April 13, 2026 Trivia

The 5 dubtrivia questions from April 13, 2026, with answers and explanations.

1. Arts & Sports

   1. Which legendary film director appeared as a cameo in almost every one of his own movies, a practice so beloved fans turned it into a game?

   ✓Alfred Hitchcock

   Did you know?

   Alfred Hitchcock made brief cameo appearances in over 39 of his own films, a tradition he started partly because extras were cheap and partly as a personal joke for attentive audiences.

2. Around the World

   2. Which country officially holds the world record for the longest national anthem in terms of lyrical verses, with 158 stanzas in its full version?

   ✓Greece

   Did you know?

   Greece's national anthem, 'Hymn to Liberty,' was written as a 158-stanza poem by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 — though only the first two stanzas are officially sung.

3. Around the World

   3. Which country is home to the 'Waitomo Glowworm Caves,' where thousands of bioluminescent larvae create a ceiling that looks like a starry night sky?

   ✓New Zealand

   Did you know?

   The Waitomo Caves in New Zealand are famous for Arachnocampa luminosa, a glowworm species found only in New Zealand that produces blue-green bioluminescent light.

4. Tech

   4. In computing, which company developed the first hard disk drive in 1956, a unit that weighed over a ton and stored just 5 megabytes of data?

   ✓IBM

   Did you know?

   IBM's RAMAC 305 was the world's first commercial hard disk drive, shipping in 1956. It consisted of 50 spinning disks and could store 5 MB — roughly one high-resolution photo by today's standards.

5. K12

   5. What is the name of the chemical process by which plants convert sunlight into sugar, but specifically the light-independent stage of it?

   ✓The Calvin Cycle

   Did you know?

   The Calvin Cycle (also called the light-independent reactions or dark reactions) is the stage of photosynthesis where CO2 is fixed into glucose using ATP and NADPH produced in the light-dependent reactions.