BizNews brainteaser – Ian’s Trivialus 4 May 2025
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4 May 2025
What is the length of an Olympic swimming pool? For a bonus, what is its width? Second bonus point for saying how many lanes it has.
Which European region suffered a devastating outage of electricity on Monday this week?
Apiphobia is the fear of what?
What is the subject of Renoir’s painting “Les Parapluies”?
What is the name of Canada’s new Prime Minister following Monday’s election? Bonus for the name of his party.
What was the first animal to be domesticated?
What is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta?
What milestone did President Trump reach on Tuesday this week? Bonus for saying where the concept of this milestone originated.
Who was the ‘prisoner of Azkaban’?
Who was the only person to win Nobel Prizes for two different sciences?
Which British statesman is reputed to have said, “I’ve taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”?
In music, who led the Mothers of Invention?
If you sailed due West from Japan what country would you hit?
Name the two leading British retailers that were victims to cyberattacks this week. (Two points)
Which of these is the shortest, a) Picosecond b) Nanosecond c) Millisecond?
What was unusual about the exhibition of Henri Matisse’s nautical painting Le Bateau at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1961, a) A gallery worker had put his elbow through the canvas, b) It was hung upside down for over a month without anybody noticing, c) The museum listed Matisse as a female painter because the curator believed that Henri was the feminine form of Henry?
What does peregrinate mean, a) to wander from place to place, b) to sleep during the day, c) to harbour vengeful thoughts?
Blondie’s Call Me featured in which Richard Gere film from 1980?
True/False – the only places on Earth without endemic otters are Australia and Antarctica.
20. In 1854, the Penny Red was the first postage stamp that was what?
Question 10 - © - Graham Goodlad