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The Night Shift — Daily trivia Sunday, October 4, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Which sleep-bringing folklore figure steals children's eyes in a classic German horror tale?
- ASanta Claus
- BThe Sandman
- CJack Frost
- DMother Goose
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The Sandman
The Sandman. In E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story, a nurse says he feeds the stolen eyes to his own owl-beaked children.
Q 02Which film's lonely, insomniac ex-Marine takes night shifts behind the wheel of a New York cab?
- AMean Streets
- BRaging Bull
- CThe King of Comedy
- DTaxi Driver
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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver. Its composer, Bernard Herrmann, died shortly after finishing the score, which went on to earn him a posthumous Oscar nomination.
Q 03Which slang for working a second job was also the title of Bruce Willis's hit TV detective show?
- AMoonlighting
- BFreelancing
- CTemping
- DDouble-dipping
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Moonlighting
Moonlighting. On the show, Cybill Shepherd's model is left broke by embezzlement and stuck running a detective agency she owns.
Q 04A night guard's discovery of tape over a door latch uncovered which scandal?
- AIran-Contra
- BTeapot Dome
- CWatergate
- DWhitewater
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Watergate
Watergate. The guard, Frank Wills, called police and later played himself in All the President's Men.
Q 05Which future Batman played a morgue attendant with big schemes in Ron Howard's early-'80s comedy Night Shift?
- AVal Kilmer
- BGeorge Clooney
- CChristian Bale
- DMichael Keaton
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Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton. He was born Michael Douglas, but another actor already had that name, so he picked a new one for the screen.
Q 06Decades before Tesla, Britain led the world in battery-electric road vehicles, mostly driven by which workers?
- APostmen
- BMilkmen
- CPaperboys
- DBus drivers
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Milkmen
Milkmen. Quiet battery floats suited pre-dawn rounds, and a 1967 trade press release claimed Britain had more electric vehicles than the rest of the world combined.
Q 07In which city did a DJ's late-night radio show popularize the term 'rock and roll'?
- AChicago
- BNew Orleans
- CCleveland
- DDetroit
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Cleveland
Cleveland. The DJ, Alan Freed, hosted what's often called the first rock concert there, and it was shut down early when far more fans came than the arena could hold.
Q 08In Spain and much of Latin America, the tooth fairy's night job goes to which animal?
- AA mouse
- BA rabbit
- CA bat
- DAn owl
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A mouse
A mouse. Spain's Ratoncito Pérez got the job in a story a Jesuit priest wrote for the boy king Alfonso XIII, after the king lost a tooth.
Q 09What made the Soviet Night Witches' obsolete biplanes so hard for German fighters to shoot down?
- ATheir thick armour
- BTheir high altitude
- CTheir fighter escorts
- DTheir low top speed
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Their low top speed
Their low top speed. It was close to the fighters' stalling speed, and pilots idled their engines to glide in, a whoosh Germans reputedly likened to a sweeping broom.
Q 10In The Little Prince, why must the lamplighter work nonstop though his orders never changed?
- AHis planet spins faster
- BHis lamp burns faster
- CThe nights grew longer
- DMore lamps were added
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His planet spins faster
His planet spins faster. It now turns once a minute, and the prince muses that of all the grown-ups he'd met, only this one could have been his friend, but there's no room for two.
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