Food & Drink What name is given to a dessert of vanilla ice cream, peaches, and raspberry sauce?
Peach Melba (created by the French chef Auguste Escoffier in honour of Dame Nellie Melba)
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On This Day Commemorated as Australia Day, who led the British Fleet into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish the first permanent European settlement on Australia on this day, 26th January 1788?
Arthur Phillip
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Anagram WE TOLERATED ANAL, SO COPY is an anagram of what author and 1869 book title? (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (1966)
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History In 1488, what Portuguese explorer led the first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope, opening a sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans?
Bartolomeu Dias
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Geography Roseau is the capital and largest city of what island country in the Caribbean?
Dominica
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Science & Nature What is the most prevalent viral infectious disease worldwide for which there is no vaccine?
Cold / Common cold
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Logos Formerly known as the Google self-driving car project, what subsidiary of Alphabet Inc is represented by this logo?
Waymo
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Music Best known for his collaborations with DJ and record producer Ryan Lewis, by what name is American rapper and songwriter Benjamin Hammond Haggerty best known?
Macklemore
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Sport & Leisure To date, who is the all-time leading goal scorer in FIFA World Cup finals history?
Miroslav Klose (Germany - 16 - 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)
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Entertainment Jack Lemmon plays a Manhattan insurance clerk who tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his flat for clandestine extramarital affairs, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Name this 1960 film.
The Apartment
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Brainteaser Rearrange the order of the following words and place them beneath one another in a list. If placed correctly, a word will be read down the second column, and another word down the fifth column. What are the two associated words? FUTURE ASSIST IGNORE ELBOWS FLAGON RECIPE CASUAL
Food & Drink Translating into English as "before the meal", what name is given to the traditional first course of a formal Italian meal?
Antipasto (Plural: antipasti. From Latin "ante", before, and "pastus", meal/pasture)
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In This Year In this year: An earthquake in Haiti killed more than 316,000 people; the Deepwater Horizon oil spill discharged nearly 5 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; and David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. What year was it? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
2010
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Art & Literature Among both the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, what book has the shortest title?
Job
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989)
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Anagram ALL IN OUR TITS is an anagram of what sketchy 12-letter word?
Illustration
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Entertainment In the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, who stars as Roy Neary, a man on an obsessed cross-country quest for answers to his encounter with a UFO?
Richard Dreyfuss
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Science & Nature Still operational today, the world's first Web site was established in 1990 in what country?
Switzerland (info.cern.ch)
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Maps What U.S. state is this?
Utah
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Music Joe Strummer was the 1976 co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of what punk rock band?
The Clash
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Sport & Leisure What town in the Isle of Wight, England has hosted international yacht racing since 1815?
Cowes
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Entertainment The title of an NBC TV series, first aired between 1985 and 1992, by what name are Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia collectively known?
The Golden Girls (Rue McClanahan, Betty White, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty)
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Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well-known term or phrase.
Space Invader
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On This Day The world's first demonstration of a working television was made by John Logie Baird on this day, 26th January, in what year? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1926
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Art & Literature First published in 1813, who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time (1998)
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History What name is given to the Boeing B-29 heavy bomber used during World War II and the Korean War?
Superfortress
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Geography In what country in the United Kingdom are the Sperrin Mountains located?
Northern Island
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Science & Nature At 20 °C, sound travels through air at how many metres per second? [±10]
343
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Landmarks In what country would you find the Puerto Princesa Underground River?
Philippines
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Music "No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue." are lyrics from what Rolling Stones song?
Paint It Black (1966)
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Sport & Leisure A soft, generally red hat, worn by freed slaves in parts of ancient Greece, what 'P' describes the mascots for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris?
Phryges
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Entertainment Complete the title of this 2022 film: Jurassic World _____
Dominion
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Ditloids Replace these initials with words to make a true statement: 10 F in a G of T B
