Quiz #01

What car company has models that include Diablo, Countach, Huracán, and Aventador?

Question 2

What fruit is known as ananas in French, German, Italian, Finnish and a host of other European languages?

Question 3

Which protest group had two protesters try to interrupt the 2023 World Snooker Championships, with one getting on to a table and releasing orange dye onto the table?

Question 4

Marjorie Jacqueline Bouvier is the given name of which famous TV cartoon character?

Question 5

The actor Terrence Hardiman, who passed away in May 2023, is best known for playing which villainous school principal in the 1990s?

Question 6

Goalhanger Podcasts, the media company behind podcasts such as The Rest is Politics and The Rest is History, was established by which sportsperson turned television presenter?

Question 7

What are the two official languages of Chad?

Question 8

Who were the three children of Peggy Mitchell on the soap opera Eastenders?

Question 9

In which five disciplines were Nobel prizes originally awarded in 1901?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: AEEINORTT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 25)

Round 2

Question 1

‘And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.’

These are the final lines of a poem by which former Poet Laureate?

Question 2

With atomic number 3, what is the least dense metal in the periodic table?

Question 3

What is the highest number on the Beaufort Scale, the scale used for categorising wind strength?

Question 4

Trainee forensic analyst Holly Gribbs was killed in the opening episode of which American TV franchise?

Question 5

Aged 51, Amy Coney Barrett is currently the youngest member of which US federal organisation?

Question 6

What is the only planet in the solar system with density less than water, meaning it would theoretically float in an ocean on Earth if given enough water and issues of gravitational pull are ignored?

Question 7

Which two people held the position of Lord Protector during the English Interregnum of 1649 to 1660?

Question 8

In the waste management hierarchy, what three actions to curb unnecessary waste are commonly referred to as the 3 Rs?

Question 9

What are the names of the four bones in the human leg?

Question 10

Not including caretakers, name the six people who have served as First Minister of Scotland.

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 46)

Round 3

Question 1

Carson City is the capital of which US state?

Question 2

Which two word term devised by Marcel Proust in his book In Search of Lost Time describes a memory triggered by external stimulation of the senses, first appearing when the narrator eats a tea-soaked madeleine which makes him recall his childhood?

Question 3

Dendrochronology is the scientific method of using what to study past events?

Question 4

By what stage name is British Nigerian singer Helen Folasade Adu better known?

Question 5

Which then Highland League football team was nicknamed ‘the worst team in football’ in 2019 after famously finishing a season with zero wins, two draws, thirty-two losses, a points total of -7, and a goal difference of -224?

Question 6

The American improvised murder mystery show Murderville is based on what UK show in which a guest must solve a murder in a town of celebrities?

Question 7

What two songs released by the Korean artist Psy have reached both the UK and US top ten?

Question 8

What are the only three letters that do not start the name of a chemical element?

Question 9

What four countries, as recognised by the United Nations, have the letter ‘q’ in their English name?

Question 10

What were the eight playable characters in the original 1992 computer game Mario Kart?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 23)

Total points
(Maximum: 69)

Round 4

Question 1

Peruvian Diego Elias has been a world number one in which sport?

Question 2

What is the single word title of the 2021 documentary film by English director Andrea Arnold that follows the life of a specific species of farmyard animal? 

Question 3

What was the anatomically-themed name of the war fought in the Caribbean between Britain and the Spanish Empire from 1739 to 1748, the name referring to a British captain and the body part the Spanish coast guard allegedly severed?

Question 4

With a population of around 125 million, what is the most populous province in China?

Question 5

Often seen as key event in popularising online poker, which aptly named amateur won the $2.5m World Series of Poker Main Event in 2003, having qualified by winning an $86 online tournament?

Question 6

In sewing, what term describes the finished opening on the waistbands of trousers and the cuffs of sleeves at which a piece of fabric is reinforced with a fold or layer for zippers and buttons to be placed?

Question 7

In the name of the shipping company P&O, for what two words do the letters P and O stand?

Question 8

Since the programme started in 1962, what are the only three Scottish universities to have won University Challenge?

Question 9

Including the one-off 2016 Stand Up for Cancer edition, who have been the four presenters of UK version of The Crystal Maze?

Question 10

Including its cadet houses of York and Lancaster, plus one disputed French claim, name the fifteen English monarchs from the House of Plantagenet?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 30)

Total points
(Maximum: 99)

Round 5

In Round 5, there is only one answer. The less clues you need to get it, the more points you receive. If you need only one clue, you receive 10 points; if you require two clues, you will receive 9 points, and so on.

However, you may only answer once. If you answer incorrectly, you receive zero points for the round.

The following people all have the same surname. What is it?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 109)