Quiz #77

By what is the character Chingachgook referred to in the title of a 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper?

Question 2

What collective name is given to portions of plants that detach from their roots so that they can allow the wind to roll them, thus allowing seed to spread?

Question 3

What superlative completes the claim to fame used by the 9^th-century Church of the Holy Cross in the Croatian town of Nin: the _____ cathedral in the world?

Question 4

Which American fast food chain sells the Blizzard line of desserts, comprised of soft-serve ice cream with added chunks of biscuit or sweets?

Question 5

Which children’s literary character is celebrating his 100^th anniversary in 2026 – although he had appeared two years earlier, in a 1924 poem, as Edward Bear?

Question 6

Involving stabbing a needle into the accused’s flesh to see if it drew blood, for what alleged crime was ‘pricking’ used as evidence in the 16^th and 17^th centuries?

Question 7

Which two heavyweight boxers fought in the 1975 bout known as the Thrilla in Manila?

Question 8

As well as olive oil, what are the three toppings of a traditional pizza margherita?

Question 9

What are the first five books of the Bible’s Old Testament, the names of which can be remembered using the mnemonic ‘God’s excellent love never dies’?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ACDEERSTT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 25)

Round 2

Question 1

The Chorotega people of Costa Rica and Nicaragua are most commonly associated with what sort of art form?

Question 2

The Up Helly Aa festival, held on the Scottish archipelago of Shetland in the first months of each year, concludes with the burning of what type of boat?

Question 3

What firearm shooting technique was popularised in the 1990s by films such as Menace II Society and gangster rap culture, but is more about style than practicality as it makes aiming the weapon significantly more difficult?

Question 4

The mixed drinks eggnog, brown cow, and Anna Kournikova all include what non-alcoholic ingredient?

Question 5

Once the oldest manufacturing company in the UK, and connected to famous historical sites in both the UK and US, Whitechapel was a company famous for manufacturing what type of musical instrument before it closed in 2017?

Question 6

In the 2025 edition of The Snapshot, an annual report looking at crustacean welfare applied by UK food retailers and suppliers which was published in March 2026, which of the UK’s ‘Big Four’ supermarkets – namely Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, and Tesco – continues to sit in tier 5, the lowest tier?

Question 7

In 1976, to celebrate its bicentennial, the US received a copy of what document from the UK? And where is it currently kept?

Question 8

Meaning miller, smith, and tailor, what are the most common surnames in Germany?

Question 9

All made by a single line, what are the four shapes or patterns of the antennae of the four Teletubbies, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po?

Question 10

What are the top seven European countries as ranked by gross domestic product?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 47)

Round 3

Question 1

In which single country is the 14500km Highway 1, a network of regional highways that combine into the longest national highway in the world?

Question 2

An early example of a flash game embedded on a website, 2006’s Line Rider asked players to use their mouse to copy a line so that a character named Bosh could try to ride along it on what sort of transport?

Question 3

By what name was the slave Araminta ‘Minty’ Ross known after she escaped to freedom and became a leader in the underground railroad, aiding around 70 people to their freedom in the mid-19^th century?

Question 4

What part of the human body is affected by Ménière’s disease?

Question 5

Which character from the computer game Street Fighter II is generally regarded as the first female character players could control in a computer fighting game?

Question 6

Zach Cole in 2025, Akil Baddoo in 2021, and Willson Contreras in 2016 are the last three baseball players to do what in their first ever MLB game – a feat only achieved 32 times in the league’s entire history?

Question 7

Through which two South American countries, neither of which is Brazil, does the Orinoco river flow?

Question 8

The QS World University Rankings usually places US and UK institutes atop its rankings, with 12 of the top 20 places going to schools from these countries in 2025. Alongside Zurich, Melbourne, and Sydney, what three Asian cities host the other five universities in the QS top 20?

Question 9

Who have been the four guest hosts of the UK version of Saturday Night Live since it started on March 21? They have respectively been a US comedian known for her role on the US version of the show and playing Liz Lemon on 30 Rock; a Northern Irish actor and model known for playing the male lead in the 50 Shades franchise; an English actor who starred in Sound of Metal and Four Lions; and an English comedian most recently known for a series of shows in which he travels with his father?

Question 10

Men’s cycling’s three Grand Tours – Le Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, and Vuelta a España – have been won ten or more times by a representative of what seven countries? Note that a single cyclist who wins multiple tours would count as multiple wins for that country.

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 69)

Round 4

Question 1

Anne Bonny and Mary Read had which notorious profession in the 18^th century, two of the few females to do it?

Question 2

Well ahead of the rise in popularity of bubble tea, what short-lived drink of the late 1990s made by The Clearly Food & Beverage Company of Canada was comprised of gelatin fruit bubbles suspended in liquid and has since gained cult status?

Question 3

British businessman Michael Farmer, made Baron Farmer in 2014, is the father-in-law of which controversial US political commentator?

Question 4

His name now well known for its connection to Milan’s premier shopping arcade and a major landmark in Rome, who in 1861 was named the first king of an independent united Italy since Teia in the 6^th century?

Question 5

Which Hammersmith-born English actor is connected to Fulham Football Club not only as a fan, but worked as an assistant groundsman at the team’s Craven Cottage stadium for a summer in the mid-1970s and was long rumoured to have been behind the anonymous donation of £30000 that allowed the team to buy left back Robbie Herrera in 1993 – although it has since been suggested the money was actually donated by one of the club’s directors?

Question 6

A precursor to backgammon, and with variants such as bao in Mozambique and mandoli in Greece, what Arab ‘count and capture’ board game asks players to ‘sow’ stones, beans, or seeds consecutively around a board of pits, with any move that ends with the final stone being placed in an empty pit across from opponent’s pieces meaning a player captures those pieces?

Question 7

Who are the only two US presidents to have had a letter U in their commonly known first name, that being the name by which they were known publicly?

Question 8

What three stories by British writer Daphne du Maurier were adapted into films directed by Alfred Hitchcock?

Question 9

Representing the nucleotides which are present, what four letters appear in ribonucleic acid, or RNA, sequencing codes within an organism – three of which are the same as the letters that appear in a DNA sequencing code?

Question 10

Which nine members of the cast in the original Harry Potter film series – those being from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 2011 – have received either a knighthood or a damehood?

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.

In which city are the following locations all situated?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 103)