Quiz #7 · Friday, October 23, 2026

Quiz #7 answers

All eight answers from Friday, October 23, 2026. The word round answers were 7 letters long.

1. 1Food

   Square fried-dough pastry dusted with powdered sugar, famous at Café du Monde.

   Answer: BEIGNET

   Café du Monde has served beignets since 1862.

2. 2Music

   The "King of Pop": Michael ___.

   Answer: JACKSON

   "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time.

3. 3Vocabulary

   Harsh, formal criticism; Congress can vote to ___ a member who misbehaves without kicking them out.

   Answer: CENSURE

   The U.S. Senate has censured only a handful of its members.

4. 4Vocabulary

   Sentimental in an exaggerated, sickly-sweet way, like a cheesy greeting card or a tearjerker that tries too hard.

   Answer: MAWKISH

   From an old word for maggot, mawk.

5. 5Food

   Name 3 of the 5 basic tastes.

   All accepted answers: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami

   Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami, a savory taste named by a Japanese chemist in 1908.

6. 6Music

   Which U.S. city is known as the birthplace of jazz?

   Answer: New Orleans

   Jazz grew out of New Orleans in the early 1900s.

7. 7Music

   Which K-pop girl group sang "How You Like That" and "Pink Venom"?

   Answer: Blackpink

   Blackpink was the first K-pop girl group to headline Coachella, in 2019.

8. 8Music

   Which Austrian composer wrote "The Magic Flute" and died at age 35?

   Answer: Mozart

   Mozart wrote more than 600 works before he died in 1791.