BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 21 September 2025
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21 September 2025
Which actor, the lead in Dead Poets Society (1989), once said, “We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.”?
What bizarre legal case are President Macron and his wife, Brigitte, pursuing against a conservative commentator in the US?
Which major battle in Pennsylvania ended Confederate General Lee’s march north during the American Civil War?
What name is given to the art and practice of bell ringing?
As the two largest countries in their respective continents, relations between the US and Brazil have traditionally been cordial. Why then is America imposing a 50% trade tariff on Brazil which, together with that imposed on India, is the highest against any nation?
What is the official language of Haiti, a) English b) Spanish c) French? Bonus point for its neighbour.
True/False – Nathanael was one of The Twelve Apostles.
Which prominent male actor, founder of the Sundance Film Festival passed on Tuesday this week? Bonus for the number of Oscars he won over his career, a) 0 b) 1 c) 3?
Whose No. 1 debut album was called Justified?
Who had a hit in 1985 with the song entitled Spanish Eddie? A bonus point for saying who the song was about.
Last Sunday, at the World Athletics Championships, Swede, Armand Duplantis, broke the world pole-vault record for the a) 10th b) 12th c) 14th time? For a bonus where are the Championships taking place and, for a second bonus, how regularly do these tournaments take place?
True/False – the first telescope was only invented around 150 years after the first reading glasses.
Which book had to be owned compulsorily by every member of his country’s adult population?
What does the word imbroglio mean, a) a confused situation b) a very sensitive affair c) a woven fabric?
Next Saturday marks the 200th anniversary of which significant milestone in the industrial revolution?
Hanging in the National Gallery, The Fighting Temeraire, is an oil painting depicting a paddle-wheel tug towing a retired warship to its final berth - in a style considered to be a foundation for impressionism. Who painted it?
What is the highest-grossing horror film of all time, a) Jaws b) IT c) The Sixth Sense?
What was the name of the standard mathematics book used for over 2 000 years?
In the 19th century, toshers made a living doing what, a) Searching sewers for valuables b) Cleaning cobbled roads c) Affixing wheels to carriages?
What is the connection between Jack Daniels whiskey and the French throne over the period 1589 – 1792?
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