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The area between Miami. Puerto Rico and Bermuda is often referred to as what? |
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Who is the explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean? |
3 |
The most expensive spice in the world is saffron, what plant does it come from? |
4 |
Name these four prominent twentieth century activists |
5 |
Where in the human body would you find the metatarsal bone? |
6 |
After appearing as an extra in Hannah Montana, actor RJ Mitte, who died this week, …had cerebral palsy, secured the role of Walter White Jr., a character with the same condition, in which acclaimed AMC crime drama? |
7 |
The Special Effects company Industrial Light and Magic was created in 1975 to create special effects for what film released a few years later |
8 |
Identify the six countries from their passport covers |
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What American newspaper is commonly abbreviated WSJ? |
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100 people were given 100 seconds to name any movie directed by Steven Spielberg with a theatrical release- Does not include TV movies, shorts, music videos, film segments or documentaries. His first full film Fireflight was shown in cinemas only once and since lost, his second Duel did get a cinematic release but was made for video/tv and released in cinemas afterwards. There are 34 valid answers. Write down any one of them, no more than one of them |
11 |
Identify the four songs from these four very short clips. All songs charted in Sweden |
12 |
EA Sports introduced a street-football mode to the FIFA video-game series in FIFA 20. Its name was appropriately taken from a Portuguese noun that can mean a “return” or “comeback”. What was the mode called? |
13 |
With what animal did Australia go ‘to war’ with in 1932 to address the destruction of wheat fields? |
14 |
Three actors who portrayed real peopl, name the actors and the people they portrayed. |
15 |
What is the only island in the world that has three sovereign nations on it? |
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Which British funk and acid jazz band, formed in London in 1992 and fronted by Jay Kay, takes its name from a blend of a word for musical improvisation and the name commonly used for the Haudenosaunee confederacy? |
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the world’s tallest man-made structure for more than 3,800 years. Plus or minus 100, in which year did it lose the title? |
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Name the four books from the book covers and the years these books were first publihed. |
19 |
What part of Romania was Vlad the Impaler the prince of? |
20 |
What comedian has hosted the Golden Globes a record five times, but has never hosted the Academy Awards? |
21 |
How many of the seven ancient wonders were found in modern day Egypt. Was it one or two?? |
22 |
Six songs that were considered to be anti war or anti violence. Name the six songs. |
1 |
The Bermuda Triangle |
2 |
Christopher Colombus |
3 |
The Crocus |
4 |
A) Martin Luther King B) Gandhi C) Helen Keller D) Emmeline Pankhurst |
5 |
Foot |
6 |
Breaking Bad |
7 |
Star Wars: A New Hope |
8 |
a) Ireland b) Germany c) Portugal d) New Zealand e) Japan f) Haiti |
9 |
The Wall Street Journal |
10 |
1 Point
2 Points 3 Points 4 Points 5 Points |
11 |
a) Let Her Go b) Yellow c) I Ain’t Worried d) Black or White |
12 |
VOLTA Football |
13 |
The Emu War |
14 |
a) Gandhi b) Ben Kingsley c) Billie Jean King d) Emma Stone e) Sharon Tate f) Margot Robbie |
15 |
Borneo Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei |
16 |
Jamiroquai |
17 |
1311 When Lincoln Cathedral was completed |
18 |
a) The BFG b) Jurassic Park c) It d) Watership Down |
19 |
Wallachia |
20 |
Ricky Gervais |
21 |
2 Pyramids and library at Alexandria |
22 |
a) Imagine John Lennon, 1971 b) Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen, 1984 c) Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 1984 d) Violet Hill Coldplay, 2007 e) War. Edwin Starr, 1969 f) Zombie Cranberries, 1994 |
