On October 9 alumni around the world came together for a battle of wits during UChicago Alumni’s Global Pub Trivia Night. Couldn’t make it to the event? You don’t have to miss out on the fun. Here’s a sampling of this year’s questions, written by Amara Balan, AB’20; Al Shah, AB’20; and Bailey Street, AB’20. (Answers are at the bottom of the page.)—S. A.

1. The Kimberley Process is an international set of standards aimed at governing the ethics of the market for what good?
2. What word that traces its etymology to the book Gulliver’s Travels means extremely small or of little importance?
3. Which country was formerly known as Dahomey until 1975?
4. What year was the only time the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox faced each other in a World Series?
5. Charli XCX’s first No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom was her feature on the song “I Love It,” performed with what Swedish duo?
6. The Divine Comedy follows what rhyme scheme, a form that Dante himself is thought to have created?
7. Vitamin B₂ is also known as what?
8. What phrase, named for a UChicago physicist, describes the apparent contradiction between the high likelihood that there is life beyond us in the universe and the lack of evidence for its existence?
9. What was the three-word title of Susan Sontag’s (AB’51) notable 1964 essay that also inspired the theme of the 2019 Met Gala?
10. What does the D in University of Chicago founder John D. Rockefeller’s name stand for?

Answers: (1) Diamonds; (2) Lilliputian; (3) Benin; (4) 1906; (5) Icona Pop; (6) Terza rima; (7) Riboflavin; (8) Fermi Paradox; (9) “Notes on ‘Camp’”; (10) Davison