Quiz #72

In the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, what food does Alice eat that makes her grow to a giant size?

Question 2

With an estimated 32m copies sold, what is the best selling non-compilation album released by UK group The Beatles?

Question 3

Which US rapper was the president of the short-lived record label S. Carter Records, which was closed when he started multi-strand entertainment company Roc Nation in 2008?

Question 4

What day of the week is the sabbath according to the Seventh-day Adventist Church?

Question 5

Mothering Sunday in the UK, due to be celebrated on March 15 2026, is not traditionally a celebration of one’s mother, but what?

Question 6

Which Caribbean nation has the internet country code top-level domain .tt?

Question 7

The animal known as a zorse is a rare hybrid of what two other animals?

Question 8

As utilised in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, medicine companies working in the US can apply to the government for an EUA to allow people access to drugs that have not yet acquired official approval but are deemed necessary to meet an emergency. For what do the letters EUA stand in this context?

Question 9

Ignoring all the non-letter keys such as punctuation, numbers, and actions, what four letters are respectively situated in the top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right of the letter portion of a regular QWERTY keyboard?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: EHLOPRSTU

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 24)

Round 2

Question 1

Rebranding exercises by Kellogg’s and Post Consumer Brands in the 1980s saw cereals called Honey Smacks, Frosted Flakes, and Golden Crisp released in several countries, all having dropped the mentioning of what ingredient from their previous names?

Question 2

Where on the face might one suffer from angular cheilitis?

Question 3

In which country is the Arirang Mass Games held, often considered to be the largest mass performance in the world due to having approximately 100000 performers?

Question 4

What age, in one’s early 20s, is the maximum age at which a person can apply for the Direct Entry Pilot training programme in Britain’s Royal Air Force?

Question 5

Hyped in the early 21^st century as a potential beneficial technology to provide water in poor communities, but later mostly shelved due to inefficiency, the difficulty older people had in working them, and its potential to promote child labour, the playpump is a water boring device that resembles what children’s playpark apparatus?

Question 6

Into which planet of the solar system did the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash in 1994, having been caught by the planet’s gravitational pull and subsequently ripped apart by tidal forces caused by the planet and one of its moons, Metis?

Question 7

What two companies, both of which have Elon Musk as their CEO, announced a $250bn merger via takeover in February 2026?

Question 8

What three countries that all experienced British colonial rule serve as the settings for the books that comprise Irish writer J.G. Farrell’s ‘Empire Trilogy’?

Question 9

What are the four primary superpowers of the Marvel comic characters the Fantastic Four?

Question 10

Through which six countries does the Mekong river flow?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 45)

Round 3

Question 1

As used in textile and paper production, what is a calender?

Question 2

Designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, what building in Paris was opened in 1977 to fierce criticism, with newspaper Le Figaro stating ‘Paris has its own monster, like Loch Ness’?

Question 3

Which record label, founded in 1980, frequently uses the letters GEF in its catalogue system, such as GEF 24415 for the Guns N’Roses album Use Your Illusion I, GEF24425 for Nirvana’s Nevermind, and GEF24427 for Cher’s album Love Hurts? 

Question 4

What is the English name given to both the 1985 Philippe Dijan book 37°2 le matin and its 1986 film adaptation which made a star of Béatrice Dalle in her feature film debut?

Question 5

In meteorology, what is measured by a ceiling balloon?

Question 6

The 16^th-century theologian John Calvin, after whom the branch of Protestantism known as Calvinism is named, was from which country?

Question 7

What two rock formations – one an inselberg monolith and the other comprised of 36 bornhardt domes – give their names to a national park in central Australia approximately 350km southwest of Alice Springs?

Question 8

Who were the three principle members of the band Wings?

Question 9

Which four players – two English, and two from overseas – have finished as top scorer in the men’s English Premier League in its last ten seasons?

Question 10

The highest ranking officer position in the British navy can be abbreviated as 1SL/CNS. For what six words do 1SL/CNS stand?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 66)

Round 4

Question 1

Which 18^th-century Swedish botanist is known as the ‘Father of Taxonomy’, having created a variation of a ranked classification system that used three kingdoms, each divided into classes?

Question 2

What is the name of the Chinese spicy noodle dish whose name translates as ‘carrying pole noodles’ or ‘peddler’s noodles’, having originally been sold by vendors in Sichuan who walked the streets selling it to passersby? The dish usually consists of noodles, chilli oil, Sichuan pepper, pork, scallions, and vegetables.

Question 3

Similar to the title of a revolutionary Thomas Paine pamphlet published two years later, what document was approved by the French National Assembly on August 26, 1789 and begins its Article I with the words ‘Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits’, or ‘Men are born and remain free and equal in rights’?

Question 4

The subject of a memorial in London’s Trafalgar Square and inspiration for French singer Édith Piaf’s first name, who was the British WWI nurse who was executed in Belgium by German forces on 12 October 1915 for her role in helping injured allied soldiers escape the occupied country, despite her policy of tending to soldiers from both sides of the war?

Question 5

The cause of his death only confirmed in the 2010s, being suicide by an AK47 given to him by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who was the socialist president of Chile from 1970 until 1973 who was removed by a military coup d’etat led by Augusto Pinochet – possibly with assistance from the US?

Question 6

The inspiration for a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, what is the name of the creature in Slavic mythology which has glowing feathers and has appeared in several stories, sometimes as a bringer of fortune but other times the cause of hubris or death for those who try to capture it?

Question 7

In 1721, the title of the monarch of Russia was officially changed from tsar to emperor, meaning that all subsequent leaders were technically emperors despite still colloquially being called tsars. With this in mind, who were the first and last official tsars of Russia – the first having being crowned in 1547, and the last changing from tsar to emperor in 1721?

Question 8

What are the first names of the three generations of the Botham family that have played international sport for nations in the UK? The oldest was a renowned all-rounder for the England cricket team; his son played cricket and rugby professionally, although only represented England in rugby tour games rather than any official tests; and his son currently plays for the Wales rugby union national team?

Question 9

Bar the occasional absence of one performer, who has missed four of the 211 episodes, who have been the four ever-present performers on the improvisation comedy Whose Line is it Anyway? since the show returned to television in 2013? One of the four is the host who took over from Drew Carey, while the other three have long been connected to the programme, having made their respective debuts on the original British version in 1988, 1991, and 1998.

Question 10

As of March 7 2026, what are the six tourist attractions in San Francisco that have received over 10,000 reviews on the travel review site Trip Advisor?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 87)

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 characters in which film?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)