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Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Titian? Tiepolo? Almost …
Test your knowledge—and read our latest stories for a little extra help.
TL;DR
- Snapple's claim that a jiffy is 1/100th of a second is inaccurate; its definition varies in different contexts.
- The word 'quarantine' originates from the 15th-century Venetian practice of requiring ships to wait 40 days before docking.
- Liberia, founded by formerly enslaved Black Americans, is Africa's oldest republic and was never colonized by a European power.
- The Atlantic presents daily trivia questions on diverse topics, including physics, pop culture, and history.
- Trivia answers include quarks, the Netflix miniseries 'Adolescence,' the painter Tintoretto, Shakespeare's 'To be, or not to be,' the mosh pit, and Marcus Garvey.