Sept. 24, 2025

Ridiculously Hard Trivia

Ridiculously Hard Trivia
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Brace yourself for our most challenging episode yet! These brain-busting questions will test even the most dedicated trivia masters with obscure facts and difficult knowledge.

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Calarogus Shark Media Gratings trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and

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today we're cranking up the difficulty with some ridiculously hard

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trivia questions that will challenge even the most dedicated quiz masters.

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Question one, what is the only US state capital that

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shares no letters with the name of its state? Question two?

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In chemistry, what is the name of the theoretical temperature

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at which all molecular motion ceases? Question three? Which Shakespeare

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play contains the stage direction exit pursued by a bear?

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Question four? What is the most abundant game in the

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Earth's atmosphere after nitrogen and oxygen? Question five? In what

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year did the Library of Alexandria, one of the ancient

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world's greatest centers of learning, suffer its final destruction. We'll

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be right back with these brain busting answers after this break.

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Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal today's ridiculously hard answers.

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Question one, which state capital shares no letters with its state? Answer? Pierre,

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South Dakota. The capital city Pierre shares absolutely no letters

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in common with South Dakota, making it unique among all

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fifty US state capitals. This stumps many people who try

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to think through all the capitals systematically. Question two, what's

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the temperature where molecular motion stops? Answer a salute zero,

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which is negative two hundred seventy three point one five

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degrees celsius or negative four hundred and fifty nine point

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six seven degrees fahrenheit. At this theoretical temperature, all atomic

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and molecular motion would cease completely. It's impossible to actually

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reach absolute zero, but scientists have gotten incredibly close in

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laboratory settings. Question three, which shakespeare play has exit pursued

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by a bear? Answer the Winter's Tail. This famous stage

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direction appears in Act three, Scene three, when the character

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Antigonus flees from a bear. It's one of the most

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memorable and unusual stage directions in all of Shakespeare's works.

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Question four, what's the third most abundant atmospheric gas? Answer

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ar gone, which makes up about zero point nine to

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three percent of Earth's atmosphere, while nitrogen seventy eight percent

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and oxygen twenty one percent dominate. Argon is the third

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most common gas, though most people would guess carbon dioxide,

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which is actually much less abundant at only zero point

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zero four percent. Question five When was the Library of

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Alexandria finally destroyed? Answer? Six hundred forty two AD, when

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Arab forces under ahmer Iban al As conquered Alexandria. While

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the library had declined over centuries and faced multiple earlier attacks,

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this marked its final destruction as a center of learning

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that had existed for nearly one thousand years. That concludes

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today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's

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questions were crafted with the help of a I technology.

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If you'd like to enjoy five daily trivia questions without ads,

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check the link in our show notes. See you tomorrow.