Quiz #60

Giant, Trek, Yeti, Mongoose, Shimano, Colnago, and Bianchi are all manufacturers of what type of item?

Question 2

Harvested in southern Europe from late November, and therefore currently in markets across Europe, navelina is an early season variety of what fruit?

Question 3

During the show’s 10 year run, the characters in US sitcom Friends dated 85 different people. While Joey Tribiani had the most relationships, with 17, which character’s count of 9 was the lowest?

Question 4

Announced last week, ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup have been heavily criticised for being unrealistic for supporters from poorer nations, and for introducing a sliding scale that charges more when popular teams are involved. To the nearest half month, how many months of average salary in Haiti equates to the price of the cheapest ticket to watch Haiti’s game with Brazil, priced at $265?

Question 5

Although kick returns and interception returns can be longer, with the league record for the longest play being a 109 yard kick return, what – in yards – is the longest possible play from scrimmage in a NFL American football game?

Question 6

Currently agreed but awaiting approval by member states, the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is an agreement between the European Union and a bloc of nations in which continent?

Question 7

What are the only two countries in Central America – that being defined by the UN geoscheme as the eight countries between the US and Colombia – that do not have both an Atlantic and Pacific coastline?

Question 8

Lacking blood vessels, from what two sources does the human epidermis receive oxygen?

Question 9

According to UK law, and separate from copyright law, what four aesthetic elements of a design can be registered with the Intellectual Property Office?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: AEEGINNRT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 23)

Round 2

Question 1

What two-word term is given to the legal precedent of not trying a person for the same, or similar, charge after they have been acquitted?

Question 2

On December 2, US energy company GE Vernova set a world record for organising the largest ever online version of what Christmas charity tradition carried out by many organisations and companies?

Question 3

What children’s book from 2005, written by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell, claimed to be ‘a Christmas tradition’ and came with a toy that was said to watch whether children were being good in the run up to Christmas, with parents encouraged to put the toy in a new position in the house each day to show that it had travelled to and from the North Pole to report its findings?

Question 4

Formed in 1866, and the only founding member of the Rugby Football Union still in existence, what English rugby team  is named after a character in the Commedia dell’arte and plays at Twickenham Stoop Stadium, the stadium one street over from England’s national Twickenham Stadium?

Question 5

SETI is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Working in a similar area, for what does METI stand?

Question 6

The Grand Expansion, The Hubble Bubble, The First Fireball, Matter Morphosis, Bertha D. Universe, and Doink were amongst the 13099 entries received by Sky and Telescope magazine in a 1993 competition to rename what theory, the name of which is generally credited to Fred Hoyle after he used the words in a 1949 BBC radio interview, but which has often been criticised by experts for being misleading and conceptually difficult to understand?

Question 7

What famous English painting, completed in 1821 and currently hanging in London’s National Gallery, depicts three horses pulling a wagon across a river next to a countryside cottage? And which artist painted the work?

Question 8

The UK and US Christmas number 1 singles will be announced on December 19. Thanks to the influence of streaming and downloads, both charts are currently dominated by well-known Christmas songs, with which four songs – performed respectively by Wham, Mariah Carey, Peggy Lee, and Bobby Helms – in the top 10 in both countries?

Question 9

All forms of Xbox, and not including variations of its third generation console, what have been the names of the four games consoles released by Microsoft since the original Xbox in 2001?

Question 10

In the children’s TV show Bob the Builder, what type of construction vehicles are Scoop, Lofty, Muck, Roley, and Dizzy respectively?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 44)

Round 3

Question 1

What name is given to a water park ride consisting of a relaxing, slow moving, shallow current on which people sit on rafts, such as inflatable rings, making their way gradually through scenery towards the end of the water course?

Question 2

Derived from a French onomatopoeic word, and resembling a small stuffed ottoman, what name is given to a low, soft, fully upholstered seat with no armrest or back which can double as a footstool?

Question 3

Which US city voted for a mayor from the Democrat Party for the first time in 28 years on December 9, with Eileen Higgins defeating Republican candidate Emilio González by 19 points in a run off?

Question 4

Which American actor has been said to have the ‘voice of God’ due to his smooth vocal tone; roles that have included playing God in Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty; and narration on TV series The Story of God, Our Universe, and Life on Our Planet, as well as his replacing of Walter Cronkite as the voice that introduced CBS Evening News?

Question 5

What line of computers manufactured by Lenovo, and previously made by IBM, includes the X, E, and L series, with models named Carbon, Yoga, and Edge?

Question 6

Averaging around 13km per hour, and faster during a new or full moon, the tidal current at Saltstraumen lays claim to being the world’s fastest. In which European country is Saltstraumen?

Question 7

For the 2026 men’s football World Cup, the US city of Seattle designated the match to be played at its Lumen Field on June 26 as an LGBTQ+ ‘Pride Match’, as it happens during the city’s Pride weekend. Which two nations in which homosexuality is illegal have been drawn to play the game?

Question 8

In which three plays written by William Shakespeare does the character John Falstaff appear?

Question 9

What three capital cities sit on the banks of the Nile?

Question 10

Which five countries have chosen to boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest due to the competition’s continued inclusion of Israel, with the boycotting nations saying Israel should be barred due to its military involvement in Palestine which was deemed a genocide by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 19)

Total points
(Maximum: 63)

Round 4

Question 1

What entertainment venue in New York City claims to be the largest indoor theatre in the world – although the Great Hall of the People in Beijing can hold over 4000 people more?

Question 2

Mentioning a popular Italian food and sounding similar to a frequent computer command, what name is given to the internet meme that involves replicating humorous, provocative, or overly long text and placing it onto internet discussion boards or threads to provoke responses? The term can also be used for the repeated placing of identical misinformation across various internet spaces.

Question 3

What geographic feature with a four-letter name is formed by longshore drifts depositing sediment so that an area of new land – generally made of sand – juts out from a coast? A form a sandbar, examples include Arabat in Crimea, Farewell in New Zealand, and Dungeness in Washington state, after which the Dungeness crab is named.?

Question 4

What building is situated in the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly Place de l’Étoile, in the French city of Paris?

Question 5

Which 18^th-century British naval captain led an expedition that circumnavigated the globe between 1791 and 1795, visiting Europe, Africa, Australia, North America, and South America, and ultimately led to one of Canada’s primary cities to be named after him?

Question 6

The only modern group of Crustaceans almost entirely composed of terrestrial species, by what name are animals belonging to the suborder oniscidea more commonly referred?

Question 7

What are the two houses of the French national parliament?

Question 8

Of Anton Chekhov’s seven full, four-act plays, which three begin with the word ‘the’?

Question 9

In his 1941 State of the Union address, in a push for the US to end its isolationist stance, what four freedoms did US President Franklin D. Roosevelt state should be enjoyed by people ‘everywhere in the world’? The so-called ‘four freedoms’ are now written on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and inspired a series of four paintings by US artist Norman Rockwell.

Question 10

According to a 2020 YouGov poll, what are the six most popular pasta shapes in the UK?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 84)

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 have all been Olympic or World Champion in which sport?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 94)