Know Your Trivia for Week of 3/16/26

Happy St. Patrick's Day Trivia Teams! It’s time to brush up on our Know Your Trivia category for this week! One question will be posed during tonight's Trivia Game!

The "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is a popular Irish folklore legend, where mischievous leprechauns hide their treasure. Because rainbows are optical illusions with no tangible end, the gold is perpetually out of reach, symbolizing an unattainable dream or a rewarding goal that is difficult to achieve.

A rainbow is actually a full circle, not just an arc. We only see the top half from the ground because the horizon blocks the bottom half. Pilots and skydivers sometimes see the entire circular rainbow!

One more thing about rainbows - The idea that the rainbow has seven colors actually comes from Isaac Newton, who greatly advanced our understanding of light. He understood that it was a continuous spectrum, but made many analogies to musical notes. The wavelengths of the “seven colors” are proportional to the wavelengths of the notes of one octave of a major scale.