April 16, 2026 Trivia

The 5 dubtrivia questions from April 16, 2026, with answers and explanations.

1. K12

   1. Which Mesoamerican civilization developed the most accurate calendar in the ancient world, with a solar year calculation accurate to within 17 seconds?

   ✓Maya

   Did you know?

   The Maya developed a sophisticated calendar system including the 365-day Haab solar calendar, which was extraordinarily precise — their calculation of the solar year was more accurate than the Julian calendar used in Europe.

2. Tech

   2. What is the name of the algorithm that Google's founders originally developed at Stanford, which ranks web pages based on how many other pages link to them?

   ✓PageRank

   Did you know?

   PageRank, named partly after co-founder Larry Page, treated links between websites like academic citations — a page linked to by many authoritative pages was assumed to be more credible.

3. K12

   3. Which Renaissance scientist was placed under house arrest for the final nine years of his life after refusing to fully abandon his heliocentric view of the solar system?

   ✓Galileo Galilei

   Did you know?

   Galileo was tried by the Roman Inquisition in 1633 and forced to recant his support of heliocentrism. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest at his villa near Florence.

4. News & Pop Culture

   4. Which 2017 film became the first horror movie ever to gross over $700 million worldwide at the box office?

   ✓It

   Did you know?

   Stephen King's 'It,' directed by Andy Muschietti and starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, demolished box office expectations and became the highest-grossing horror film in history at that time.

5. Tech

   5. In which year did the first iPhone go on sale, fundamentally changing the mobile phone industry?

   ✓2007

   Did you know?

   Apple released the original iPhone on June 29, 2007, following Steve Jobs's famous January 2007 announcement where he called it 'an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.'