Quiz #50

According to the well-known children’s joke, what number was eaten by the seven, leading to six being afraid?

Question 2

In the 1961 animation One Hundred and One Dalmatians, adapted from a book by Dodie Smith, the Dalmatians try to disguise themselves as what other breed of dog by rolling in soot?

Question 3

Although the country’s constitution states Amsterdam is the nation’s capital, which city is The Netherlands’ seat of government?

Question 4

In 2016, who became the first member of the British Royal Family to be the cover star for the gay magazine Attitude?

Question 5

By filming his 1993 film Jurassic Park with a 1.85:1 ‘flat’ aspect ratio rather than a 2.39:1 ‘scope’ ratio, director Steven Spielberg gave himself approximately 24 per cent more space to highlight the size of the movie’s dinosaurs. In which direction was this space increase: vertical or horizontal?

Question 6

On October 3, Sarah Mullally was named as the next holder of which religious position, meaning she will become the first woman to hold the job when she officially takes over the role in January?

Question 7

Both named for the major cities within them, what the two English ceremonial counties that include the word ‘Greater’?

Question 8

Ignoring that one is a rebranding of a previous party, which is controversially a registered limited company rather than an unincorporated association, what are the names of the three UK political parties that have been led by Nigel Farage?

Question 9

What six ailments does the NHS list on its winter illness advice page, with three beginning with the letter C, two with the letter F, and one two-word problem in which the words start with S and T?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ABEEHINRT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 26)

Round 2

Question 1

Which future late-night talk show and Oscar awards ceremony host was once a writer for the animation series The Simpsons, with the episodes he wrote including Marge vs. The Monorail and Homer Goes to College, as well New Kid on the Block, in which Bart falls in love with his new neighbour and Homer sues an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant for throwing him out while he is still hungry, despite him eating all the food in the restaurant?

Question 2

The telescreen, which allows speakers to remotely converse through screens containing cameras; the speakwrite, which transcribes words spoken into a microphone; the versificator, a machine which churns out media focused on crime, sex, sentimentality, astrology, and sport; and the wide-scale use of surveillance cameras and microphones under the guise of stopping crime, are all examples of technology that feature in which 20^th-century novel?

Question 3

Before they found success in the music industry, what jobs were held by Roberta Flack, Mark Knopfler, Sheryl Crow, Sting, Gregory Abbott, and Brian May?

Question 4

Which American band took its name from the French phrase for ‘have a good winter’, reportedly after the band’s founder heard the phrase used in the 1990s Alaska-based television series Northern Exposure in which residents say it on the day of the winter’s first snowfall?

Question 5

What type of spice is pimentón, varieties of which include Pimentón de la Vera, commonly used to make bravas sauce in the Spanish tapas dish patatas bravas?

Question 6

Which European country had one king die while watching a jousting competition when a splinter passed through his eye and entered his brain, and two kings die by hitting their head on the lintels of door frames – one reportedly whilst riding his horse as he chased after a girl?

Question 7

What are the names of the two Mabuse sisters who were both born in South Africa before becoming dance champions and then appearing on Germany’s Just Dance and the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing TV shows?

Question 8

What single colour were all of the following in the translated titles of paintings by French artist Henri Matisse: carpet, Madras headdress, umbrella, room, and studio? And, conversely, what colour was a window, nude, and still life?

Question 9

In which three modern day countries did the artist El Greco, real name Doménikos Theotokópoulos, live during his life?

Question 10

On September 28, Europe defeated the USA in golf’s biennial Ryder Cup. Amongst the European team were players from which six non-UK countries?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 19)

Total points
(Maximum: 45)

Round 3

Question 1

Which British political figure was born Olukemi Adegoke, but took her husband’s surname after they married in 2012?

Question 2

C Scope CS1MX, Garrett ACE 200i, Minelab Go-Find 22, and Viking VK10+ are all examples of what type of machine, which can be used professionally but is most often associated with hobbyists?

