US Daily Quiz — 29 April 2026

In the news recently...

Which Middle Eastern country announced it would leave the oil cartel OPEC effective May 1?
💡 United Arab Emirates
Nearly a quarter-century after his 2002 murder, a man finally pleaded guilty to a role in the killing of which Run-DMC member?
💡 Jam Master Jay
The Supreme Court upheld the racketeering conviction of which former Republican Ohio House Speaker, imprisoned for his role in a $60 million bribery scheme?
💡 Larry Householder

Mixed bag

In geometry, what is the name for a triangle that has exactly two sides of equal length?
💡 Isosceles triangle
Whether it's a neighbor's blaring music ruining your evening or a factory's pollution drifting into your lungs, what is the economic term for a cost or benefit that falls on a third party who played no part in the transaction that created it?
💡 Externality
In calculus, what theorem guarantees that for any function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on its interior, there must exist at least one point where the instantaneous rate of change equals the average rate of change across the entire interval?
💡 Mean value theorem

On this date (29 April)

On April 29, 1945, Adolf Hitler married his long-time companion in a Berlin bunker. What was her name?
💡 Eva Braun
On April 29, 1945, American forces liberated a major Nazi concentration camp in Bavaria, Germany. What was the name of that camp?
💡 Dachau
On April 29, 1916, the British Army suffered a significant defeat in the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I when its forces surrendered to Ottoman troops at which town?
💡 Kut