Miscellaneous - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Culture | What woman's name, starting with K, has replaced Becky as internet slang for an entitled middle-aged white woman who is quick to ask to see the manager or call the police, with the term subsequently criticised as being sexist, ageist and classist? | Karen | 2023/04/20 |
| Internet Culture | Between 2005 and 2006, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald used 14 trades to upgrade what item of stationery into a two-storey house? | Paperclip *Specifically, it was a red paperclip | 2023/04/20 |
| Flags | What type of tree features on the flag of Lebanon? | Cedar | 2024/10/31 |
| Clothing | Derived from the French word for needle, what name is given to the cap or sheath on the end of a shoelace? | Aglet *The French word for needle is aiguille. | 2025/01/01 |
| Titles | By what single word name are The Yeomen Warders of His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary better known? | Beefeaters | 2024/04/09 |
| Communications | What digit is pressed three consecutive times in order to dial the emergency services in New Zealand? | 1 | 2024/12/14 |
| Measurements | What is measured by the Scoville scale? | Spiciness of peppers | 2024/04/28 |
| Measurements | How many yards are in one mile? | 1760 | 2024/11/14 |
| Colours | Erin, harlequin, kelly, and kombu are all shades of which colour? | Green | 2024/12/07 |
| Reports | Which country has finished top of the annual World Happiness Report every year since 2018? | Finland | 2024/10/22 |
| Reports | The same country has finished top of the World Happiness Report every year since 2018. Which country has finished second in the report every year since 2019? | Denmark | 2024/10/22 |
| Pseudoscience | The pseudoscience of graphology is the belief that one can judge personalities through the analysis of what? | Handwriting | 2024/06/15 |
| Lists | Alexis Flores, Alejandro Castillo, Donald Fields, Vitel’homme Innocent, and Ruja Ignatova are five of of the ten current entrants on which infamous list? | FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (‘FBI’s Most Wanted’) | 2024/12/07 |
| Connections | What name connects a board game company bought out by Hasbro in 1991, an American luxury pen manufacturer established in 1888, and a character from the show Thunderbirds? | Parker | 2023/04/20 |
| Connections | What single word connects the name of a Kellogg's cereal that was discontinued in 2018, a Norwegian football club based in Kristiansand, and an interface element seen on the Windows operating system? | Start | 2023/04/20 |
| Connections | What contradiction connects the names of the locations The Spanish Steps, Kansas City, and Scotland Yard? | They are found outside the places their names suggest *The Spanish Steps are in Rome, Italy. Kansas City is across the river from the state of Kansas, so is in Missouri (although there is a suburb called Kansas City in Kansas too). Scotland Yard is in London, England. | 2023/04/20 |
| Connections | What connects the words anime, taxes, and nominates? | Anagrams of US states *Maine, Texas, Minnesota | 2023/04/20 |
| Connections | What name is shared by the lead singer of the band Hootie and Blowfish who became the first African American to be named the Country Music Association’s New Country Artist of the Year; the writer and director of the Academy Award winning film Sound of Metal; and the Persian leader defeated by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela? | Darius *Darius Rucker Darius Marder Darius III | 2024/10/31 |
| Connections | What European capital connects Jack, the author of White Fang, and Julie, the singer famous for her rendition of Cry Me a River? | London | 2024/12/14 |
| Connections | What connects the cats Gobbolino, Sootica, Jiji, Mog, and Salem Saberhagen? | They are all witches’ cats. *Gobbolino and Sootica appear in the 1942 book Gobbolino, The Witch’s Cat; Jiji is the cat in Kiki’s Delivery Service; Mog stars in the Meg and Mog books; Salem Saberhagen is the cat in the comic and TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch. | 2024/12/14 |
| Multiple meanings | What name connects a rare genetic disease in which an individual is born with localised skin absence; a mass transport system in California; and a member of the Simpsons cartoon family? | Bart *The Bay Area in California is served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Bart Simpson is one of the central characters of The Simpsons. Bart Syndrome, also known as aplasia cutis congenita, was first recognised in 1966. | 2024/04/18 |
| Multiple meanings | What word connects a unit for measuring horses, a person who engages in physical work, and a round in a game of cards? | Hand | 2024/04/28 |
| Multiple meanings | Which word in biology means an agent that passes a disease to another biological organism; in mathematics means a geometric object that has both length and direction; in computer science means a type of data structure whose elements are accessed by means of an integer index; and is the name of the journal of the British Science Fiction Association? | Vector | 2024/12/07 |
| Multiple meanings | What word is both an action when roasting meat and a synonym for tacking in sewing? | Baste | 2024/12/27 |
| Multiple meanings | What word connects an orange fruit, a type of duck, a word for a Chinese bureaucratic scholar, and a form of the Chinese language? | Mandarin | 2025/01/01 |
Miscellaneous - 2 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flags | What are the only two nations recognised by the United Nations that feature firearms on their national flag? | 1. Mozambique 2. Guatemala | 2024/11/14 |
Miscellaneous - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clothing | What three items of clothing comprise a three piece suit? | 1. Jacket 2. Waistcoat 3. Trousers *In American English the parts are jacket, vest, and pants. | 27 December 2024 |
| Flags | What three colours appear on the flag of Estonia? | 1. Blue 2. Black 3. White | 1 January 2025 |
Miscellaneous - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthems | Which four European countries are the only nations in the world to officially have no lyrics to their national anthem? | 1. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2. Kosovo 3. San Marino 4. Spain | 2024/12/14 |