Quiz #47

What is the name of the street in the Mayfair district of London synonymous with men’s tailoring, particularly for suits?

Question 2

Is a magnifying glass made from a convex or concave lens?

Question 3

Which English-born Norwegian footballer scored five goals in a match against Moldova last week, in a game his team won 11-1, to take his international tally to 48 goals in only 45 games?

Question 4

The World Athletics Championships started in Tokyo on September 13. Since the 2022 event held in Oregon, USA, what has been given to the top three placed athletes immediately after every final at the championships, a move started by the Executive Director of Oregon22, Niels de Vos, after he saw an athlete at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games standing with one in a near empty stadium the day after finishing his event?

Question 5

What is the name of the magazine published by the Jehovah’s Witness religious group?

Question 6

In 1995, American band Deep Blue Something had a worldwide hit with the song Breakfast at Tiffany’s. What other film starring Audrey Hepburn inspired the song, but had its title swapped out because Breakfast at Tiffany’s was deemed a better fit for the song’s rhythm?

Question 7

Who are the famous parents of occasional actress and model Apple Martin?

Question 8

In the history of English and British monarchs, there have been three occasions in which three consecutive monarchs have all used the same regnal name. What were the three regnal names used in these respective instances?

Question 9

According to a 2024 poll by YouGov, what are the five most popular dinosaurs in the UK?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ACDDEKLOR

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 25)

Round 2

Question 1

On August 30 Zack Polanski won a vote to become the new leader of which political party in England and Wales?

Question 2

Alluding to an object known for coming back, what name has been given to the generation of children who have returned to live with their parents, usually because of the cost of living?

Question 3

What is the name of the type of sunglasses, now marketed under the Ray-Ban brand, which was originally made for US military personnel by Bausch and Lomb in the 1930s?

Question 4

Which of the five primary senses is also a nickname given to French house music of the 1990s, leading names of which include Daft Punk, Phoenix, Alan Braxe, Bob Sinclair, Cassius, and DJ Falcon?

Question 5

A nephrologist is a doctor specialising in which internal human organ?

Question 6

In 1963, American surgeon James Hardy became the first person to successfully complete a transplant of what organ into a human?

Question 7

Which two people have both hosted the Academy Awards in the 21st century and won an Academy Award – both for Best Supporting Actress?

Question 8

Which three letters of the alphabet have been the names of car models released by American car manufacturer Tesla?

Question 9

The Guardian newspaper printed its UK university rankings for 2026 at the weekend, one of the three main ranking lists published on the subject. What four London universities appeared in the ranking’s top 10?

Question 10

Six of the ten busiest ports in the world are in China. In what four Asian countries are the other four entries in the list?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 19)

Total points
(Maximum: 44)

Round 3

Question 1

Created by the co-founders of Aardman Animations, Peter Lord and David Sproxton, what shape-changing claymation character first appeared on British TV in 1977on the Take Hart children’s art show, hosted by Tony Hart?

Question 2

Which Caribbean country became independent in 1804 after a successful slave revolt against French colonialists, the only nation founded by a slave rebellion successfully turning European rule to non-white slave-free local leadership?

Question 3

What international education programme was started in Switzerland in the 1960s in a bid to create an education system founded on international understanding and peace, with the first such programmes being aimed at the children of diplomats and multinational organisations?

Question 4

Although not an official test of a vehicle’s road-worthiness, the test of a car’s ability to not tip over when forced to suddenly perform an evasive swerve around an object at high speed is named after what type of animal, supposedly due the frequent need to avoid this animal in Sweden in the 1970s, where the test was devised?

Question 5

The Willis Tower in Chicago is currently the third tallest building in the US. By what name was it previously known, including when it was the tallest skyscraper in the world from its construction in 1973 until 1998?

Question 6

What name is given to the theoretical star formed when a white dwarf cools so much that light is no longer emitted – although no star is believed to have reached the age yet at which this has occurred?

Question 7

The possibility of there once having been life on Mars has been deemed more likely after NASA found spotted patterns on rocks often formed on Earth by chemical reactions within microbial processes. What two descriptive names have been given to these spot configurations, one for their resemblance to a pattern seen on a big cat, and the other to a type of seed often seen in food?

Question 8

What are the three French terms that respectively describe a shop that sells breads; a shop that sells pastries and cakes, as well as the collective word for these pastries and cakes; and the collective name for morning pastries made in a Viennese style?

Question 9

What are the four main component parts of the bagpipes?

Question 10

In the book Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne, in which eight present-day countries after leaving England does Phileas Fogg change transport?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 23)

Total points
(Maximum: 67)

Round 4

Question 1

Initiator of the hashtag trend #playitlikeagirl, in May Anna Lapwood became the inaugural official player of what musical instrument at the Royal Albert Hall, a venue at which she has played the hall’s 154-year instrument for promenade concerts as well as supported live performances by the likes of Ministry of Sound, Raye, and Florence + The Machine?

Question 2

What term to describe a successful, attractive woman with ‘je ne sais quoi’ star quality was first popularised when attached to silent film star Clara Bow after he appearance in a 1927 movie, adapted from a novella by Elinor Glyn, about a shop girl whose magnetism wins over high society?

Question 3

Which American singer, who had solo hits in the 1980s and 1990s and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 alongside her earlier band, described the start of her three decades of cocaine use by saying ‘When I was introduced to coke, I thought: ‘Oh my God, when I get money, I’m going to buy lots of this.’ And I did.”

Question 4

Frequently used in cooking, what name is given to a smoke-dried ripe jalapeno pepper?

Question 5

What example of collective behaviour allows red fire ant colonies to survive floods?

Question 6

The Fat Duck, the three Michelin star restaurant run by Heston Blumenthal, has amongst its more headline-grabbing dishes a savoury ice cream in what flavour of seafood – albeit that flavour of ice cream existed in Japan prior to arriving on the restaurant’s menu?

Question 7

The marine wildlife hotspot around the Valdes Peninsula, near the city of Puerto Madryn in northern Patagonia, is famous for its penguins, elephant seals, sea lions, orca, and southern right whales. What two ocean currents – one named for a country, and the other a set of contested islands – meet in the area?

Question 8

What are the names of the three sisters of the character Peter Rabbit, created by Beatrix Potter?

Question 9

In music, what are the British terms for a whole note, a half note, a quarter note, and an eighth note?

Question 10

What are the six island nations that are considered part of Africa?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 88)

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.

In which sport have the following people all been world champion?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 98)