Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
No two ways about it
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Current Affairs In a shooting spree near a college campus, in which Californian city were five people killed on Friday?
Santa Monica (Santa Monica College)
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Science & Nature Making up around 8% by weight of the Earth's solid surface, what is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust?
Aluminium
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run (1974)
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Sport & Leisure Named after a World War I French aviator, which tennis stadium hosts the French Open?
Stade Roland Garros
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Geography Which country shares a land border with Brunei?
Malaysia
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Art & Literature In which country did the Pied Piper lure away the rats and the children?
Germany (Hamelin, Lower Saxony)
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Flags Which landlocked country and enclave has this as its national flag?
Lesotho
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Music Which Welsh rock drummer has performed, amongst others, with Tom Jones, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Uriah Heep, Gary Numan, The Firm, AC/DC, and Asia?
Chris Slade
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History On 7th December 1787, what became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State?
Delaware
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Entertainment Who played Lois Lane between 1978 and 1987 in the Superman film series?
Margot Kidder
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Ditloids Replace these initials with words to make a true statement: 9 L of a C
Food & Drink If you were served Kartoffel in a German restaurant, what would you be eating?
Potato
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In This Year In this year: 6,000 passengers were left stranded when London-based Laker Airways collapsed; Chariots of Fire won four Academy Awards including Best Picture; and Yuri Andropov became leader of the Soviet Union. What year was it?
1982
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Science & Nature In computing, what is the word bit short for?
Binary digit
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Ace of Base - All That She Wants (1992)
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Sport & Leisure Which Jamaican sprinter is nicknamed The Beast?
Yohan Blake
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Geography Narita International Airport serves which capital city?
Tokyo
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Anagram WINTERS ODD TIGER is an anagram of which NHL ice hockey team?
Detroit Red Wings
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Geography What country is this?
Kuwait
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Music Who was booed off stage at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary tribute concert in Madison Square Garden in 1992?
Sinéad O'Connor
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History Which four modern day countries, in part or whole, formed the historic colony of French Indochina?
Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China
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Entertainment Name this TV series from the 1980s.
Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
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General Knowledge In the United States, what is the female equivalent of a fraternity?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
Take from the rich and give to the poor
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Current Affairs On live television last Friday, which world leader, accompanied by his wife of thirty years, announced they are to divorce?
Vladimir Putin (Russian president)
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Science & Nature What advance in sound recording was patented by English electronics engineer Alan Blumlein in 1933?
Stereo / Stereophonic Sound
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (2006)
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Sport & Leisure Who, in 2001, became the only Croatian ever to win a Wimbledon men's singles final and the only person to have ever won it on a wildcard?
Goran Ivanišević
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Geography If you travelled in a perfect straight line from Paris to Moscow, how many countries would you have visited? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
4. Back to the Future (1985 - Harry Waters Jr., Michael J. Fox)
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 - Harrison Ford)
6. 12 Angry Men (1957 - Jack Warden, Edward Binns, E. G. Marshall, John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, Robert Webber, Jack Klugman, George Voskovec, Martin Balsam, Joseph Sweeney)
7. Terminator (1984 - Linda Hamilton)
8. Inglourious Basterds (2009 - Brad Pitt)
9. Matrix (1999 - Carrie-Anne Moss)
10. Scarface (1983 - Al Pacino)
11. Star Trek (2009 - Chris Pine)
12. Modern Times (1936 - Charlie Chaplin)
Snowball Question
The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was achieved in 1924 by the U.S. Army Air Service in four Douglas World Cruiser biplanes. How many days did it take them?
