Food & Drink From the French for "small oven", what name is given to a small bite-sized confectionery or savoury appetizer?
Petit four
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On This Day Who was elected 31st President of the United States on this day, 6th November, 1928?
Herbert Hoover
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Science & Nature By what name is the chemical compound 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (C6H2(NO2)3CH3) better known?
TNT
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack (1961)
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Sport & Leisure In 1985, who became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title?
Boris Becker
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Geography What Scottish city is located on the River Forth?
Stirling
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Anagram CHILL ORAL MADMAN is an anagram of what former British Prime Minister?
Harold Macmillan
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Logos What professional ice hockey team is represented by this logo?
New Jersey Devils
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Music Who said I'm Like a Bird in 2002?
Nelly Furtado
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History Borrowing a line Jack Dempsey said after losing the heavyweight championship to Gene Tunney in 1926, who reportedly said to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck," on 30th March 1981?
Ronald Reagan (in the hospital emergency room after his assassination attempt)
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Entertainment What American actor and producer was born Thomas Mapother IV on 3rd July 1962?
Tom Cruise
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General Knowledge What comes next in this sequence? 11, 14, 9, 12, 5, 20, 1, __?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
Missing link
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Current Affairs In a referendum on Sunday, what archipelago voted against independence from France?
New Caledonia
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Science & Nature Native to Australia and New Guinea, what genus of bird is this?
Kookaburra (Laughing kookaburra)
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
John Travolta - Greased Lightnin' (1978)
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Sport & Leisure In association football, who resigned as England manager on 7th October 2000, just one hour after being beaten by Germany in their last game at the original Wembley Stadium?
Kevin Keegan
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Geography The largest in Asia, what desert spans parts of northern China and southern Mongolia?
Gobi
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Art & Literature In Dodoe Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, what is the name of the male Dalmatian who lives with his partner Missis at the home of the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dearly?
Pongo
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Flags What Northwest African Islamic Republic has this as its national flag?
Mauritania
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Music What duet had a worldwide hit in 1983 with Islands In The Stream? (½ point for each)
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
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History In Arthurian legend, who was wife of King Arthur?
Guinevere
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Entertainment Who plays the insane and rogue U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now?
Marlon Brando
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Add/Deduct a Letter Unusual to throttle. Answer with two words. The first part of the sentence is a clue to a seven letter word. Add one letter to that word to give the answer to the second part of the sentence.
Food & Drink What type of fruit is a Blenheim Orange?
Apple (also known as Dempster's Pippin)
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In This Year Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Jobs, Olga Korbut, Bill Paxton, and Angus Young were all born in what year? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1955
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Science & Nature What 8-letter word can be spelt out using the chemical symbols for nickel, cerium, titanium, and einsteinium?
Niceties
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (1985)
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Sport & Leisure What jockey famously rode all seven winners on British Champions' Day at Ascot in 1996?
Frankie Dettori
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Entertainment Who played Gretchen Witter on Dawson's Creek, Caitlin Todd for the first two seasons of NCIS, and Maura Isles in Rizzoli & Isles?
Sasha Alexander
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Art & Literature Whose novels include If Only They Could Talk (1970), It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972), and Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973)?
James Herriot
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Maps What U.S. state is this?
Iowa
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Music Stay with Me and Cindy Incidentally were hits in the early 70s for what band?
Faces
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Anagram PUBE ALERT is an anagram of what highly regarded 9-letter word?
Reputable
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Entertainment Driving the Bulletproof Bomb in Wacky Races, by what name are these seven dwarf gangsters collectively known?
The Ant Hill Mob
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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 term or phrase.
By and large
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Current Affairs Last Wednesday, India unveiled the tallest statue in the world, depicting its first deputy prime minister, Vallabhbhai Patel. Its official name is the Statue of ... what?
Unity (182 m / 597 ft)
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Science & Nature In computing, what name is given to malicious software that threatens to publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless a payment is made?
Ransomware
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Kris Kross - Jump (1992)
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Sport & Leisure At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, the United States topped the table with 46 gold medals. Who came second with 27?
Great Britain (China were third with 26)
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Geography Still commonly referred to by its original name, to what was Sears Tower in Chicago officially renamed in 2009?
Willis Tower
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Art & Literature According to the title of a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns?
Fahrenheit 451
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Landmarks Built in the late 17th century, the oldest surviving puzzle hedge maze in the world is located in the grounds of what British palace?
Hampton Court Palace (Surrey, England)
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Music "You need cooling. Baby I'm not fooling. I'm gonna send ya, back to schooling" are the opening lyrics to what 1969 song? (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
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History During the Apollo 12 mission in November 1969, who became the third man to walk on the Moon?
Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.)
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Entertainment What 2016 film stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner as a linguist and physicist enlisted by the U.S. Army to discover why aliens have landed on Earth?
Arrival
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General Knowledge With 6 each, which two U.S. states have the most vowels in their names? (½ point for each)
For many years, a remixed version of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love was the theme tune to the UK TV series Top of the Pops. Between 1964 and 2006, how many episodes of the original Top of the Pops were aired?
