BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 29 June 2025
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29 June 2025
In which country is the Spanish Riding School?
Which major music festival opened on Wednesday in the UK this week? Bonus point for naming the English country in which it is located.
True/False – of the 195 countries in the world today, only 22 have never been invaded or occupied by the United Kingdom.
Name the couple in the celebrity wedding of the year which took place this week. For a bonus name the city that hosted the event.
Which food item gets its name from the French for melted?
Lake Tiberias is an alternative name for which Biblical sea?
The Economist recently published its survey of the most liveable cities in the world. Vienna has dropped to second place this year as a result of two foiled terrorist attacks. The survey’s current top liveable city is, a) Zurich b) Melbourne c) Copenhagen?
From which language did English take the word “guerrilla”?
What caused Donald Trump to drop the F-bomb on live TV this week?
Who is the only player to win Wimbledon coming in as a wild-card entry? Bonus for the year.
In what cause did George Harrison think up the charity concert at Madison Square Garden on August 1, 1971? Bonus for name of his co-founder in the event.
What was Mary Quant’s crucial stylistic contribution to women’s attire in the 1960s? Bonus for her equally racy variation on the theme in the early 1970s.
NATO members met this week with a joint commitment to Article 5 of its treaty which states what? Bonus point for the defence spending commitment by 2035 as a % of GDP for each NATO member.
Who wrote the novel Nostromo published in 1904?
Which British monarch lost the Crown Jewels in The Wash?
Which celebrity couple (a female singer and a male actor) recently announced their separation after a near decade-long relationship that has had its ups and downs?
Mel Brooks’ film, Silent Movie (1976) had only one spoken word. What was it? For a bonus who said it?
Where did a successful British resistance take place, one day after the calamitous defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana? Bonus point for naming the war of which this engagement was a part.
What is the only country with coastlines on the Caspian Sea and the Indian Ocean?
What is the science of dividing creatures into similar groups?
Question 10 - © - Heather Wall