Food & Drink Related to jerky, what 'B' is the Southern African term for dried, cured meat?
Biltong
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On This Day On this day, 23rd February 1945, Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press took this iconic photo on what island?
Iwo Jima (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - now officially named Iōtō)
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Anagram SIXTIES RENT BOY CRAP is an anagram of what 2003 song - artist and title?
Britney Spears - Toxic
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Chubby Checker - The Twist (1960)
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History Which of the three Apollo 11 astronauts did not set foot on the moon?
Michael Collins
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Geography What mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain?
Pyrénées (Pirineos)
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Science & Nature A satellite of Jupiter, what is the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons?
Ganymede
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Logos What international hotels and resorts brand is represented by this logo?
Marriott
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Music Lil Nas X rose to prominence in 2019 with his release of what country rap single?
Old Town Road
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Sport & Leisure In the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series, who won the 65th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday?
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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Entertainment At the 76th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, who won Best Actor in a Leading Role for playing Elvis Presley in the 2022 film Elvis?
Austin Butler
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Brainteaser What number and letter continues this sequence? 12 T 17 E 22 F 27 N ? ?
32 F (The numbers increase by 5. The letters are the first letter of the numbers found by adding the two digits together.)
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well-known term or phrase.
Club sandwich
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Current Affairs From what country did U.S. President Joe Biden make a return train journey to visit Kyiv in Ukraine on Monday?
Poland
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Art & Literature What poet and playwright was convicted of gross indecency with other men in May 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison?
Oscar Wilde
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line (1977)
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History Who founded the Mongol Empire in 1206?
Genghis Khan
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Geography If you travelled in a straight line south from Malta, in what African country would you arrive?
Libya
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Science & Nature What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for indium, selenium, copper, and rhenium?
Insecure
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Flags What European country has this as its national flag?
Liechtenstein
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Music What Madonna song was the best-selling single of 1990 and has sold more than six million copies worldwide to date?
Vogue
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Sport & Leisure After winning the Genesis Invitational on Sunday, who rose to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking?
Jon Rahm (Spain)
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Entertainment Originally aired from 2008 to 2014, what TV series follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley, and stars Charlie Hunnam as Jackson 'Jax' Teller?
Sons of Anarchy
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General Knowledge By what name is Siddhartha Gautama more commonly known?
Food & Drink A pie floater is an Australian dish particularly common in Adelaide. On what does the meat pie traditionally float?
Pea soup
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In This Year In this year: The FIFA World Cup was hosted by West Germany; Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth's MLB home run record; and Turkey twice invaded Cyprus, occupying more than a third of the country. What year was it? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1974
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Art & Literature What 'F' is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid plaster?
Fresco
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love (1986)
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Anagram PUSSY NOT ALONE is an anagram of what impulsive 13-letter word?
Spontaneously
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Current Affairs What won Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound at the 76th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday?
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Science & Nature Named after the German mathematician and astronomer who published them between 1609 and 1619, what laws describe the orbits of planets around the Sun?
Kepler's (Kepler's laws of planetary motion)
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Maps What country is this?
North Macedonia
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Music Who said When Will I See You Again in 1974?
The Three Degrees
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Sport & Leisure In 1984, who became the first NFL quarterback to accomplish 5,000 passing yards in a season?
Dan Marino (5,084 yards - a record that still stands today)
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Entertainment Actual events in March 1944 at the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Żagań, Poland were the inspiration for what 1963 film?
The Great Escape
12.
Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well-known term or phrase.
Back to square one
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Current Affairs Officially declared extinct from India in 1952, twelve cheetahs were flown there on Friday, from what country?
Namibia
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Art & Literature What is the surname of Wendy and her brothers in Peter Pan?
Darling
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Pink - Get the Party Started (2001)
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History An epidemic beginning in Brazil and spreading across the Americas from April 2015 to November 2016, with over 3,500 cases of infant microcephaly, was caused by what mosquito-borne virus?
Zika
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Geography What capital city is written as ភ្នំពេញ in its own lanuage?
Phnom Penh (Cambodia - Khmer)
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Science & Nature Galvanisation is the process of applying a protective coating of what to steel or iron to prevent rusting?
Zinc
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Landmarks Built in 1913 near the location from which the Pilgrim Fathers initially set sail in August 1620, in what English city is this Mayflower Memorial?
Southampton (they subsequently stopped twice, at Dartmouth and Plymouth, to repair leaks to the Speedwell)
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Music Released in 1994, what album is this? (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
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Sport & Leisure Aries Merritt of the United States holds the current world record of 12.80 seconds, in what athletics event?
110-metre hurdles
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Entertainment What 1985 film focuses on five students at the fictional Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois?
The Breakfast Club
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Ditloids Replace these initials with words to reveal a well known phrase: 30 D H S, A, J and N
