Quiz #69

In 2022, in an interview with the New York Times, American actress Julia Roberts denied rumours that she had had what insured for $30m, saying that if she had ‘there would be someone at my house on a nightly basis saying “You need to floss longer’?

Question 2

A 2026 survey of 2000 people by Censuswide, conducted for online bank Zopa, found that 73 per cent of Britons wanted to spend their Valentine’s Day where?

Question 3

Turning 60 in 2026, who is the youngest of the 10 children born to Joe and Katherine Jackson, many of whom had celebrated music careers?

Question 4

In 2026, online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is celebrating what milestone anniversary?

Question 5

What name is given to the political action in which a member of the parliamentary body speaks for an extended time in an effort to run out the clock on a debate session, thereby forcing a vote to be postponed or cancelled due to the debate technically still being on-going when the session expires?

Question 6

Depicted in the 2019 Stephen Merchant-directed biographical film Fighting with my Family, the Bevis family consisting of parents Patrick and Julia plus children Saraya-Jade, Zak, Roy, and Ricky – who respectively go by the stage names Rowdy Ricky Knight, Sweet Saraya, Paige, Zak Knight, Roy Knight, and Ricky Knight Jr. – are all professionals in what sports entertainment industry?

Question 7

Which two dating celebrities, who broke up in 2004 before reuniting in 2021, make up the portmanteau nickname ‘Bennifer’?

Question 8

Having been in power for all but 2087 days since 1955, Japan’s most successful political party is 自由民主党 (Jiyū-Minshutō), or Jimintō for short. When translated into English, for what do its initials LDP stand?

Question 9

What five separate digits – one of which appears twice – appear in pi when written to five decimal places?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: EEEHLNOPT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 25)

Round 2

Question 1

What word completes the opening line of a famous poem by Lord Byron: ‘She walks in beauty, like the ___’?

Question 2

Whilst many cultures refer to sexually explicit materials as ‘blue’, what colour is used to describe such materials in China?

Question 3

Spanish, American, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, Ozark, Allegheny, Seguin’s, and Henry’s are the eight species of what family of trees with the scientific name Castanea?

Question 4

Since it was first awarded in 2004, which participating nation has had the least amount of players named the rugby men’s Six Nations Player of the Tournament, the country’s only winner having come in 2014?

Question 5

In UK textile washing symbols, an empty triangle means an item can be washed with bleach, while a triangle with a cross through it means the item cannot be washed with bleach. If the triangle symbol has two parallel lines running across it, the item may be washed with bleach that does not contain what chemical element?

Question 6

What type of cereal crop has become the most common filling for the objects commonly referred to as microwavable hot water bottles?

Question 7

In its description of The Dust Bowl – the disastrous 1930s event in which the US southwest saw crops fail and large dust storms blow across the area – the US Library of Congress notes the event was caused by severe drought and poor ‘dryland’ (unirrigated) farming techniques that removed native grassland. What two particular agricultural products are named as poor choices made by the farmers, most of whom had only recently been encouraged to move to the area?

Question 8

What three ingredients are required to make a margarita cocktail?

Question 9

One of the primary exams of high school in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland is the GCSE. For what four words do the letters GCSE stand?

Question 10

A Tesco lunch meal deal states that for £5.50 a customer can get a drink, a snack, and a branded lunch main. What are the five types of lunch mains – three of which are bread related – that are included in the offer?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 20)

Total points
(Maximum: 45)

Round 3

Question 1

With a daily circulation of approximately 1m, what is Germany’s biggest non-free newspaper by copies bought?

Question 2

The longest chapter of the Qu’ran is Al-Baqarah. When the title is translated into English, to what type of animal does it refer?

Question 3

Along with his band The Shondells, which American singer had hit singles with I Think We’re Alone Now, Mony, Mony, and Crimson and Clover, which in turn were also hits for Tiffany, Billy Idol, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts?

Question 4

What links the the US dish mulligan stew, the French dish touski, the Scottish dish hotchpotch, the Jewish dish Shitarein, and a dish colloquially known as mustgo soup?

Question 5

Knowing that goal difference would be a likely deciding factor in the league’s final places, what controversial action did Maldives Premier League football team Green Streets undertake in its final game of the season, ensuring it finished above Club Valencia and therefore avoid relegation?

Question 6

On January 29, in the NHL, the Detroit Red Wings scored an equalising goal against the Washington Capitals with 51 seconds remaining when Red Wings winger Alex DeBrincat tried to dump the puck into the corner for teammates to chase, only for it to bounce off what and into the net past an unsuspecting goaltender?

Question 7

According the US National Sleep Foundation, there are four stages of sleep which can be divided into what two opposing categories? The first category involves three stages in which the body slows and there is no ocular movement, and the final stage involves brain activity, dreaming, and quick ocular movement.

Question 8

In what three modern day countries is the unofficial territory of Yorubaland, an area in which Yoruba is the dominant people and culture?

Question 9

What five chemical elements’ chemical symbols, when placed in order, spell the word ‘nucleus’?

Question 10

Excluding Timon of Athens, who dies by self-imposed exile, which five title characters in plays by William Shakespeare die by suicide?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 21)

Total points
(Maximum: 66)

Round 4

Question 1

On February 10, which US member of the House of Representatives used his legislative privilege, afforded by the Speech and Debate Clause of the US Constitution, to name six individuals that he said were unjustifiably redacted from the Epstein Files?

Question 2

During an interview on The Sunday Briefing on Fox News, what dairy product did US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy say he was going to eat as a snack while watching the Super Bowl?

Question 3

Celebrating its 100^th anniversary in 2026, the Matobo National Park, which includes a large portion of the UN Heritage Site Matopo Hills, is in what African country?

Question 4

Which Japanese city, capital of a prefecture of the same name, is famous for its free-roaming deer that are protected due to their connection to the local Kasuga Shrine?

Question 5

Amongst its awards for 2025, Time magazine named teenager Tejasvi Manoj its ‘Kid of the Year’ for her initiative that helps protect what group of people from cybercrime?

Question 6

Beanford Lane in Oxton and Charlcombe Lane near Bath are two of the four roads that close each year in the UK to allow what species of animal to safely return to breeding grounds?

Question 7

Although generally seen as winding through a jungle habitat, the Amazon river also passes through what two cities with a population over a million people?

Question 8

All having already run for multiple years, what were the three highest grossing musicals on Broadway in 2025, according to theatre website BroadwayWorld? The three were the only musicals to gross over $100m during the year.

Question 9

Amongst the types of petit four confectionaries that may be served at the end of meals are petit four glacé, petit four salé, petit four sec, petit four frais, and petit four déguisés. What do glacé, salé, sec, frais, and déguisés mean when translated into English?

Question 10

Following similar programmes in the UK and US, in 2005 French television channel France 2 hosted a nationwide poll to find the greatest French person of all time. Which people finished in the top five positions in the public vote? One was a WWII leader, two were scientists (one of whom was born in Poland but took on French citizenship), one a priest who led a WWII resistance before starting an anti-poverty charity, and one was a comedian who started a charity giving meals to those in need.

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.

What food is a primary ingredient in all of the following?

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Clue 10

Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)