Quiz #82

Flamengo, Botafogo, Leblon, Ipanema, and Centro are all neighbourhoods in which city?

Question 2

In 2025, the word éclaircissement won Faizan Zaki what US competition, first won in 1925 by Frank Neuhauser with gladiolus?

Question 3

Which distance is further: the distance from the Sun to Mars; or the distance from Mars to Jupiter?

Question 4

Which tennis player broke Novak Djokovic’s record for consecutive wins at Masters Events when he beat Andrey Rublev in the quarter-final of the Italian Open in Rome last week to claim his 32^nd win a row, before moving to 34 consecutive wins by taking the title on Sunday?

Question 5

On May 26, 2023, the Welsh Guards performed which song by Tina Turner during the Changing of the Guard ceremony, commemorating the singer’s death two days earlier?

Question 6

Hillside Animal Rescue in Norwich, England, was called to the town’s Marks and Spencer department store on May 12 after what was found stuck upside down between the glass panels at the side of the store’s escalator?

Question 7

What are the two longest rivers in Mexico, both of which start in the US state of Colorado before flowing south?

Question 8

The three most common types of colour-blindness are deuteranomaly, protanomaly, and tritanomaly, each caused by one of the three types of cone cells within the eye not being sufficiently sensitive to a particular wavelength of light. What three colours are these cone cells, called S-cone, M-cone, and L-cone, supposed to see?

Question 9

Popular with the tabloid press and paparazzi, which four members of the Kardashian-Jenner family – whose first names all begin with K – attended the Met Gala in New York City on May 4?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ACCGILKNR

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 24)

Round 2

Question 1

In which South American city was the famous Mercado de Liniers, the largest cattle market in the world, which first opened in 1901 and closed in 2021 in order to move to a new facility outside the city?

Question 2

Although there is some debate about whether the two are actually subtly different breeds, by what common name is the Shirazi cat, named for the city of Shiraz, more often called?

Question 3

On May 4, protests were held in which African country after businesses stopped accepting old shilling notes, leaving many poor people unable to use the local form of currency? Although illegal, the decision to stop accepting cash stems from a preference for US dollars, which are sent home digitally by the country’s diaspora, and the state of the banknotes, no news one having been printed since the nation’s civil war reignited in 1991.

Question 4

Madonna, Shakira, and BTS have been announced as the headline music acts for the first ever what, which will take place on July 19?

Question 5

How many scenes are in Act 4 of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, the most scenes within a single act in a Shakespeare play – the number being higher than the 13 scenes in Act 3 of the same play?

Question 6

The top four largest banks in the world, when measured by assets, are all from which country?

Question 7

The three Punic Wars were fought between which two former civilisations between 264 BC and 146 BC?

Question 8

Also used to describe different stages of education, what are the three different types of historical sources? The types respectively describe a firsthand account, such as a diary or photograph; an interpretation or one-person-removed reporting of a firsthand account, such as a newspaper article quoting witnesses; and an objective but distant analysis or editing of multiple sources, such as a reference book.

Question 9

What were the first names of the four sons of Americans Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, three of whom had famous political careers in the 20^th century and duly named one of their own sons – who themselves became well-known – after themselves?

Question 10

The UK has six overseas territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Isles, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos. What five animals appear on the flags of these territories, one of which is a land animal that is a widely used symbol of the UK, while the other four are aquatic species seen in the area and consist of one mammal, one reptile, one crustacean, and one mollusc?

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 20)

Total points
(Maximum: 44)

Round 3

Question 1

What word describes the distance between the teeth of a cog, distance between the threads of a screw, and how high or low a noise sounds, shown by the frequency of a sound wave?

Question 2

The Scottish village of Glenfinnan has a population of approximately 150, but receives over 500 000 tourists a year due to its proximity to what tourist attraction?

Question 3

Buffet hutch, credenza, huntboard, and server are all variants of what household furniture item?

Question 4

In 2012, Stewart Butterfield realised the online game for which he was leading development, Glitch, was not going to be profitable and instead released the internal messaging programme his team was using. Popular with businesses, bought by Salesforce for over $27bn in 2020, and currently with approximately 45m active users, what is the name of the messaging tool Butterfield and his team created?

Question 5

Which British figure rose to public attention during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, which was further enhanced by his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom and a 1962 film about his life?

Question 6

The discovery of what religious items is believed to have started in 1947 when Bedouin goat herder Mohammed Ahmed el-Hamed, looking for a stray goat near Qumran – or possibly walking a well-known smuggling route – threw a stone into a cave and heard it break a pot?

Question 7

Who are the only elected leaders of G7 countries who were born after 1970? In the case of countries with both a president and a prime ministers or chancellor, ‘leader’ refers to the individual with executive power.

Question 8

What are the three different categories of machine element, or machine component? The names refer to the elements’ respective roles in making up the physical shape of the machine, such as a frame; allowing movement within the machine, such as an engine, gear or chain; and a way for a person to operate the machine, such as a button or lever.

Question 9

What are the ‘big four’ beer brewing companies in Japan, accounting for over 95 per cent of the domestic beer market?

Question 10

What five countries in Africa have names that contain the name of another country in Africa?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 20)

Total points
(Maximum: 64)

Round 4

Question 1

A status symbol during the Italian Renaissance, what dagger-like short sword gets its name from the base of the blade being the width of five fingers?

Question 2

What highly successful manga and anime franchise, known as Kimetsu no Yaiba in Japanese, which translates as Blade of Destruction, follows teenager Tanjiro Kamado as he becomes a trained killer of demons and seeks to avenge the death of his family while trying to save his sister Nezuko?

Question 3

The David S. Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Connecticut has what two-word rhyming nickname derived from the Ivy League university the arena serves and its large animal-like shape?

Question 4

What US city shares its name with the former name of Jordan’s capital city, Amman; the largest town in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay, albeit with a different spelling; and the socialite aunt of Jane Austen?

Question 5

Who caused an international incident in 1967 when he concluded a speech by shouting “Vive Montréal ! Vive le Québec ! Vive le Québec libre ! Vive, vive, vive le Canada français ! Et vive la France !”?

Question 6

What three-word phrase describing a swelling public desire for change within a society, particularly against an authoritarian government, comes from a 1960 speech delivered by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to apartheid South Africa leaders, and has been used in reporting of growing anti-government feeling in countries such as Syria and Iran, as well as being the title of a 1991 international hit song by German band The Scorpions about the fall of the Communist Bloc?

Question 7

The annual Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year Awards presents a male award and a female award. Which male multi-weight world champion boxer and female multi-Olympic medal winning sprinter dominated the awards throughout the 1980s, both winning in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, and 1990 – those being five of the seven total times the man won the award, and five of the 13 times the woman did?

Question 8

Who were the three solo female artists who performed at the 1969 Woodstock music festival?

Question 9

In 2018, computer scientists Rohan Chabukswar at the United Technologies Research Center in Ireland and Kushal Mukherjee at IBM Research in India created an algorithm that confirmed the globe’s longest straight line over water without touching land and the longest straight line over land without touching an ocean or sea. Remembering to consider the line is connecting points on a sphere, rather than the perspective given by a 2D map projection, in what four countries did these two separate lines start and finish?

Question 10

In July, the cruise ship Legend of the Seas will launch, meaning the nine largest cruise ships in the world will all be operated by Royal Caribbean International and all have names finishing ‘…of the Seas’. What eight words, all alluding to luxury, greatness, idealism, or peace, complete the names of the current eight largest Royal Caribbean International vessels?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 23)

Total points
(Maximum: 87)

Round 5

In Round 5, there is only one answer. The fewer 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 amongst the cast of what TV show?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)