Organisations - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | What organisation is the largest employer in the UK? | National Health Service (NHS) *Across the different countries in the UK, the NHS employs over 1.5 million people. | 2024/04/09 |
| UK | Stormy Stan is the mascot of which UK registered charity? | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | 2024/04/09 |
| UK | With around 250000 hectares of land and 1300 tenant farmers, what organisation is the largest farm owner in the UK? | National Trust | 2024/12/07 |
| US | What Latin phrase is both the march and motto of the United States Marine Corp? | Semper Fidelis *Translation: 'Always Faithful' | 2023/04/20 |
| US | Skull and Bones, also known as Order 322, is a secret society at which US Ivy League university? | Yale | 2024/04/28 |
| US | Aged 52, Amy Coney Barrett is currently the youngest member of which US institution? | US Supreme Court | 2024/05/10 |
| US | In February 2024, as part of the organisation being found guilty on corruption charges, which former CEO of America’s National Rifle Association was ordered to repay over $4m he was deemed to have misspent on items such as a private jet, expensive suits, and a team of beauticians for his wife? | Wayne LaPierre | 2025/01/09 |
| Europe | What organisation is based at Henrik Ibsen Street 51, Oslo? | Norwegian Nobel Institute | 2023/04/19 |
| Charities | The charity Smile Train trains doctors around the world to perform operations that correct and repair what birth deformity? | Cleft lip /cleft palate | 2024/12/19 |
| Education | In what discipline does the NCTJ offer qualifications? | Journalism *NCTJ stands for the National Council for the Training of Journalists. | 2024/12/27 |
| Travel | Established by counter-culture personality John Hopkins and named after the smallest unit of computer memory, what was the name of the travel information service and guide publishing company established in the late 1960s that allowed people to visit or call offices for travel advice and activities - reportedly including where to squat and buy drugs? | BIT | 2024/12/27 |
Organisations - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | Which 5 countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council, providing them veto powers? | 1. China 2. France 3. Russia 4. UK 5. US | 2023/04/20 |
| Prizes | In which five disciplines were Nobel prizes originally awarded in 1901? | 1. Physics 2. Chemistry 3. Physiology or Medicine 4. Literature 5. Peace *Economics was added later by the Swedish Central Bank, in 1968, ‘in memory of Alfred Nobel’. | 2024/05/10 |
Organisations - 9 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | After its expansion in 2024, what are the nine nations that are part of the BRICS organisation? | 1. Brazil 2. Russia 3. India 4. China 5. South Africa 6. Egypt 7. Ethiopia 8. Iran 9. United Arab Emirates | 2024/12/07 |
| United Nations | Not including Gladwyn Jebb, who held the role in an acting capacity for three months, there have been nine Secretaries-General of the United Nations. In which nine present day countries were they born? | 1. Norway 2. Sweden 3. Myanmar 4. Austria 5. Peru 6. Egypt 7. Ghana 8. South Korea 9. Portugal *The Secretaries-General and their birthplaces have been: Trygve Lie (Norway), Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), U Thant (British Colonial Burma, now Myanmar), Kurt Waldheim (Austria); Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru); Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), Kofi Annan (Gold Coast, now Ghana); Ban Ki-moon (Chōsen, now South Korea); António Guterres (Portugal) | 2025/01/01 |