The Daily Quiz for December 31, 2024

UY Scuti is 1,700 times as large as the sun and if placed at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend beyond Jupiter’s orbit!

Samhain is a festival that originated with the Celtic Pagans around 2,000 years ago and was considered a kind of New Year, marking the end of summer and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year characterized by death.

This more polite variant of ‘IMO’ is often used in professional or formal online discussions.

A single bottle of champagne contains about 49 million bubbles!

Termites don’t actually eat wood – they eat the cellulose inside it with help from special bacteria in their gut.

Barney Rubble from ‘The Flintstones’ is actually the mascot for Cocoa Pebbles, not a bird. The cereal was introduced in 1971 featuring Flintstones characters.

The event horizon is not a physical surface but a boundary in spacetime where the black hole’s gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape.

Carrie attends Bates High, which is a reference to Norman Bates, the central character in 1960’s Psycho.

The primary mission of the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) is homeland defense and civil support of U.S. federal, state, and local authorities.

The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is famous for its 4th of July fireworks.