Quiz #78

In 1953 the Canadian company Massey-Harris merged with the Irish company Ferguson-Brown to form what new tractor company?

Question 2

What type of fruit is dried in order to make a prune?

Question 3

What colour was the door that became a London tourist attraction after appearing in the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill?

Question 4

Which of the seven deadly sins is known as gastrimargia in Greek?

Question 5

What single word, meaning the re-establishment of woodland or forest and created by changing the prefix, is the opposite of ‘deforestation’?

Question 6

The naming of types of hepatitis is done by giving each type a letter, starting with Hepatitis A and then moving on sequentially. What is the last letter alphabetically assigned to a type of hepatitis?

Question 7

On April 14, during a bilateral meeting to deepen mutual trade, defence, and Arctic policy, amongst other topics, the leaders of which two nations participated in an ice hockey training session with a local team?

Question 8

In the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, what are the three things belonging to the bears that Goldilocks tries?

Question 9

Including their many subdivisions and national churches, what are the three most common denominations of Christianity in the world?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: AEELPRRST

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 23)

Round 2

Question 1

Anagen, catagen, and telogen are the three growth phases of what?

Question 2

In the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, what letter must Hester Prynne wear as punishment for her sin of having had a child outside wedlock?

Question 3

What dinosaur was re-recognised as a unique species in 2015, having previously lost that distinction when it was officially defined as a synonym for an apatosaur in 1903?

Question 4

Balkan endemic nephropathy and Chinese herb nephropathy are potentially fatal side-effects from consuming foods, herbs, and medicines containing aristolochic acid, which damages which organ of the body?

Question 5

Featuring covers of songs by Queen, Ike and Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and the Foo Fighters, plus a finale that aptly saw him play his own signature song in a downpour, which musician – who died on April 21, 2016 – tops both Rolling Stone and Billboard’s lists of the greatest Superbowl halftime shows?

Question 6

What is the vowel-less name of the Icelandic dairy product that is eaten like a thick yoghurt but produced with a process similar to curds?

Question 7

The five cardinal signs of allergic rhinitis – of which hay fever is the most common type – are sneezing, mucus secretion, and late-phase inflammation, plus pruritus and mucosal edema. What are pruritus and mucosal edema?

Question 8

What three countries, all in Southeast Asia, account for roughly 60 per cent of the world’s rubber production?

Question 9

As well as being called the ‘national flag of …’, what are the names given to the flags of the four respective composite countries of the UK?

Question 10

Which six European countries have at least one team in the semi-final of the 2025-2026 men’s Champions League, Europa League, or Conference League?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 44)

Round 3

Question 1

Rabbit ear, open sink, crimp, petal, and outside reverse are all actions in what form of art?

Question 2

By what name is the vegetable calabrese widely erroneously called, including in almost all supermarkets, a name that is a mistake because the word actually refers to a different plant?

Question 3

What factually inaccurate word connects the names of musical duos comprised of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, and E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo? It also features in the name of the band comprised of Michael McDonald, John McFee, Patrick Simmons, and Tom Johnstone, as well as the band whose All Ashore album won the 2018 Best Folk Album Grammy award?

Question 4

What type of food ‘is a lie’ according to a catchphrase and internet meme derived from the 2007 computer game Portal, the game’s robotic villain GLaDOS having promised it to the player throughout the game only to then renege on that promise?

Question 5

Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro has garnered media attention recently after a series of frauds in which sellers have ripped off tourists by typing extortionate values into card machines, often missing out decimal points. In one case a British man thought he was paying 10 reais for what type of popular beach snack, only to later find he was charged 10000 reais, roughly equivalent to £1500?

Question 6

In botany, what is the defining feature of a geophyte, examples of which include the carrot, potato, onion, daffodil, hyacinth, and ginger?  

Question 7

Running from 1609 to 1621, the Twelve Years’ Truce occurred during the Eighty Years War between which two European nations?

Question 8

Running from 1879 to 1884, the War of the Pacific was between which three South American countries, ultimately leading to one of them losing territory and being landlocked ever since?

Question 9

All American, and from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions, who were the first four people to walk on the moon?

Question 10

Ignoring temporary stand-ins or guest hosts, who have been the six hosts of NBC’s The Tonight Show since it started in 1954?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 65)

Round 4

Question 1

The only animal in the Melopsittacus genus, by what name is the bird Melopsittacus undulatus more commonly known, being a small Australian parakeet that has become a common pet?

Question 2

What four-letter word describes both a portion of a caving system that is underwater and therefore requires a caver to duck and travel underwater to reach the next portion, and a basin in which runoff water collects in order to be managed?

Question 3

The name of which Scottish football team is used as a gentle way of calling someone an idiot or fool in Nigeria, stemming from a disastrous tour of West Africa that the team took in 1972?

Question 4

Meaning ‘all sea’ in Greek, and sometimes also called the Paleo-Pacific, what is the name given to the ocean that surrounded the Pangaea supercontinent around 300 million years ago?

Question 5

What name is given to the excess material that squeezes between two sections of a mold or forge and must be trimmed away at the end of the manufacturing process?

Question 6

The drink root beer traditionally uses the root of what tree?

Question 7

Rewarding excellence in animation, the 2009 Annie Awards were accused of being fixed after what Dreamworks title featuring Jack Black swept all 10 categories in which it had a nomination, possibly because Dreamworks had offered free ASIFA-Hollywood membership to staff, with attached voting rights? And what Pixar film, the first 35 minutes of which involve very few spoken words, came away with nothing despite receiving high critical acclaim?

Question 8

Since its founding in 1975, who have been the three Chief Executive’s of the computing company Microsoft?

Question 9

Excluding his appearance on the charity single We are the World by USA for Africa – the only time he has topped the charts in his home country – what are the only four songs released by Bruce Springsteen that have reached the top five in the US singles chart, the first of which was in 1980?

Question 10

In Italy, the railway between Trieste, in the country’s northeast, to Reggio Calabria, at the toe of Italy’s ‘boot’ in the southwest, passes through what five regional capitals, all major cities?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 20)

Total points
(Maximum: 85)

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.

On what river are all of the following?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 95)