gone for a while in France, she writes; one of the only royal courtiers to survive the Revolution was the indispensable chocolatier. Read more.<\/li>\n
        3. 2+2=5. <\/strong>The 1984 <\/em>falsehood is unavoidable in discourse about today\u2019s disinformation. Raoul Peck\u2019s documentary, Shirley writes, argues that the comparison \u201chas led to numbness rather than to meaningful change.\u201d Read more.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Updated with new questions at 4:35 p.m. ET on October 28, 2025. It\u2019s said that the 17th- and 18th-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was the last person to know everything. He was a whiz at philosophy, law, logic, science, engineering, politics\u2014the works. But there was also simply less to know back then; the post\u2013Industrial Revolution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[994,1671,1226,831,14616,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-31170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-answers","9":"tag-atlantic","10":"tag-questions","11":"tag-todays","12":"tag-trivia","13":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}