General Knowledge What is the most frequently used colour on national flags around the world?
Red (77%) (White 73%, Blue 53%)
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Current Affairs In the news this week, in which Central American country are at least 52 people reported dead after two earthquakes on Wednesday and Sunday?
Guatemala
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Science & Nature What name is given to the two occasions each year when the centre of the sun is aligned with the Equator, where it can then be observed exactly overhead?
Equinox (around 20 March and 22 September)
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes (1971)
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Sport & Leisure In Australian rules football, how many players of one team are permitted to be on the field at any time?
18
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Geography What is the state capital of Illinois?
Springfield (Chicago is the largest city)
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Art & Literature What is the name of the donkey featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories?
Eeyore
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Flags Which landlocked country in Western Africa has this as its national flag?
Niger
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Music Which English writer and raconteur is the subject of Sting's 1988 song about an Englishman in New York?
Quentin Crisp
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History Nearly 9 months pregnant, Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Charles Manson family in August 1969. Who was she married to at the time?
Roman Polanski
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Entertainment Name this cartoon duo who first appeared on TV in 1959.
Rocky and Bullwinkle
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Ditloids Replace these initials with words to make a well known phrase: 1001 A N.
Food & Drink What 'B' describes a beetroot soup of Ukrainian origin, popular in many Eastern and Central European countries?
Borscht
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In This Year In this year: Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservative Party; NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars; and U.S. President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts. What year was it?
1975
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Science & Nature In computing, what does the letter 'S' stand for in 'ASCII'?
Standard (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (1987)
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Sport & Leisure Who is the only player in English top flight football to have scored an average of more than one goal per game in a single season, achieved in 1927-28 when he scored 60 league goals?
William 'Dixie' Dean (Everton)
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Geography If you sailed directly south from Malta, which African country would you arrive in?
Libya
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Anagram EUREKA! LOO SHOUTS is an anagram of which capital city and the country it is capital of? (3 word answer)
Seoul, South Korea
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Geography Which French overseas territory is this?
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
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Music Formed in 1979, and best known worldwide for their 1986 hit The Final Countdown, from which country do the band 'Europe' originate?
Sweden (Upplands Väsby)
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History Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in April 1870, by what name is this famous historical figure more commonly known?
Lenin
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Entertainment Which Golden Globe winning actress was married to Gary Oldman from 1990 to 1992, and Ethan Hawke from 1998 to 2004?
Uma Thurman
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General Knowledge How many scoring zones are there on a conventional dart board?
General Knowledge What word can describe a plant, a part of our anatomy, or the Greek goddess of the rainbow?
Iris
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Current Affairs Re-elected President of the United States, how many of the 538 electoral votes did Barack Obama win last week? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
332 (Mitt Romney 206)
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Science & Nature What 'G' describes the extremely fine silk produced by some spiders to 'kite' through the air, sometimes carrying them hundreds of miles in the wind?
Gossamer
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Music Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Coldplay - Yellow (2000)
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Sport & Leisure Which New York City venue hosted the US Open tennis championships between 1924 and 1977?
Forest Hills / The West Side Tennis Club (Queens)
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Geography Located in the Southern Alps, what is the name of New Zealand's highest mountain?
Aoraki / Mount Cook
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Art & Literature How many books are there in the modern New Testament?
27
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Landmarks What Roman numerals are inscribed on the bottom line of the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor?
MDCCLXXVI (1776)
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Music Which classical composer's works include the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches?
Edward Elgar
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History Who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet premier in 1982?
Yuri Andropov
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Entertainment Name this TV series from the 1980s.
Airwolf (1984-1987)
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Ditloids Replace these initials with words to make a true statement: 3 H in a B B.
