Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 14 December 2025
Answers
Noël
Australia – the ban includes most platforms (e.g. TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube) and is designed to protect children aged 10-5 from harmful content. It is the first of its kind in the world and its success is being closely followed by several interested countries.
Five
Bile
AI – it is even higher amongst those aged 18-24 (five sixths plan to use). It is being seen as the greatest disruptive influence to the retail industry since the dawn of e-commerce in the late 1990s.
Pyeongchang - South Korea.
True – India overtook China on this measure during this year.
Paramount Skydance which is offering a cash-only deal that in total is 31% higher than the Netflix offer.
Minerva
13 – eight kids and four hound dogs and a piggy stolen from the shed.
c) - a remarkable archaeological discovery suggesting that recent history was out by 350 000 years – an error of 600%. These would have been early Neanderthals as opposed to Home Sapiens (modern humans) and the clay pit indicates use of a hearth as opposed to a wildfire caused by lightning. The evidence of pyrite at the site also indicated the use of a flint for beginning controlled fires.
John Lennon – Happy Christmas (War is Over).
Midnight Cowboy
Pangolin
Along the borders of Thailand and Cambodia – both sides are blaming each other for the escalation.. Meanwhile over 500 000 people have been displaced and leaders in both countries seem reluctant to call a ceasefire. Commentators have described the departure of France from Cambodia and the borders that were drawn up then as being the root cause of the conflict between the two countries. President Trump has claimed he can solve the situation with a single phone call. He said something similar about Ukraine when canvassing for the presidency.
a) - El Paso is a city in the far western corner of Texas.
Edinburgh
Iron Man – Robert Downey Jr.
b) the Mongol Empire
Her