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BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 16 March 2025
Quizmaster Ian Woodrow returns with another Trivialus for the BizNews tribe.
Quizmaster Ian Woodrow returns with another Trivialus for the BizNews tribe. Give it a go and see how well you score. Find the answers to this week's quiz here.
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16 March 2025
- Which small country is nestled on the border between France and Spain?
- Today sees the first Grand Prix of the season being held in which country? Bonus for the city.
- Who sang "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"?
- On which ground do the Scotland rugby union team play their home matches?
- On Friday, Mark Carney was sworn in as which country's 24th prime minister?
- Bellerophon was a Greek mythical hero known for capturing and taming what?
- It was reported in the UK this week that PM Sir Keir Starmer is going to scrap which quango in the Health services? For a bonus what is a quango?
- What is the best-selling car brand in France, a) Peugeot b) Citroen c) Renault?
- What is the name of the former president of the Philippines who was arrested this week at Manila airport under a warrant issued by the ICC?
- What is the slang name given to the main rotor retaining nut that holds the main rotor of a helicopter to its mast, a) Prayer nut, b) Goodbye nut, c) Jesus nut?
- Which actress had her wedding televised in 1956? Bonus for the name of her spouse.
- What is the common name of the fuel, alkane?
- What has Elon Musk installed in his White House office to help him unwind?
- Lech Walęsa, the first democratically elected president of Poland, used to work in the Gdańsk shipyard as, a) A welder b) An electrician c) A mechanic? Bonus for the name of the shipyard at the time.
- Which famous battle in 490 BC did 10 000 Athenians defeat a Persian army five times that number?
- Which country has the internet code .gl?
- Which Helena starred in A Room with a View (1985)?
- Often written at the end of a mathematical proof, what do the letters QED indicate? For a bonus, what is the Latin phrase which is abbreviated as QED?
- True/False – there are only four EU countries that have not adopted the Euro as its unit of currency.
- Which palindromic word can mean raise to the ground or a mine passage?
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