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

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

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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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