Daily Tens trivia

Most prompts fall into a few families. Area and population lists use census or United Nations figures. Sports lists use titles through a named season, with a tie broken by the more recent championship. Science lists use published measurements such as diameter or crustal abundance. A smaller set uses a fixed sequence, such as the first ten presidents or the first ten elements by atomic number.

The metric sentence is part of the answer. "Largest countries" can mean area or population, and those are different top 10s. "Best Picture winners" on this site means the ten winners from the 2016 ceremony through the 2025 ceremony, newest first, not an all-time ranking. If a later ceremony adds a film, that film is outside the stated window.

Sports cutoffs work the same way. Super Bowl totals run through Super Bowl LIX in February 2025. World Series totals run through the 2024 season. Stanley Cup totals run through the 2025 Cup. A title won after the cutoff does not move the list, because the metric says so in the info panel.

City lists use the city proper, not the metro area. That is why Paris can sit near the bottom of a European city list while its metro area is much larger. Lake lists count the Caspian Sea as a lake. Island lists leave Australia in the continent column. Those calls are written into the metric so two players are grading the same list.

Practice lists in unlimited mode use the same rules and a different bank, including film order and the Bill of Rights. They never replace the daily category. Finished daily categories are listed on past games.