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The First Ever, and the Very Last — Daily trivia Thursday, June 25, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Which veteran duo won Album of the Year with 'Two Against Nature', their first studio album in 20 years?
- ASteely Dan
- BSimon & Garfunkel
- CSantana
- DEurythmics
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Steely Dan
Steely Dan's comeback also won Best Pop Vocal Album, in the first year that Grammy category carried that name.
Q 02Which film took Outstanding Picture at the 1st Academy Awards?
- A7th Heaven
- BSunrise
- CWings
- DThe Jazz Singer
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Wings
Wings won Outstanding Picture at the first ceremony in 1929; the parallel Unique and Artistic Picture award went to Sunrise and was discontinued the following year.
Q 03Which element was the first to be artificially created in a laboratory?
- ATechnetium
- BPlutonium
- CCurium
- DAmericium
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Technetium
Technetium was the first element to be artificially synthesized in 1937 by Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè, filling a gap in the periodic table that had been predicted decades earlier.
Q 04Who was the first President of the United States to be impeached?
- ATheodore Roosevelt
- BWarren G. Harding
- CRichard Nixon
- DAndrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was impeached for firing War Secretary Edwin Stanton in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act, and the Senate's 35-19 vote fell one short of removing him.
Q 05Which country was the last in the Americas to abolish slavery?
- AThe United States
- BCuba
- CBrazil
- DColombia
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Brazil
Princess Isabel signed Brazil's Golden Law on 13 May 1888, in a country that had received about 40 percent of the 10 million Africans enslaved in the New World.
Q 06What is the subtitle of the seventh and final novel in Rowling's wizarding series?
- AOrder of the Phoenix
- BDeathly Hallows
- CGoblet of Fire
- DHalf-Blood Prince
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Deathly Hallows
Deathly Hallows sold 8.3 million copies in the US in its first 24 hours, the Guinness record for the fastest-selling book of fiction.
Q 07Which was the first social media platform to reach one billion users?
- ATwitter
- BFacebook
- CInstagram
- DYouTube
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Facebook
Facebook announced on 4 October 2012 that more than one billion people were using it actively each month.
Q 08The world's first webcam, set up at Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, was pointed at what?
- AA fish tank
- BThe car park
- CA coffee pot
- DA door buzzer
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A coffee pot
The coffee pot camera spared researchers in distant parts of the building a trip that often proved fruitless once the all-night hackers had got there first.
Q 09Which French justice minister pushed through the abolition of the death penalty, retiring the guillotine for good?
- ASimone Veil
- BChristiane Taubira
- CÉlisabeth Guigou
- DRobert Badinter
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Robert Badinter
Robert Badinter's law ended capital punishment in France on 9 October 1981, four years after Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine.
Q 10What was the first product ever scanned with a UPC barcode, at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio?
- ACampbell's tomato soup
- BMarlboro cigarettes
- CKellogg's corn flakes
- DWrigley's chewing gum
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Wrigley's chewing gum
A multi-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum was scanned at Marsh Supermarket in June 1974, and a facsimile of the pack was later displayed at the Smithsonian.
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