Quiz #79

In the NFL, what wearable prize is given to each of the players and coaches of a winning Super Bowl team?

Question 2

Wagyu, Hanwoo, and Brahman are all prized breeds of what type of livestock animal?

Question 3

On April 5, a person dressed as what holiday character aided a shooting victim in Bakersfield, California, seven years to the month after another person dressed as the character appeared in a viral video after he intervened in a fight outside a bar in Orlando, Florida by repeatedly punching a man who had been beating a woman?

Question 4

What Portuguese island off the coast of Northwest Africa gives its name to a type of alcohol traditionally made there, with the alcohol in turn giving its name to a type of cake that was designed to be dipped into it before being eaten?

Question 5

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the current Director-General of what international organisation?

Question 6

Who was the last emperor of Germany, reigning from 1888 until his abdication at the end of World War I in 1918?

Question 7

As well as 1, what two numbers are factors of both 45 and 54?

Question 8

The modern BMW logo – as it appears on standard cars, rather than the BMW M logo of its motor sport division – is what three colours?

Question 9

Plato’s theory of the soul states that the human psyche is made of logos, thymos, and eros, which can be translated as logic, spirit or passion, and desire or appetite. In what three parts of the body are these traits located, according to the theory?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: DEFLNORUW

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 23)

Round 2

Question 1

The confectionery nougat derives its name from the Latin word ‘nuca’, which refers to what ingredient?

Question 2

Originally from East Asia and known for its distinct finger-like protrusions, Buddha’s hand is what type of fruit?

Question 3

Unlike the unconnected but similarly styled Mexican magazine Tele Guía, the Puerto Rican magazine Teve Guía was an offshoot of what US magazine that was first nationally published in the 1950s and at one point had approximately 150 regional variations around the country before switching to a time zone-based model in the 2000s?

Question 4

Australia has the world’s largest time zone change across a single internal border, experienced when an individual crosses from Western Australia to South Australia during the latter’s daylight savings time. To the nearest half hour, what is the time difference between these two areas at that moment?

Question 5

Zoologist Desmond Morris, who passed away aged 98 on April 19, released what controversial book in 1967 in which he placed human behaviour in the context of ape evolution, including how traditional gender roles are connected to innate behaviour and how humans’ relative lack of body hair and different erogenous zones help form sexual pairing and thus fidelity?

Question 6

What activity completes the title of a Netflix series produced and hosted by Zach Galifianakis which started on April 22: This is a …. Show?

Question 7

What colours are the default ticks, or checkmarks, used in the WhatsApp messaging app, one to show a message is delivered but unread and the second to show the message has been read?

Question 8

Used in French cooking as a vegetable base for soups, stews, and sauces, mirepoix is generally a mix of which three vegetables?

Question 9

What are the three categories of bone in the human skull, their names relating to them being the bones that form that dome of the head, the bones at the front of the head, and the bones in the ear?

Question 10

What four US shows appear in the top ten greatest TV shows of all time lists of Rolling Stone, Variety, Time Out, and The Guardian? Of the shows, two were aired by HBO and two by AMC, while three were shown entirely in the 21^st century and one started in the last 1990s but most series were aired in the 21^st century.

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 18)

Total points
(Maximum: 41)

Round 3

Question 1

What eight-spindle spinning frame was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Lancashire, England, dramatically increasing the amount of cloth a worker could produce at any one time, especially in subsequent models that took up to 120 spindles?

Question 2

Found in kettles, taps, and pipes where hard water has evaporated, limescale is primarily made of what chemical compound?

Question 3

In the 14th century literary work Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, who is the guide that escorts Dante through the nine circles of Hell?

Question 4

The name of what character from the Old Testament appears in the name of a type of heron, a type of frog, a group of six large beetles, and a bird-eating tarantula?

Question 5

In engineering and construction, raft, spread, and basement are all types of what?

Question 6

During the 2008 Financial Crisis, in an event known as the Volkswagen Short Squeeze, what car company surprisingly and suddenly announced that it owned 42.6% of Volkswagen ordinary shares and 31.5% of the company’s cash options, giving it a potential 74% holding in its rival and leaving only 6% of shares on the market – with the resulting share shortage quadrupling the Volkswagen share price within two days, briefly making it the biggest company in the world, and causing huge losses for traders who had been shorting the stock?

Question 7

In the 1940s, having already pioneered the monochrome television set, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird made early steps into developing colour television when he devised the two-gun telechrome system in which two electron guns fired at a piece of mica covered in phosphorus of what two colours?

Question 8

According to the US Geological Survey, what are the three hot deserts in the US?

Question 9

Unlike those used for fortune telling, original Tarocco Piemontese tarot cards were used for games and included trump cards alongside what four suits? Depicting items one might associate with medieval life, the four suits have been adapted slightly for the ‘minor arcana’ packs used in some tarot readings today.

Question 10

What are the seven nations in Asia that have a name ending the suffix ‘stan’?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 63)

Round 4

Question 1

Who is the only actor to have a 100 per cent win-rate from multiple Best Actor Academy Award nominations, having been nominated twice and won twice, for films released in 2002 and 2024?

Question 2

Since 2014, Mohamed El Shorbagy, Karim Abdel Gawad, Ali Farag, and Mostafa Asal have all been world men’s squash number one, and Hania El Hammamy, Nour El Sherbini, and Nouran Gohar the world women’s number one. From which country are all these players?

Question 3

Also referred to as Bhumi, who is the Brahman and Hindu goddess of the Earth, her name also being the Sanskrit word for Earth?

Question 4

What television channel was founded in 2006 by husband and wife team Graham and Emily Wallington and specialises in ‘Live Drives’ in which safari guides and cameramen broadcast live footage from national parks in Africa?

Question 5

What 1983 computer game was devised by 15-year old Nigel Alderton, a Saturday assistant at a software company, and consisted of levels in which a player had to help ‘Hen-House Harry’ collect a dozen eggs before chickens or a flying duck catch him?

Question 6

In which Italian city is the Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, the largest opera house in Italy?

Question 7

Which two romantically-involved abstract artists of the 20^th century were amongst the artists working out of New York’s Coenties Slip in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with one known for combining ‘hard edge’ and ‘color field’ painting to produce works comprised of simple shapes in contrasting colours, and the other first trialling his iconic ‘Love’ design for the letterhead of poems before it became a series of famous sculptures?

Question 8

What are the three heaviest species of crab in the world?

Question 9

In North American culture, particularly within that of the Anishinaabe, what plants are considered the four sacred medicines? All are used in smudging ceremonies in which smoke is used for purifying, and the scientific names for the plants are Thuja occidentalis, Salvia apiana, Hierochloe odorata, and Nicotiana rustica.

Question 10

Including the de facto capital of the Jervis Bay Territory, what are the capitals of the six states and three internal territories of Australia?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 24)

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 singles by which musical artist?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)