On This Day Today, 14th July, is formally known in France as La Fête Nationale, "The National Celebration". By what name is it most commonly known in English-speaking countries?
Bastille Day (commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the Storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789)
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Science & Nature What 'A' is a term used to describe the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, or water plants?
Aquaculture / Aquafarming
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Neil Sedaka - Calendar Girl (1960)
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Sport & Leisure What Olympic event usually covers a distance of between 180 and 250km?
Men's individual road race (Cycling)
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Geography What is the smallest independent country in South America?
Suriname (French Guiana, an overseas department of France, is smaller)
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Anagram THE ROTTEN WHIMPERING SHITHEADS is an anagram of what well known proverb?
The pen is mightier than the sword
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Logos What international airline has this as its logo?
EVA Air
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Music In the Western tradition of bow making for string instruments, what material is normally used for the bow strings?
Horsehair (from the tail)
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History What was adopted in the United States on 14th June 1777?
U.S. Flag (14th June is Flag Day)
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Entertainment What 1982 film featured androids called replicants?
Blade Runner
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General Knowledge Who is the current President of Germany?
Joachim Gauck (Angela Merkel is Chancellor of Germany)
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known phrase.
Backwards and forwards
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Current Affairs Launched in 2006, what is the name of the NASA space probe currently making a flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto?
New Horizons
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Science & Nature In what organ would you find your pineal gland?
Brain
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (1973)
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Sport & Leisure In Major League Baseball, what team has won the most World Series?
New York Yankees (27)
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Geography Name the two autonomous cities of Spain enclaved by Morocco on the north coast of Africa.
Ceuta and Melilla
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Art & Literature In children's literature, who gave directions to his dwelling place as "second to the right, and straight on till morning"?
Peter Pan (directions to Neverland)
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Flags What Middle East country has this as its national flag?
Syria
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Music What American rock singer was born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Michigan on 4th February 1948?
Alice Cooper
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History His assassination in Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I; what nationality was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Austrian (born in Graz, Austrian Empire)
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Entertainment Who played the title role in the original 1970s Shaft films?
Richard Roundtree
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General Knowledge Move forward slowly but steadily, then suffer a memory loss. Answer with two words. The first part of the sentence is a clue to a five letter word. Add a letter to that word to give the answer to the second clue.
Food & Drink In Italian cuisine, what type of food is Pecorino?
Cheese (A family of hard Italian cheeses made from ewe's milk. Pecora means "sheep".)
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In This Year In this year: Fred and Rosemary West were arrested in England after police excavated human bones in their back garden; between 500,000 and 1 million people were slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide; and Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix. What year was it? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1994
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Science & Nature What name is given to the positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula NH4?
Ammonium (The compound ammonia is NH3)
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark (1984)
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Sport & Leisure In the freestyle competition Mogul skiing, what is a mogul?
Bump / Mound (from the Bavarian mugel: "mound" or "small hill")
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Entertainment What name links Cary Grant with the film A Fish Called Wanda?
Archie Leach (Cary Grant's real name and the name of the character played by John Cleese)
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Art & Literature First published in 1949, what novel opens with the line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"?
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
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Geography What is the name of this group of islands?
The Bahamas
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Music On the Sgt. Pepper's album cover, what Beatle is holding a trumpet ?
Ringo Starr
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Anagram RAZE IN HER CLOTH is an anagram of what Academy Award winning actress?
Charlize Theron
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Entertainment In what TV series did Robin Williams first appear as the alien Mork in February 1978?
Happy Days (Mork and Mindy was a spin-off series launched later the same year)
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Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known phrase.
Singing in the rain
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Current Affairs What is the name of the drug lord who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico on Saturday?
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera)
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Science & Nature A major component of cheese, what 'C' makes up 80% of the proteins in cow milk?
Casein (from Latin caseus, "cheese")
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me (1998)
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Sport & Leisure The fastest event in the World Rally Championship, and formerly known as the 1000 Lakes Rally, in what country is the annual Neste Oil Rally held?
Finland
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Geography What African city derives its name from the Greek for "Three Cities"?
Tripoli (Libya)
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Art & Literature What 1932 novel was set in the "year of Our Ford 632"?
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Landmarks What is the name and location of this famous hotel?
Raffles Hotel, Singapore
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Music Born between 1967 and 1979, what American rock musician named his children Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva?
Frank Zappa
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History Deposed by Idi Amin in 1971, who returned as President of Uganda in 1980?
Milton Obote
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Entertainment Who played Professor Abraham Van Helsing in the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Anthony Hopkins
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General Knowledge A farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies its fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs and each bough has 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
None (He has 1728 pears, he doesn't have any plums)
