Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 27 July 2025
Answers
England and Spain
Joint Photographic Experts Group
France – President Macron announced that his country will formally recognise Palestine at the UN general assembly in September.
True – after Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles
Versace
Thailand and Cambodia – tensions have been simmering since May when armed clashes left one Cambodian soldier dead. Both sides are blaming each other for the current escalation which is at risk of growing into a full-scale conflict.
c) – The Count of Monte Cristo.
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At a Coldplay concert, Chris Martin warned the crowd that they were going to ask their cameras to scan around and put random people up on the big screen. One couple caught in an embrace turned out to be the CEO of a tech firm, Astronomer, with the company’s chief HR officer. It was clearly an illicit tryst as both hastened to hide their faces from the cameras. Five seconds of footage, but enough for internet sleuths to determine their identity and the fact that they are both married to other people. The CEO, Andy Byron, resigned the next day.
Delta
b) – normally used for food or nourishment, it can also be used to describe the restoration of one’s physical, mental, or spiritual sustenance.
Antarctica – it is the southernmost active volcano on Earth. Not to be confused with Mt Elbrus (5 642m) in Russia, the highest mountain in Europe.
It is Tech giant, selling not just smartphones, but an array of consumer electronics that connect to its phones. It recently (2021) entered the electric vehicle (EV) market and has put more than 300 000 of its vehicles on the market in the past 15 months. Last month it sold more than 200 000 of its first electric SUV (the YU7) within three minutes of launching it. You’ll hear more about this company in the future.
Peter Gabriel – Genesis
Agamemnon, King of Meycenae. Helen was his sister-in-law, married to Menelaus, his younger brother.
Ozzy Osbourne – Black Sabbath – Prince of Darkness. His last concert, in Birmingham, on Saturday the fifth of this month raised £ 140m for charity. Hulk Hogan of WWF fame – “Hulkamania” became a phenomenon in the US in the 1980s and Hulk Hogan milked his cartoonish character, widening his celebrity beyond wrestling to film and television appearances.
The concept of entropy which states that certain processes are irreversible. One of the more quoted examples is that one can’t unscramble an egg.
Sophie’s Choice (1982). Dustin Hoffman – Kevin Kline.
c) – Roman – essentially from the 4th century BC. Arches had been used as decorative elements before this time (4 000 BC – Sumerians and Babylonians), but it was the Romans who perfected it for practical construction.
Mary Tudor 1553 – 1558. She was followed by the second woman, Elizabeth I.