Quiz #18

Created in 1940, which nemesis of Batman was supposed to be killed in his second comic book appearance, having accidentally stabbed himself in the heart, only for an editor to reverse the decision and have a final panel added to the story within which a doctor says the villain is still alive?

Question 2

Which American guitar maker is the only person to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame?

Question 3

At three letters, what book of the Bible has the shortest name?

Question 4

Which American dessert may have its origins in Key West in Florida, although it has also been suggested it was created by food company Borden in a campaign to sell more condensed milk?

Question 5

Nando’s, Galito’s, Chicken Licken, and Hungry Lion are all international fast food chains from which African country?

Question 6

What word completes this Turkish proverb: ‘When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a ___’?

Question 7

The UK’s Prime Minister is Keir Starmer. What are the two anagrams of the word ‘Starmer’?

Question 8

The UK’s king, Charles III, has two birthdays: his real birthday, in winter, and an official one in a warmer month. In what two months are his birthdays?

Question 9

What are the three diseases against which the MMR vaccine immunizes?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: AEIMMNNRS

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 22)

Round 2

Question 1

Derby, Oxford, Wellington, and Ho Chi Minh are all styles of what wearable item?

Question 2

In which Scottish castle is the 15^th century cannon called Mons Meg located?

Question 3

In DVD region codes, what number is used for discs that can be played worldwide?

Question 4

From what are the ‘bubbles’ in bubble tea most commonly made?

Question 5

If a chess move is counted as containing one play by white and one play by black, what is the lowest amount of moves required to achieve checkmate in a game of chess?

Question 6

Which cricketer holds both the record for the highest score in a first class cricket match and the highest score in a test match, having scored 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994 and 400 not out for the West Indies against England in 2004 – having also scored 375 against England in 1994?

Question 7

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, what two animals are used by the Queen of Hearts as the equipment for a croquet game?

Question 8

What have been the two mobile phone product lines released by Google?

Question 9

In revolutions per minute, what are the three standard vinyl record playback speeds – although one has rarely been used since the 1970s and generally no longer appears on record players?

Question 10

What are the four types of human teeth?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 17)

Total points
(Maximum: 39)

Round 3

Question 1

Who is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated?

Question 2

What hip hop group was comprised of members Andre 3000 and Big Boi?

Question 3

What is the name given to the literary plot device in which an unlikely outside event, character, or reveal appears to suddenly solve a problem? Examples include the sudden appearance of Artemis at the end of Hippolytus by Euripides, eagles suddenly saving Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings, and Dorothy being told all she has to do is click her heals to go home in The Wizard of Oz.

Question 4

With a history dating back to the mid-13^th century, but re-established after the French Revolution, what Parisian university gives its name to the district of the city that sits on bank of the Seine opposite Notre-Dame cathedral?

Question 5

In the 21st century Kamilo Beach on Hawaii’s Big Island has become famous for its covering of what material, which has been found to be 3m in depth at some points?  

Question 6

The world’s population is estimated to be around 8 billion. To the nearest billion, what was the global population in 1925, as estimated by the Population Reference Bureau?  

Question 7

Described by The New York Times as ‘The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes’, chemical engineer Thomas Midgley Jr invented what two environmentally damaging products – both now banned – in which chemicals were added to improve the performance of commonly used items?

Question 8

Who were the two primary lawyers in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

Question 9

According to Aristotle’s Rhetoric, what are the three modes of persuasion?

Question 10

Four nations came to be known as the ‘Four Powers’ or ‘Four Policemen’ during World War II. Who were the six people who served as the leaders of these countries during the war?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 19)

Total points
(Maximum: 58)

Round 4

Question 1

In the tales of Beatrix Potter, what type of animal is Timmy Tiptoes?

Question 2

According to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine contains four deposit sites with a total of 500 000 tonnes of what chemical element important for net zero technologies – with two of the deposit sites currently in conflict zones?

Question 3

With an estimated wealth of $1.5 billion, Rasmus Lerdorf is the inventor of what computer programming language, which he initially created in his 20s to run his personal webpage and is now used on an estimated 75% of global websites?

Question 4

Which moon of Jupiter is named for a lover of Zeus who was turned into a heifer and subsequently punished by Zeus’s wife Hera, who sent a gadfly to continuously sting her?

Question 5

Raku is a Japanese technique used in which art form?

Question 6

What name is given to the economic ideology that argues people should keep wealth produced by themselves, and that  wealth earned from land should belong to all members of society, theoretically replacing income and trade taxes and removing inequality based on land ownership?

Question 7

What were the names of the two brothers who started the Walmart retail company in 1962? The surname is referred to in the company name, and one brother’s first name is used for Walmart’s wholesale retail arm.

Question 8

What were the three pen names used by the sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë?

Question 9

What are the five principal organs of the United Nations currently in operation?

Question 10

In the US’s major four sports leagues – those being the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB – what six names are used by multiple teams?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 80)

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 dishes all use the same foodstuff. What is it?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 90)