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Today's Bing image: Chauvet Cave (Life-size replica of Chauvet cave art in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France). Facts checked against the Wikipedia article on Chauvet Cave. Then play Bing's official 3-question quiz to earn your Microsoft Rewards points.

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Today's Bing image: Chauvet Cave · 10 questions · October 17, 2026

1. 1 In which French department is Chauvet Cave located?

   • A Ardèche
   • B Provence
   • C Burgundy
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   ✓ A. Ardèche

   Did you know? Chauvet Cave sits in the Ardèche department of southeastern France, on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the Ardèche River in the Gorges de l'Ardèche.

2. 2 What year was Chauvet Cave rediscovered?

   • A 1994
   • B 1985
   • C 2000
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   ✓ A. 1994

   Did you know? The cave was rediscovered on December 18, 1994, when an aperture called 'Le Trou de Baba' ('Baba's Hole') was discovered by Michel Rosa, leading three speleologists to explore the site.

3. 3 Which of these animals is NOT mentioned as being painted in Chauvet Cave?

   • A Aurochs
   • B Woolly rhinoceroses
   • C Cave lions
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   ✓ A. Aurochs

   Did you know? The cave features many predatory animals like cave lions, leopards, bears, and cave hyenas, as well as rhinoceroses, but aurochs are mentioned as typical of other Paleolithic caves, not specifically listed as painted in Chauvet.

4. 4 What unusual technique did Chauvet Cave artists use to create a three-dimensional effect?

   • A Carving deep grooves
   • B Etching or incising around figure outlines
   • C Layering pigments
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   ✓ B. Etching or incising around figure outlines

   Did you know? Artists achieved a three-dimensional quality and sense of movement by incising or etching around the outlines of certain figures—a technique rarely found in other cave art.

5. 5 Approximately how old are the paintings in Chauvet Cave?

   • A 20,000 to 18,000 years ago
   • B 15,000 to 12,000 years ago
   • C 32,000 to 30,000 years ago
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   ✓ C. 32,000 to 30,000 years ago

   Did you know? A 2012 study confirmed the paintings were created in the Aurignacian era, between 32,000 and 30,000 years ago. A 2016 study using 259 radiocarbon dates showed two occupation phases, with most black drawings from the earlier period of 37,000–33,500 years ago.

6. 6 What kind of human footprints were discovered in Chauvet Cave?

   • A Multiple family groups' footprints
   • B Adult warrior footprints
   • C A child's footprints
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   ✓ C. A child's footprints

   Did you know? The Gravettian occupation left behind a child's footprints, which may be the oldest human footprints that can be accurately dated, along with charred hearth remains and torch smoke stains.

7. 7 What animal remains found in the cave suggest it was also a habitat for wildlife?

   • A Cave bear paw prints and sleeping nests
   • B Saber-tooth tiger bones
   • C Mammoth tusks and teeth
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   ✓ A. Cave bear paw prints and sleeping nests

   Did you know? The soft, clay-like floor retains paw prints of cave bears along with large, rounded depressions believed to be the 'nests' where bears slept. Fossilized bones include skulls of cave bears and the horned skull of an ibex.

8. 8 Why has Chauvet Cave been sealed to the public since 1994?

   • A Due to structural instability
   • B To preserve the paintings from damage caused by visitor mold growth
   • C Because the cave is still being excavated
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   ✓ B. To preserve the paintings from damage caused by visitor mold growth

   Did you know? Access is severely restricted based on experience with caves like Altamira and Lascaux, where large-scale visitor admission led to mold growth on walls that damaged the art. A full-scale public replica called Caverne du Pont-d'Arc opened in 2015 instead.

9. 9 What unusual subject has led some scholars to believe one drawing represents the earliest known volcanic eruption?

   • A Ash and debris patterns
   • B A series of explosion marks
   • C A drawing resembling lava spewing from a volcano
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   ✓ C. A drawing resembling lava spewing from a volcano

   Did you know? One drawing, later overlaid with a sketch of a deer, is reminiscent of a volcano spewing lava, similar to regional volcanoes active at the time. If confirmed, this would be the earliest known drawing of a volcanic eruption.

10. 10 What is Caverne du Pont-d'Arc (Grotte Chauvet 2)?

    • A An underwater exploration site
    • B The largest cave replica ever built worldwide
    • C A connected natural chamber with original art
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    ✓ B. The largest cave replica ever built worldwide

    Did you know? Opened to the public on April 25, 2015, this facsimile is the largest cave replica ever built worldwide—ten times bigger than the Lascaux facsimile. It reproduces the art full-size in a circular building above ground, a few kilometers from the actual cave.

What Is Bing Homepage Quiz?

The Bing Homepage Quiz (also written “Bing home page quiz”) is a daily trivia challenge built around the photo on the Bing.com homepage. Each day Microsoft publishes a new background image — a national park, a wild animal, a historic building or a festival — and the quiz asks three multiple-choice questions about it. Microsoft Rewards members who are signed in earn points for completing it.

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2. Open the quiz from the homepage image (Microsoft's Bing homepage guide says it appears when you move the mouse under the search box) or from its card on your Rewards dashboard.
3. Answer the three questions. Want to practise first? Play our quiz on today’s photo above.
4. Check the dashboard: the card is marked complete and the points are added to your balance.

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1. Read the photo caption first. All three questions are about the subject of the day’s photo, and its headline and credit (bottom right on Bing.com) name it.
2. Use the information on the homepage. Microsoft says each homepage quiz comes with information about the subject and links to find out more; a minute of reading usually answers all three questions.
3. Check the date. In the U.S. the photo and quiz change at midnight Pacific (3 a.m. Eastern). Late at night you may already be seeing tomorrow’s quiz, and other countries can get a different photo.
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6. Warm up here. Our 10-question quiz on the same photo, at the top of this page, covers the facts Bing’s questions usually ask about.

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When Does Bing Homepage Quiz Reset?

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That is why a player in Hawaii sees “tomorrow's” quiz in the evening. Every set on this page carries the date of the Bing image it belongs to, so match the date and the photo rather than your local day.