Daily Brain Teaser

Test your wits with today's connections puzzle and a quick geography trivia round

Sharpen your pencil (mentally, at least) and see how you fare against today's set. No cheating until you've given each one a real shot!

What Connects These? (5 clues)

Below are five seemingly unrelated clues. Solve each one and see what you come up with.

1. A yellow fruit that's also slang for something ridiculous or funny ("That's bananas!").

2. The largest planet in our solar system.

3. A popular children's board game featuring ladders and these long reptiles.

4. The primary color, along with red and blue, that's also the color of a clear sky.

5. A card game term for winning all the tricks in a single hand.

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Speed Round Trivia: World Geography

1. What is the smallest country in the world by land area?

2. Which African river is the longest in the world?

3. What is the capital city of Australia (hint: it's not Sydney)?

4. Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia?

5. What is the only country that borders both France and Spain?

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Answers

What Connects These?

1. Banana

2. Jupiter

3. Snakes (as in Snakes and Ladders)

4. Blue (sky blue)

5. Slam (as in "grand slam")

Speed Round Trivia

1. Vatican City

2. The Nile (the conventional answer for Africa's longest river — note that some measurements put the Amazon ahead in length overall, but within Africa the Nile holds the title)

3. Canberra

4. The Ural Mountains

5. Andorra