PUZZLE #31SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026

The answers

01BUILDINGS
In what year was the Eiffel Tower completed?
1889
1889, for the World’s Fair — and it was only supposed to stand for 20 years.
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02PHYSICS
How many degrees below zero Fahrenheit is absolute zero?
460 degrees below zero
About 460 degrees below zero — −459.67 °F precisely, the coldest anything can be.
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03GEOGRAPHY
How many countries in the world are landlocked?
44 countries
44. Two — Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan — are doubly landlocked, surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries.
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04SPACE
How long is a single day on Venus, in Earth days?
243 Earth days
243 Earth days — longer than its year, which runs 225. On Venus you are older by the day than by the calendar.
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05FOOD
What is the official shelf life of a Twinkie?
45 days
About 45 days. The legend that they last forever is exactly that.
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