Quiz #09

Derived from a Scots word, by what name is New Year’s Eve known in Scotland?

Question 2

The sport SlamBall involves playing basketball on what athletic apparatus?

Question 3

At which summer Olympics were the five Fuwa – Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini – the official mascots?

Question 4

Bunraku and kabuki are traditional Japanese forms of what type of theatre performance?

Question 5

Published in 1671, what poem by John Milton was the follow up to Paradise Lost?

Question 6

In December 2024 Australian computer scientist Craig Wright was given a suspended jail sentence as punishment for repeatedly trying to sue people who dismissed his claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of what cryptocurrency?

Question 7

Starting the sequence with 0 and 1, but not including zero as an answer, what are the only two Fibonacci numbers below 1000 that are also square numbers?

Question 8

What three items of clothing comprise a three piece suit?

Question 9

What are the four stages of a moth’s life cycle?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: BCDEEHITW

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 24)

Round 2

Question 1

What Mexican national was named the richest man in the world for four years running, from 2010 to 2013, by Forbes magazine, with the magazine reckoning he is worth $78b in 2024?

Question 2

In what discipline does the NCTJ offer qualifications?

Question 3

In which month is the Day of German Unity, the German national holiday that celebrates reunification between East and West Germany?

Question 4

In the NFL, what is the only team to have won back-to-back Super Bowls twice?

Question 5

What name is given to the baked product that mixes a croissant and a muffin?

Question 6

At over 40000 m³/second, over 14 times as much as the Nile, what river has the largest discharge in Africa?

Question 7

Which two stations of the London Underground have the most Transport for London lines, each with six?

Question 8

What are the three main types of meringue, the name of each includes a demonym of a European country?

Question 9

The Protestant Church divides the ten commandments into four that aim to guide one’s relationship with god, and six to guide one’s relationships with people. What ideas are presented in the four commandments that deal with one’s relationship with god?

Question 10

From 2025, when a new race is added to the series, in which seven cities will the World Marathon Majors be run?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 46)

Round 3

Question 1

‘Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts’ is the title of which UK TV presenter and musician’s autobiography?

Question 2

Established by counter-culture personality John Hopkins and named after the smallest unit of computer memory, what was the name of the travel information service and guide publishing company established in the late 1960s that allowed people to visit or call offices for travel advice and activities – reportedly including where to squat and buy drugs?

Question 3

What is the common name of the shrub Catha edulis, which is widely chewed in East Africa and Arabia for its stimulating effects?

Question 4

In transportation planning, an extension of Braess’s paradox says that urban traffic flow improves when what is removed?

Question 5

What city is known as the oil capital of Norway, having been the centre of the country’s oil exploration business since the  1970s?

Question 6

What word is both an action when roasting meat and a synonym for tacking in sewing?  

Question 7

Which two women have won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Director, picking up the awards in 2020 and 2021 respectively?

Question 8

According to the US Department of Agriculture, which four US states have been the country’s largest corn producers every year of the 21^st century and currently account for over 50 per cent of all corn grown in the nation?

Question 9

In order to place its leaders at the same rank as its World War II allies and therefore erase problems of Americans commanding overseas officers in superior positions, December 1944 saw the US promote which four men to the position of General of the Army, a five-star position not used since 1888?

Question 10

Although the death toll in the final version of the play is six, who are the seven characters that die in the first edition – or first quarto – of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 23)

Total points
(Maximum: 69)

Round 4

Question 1

The Heritage Classic, Winter Classic, and Stadium Series are occasions when which sports league plays matches outdoors?

Question 2

According to the Royal Entomological Society, what species is the only indigenous year-round insect living in Antarctica?

Question 3

What magic trick was alluded to by 9^th century Hindu philosopher Adi Shankaracharya, reportedly performed by Chinese jugglers in the 17^th century, and sporadically seen by uncorroborated witnesses at the start of the 20^th century, but is often labelled a myth as no modern knowledge exists of how the trick was performed?

Question 4

In which country did the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948 act as a catalyst for a civil war called La Violencia, or The Violence?

Question 5

Kylling Kluk, Høne Pøne, Hane Pane, And Svand, Gaase Paase, and Ræv Skræv are the characters in an early Danish version of what folk tale?

Question 6

What name is shared by one of the two creators of the 1990s sitcom Friends and a character from its one-time contemporary sitcom Frasier?

Question 7

2025 will see the next editions of both the men’s and women’s World Volleyball Championships. Which two European countries are the respective reigning world champions?

Question 8

What are the three great Siberian rivers, each over 4000km long, that rise in Central Asia and discharge into the Arctic Ocean?

Question 9

Who were the four wives of American singer and actor Frank Sinatra?

Question 10

The Indian Ocean tsunami that struck on Boxing Day in 2004 killed approximately 225000 people across which 14 countries?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 29)

Total points
(Maximum: 98)

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 a common name, which appears as either a first name or surname . What is it?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 108)