{"id":37762,"date":"2025-12-16T22:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37762"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:43:18","slug":"todays-atlantic-trivia-questions-and-answers-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37762","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Atlantic Trivia Questions and Answers, Week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I visited the Snapple website this week, I was served one of the drink brand\u2019s famous fun facts: that a jiffy is an \u201cactual time measurement equaling 1\/100th of a second.\u201d Fun indeed! And arguably even a little bit true!<\/p>\n

In 2013 in The Atlantic<\/em>, Adrienne LaFrance courageously exposed that many of Snapple\u2019s bottle-cap facts were false. I wished to determine whether the company had since cleaned up its act; the intervening rebrand from \u201cReal Facts\u201d (scare quotes theirs) to Real Facts (no quotes!) felt like a vow.<\/p>\n

Alas, a jiffy<\/em> was first proposed as the name for the time light takes to travel one centimeter in a vacuum\u2014about 33 trillionths <\/em>of a second. In electronics, a jiffy might be 1\/50 or 1\/60 of a second. Only in Linux computing specifically can it be 1\/100 of a second, and even then only sometimes.<\/p>\n

Oh well. I did not have the heart to check the next statement: \u201cMangoes can get sunburned.\u201d Whatever, sure. For the foreseeable future, stick with Atlantic <\/em>Trivia for your fun facts.<\/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, December 16, 2025<\/h4>\n
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  1. The film director Chlo\u00e9 Zhao describes what line<\/strong> of William Shakespeare\u2019s as \u201cthe great paradox of the universe\u201d?
    \u2014 <\/em>From Shirley Li\u2019s story<\/em> about reinterpreting Shakespeare for the screen<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. The post-hardcore band Fugazi often stopped live sets to chastise violent fan behavior in what space<\/strong> just in front of the stage?
    \u2014 <\/em>From James Parker\u2019s story<\/em> about the empathy you can find at heavy-metal shows<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. What Black-nationalist leader<\/strong> of the early 20th century spearheaded the \u201cBack to Africa\u201d movement, which encouraged Black Americans to migrate to the continent?
    \u2014 <\/em>From Dara T. Mathis\u2019s story<\/em> about the Black-liberation activist Audley Moore<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And by the way, did you know that the country of Liberia was founded when formerly enslaved Black Americans migrated there en masse in the mid-19th century? It\u2019s the oldest republic in Africa (it declared independence in 1847), and it\u2019s the only state there never colonized or occupied by a European power.<\/p>\n

    Its first 10 presidents were all born in the United States, and its capital, Monrovia, is the only in the world (other than America\u2019s) to honor an American\u2014namely, President James Monroe.<\/p>\n

    See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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

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    1. \u201cTo be, or not to be.\u201d <\/strong>In Zhao\u2019s new film, Hamnet<\/em>, the speech containing this line shows up twice, delivered once by Shakespeare himself and once by one of his actors. Shirley writes that it\u2019s a daring take to reinterpret the soliloquy as more of a conversation. Read more.<\/li>\n
    2. The mosh pit.<\/strong> James recently attended a metal music festival on the hunch that the self-policing pit might hold lessons for how to live together in 2025. He admits that it\u2019s \u201cthe kind of idea only a journalist would have,\u201d but the pit ended up teaching him plenty. Read more.<\/li>\n
    3. Marcus Garvey.<\/strong> Mathis writes that Garvey\u2019s philosophy was hugely influential in the early life of Moore, who became an ideological \u201cmidwife\u201d to many of the century\u2019s Black-nationalist activists but herself remains sorrowfully overlooked. Read more.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      How did you do? Come back tomorrow for more questions, 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 fact\u2014send it my way at [email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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