"Happily, The Atlantic's garden bursts with the former and is almost entirely lacking in the latter, and in this new project of daily quizzes, I get to share a bunch of that trivia with you, curious readers. So set down the Snapple cap and stop to smell the blooms-is that geranium?-with questions from recently published stories. To get these questions in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Monday, September 29, 2025"
"According to many commentators on the right, when progressives penalize wrongdoing, it's "cancel culture"; when conservatives do it, it's merely what other double-c phrase suggestive of an action's inevitable repercussions? - From Idrees Kahloon's "Illiberal America, MAGA Edition" Dealing as much with loss and grief as with physical monstrosity, what Victorian epistolary novel was referred to by its young author as her "hideous progeny"? - From Jon Michael Varese's "ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father""
In the 1960s, authors of an early compendium warned readers to prefer the "flower of Trivia" to the "weed of minutiae." A new daily-quiz project shares lively trivia and curious questions drawn from recent reporting. Readers are invited to pause and enjoy small delights, from Snapple-cap facts to plant sightings, and to receive daily questions by email. Sample prompts ask readers to identify an international sporting event that moved among global and American venues, to name a double-c phrase contrasted with "cancel culture," and to recall a Victorian epistolary novel called a "hideous progeny." An aside notes that Transnistria uniquely circulates plastic currency.
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