Round 1Olympics & World Cup
How many Olympic gold medals did swimmer Michael Phelps win in his career?
The answer
23 gold medals
Add three silvers and two bronzes and he has 28 Olympic medals, eight of the golds coming at Beijing 2008 alone.
SourceWednesday, October 21, 2026
Plain #4
The day's seven targets and the closest answers in our lists, with their real values. Points are before the Dialed bonus and the Golden Round's ×2.
Round 2Million-Plus Cities(Cities of 1M+ people)
Only cities of a million or more count: name one that's home to nearest 2M people.
Target2M people
Round 3Big Stadiums(Stadiums with 30,000+ seats)
Big-ground round: name a stadium with 30,000+ seats that holds nearest 60,000 seats.
Target60,000 seats
Round 4Tourism Money
Postcards and paychecks: which country made about $4.5B from tourism in 2019?
Target$4.5B
Round 5YouTube Subscribers(YouTube's 100 most-subscribed channels)
From MrBeast to Baby Shark: which top-100 YouTube channel had roughly 75M subscribers in October 2026?
Target75M subscribers
Round 6What It Sold For
In 2014, what headline price did Facebook announce for buying WhatsApp, counting $3bn of staff shares, in US dollars?
The answer
$19B
Facebook’s share price rose so much before the deal closed that it ended up worth around $21.8 billion.
SourceRound 7Body & PeopleGolden Round ×2
Roughly what percentage of all people in the world have blue eyes?
The answer
9%
Every blue-eyed person shares one ancestor: a single genetic change that appeared 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, a University of Copenhagen study found.
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