Atlantic Trivia: A Little Poetic Language
Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.
Bonus hint: Don’t be so literal with today’s first question.
Atlantic Trivia
Cities
Education
Albums
“A mixture of many materials makes the best mortar,” one historian wrote in an 1859 commentary on what U.S. city?
And by the way, did you know that Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi—a fable about religion that mostly deals in Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam—contains a little hidden Kabbalah?
The name of the cargo ship that sinks in the book is the Tsimtsum, which in Jewish mysticism is the term for the contraction of God’s infinite light that made space for our finite world to come into existence—like the narrowing of Pi’s world into a lifeboat afloat on the Pacific.
Until tomorrow!
Find previous questions here, and to get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily. If you think up a question yourself, send it my way via trivia@theatlantic.com.
