★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★An octopus has nine brains.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★The moon has moonquakes.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Dolphins have names for each other.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.

★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★An octopus has nine brains.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★The moon has moonquakes.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Dolphins have names for each other.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.

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How to play Reverse trivia

Reverse trivia flips a quiz on its head. Instead of asking a question, we hand you the answer, then show you four clues and you pick the one that actually describes it. You get five rounds a day. Tap a clue to lock it in, then see straight away whether you were right, with a one line note about the answer. On a keyboard you can press 1 to 4 to pick a clue. When all five rounds are done you get a score out of five and a spoiler-free grid you can share. A fresh set of five answers drops every day.

Tips

Picture what the answer is first, then find the clue that fits it best
When two clues feel close, look for the detail that only matches the answer
Categories repeat across days, so a wrong guess today is a free lesson for tomorrow
There is no clock, take your time and think it through

About Reverse trivia

Reverse trivia takes the format made famous by the TV show Jeopardy, where contestants are shown an answer and have to respond with the matching question. We trimmed it down to a quick daily five rounder you can finish in under a minute. It sits next to our top rated Daily trivia for a reason: people love a short knowledge hit they can compare with friends. No account, no ads, just five answers and a shareable grid.

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