Quiz #89

What homophones can mean a type of hot fruit and a sense of feeling cold?

Question 2

What fictional character’s name is spelt by placing The New York Stock Exchange stock symbols for Boeing, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Autonation one after the other?

Question 3

Chevron, horseshoe, Fu Manchu, and pencil are all types of what?

Question 4

What word completes the statement made multiple times in the UK’s Houses of Parliament to unpopular Prime Ministers and ministers: ‘In the name of God, __’?

Question 5

The grand strategy computer game series Hearts of Iron allows players to take control of almost any country in the world before, during, and after which war, leading to its latest release being criticised for promoting extremism due to the number of players who have been trying to win the war for immoral, extreme, or authoritarian regimes?

Question 6

The logo of which brand of lollipop was designed by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí?

Question 7

What two gases are usually measured in an arterial blood gas test?

Question 8

The forfeit-based card game shithead asks players to play a card equal or higher than the previously played card, with any player unable to do so on their turn then forced to pick up the pile of played cards. Although rules to the game are often inexact, with games adding more special cards and forfeits, what two numbers have the special roles in the game of respectively resetting the pile and discarding the pile?

Question 9

The US celebrated its 250th year of independence on July 4. What three documents are called the ‘Charters of Freedom’ due to their importance in the nations founding?

Question 10

Make the longest word possible from the following letters: ABCELOSST

Round 1 points
(Maximum: 22)

Round 2

Question 1

What word is the plural of a type of fruit, a soap company, and the name of an encyclopaedia produced by that soap company until 2018, when it ceased publication due to sales drops caused by the rise of the internet?

Question 2

What type of alcoholic drink is consumed with Rosie in the title of a 1959 book by Laurie Lee about growing up in a small village in England’s West Country, with the rural setting playing host to both moments of adolescent innocence and the village’s darker events?

Question 3

World Cup organisers FIFA have been accused of favouritism and bowing to political pressure after it suspended a one-game suspension issued to Folarin Balogun, a player for which international team, which is due to play Belgium on July 6?

Question 4

Which European nation’s top tier football season restarted from its summer break on July 3, precisely 3 days after the country finished competing at the 2026 World Cup?

Question 5

In the 1880s, brothers Gustav and Ernst Klimt, alongside friend Franz von Matsch, formed the Künstler-Compagnie, an art collective based in which European country?

Question 6

What type of pest control device was made illegal in Scotland on July 1 due to being deemed an inhumane method of killing animals, with the device either trapping them until they starve or forcing them to rip themselves clear?

Question 7

Started this weekend, the new rugby union Nations Championship is a competition featuring the men’s teams that compete in Europe’s Six Nations, the four countries that play in the Rugby Championship, plus which two invited nations?

Question 8

In order to become a pharmacist in the UK, a person must pass the Common Registration Assessment which comprises of two parts covering what two areas necessary for the job?

Question 9

Per the International Bartenders Association, the tiki cocktail Zombie is made using what three types of rum, all named for places in the Caribbean?

Question 10

Five of the last seven Academy Award for Best Picture winners have had single word titles. What are these films? 

Round 2 points
(Maximum: 18)

Total points
(Maximum: 40)

Round 3

Question 1

What everyday task do approximately 2500 to 3000 people do at two minute intervals in Shibuya, Tokyo, during the city’s rush hour, video footage of which is often used in media productions to allude to human activity or urban population density?

Question 2

What famous building at 175 Fifth Avenue in New York City is named for the fact that its shape resembles a particular household appliance?

Question 3

With a name that literally means ‘little goat’, although no goat is used in its creation, what type of food is the chivito, the national dish of Uruguay?

Question 4

What four-letter word is both a genre of music and the German word for radio?

Question 5

In which European city is Four Courts, which was occupied in 1922 by opponents to a peace treaty that agreed to the establishment of a free state rather than a full republic, and where subsequent fighting is said to have destroyed possibly 1000 years worth of records?

Question 6

Originally a mosque with connected madrasa until being converted into a formal university in 1963, al-Qarawiyyin is often labelled the oldest existing site of continuous higher learning in the world. In what African country is al-Qarawiyyin? 

Question 7

In March 1995, which two nations became involved in a conflict over fishing practices which came to be labelled as the Turbot War?

Question 8

Although often still referred to as u-bends, for the invention made by Thomas Crapper, modern toilets and sinks use traps to stop odours returning into the room, including designs named for which three letters of the alphabet?

Question 9

As well as the bar and the two collars used to keep the weights in place, Olympic weightlifting uses ten different denominations of plate weights. What are the two heaviest plate weights and two lightest plate weights that are used in Olympic competition?

Question 10

Brought to public attention by the Ridley Scott film The Martian, in which a stranded astronaut uses it to communicate with NASA from the surface of Mars, the hexadecimal system uses two-digit combinations of the numbers 0-9 and letters A-F to create thousands of letters, numbers, and symbols using only 16 inputs. In order to create and decipher the combinations, users require an ASCII table, with ASCII standing for what five words?

Round 3 points
(Maximum: 20)

Total points
(Maximum: 60)

Round 4

Question 1

Originally shown from 1976 to 1981, and subsequently revived on several occasions, what TV show was based back and front stage at the Benny Vandergast Memorial Theater?

Question 2

Introduced in 2018, available to approximately 500 million people, and with a budget of nearly $2bn a year, India’s Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna – also known as Ayushyaman Bharat Yojana or PMJAY – is the world’s largest example of what type of government scheme?

Question 3

Using one character from each of the books’ titles – or two letters if written in Romaji or English – what two-character or four-letter term is used to collectively describe the Shinto holy books 古事記 (Kojiki) and 日本書紀 (Nihon Shoki)?

Question 4

Primarily settled after the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers ended the Northwest Indian War, which US state was drawn up and recognised in 1803, only for a technical oversight to result in its constitution not being ratified until 1953 when the error was spotted by school history teachers during preparations for the state’s 150^th anniversary?

Question 5

Noted as a serious obstacle in generating research and conservation within the field of botany, what two-word term is given to the cognitive bias within humans that makes them widely ignore plants as wildlife and instead concentrate more on animals?

Question 6

The song Piece of My Heart, later made famous by Big Brother and the Holding Company and its lead singer Janis Joplin, and covered by the likes of P.P. Arnold and Faith Hill, was originally a 1967 hit for the elder sister of which US singer?

Question 7

On June 4, the UK’s Law Commission published its report on new funerary methods, having previously stated that the only three legally recognised funerary methods – burial, cremation, and burial at sea – were no longer sufficient. What two types of ‘new funerary method’ were specifically named within the report as becoming more broadly considered globally and worthy of legislative consideration?

Question 8

In the Chinese16th century epic Journey to the West, monk Tang Sanzang is joined by three disciples, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing on an adventure that leads to various levels of enlightenment. As well as being divine beings, what three non-human creatures are Sun, Zhu, and Sha?

Question 9

What are the four most commonly used types of coffee bean?

Question 10

Excluding special temporary sections such as the current one reporting on the World Cup, what are the 12 sections of The Sunday Times newspaper, as currently defined by its website?

Round 4 points
(Maximum: 27)

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 have all been world champion which sport?

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Round 5 points
(Maximum: 10)

Total points
(Maximum: 97)