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A Quiz from Sunday 2 February 2025

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Since September 2024 I have been hosting quiz nights on Sundays at a local pub, as explained in this piece. Here’s a record of the 10 rounds of questions for the quiz on Sunday 2 February 2025.

Round 1: General Knowledge

  1. Riga is the capital of which country?
  2. Which 20th Century US President, who died in 1994, had the middle name Milhous?
  3. Which Chinese Year began last week?
  4. Name any of the three winning teams from this weekend’s Six Nations fixtures (men’s international rugby)
  5. Ar is the chemical symbol for which element?

Round 2: True or False

Which of these statements are True, and which are False?

  1. Kenwood, the company that produces kitchen appliances, was founded by someone called Kenneth Wood
  2. There are exactly 9 ways for a batsman to get out in cricket
  3. Judi Dench has won an Oscar
  4. Dire Straits had two UK #1 singles
  5. Elvis Presley never set foot in the UK

Round 3: Four-letter Geography

The answer to each question is a single four-letter word

  1. What is Japan’s highest mountain?
  2. What is the most active volcano in Europe?
  3. On which island is the Indonesian capital Jakarta located?
  4. What is the capital of Switzerland?
  5. What is the second largest city in Ireland?

Round 4: Jam or Clash?

Here are lines from songs by either The Jam and or The Clash. Answer Jam or Clash for each one

  1. “Midnight to 6, man, for the first time from Jamaica”
  2. “Better stop dreaming of the quiet life, ’cause it’s the one we’ll never know”
  3. “Some people might say my life is in a rut”
  4. “We met when were are at school, never took no shit from no-one”
  5. “Sup your beer and collect your fags, there’s a row going on down near Slough”

Round 5: Countries beginning with C

[A picture round]

End of Part One

Round 6: The NATO Phonetic Alphabet

What word in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet is …

  1. A slang word for cocaine?
  2. An anagram of Mali?
  3. A US airline with its HQ in Atlanta Georgia?
  4. A 1964 film starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker?
  5. The largest province in Canada?

Round 7: Shakespearean couples

Match the following characters:

  • Troilus
  • Hamlet
  • Othello
  • Petruchio
  • Imogen

With their romantic partners…

  • Ophelia
  • Katherine
  • Posthumus Leonatus
  • Cressida
  • Desdemona

Round 8: More people with the initials GG

Identify the following people, whose usual names have the initials GG:

  1. Had a UK #1 in 1979 with “I Will Survive”
  2. Nobel Prize winning author of “The Tin Drum” who died in 2015
  3. Swedish actress (1905-1990), who is quoted as saying “I want to be alone”
  4. American composer (1898-1937), brother of Ira, famous for “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Porgy and Bess”
  5. Arsenal footballer who later managed Arsenal, Leeds and Spurs

Round 9: Airline Logos

[A picture round]

Round 10: Pot Luck

  1. Genuine Class is an anagram of which Oscar-winning British actor who died in 2000?
  2. Which dwarf planet, the only one in the asteroid belt, is named after the Latin goddess of agriculture and crops?
  3. Who wrote the play “Pygmalion”, which also inspired the musical “My Fair Lady”?
  4. Claudia Sheinbaum is the president of which country?
  5. Who presents the BBC quiz show “Impossible”?

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