BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 28 April 2024

Quizmaster Ian Woodrow returns with another Trivialus for the BizNews tribe to take a crack at. Give it a go and see how well you score. Find the answers to this week’s quiz here.

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28 April 2024

What does Stet mean to an editor or a printer?
What word can go after “soap” and before “office”?
Several people were arrested at university protests in the US this week. Why are the people protesting, and for a bonus, why are these protests being disallowed?
L’Equipe is a French daily newspaper focusing mainly on what?
Who was Sean Penn’s first wife?
What type of animal is a Chamois?
The Conservative government in the UK has got approval for a plan to send illegal immigrants to which country?
What is the word that describes the small broken rock fragments that collect at the base of mountain cliffs?
Penthesilea, slain by Achilles during the Trojan War, was the queen of which warrior race?
By what name is London’s St Stephen’s Tower better known as?
This week it was reported that contact with earth’s most distant object (24.3 billion km away) has been re-established. What is its name?
Who wrote the novel, A Clockwork Orange? Bonus for the director of the film.
For the next six weeks, Donald Trump is having to spend every day in a Manhattan courtroom instead of being able to campaign across the US in preparation for November’s election. What is the charge here and why is it such a heinous crime?
Which theory proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings to maintain conditions for life, a) Gaia hypothesis b) Holistic hypothesis c) Terra hypothesis?
Which sport is governed by FITA?
What date is the exact middle of a non-leap year, a) 1 July b) 2 July c) 3 July?
In 1978, who became the first woman to have a UK No. 1 single with a self-written song? Bonus for the song.
Featuring on the cover of Time magazine in November of 1953, which leader of the U.S.S.R. once said, “When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired.”?
True/False – wisdom teeth are superfluous.
In 2001, the US Congress officially credited the 19^th-century Italian Antonio Meucci with the invention of what?

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