A Little Wonder for Your Morning

Daybreak Trivia for October 21, 2026. Ten questions, each with a short explanation.

1. What arrangement of water molecules gives ordinary snow crystals their characteristic six-sided symmetry?
2. Which animal can a pharaoh cuttlefish mimic in color, behavior, and shape?
3. In which direction do major surface-current gyres circulate in the Northern Hemisphere?
4. For Carnegie’s 1886 library-building gift to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, what did the city agree to do?
5. In Chinese shadow puppetry, where is the light placed to project the figures onto the screen?
6. Which French gymnast is credited with inventing the flying trapeze in the mid-1850s?
7. During vinegar’s second fermentation, what do acetic acid bacteria convert the alcohol into?
8. In ICF paracanoe, which boat is propelled with a double-blade paddle?
9. English and German both descend from which language?
10. What motion stores elastic energy in a torsion-bar spring?