Question 3

As well as its usual selection of traditional and patriotic songs, the 2025 Last Night of the Proms concert in London included a full orchestral rendition, with guest performers, of what rock song to mark the 50th anniversary of its release, when it also reached number one in the UK for the first of two occasions?

Question 4

Which Liverpool and England striker, and future winner of the Ballon d’Or, famously fell off his bike and cut his arm during a bicycle race on the 1976 series of the pan-European television show Superstars, which pitted sports stars against each other in a series of sporting challenges?

Question 5

Which Olympic Games has had the most athletes fail a drugs test, with over 130 athletes to date having failed a test for samples given during the games – albeit only nine were caught during the event – leading to the stripping of 40 medals?

Question 6

With its name possibly derived from ‘genggang’, the Malay word for striped, or the Normandy town of Guingamp, what fabric reached a fashion peak in the 1940s and 1950s, to the extent French actress Brigitte Bardot unconventionally wore a pink and white dress made of it for her 1959 wedding to Jacques Charrier?

Question 7

Who were the two lead actors in the films Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and Send Me No Flowers, films that led to a 25-year friendship and a famous 1985 reunion three months before one of them became one of the earliest high-profile victims of the AIDS crisis?

Question 8

Counting only the portions within the country’s border, what are the three longest rivers in France?

Question 9

In which four current Olympics sports, including both summer and winter Olympics, must competitors aim at a target which features concentric circles?

Question 10

Since it was first awarded in 2014, the World Luxury Car prize at the World Car of the Year awards has been given to which six automobile manufacturers – with four German manufacturers taking 10 of the titles, with one each for a US company started in 2007 and a Swedish company not renowned for luxury models?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 66)

Round 4

Question 1

What was the first name of the singer surnamed Nash who, with her backing group The Romantics, had a US number one in 1963 with Our Day Will Come and recorded the original version of When You’re Young and in Love, later a hit for both The Marvelettes and The Flying Pickets?

Question 2

What unwanted and unlucky English Premier League record did Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard set across three consecutive games he started in 2025 – one played in August, one played in September, and one played in October?

Question 3

What nickname, derived from a location connected to the current US President, has been given to a beauty trend common amongst women connected to the Conservative movement in the US, traits of which include prominent Botox, ‘overfilled’ cheeks, lip filler, fake eyelashes and tan, noticeable dental work, and eye shadow?

Question 4

One of the earliest examples of a completely computer-animated TV show, what was the name of the 1990s French comedy cartoon – which was also dubbed and shown throughout the English-speaking world – in which two warring insect populations called the Verigreens and the Kruds battle for control of Flower City?

Question 5

On October 1, scientific analysis of possible life-giving compounds in geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus was published in the journal Nature Astrology, based on collections undertaken in 2008 by which NASA spacecraft?

Question 6

What English football team, which has not played in the men’s top flight since 2011, is part owned by former American football star Tom Brady, supported by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, and retired the number worn by Jude Bellingham after the single season he played at the club as a 16-year old?

Question 7

The Zanclean Flood, which occurred over 5 million years ago, is believed to have been the event that reconnected what two bodies of water?

Question 8

A cross-nation project by Geffen Records and music company HYBE described as a quest to create a girl group that would ‘transcend national, cultural, and artistic boundaries’, but whose latest EP was panned as ‘sounds like X but worse’ and ‘inoffensive music for the incurious listener’, pop group Katseye contains six members of diverse ethnic backgrounds born in which three nations – one in North America, one in Asia, and one in Europe?

Question 9

According to the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible’s New Testament, what are the respective four first names of the two pairs of brothers who were amongst Jesus’s twelve disciples?

Question 10

Reflecting its founders’ religious backgrounds, Alcohol Anonymous’s ‘Twelve Steps’ towards sobriety – also known as the ‘Twelve Traditions’ – includes seven steps involving God, a ‘higher power’, or spirituality. However, these twelve steps were built up from what six original steps, only one of which involved a religious practice, and which remain the most widely known elements of the programme?

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 all relate to or are named for which chemical element?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)