Quiz #73

‘IT’s your vibe’ was the motto of what international event that concluded in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on March 15?

Question 2

The Swedish town of Älmhult, with a population of less than 20000, is the site of a museum dedicated to what international company?

Question 3

The Golden Scythe Awards is an awards ceremony dedicated to films in what genre?

Question 4

For what educational need has a range of software programmes being developed offering services such as AI blocking, cellphone recognition, ID verification, eye movement monitoring, and noting of the opening of additional tabs?

Question 5

For what purpose are gaseous chlorine, caustic soda, and sodium hypochlorite used within the papermaking process?

Question 6

What type of gas is most commonly used in modern hot air balloons?

Question 7

Punto banco is one of the most popular versions of the card game baccarat. To what do the Italian words ‘punto’ and ‘banco’ refer to in the context of the game?

Question 8

Which three films in the James Bond movie series had theme songs sung by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey?

Question 9

What four colours are dubbed the ‘pan-Arab’ colours, appearing on numerous flags in the Arab world, including Syria, the UAE, Iraq, and Sudan?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: AFIILNNOT

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 24)

Round 2

Question 1

Which fashion designer was interrogated after the conclusion of World War II about her romantic connections to German spy Hans Günther von Dincklage, documented links to the German secret intelligence service, and continued living in the Ritz Paris hotel despite it housing the German military during its invasion of Paris, although she avoided prosecution, allegedly after an intervention by Winston Churchill?

Question 2

Believed to contain some of the fastest dinosaurs to have ever lived, ornithomimidae dinosaurs are so named because they ‘mimic’, or are similar to, what modern class of animals?

Question 3

Due to a lack of individual letters, Chinese crosswords are based on phrases or idioms in which words or characters can overlap. Many of these idioms are ‘chengyu’, most of which consist of how exactly many characters?

Question 4

Using a string-and-bob hand drill to make holes through which staple-like rivets are placed, the traditional Chinese technique known as juci was once used to fix what type of material?

Question 5

In the history of the railways, what did a ‘gandy dancer’ do, before the job was phased out between the 1960s and 1980s?

Question 6

For what medical purpose are analgesic drugs used?

Question 7

Which two nations are currently negotiating the sale of the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi which, if the sale is complete, would become only the second aircraft carrier operated by a Southeast Asian nation, following Thailand’s HTMS Chakri Naruebet?

Question 8

In the world of theatre production, WHAM artists help prepare what three things, the acronym WHAM standing for ‘what, what, and what’?

Question 9

Amongst the possible causes of erosion outlined by land management organisation BASIS, what four may be connected to human activity – noting that BASIS does not detail human activity in its climate change summary?

Question 10

What seven letters appear in the one- and two-letter abbreviations of the positions on a netball team?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 46)

Round 3

Question 1

On the evening of Tuesday March 10, a Barcelona fan mistakenly turned up at Exeter City’s St James Park, nearly 600km away from the Barcelona game happening in which other English city which contains the similarly names St James’ Park?

Question 2

On Wednesday March 11, in the men’s football CONCACAF Champions Cup, Jamaican side Mount Pleasant lost 3-0 away to US side LA Galaxy, an arguably expected result after US visa restrictions had denied 10 of Mount Pleasant side entry into the country, forcing it to field several academy players. Of the ten players denied visas, seven of those came from which other Caribbean island?

Question 3

Which Italian-American actor invited five members of the US Women’s Ice Hockey Team to lunch at one of his favourite restaurants in Milan prior to them winning their recent Winter Olympics gold medal, leading to jokes that the players had won twice compared to the men’s team, whose players got burgers at the White House with the President after winning their gold medal?

Question 4

The Shire (Shi-ray) River is the only outlet of which African lake?

Question 5

Based on the Japanese show Documental that first aired in 2016, what television franchise has versions in countries ranging from the UK and Albania to Nigeria and Thailand and sees 10 comedians placed in a room together with the simple task of making others laugh without laughing themselves?

Question 6

In the novel Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, an experiment aimed at helping the military avoid having to deal with mud ultimately leads to the creation of a doomsday weapon that alters what natural process? 

Question 7

What are the names of the two channels – one to the north and one to the south – that border the English counties of Devon and Cornwall?

Question 8

What are the three official residences of the British monarch that are outside London, with one in England, one in Scotland, and one in Northern Ireland?

Question 9

What are the four island territories – some comprised of multiple islands – that comprise the French Antilles, France’s four departments or collectives in the Caribbean?

Question 10

War Watch, an armed conflict monitoring programme run by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, currently records the world as having 88 armed conflicts, of which 21 are international. Of the 21 international conflicts, which seven nations or territories, all in Africa, Europe, and Asia, are classified as being the sites of ‘military occupation’ conflicts in which a foreign nation is using military force to occupy land inside another nation’s territory?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 22)

Total points
(Maximum: 68)

Round 4

Question 1

Although other oils such as walnut, poppy seed, and sunflower are also used, what is the most commonly used type of oil used in the manufacturing of oil paint?

Question 2

The only one of the Clay Institute’s seven $1m Millennium Prize problems to be solved, the Poincaré conjecture is a mathematical problem that sought a proof showing what shape was the simplest closed and connected (non-holed) shape regardless of the number of dimensions?

Question 3

In biology, what is the name of the central stem or shaft that runs up the middle of a feather? It is also the name of the central stem in a ‘compound leaf’ comprised of several small leaflets, such as seen on a fern.

Question 4

A variant of the word phishing, which means to try and deceive someone into giving sensitive information, what word is used to describe scam calls conducted over telephone lines, such as calls pretending to be from an internet provider, courier company, or someone the person may know?

Question 5

‘He must have a foot like a traction engine’, ‘that is liquid football’, ‘eat my goal’, and ‘yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes yes, YES’ are all pieces of football commentary done by which UK comedy character during his early career work as a sports reporter?

Question 6

Fought between the French and German armies from February to December 1918, what was the longest battle during World War I?

Question 7

In the poem If, by Rudyard Kipling, that gives advice on how to be a man, what two opposite ‘imposters’ complete a line that rhymes with ‘not make dreams your master’ and should be ‘treated just the same’?

Question 8

Which three living UK Prime Ministers are known publicly by their middle name – or a shorted version of it – rather than their given first name?

Question 9

The five series in the CSI television franchise all use a song by British band The Who as their theme song. With two of the series using the same song, what four songs do the series – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami; CSI: NY, CSI: Cyber, and CSI: Vegas – use?

Question 10

As described by Dutch Nobel Prize winning biologist Niko Tinbergen, what are the four questions that a biologist needs to ask when studying animal behaviour?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 19)

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 renowned for their work in what field?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)