BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 23 November 2025

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.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here.Support South Africa’s bastion of independent journalism, offering balanced insights on investments, business, and the political economy, by joining BizNews Premium. Register here.If you prefer WhatsApp for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel here..23 November.These days many people in personal interactions are often guilty of “phubbing”. What is this?Entr’acte is the French term for what in a theatre?Who was jilted on her wedding day in Great Expectations?China is currently in a spat with Japan and has pulled all Japanese films from its cinemas, advised its citizens to avoid travel plans to Japan, and is now banning the imports of Japanese seafood. What has caused this dramatic turn of events?In Casablanca (1942), what song is Sam (the pianist) asked to play?This week, which international pageant was the subject of controversy when several of its judges resigned due to a lack of transparency? Bonus for naming the country whose representative was declared the winner.True/False – the Iron Age preceded the Bronze Age.What is the name of the test used to assess if an artificial intelligence can be distinguished from a human?Analysts predict that Amazon will become the world’s largest retailer by year end. Which retailing behemoth is expected to lose its crown?Which two aircraft (a wooden bomber from the 1940s and a metal airliner from the late 1950s) performed aerobatics on their debut?Which order of knights formed the fanatical bulwark of the Christian forces in the 13th century crusades?48 teams will compete in next year’s FIFA football final and so far 42 have qualified. Of those that are in, which team has the lowest world ranking a) New Zealand b) Cape Verde c) Ghana? For a bonus name the only European team that qualified by winning all its games while not conceding a single goal.How many planets in our solar system have rings around them, a) one b) two c) four?Which sport is believed to have begun in Saxon or Norman times and is first mentioned in a 1597 court case involving a piece of land?On Thursday the New Zealand government decided, in addition to stoats, ferrets, weasels, rats and possums, to add which animal to its official hit list of invasive species that have to be eradicated by 2050?Who released the following albums (a point for each), Houses of the Holy (1973), A Day At The Races (1977), Auberge (1991)?In distance terms, what is a cable?What five-letter word, beginning with “R”, means a healthy reddish colour, particularly from an outdoor life?What is the state capital of New Jersey, a) Newark b) Paterson c) Trenton? Bonus point for the state’s nickname.What was the nationality of the former UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros Ghali?.Question 10 - © Hugh Jagoe

BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 23 November 2025

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