BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 24 August 2025
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24 August 2025
Today is the 30th anniversary since the launch of which software product described by some as the most successful software launch in history?
The mariachi musical style comes from which country?
Where is Madison Square Garden? For a bonus, what is it?
What was an object of admiration when President Zelensky visited the White House this week?
In France, it is créme anglaise. What do we call it?
Which sport has more players on the playing surface at any one time: basketball, netball, ice-hockey or volleyball?
Whose transcripts of her interviews with the US Department of Justice were released on Friday?
What is the name for a castrated male horse?
What is the name of the famous food emporium at 181 Piccadilly in London?
Since its opening in 1896, only one country has participated in every Summer Olympics under its own flag. Which one?
Which Women’s sports code’s World Cup kicked off on Friday evening in Sunderland, England?
Who was the subject of the documentary Leaving Neverland shown for the first time at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival?
Last Sunday, which South American country had a general election that resulted in ending a 20-year period of Socialist control.
In medieval times what was a mangonel used for?
The island of Götland is in which body of water? Bonus for the country of which it is a territory.
If one has been kept in purdah (an expression) over a period, what has that person suffered from?
Which artist is at the heart of the novel (and film), Girl with a Pearl Earring? Bonus point for his first name.
Arachnid is a word used to describe spiders. What is the origin of this word?
True/False – the Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed around 3 200 years ago.
What was the function of the Press Gangs of the early 19th century?