Past Questions of the Day
What was the subject of the first-ever video uploaded to YouTube in 2005?
A swirling, shape-shifting flock of which small songbird is collectively known as a 'murmuration'?
What is the total intended duration, in years, of the performance of John Cage’s 'As Slow as Possible' currently taking place in Germany?
Trees in a forest communicate and share nutrients through an underground network made of what?
The QWERTY keyboard layout was originally designed to prevent mechanical typewriters from doing what?
Which planet in our solar system has an average density less than water, theoretically allowing it to float in a sufficiently large ocean?
The 'Amen Break,' the most sampled six-second drum loop in music history, was performed by which 1960s soul band?
The falling green digital code in the opening of The Matrix is actually a scanned series of recipes for what food?
Long before video games, in what year was the company Nintendo originally founded to produce playing cards?
In 1991, researchers at Cambridge University created the first webcam to monitor the levels of what?
Which Chuck Berry hit was the only rock and roll song included on NASA's Voyager Golden Record?
What was the first commercial product ever scanned by a laser barcode in 1974?
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi created his signature heavy sound after losing what parts of his body in a factory accident?
Research has shown that which common honey-producing insect is capable of recognizing and remembering specific human faces?
Before transitioning to the standard orange we see today, what color were original basketballs?
In 2015, astronaut Chris Hadfield released the first-ever album to feature music recorded in what location?
The terrifying roar of the T-Rex in the 1993 film Jurassic Park was created by slowing down the recording of what baby animal?
Which country has the highest number of heavy metal bands per capita in the world?
In 1939, the Academy honored Walt Disney with a special Oscar for the film 'Snow White', presenting one full-size statuette alongside how many miniature ones?
In 1962, what became the official state sport of Maryland, a position it still holds today?
The Beatles' hit song 'Yesterday' originally had what food-themed working title?
Which movie star was working as a carpenter for Francis Ford Coppola when George Lucas asked him to read lines for Han Solo?
Some 7-Eleven stores play what broad genre of music, often including opera, to discourage loitering?
Which group of cartilaginous fish existed on Earth for at least 50 million years before the first trees appeared?
Which Beatles song holds the record for being the most covered song in history, despite the melody famously coming to Paul McCartney in a dream?
On his 1978 debut album 'For You', which artist is credited with playing all 27 instruments featured on the record?
Michelangelo’s 'David' was carved from a single block of marble that had been deemed defective and abandoned by other sculptors for how many years?
To create the sound of the Velociraptors communicating in 'Jurassic Park', sound designers used slowed-down recordings of which animals mating?
When James Naismith invented basketball in 1891, what were used as the goals before the invention of the metal rim and net?
The song 'Happy Birthday to You' was famously not in the public domain until a 2016 court ruling; before then, which company claimed ownership?