Food & Drink Usually eaten as a dip, what is this Middle Eastern dish of cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic?
Hummus (also spelt hommus or houmous)
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On This Day What British archaeologist and Egyptologist unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun on this day, 16th February 1923?
Howard Carter
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Anagram GUEST OF THE APOLOGETIC TWAT is an anagram of what 1965 song title?
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals)
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl (1962)
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History In what year did the Titanic sink? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1912 (15th April)
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Geography In what capital city might you land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport?
Jakarta (Indonesia)
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Science & Nature Discovered in 1986, Cordelia is the innermost known moon of what planet?
Uranus (Discovered on 20th January 1986 in images taken by Voyager 2)
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Logos Formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro, what Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company is represented by this logo?
Equinor
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Music Formed in 2010, what South Korean boy band consists of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook?
BTS (Korean: 방탄소년단; Bangtan Sonyeondan; lit. Bulletproof Boy Scouts - also known as the Bangtan Boys)
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Sport & Leisure Who won the the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup final on Saturday?
Real Madrid
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Entertainment First aired between 1982 and 1989, what American TV series stars Michael J. Fox as Young Republican Alex P. Keaton?
Family Ties
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General Knowledge Black Ops, Modern Warfare, and Vanguard are among the subtitles of what video game franchise?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well-known term or phrase.
Every dog has its day
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Current Affairs What is the name of the cyclone that made landfall over North Island, New Zealand on Sunday?
Gabrielle
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Art & Literature What is the surname of the private detective that stars in a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
Strike (Cormoran Strike)
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
David Bowie - Changes (1972)
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History On 2nd September 1945, Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard what U.S. battleship?
USS Missouri
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Geography Which is largest by area, Brazil or Australia?
Brazil (8.5 vs 7.7 million km2)
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Science & Nature A mosquito-borne tropical disease, what is another name for breakbone fever?
Dengue
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Flags What country has this as its national flag?
Vietnam
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Music His debut single, who said This Is How We Do It in 1995?
Montell Jordan
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On This Day The first major professional sports league in North America to cancel an entire season because of a labour dispute, the National Hockey League (NHL) season was officially cancelled on this day, 16th February, in what year?
2005
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Entertainment The 2022 sequel to what 2009 film is subtitled The Way of Water?
Avatar
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Thailand Phanom Rung (Thai: พนมรุ้ง) is a Hindu Khmer Empire temple complex set on the rim of an extinct volcano in what Thai province?
Food & Drink What French dessert translates literally into English as "burnt cream"?
Crème brûlée
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In This Year Anna Kournikova, Rami Malek, Meghan Markle, Natalie Portman, Serena Williams, and Elijah Wood were all born in what year? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1981
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Art & Literature The Red Vineyard is the only painting known by name to be sold in his lifetime by what artist?
Vincent van Gogh
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
James - Sit Down (1989)
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Anagram NOW I AM ONE BITCH is an anagram of what 1970s TV series?
The Bionic Woman
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Entertainment Who plays Regan's mother, Chris MacNeil, in the 1973 film The Exorcist?
Ellen Burstyn
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Science & Nature Endemic to Africa and largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot, what 'S' describes this bird of prey?
Secretarybird
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Maps What African country is this?
Zimbabwe
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Music First written and recorded in 1973, complete these lyrics with the song title: "Mama take this badge off of me. I can't use it anymore. It's getting dark, too dark to see. I feel I'm ..."
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Sport & Leisure In Roman numerals, what number was the 2023 Super Bowl?
LVII (57th Super Bowl)
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Entertainment A follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Star Trek: ____ debuted in 2020. (fill in the blank)
Picard
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Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
