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29 September
- What small digital toy from the 1990s is seeing a global revival?
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 is also known as what?
- Which prominent actress of the stage and screen passed away this week at the age of 89. A star of numerous films, she won two Oscars in her career. For two bonus points, name the two films.
- What is unique about Venus and Mercury (aside from their positions in the Solar System)?
- Who captured and murdered the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, a) Hernán Cortés b) Hernando de Soto c) Francisco Pizarro?
- America’s oldest living president, who will celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday?
- In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe what is the Lion’s name, a) Aker b) Aslan c) Athena? Bonus for the name of the seven-book series of which this was first part.
- What is the name of the grassland and fertile plains that span Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil?
- Which British volumetric is under threat of being reduced by at least a quarter, if not more? Bonus for the size (ml) of the current unit’s volume .
- True/False – Americans spend more on pet care than they do on childcare.
- Which wife of a former king said, “You can never be too rich or too thin.”?
- Which aircraft manufacturer has made a “best and final” pay offer of a 30% rise over four years to its striking workforce?
- Which French sporting event was organized in 1903 in order to improve the sales of a sports newspaper?
- What is the name of the constructed international auxiliary language invented by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887?
- Which successful packaging company from the 1950s and 1960s has filed for bankruptcy protection?
- What is the name of the wire cage that fits over the cork of a bottle of champagne or sparkling wine?
- Where were tulips first cultivated, a) Northern Europe b) Persia c) Turkey?
- George Lazenby only played James Bond once; in which film? Bonus for his nationality. Another bonus for the female lead that played Bond’s wife in the same film.
- True/False – the whole of South America is west of Mexico.
- In any standard normal distribution, approximately what percentage of the data falls within two standard deviations of the mean?
Question 10 – © – Julian Shevelan
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