# 🧊 Rubik’s Cube Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who invented the Rubik’s Cube?  
**Answer:** Ernő Rubik  
**Taglines:**  
- Thanks, Hungary. Now I’m mad at plastic.  
- Rubik: the man who ruined your Saturday  
- He gave us colors and a complex  
- Hungary for chaos  
- Invented a puzzle, created a personality test  

### 2. What year was the Rubik’s Cube first sold internationally?  
**Answer:** 1980  
**Taglines:**  
- The ‘80s were puzzling enough  
- Cold War? Nah—Cube War  
- Spandex, synths, and six sides of stress  
- Rubik’s world tour: heartbreak begins  
- Reagan-era rage toy  

### 3. How many squares are on a Rubik’s Cube?  
**Answer:** 54  
**Taglines:**  
- 54 chances to feel dumb  
- Count 'em and cry  
- Math’s colorful guilt trip  
- That’s 54 reasons you gave up  
- Geometry’s cruel joke  

### 4. What is it called when a cube has all sides the same color?  
**Answer:** Solved  
**Taglines:**  
- You win... or you cheated  
- The rarest of Rubik’s sightings  
- Cubic enlightenment  
- Inner peace in a plastic block  
- Solved? Or soul-crushed?  

### 5. What is the standard size of a Rubik’s Cube?  
**Answer:** 3x3x3  
**Taglines:**  
- Basic cube, maximum chaos  
- The cube that launched a million curses  
- 3x3x3 = 1 endless meltdown  
- Tiny toy, massive ego bruise  
- Rubik’s original recipe  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Rubik’s Cube was originally called the ______ Cube.  
**Answer:** Magic  
**Taglines:**  
- Magic? More like tragic  
- The trick is making you scream  
- Houdini would tap out  
- Abracadabra... you’re confused  
- Spellbinding levels of frustration  

### 2. The Rubik’s Cube has ______ movable pieces.  
**Answer:** 26  
**Taglines:**  
- 26 ways to disappoint yourself  
- Fewer pieces, more pain  
- Every move a misstep  
- Simple parts, evil heart  
- Like chess, but with no mercy  

### 3. A person who solves cubes quickly is known as a ______.  
**Answer:** Speedcuber  
**Taglines:**  
- They eat puzzles for breakfast  
- Not even blinking  
- Human tornado with plastic  
- Fast hands, full hearts, can’t lose  
- Blink and they’re on their fourth cube  

### 4. The cube's original design was to help teach ______ concepts.  
**Answer:** Spatial  
**Taglines:**  
- Geometry's gateway drug  
- Teaching with torment  
- Space, but make it sad  
- Math disguised as madness  
- From teaching aid to desk projectile  

### 5. The Rubik’s Cube world record solve time is under ______ seconds.  
**Answer:** 4  
**Taglines:**  
- Faster than your browser loads  
- Less time than it takes to blink and doubt yourself  
- Literal human sorcery  
- Guinness meets Guinness-fueled fingers  
- One second per existential crisis  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What color is *not* on a standard Rubik’s Cube?  
A) Red  
B) Blue  
C) Pink ✅  
D) Yellow  
**Taglines:**  
- Barbie doesn’t live here  
- No pink—this cube means business  
- Color-coded frustration  
- Pastel dreams denied  
- It’s a boy’s club of hues  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the maximum number of possible configurations of a standard cube?  
A) 1 million  
B) 43 million  
C) 43 billion  
D) 43 quintillion ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Every twist is a new mistake  
- 43 quintillion reasons to scream  
- Solving it? Good luck.  
- It’s like Sudoku on meth  
- Infinite sadness in finite space  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What method is most commonly used by speedcubers?  
A) Side-Side  
B) Layer by Layer ✅  
C) Crosscutting  
D) Color Rotation  
**Taglines:**  
- Build from the bottom, cry from the top  
- Structured chaos  
- The system of champions  
- Cube strategy, not cube sorcery  
- Fancy name, still frustrating  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What’s the term for solving a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded?  
A) Ghost-solving  
B) No-look cubing  
C) BLD ✅  
D) Ninja cubing  
**Taglines:**  
- When regular solving isn’t hard enough  
- Cube masochism: deluxe edition  
- Memory + madness = BLD  
- Just flexing on physics  
- Eyes closed, pain open  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Who holds the Guinness World Record for most Rubik’s Cubes solved underwater in one breath?  
A) Max Park  
B) Yusheng Du  
C) Kevin Hays  
D) Anthony Brooks ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Solving and drowning, simultaneously  
- Wet ‘n’ wild logic  
- Under pressure? Try underwater  
- Bubble boy does math  
- Cube or scuba—why not both?
