Quiz #62

Cal-Maine Foods, Proteína Animal, and Rose Acre Farms are the world’s three largest producers of what animal-derived foodstuff?

Question 2

One of the oldest and largest search and rescue organisations in the US, the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group is based in which US state?

Question 3

Battledore and shuttlecock was an early variant of what sport?

Question 4

What is the largest country in the world to operate under only one time zone?

Question 5

What key on a computer keyboard is known as bloq mayús in Spanish?

Question 6

Which Hollywood icon of the 1950s and 60s was born Audrey Ruston and came from a family of Dutch nobles, with her mother being a baroness and her father both a baron and former governor of Dutch Guiana?

Question 7

Following their final appearances on the 2025 Christmas special, which two UK TV presenters have stepped down from hosting the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing programme after 10 and 21 years on the show respectively?

Question 8

What are the three core components of the dessert baked Alaska?

Question 9

In the book The Lord of the Rings, what are the five ‘races’ – or types of being or creature – of the five members of The Company of the Ring, also known as The Fellowship of the Ring?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ADDEGIMNN

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 25)

Round 2

Question 1

Developed by Field Tech Company in Japan, where the machine is most widely used, the ‘remote and removable GNSS observation device’ REGMOS uses satellite positioning to detect and measure what?

Question 2

Which US rapper, music producer and businessman, and former member of the groups World Class Wreckin’ Cru and NWA, started Aftermath Entertainment in 1996?

Question 3

Which claymation character created by Aardman Animations starred in a 10-minute 2025 Christmas special called Fleece Navidad?

Question 4

With approximately 3500 members from around the world, and headquarters in New York, what members club dates from at least 1904 and is ‘dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and resource conservation’, with members having to be ‘persons who carry out or assist in field science expeditions to study unknown or little known destinations or phenomena in order to gain knowledge for humankind’?

Question 5

Commemorating victims of a dictatorship that lasted from 1973 to 1990, the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, or Museum of Memory and Human Rights, is situated in which South American capital city?

Question 6

In November 2025, Welsh couple Richard Davies and Faye Stevenson-Davies overcame odds of over 24 000 000 000 000 to 1 when they achieved what?

Question 7

Lake Titicaca forms part of the border between which two countries?

Question 8

Which three actors portrayed the characters Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise?

Question 9

Excluding phase or state changes, what are the three modes of heat transfer?

Question 10

On January 1 1999, fourteen countries began using the Euro as a currency. Noting that three countries used currencies with the same name, and three microstates used the same currency as their larger neighbours, what were the nine names of the currencies used by these countries prior to the introduction of the Euro?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 23)

Total points
(Maximum: 48)

Round 3

Question 1

Published on October 21 and one of the best-selling books of 2025, The Widow is a courtroom drama novel by which multi-million selling US author?

Question 2

In which African country are the multi-day hiking routes the Otter Trail, the Amatola Trail, the Outeniqua Trail, and the Drakensberg Grand Traverse?

Question 3

What term, starting with the letter O and derived from the necessity to eat flesh, is given to ‘true’ carnivores such as cats whose diet requires nutrients found only in animal flesh?

Question 4

What is the only club to have won the old English First Division, which ran from 1888 to 1992, but never featured in the subsequent English Premier League which replaced the competition?

Question 5

On New Year’s Day 1940 the UK’s War Office ordered which Scottish city’s football derby to go ahead despite heavy fog as it feared a cancellation would tip off the German Luftwaffe of bad weather conditions in the country? Conditions were reportedly so bad that the radio commentator made up the action he described until somebody could run up from the pitchside to tell him if a goal had been scored.

Question 6

Which group of islands in the Pacific ocean were first inhabited by mutineers from the HMS Bounty, as well as Tahitians who had also been aboard the boat, in 1790?

Question 7

In what years did technology company Apple release its first generation iPod and its first generation iPhone respectively?

Question 8

Used in the late 19^th and early 20^th century, and with syrup added to mask the taste, the Brompton Cocktail was a mixture of what three drugs given to terminally ill patients in order to alleviate pain and aid sociability?

Question 9

According to the World Health Organization, what are the five most common causes of blindness globally?

Question 10

Ignoring the more specific location words left, right, inside, and outside, what are the names of the five positions played by the seven backs in a rugby union team?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 69)

Round 4

Question 1

Developed by US company Xperi, what popular line of digital video recorders – which allowed viewers to record scheduled digital TV programmes – was discontinued in October 2025, having been superseded by streaming technology?

Question 2

Growing 1cm to 6cm in height, Salix herbacea has a claim to be the shortest tree species in the world. Belonging to the Salicaceae fmaily, what species of tree is Salix herbacea?

Question 3

The Chinese legend Liang Zhu tells the story of lovers Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who are turned into what sort of flying animal so they can be together in death?

Question 4

What upmarket department store in central Paris has been the annual site of one of the city’s most celebrated Christmas trees since 1976, with the 2025 tree being 16m in height with decorations designed by Jeanne Detallante, including 560kg of ribbons and 8kg of lights which form part of a half-hourly sound and light show?

Question 5

What was the name of the yuppie businessman that appeared in an eponymous comic strip in the Independent newspaper from 1987 to 1992, and then The Daily Telegraph newspaper from 1992 to April 2025 when it concluded?

Question 6

Which song in the stage musical Les Misérables is widely believed to be inspired by, or indeed copied from, The Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly, composed by Giacomo Puccini?

Question 7

Which two people are currently President of the European Central Bank and Chair of the US Federal Reserve respectively?

Question 8

In 1895 Irish writer Oscar Wilde was involved in three high profile court cases, the first of which was brought by him, and the second two brought against him based on evidence that arose during his failed first case. What three charges were brought in these trials?

Question 9

Each also associated with a cardinal direction and colour, what four animals are the four ‘auspicious beasts’ in Chinese mythology?

Question 10

Which nine countries within the European Union had parliamentary or presidential elections in 2025?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 24)

Total points
(Maximum: 93)

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 are all cities in which country?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 103)