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Tiebreaker
List as many
as you can of the capitols of the Americas (North, Central and
South America, including the Caribbean). No need to match them
with countries, just write them down.
Sports
1. Played
mainly on Ireland, with a ball called a sliotar (“slitter”)
and an H-shaped goal. What sport?
2. How many gold medals did Sweden take at the indoor track and
field world championships in Birmingham?
3. What is the full name of the hockey player called “Foppa”?
4. Tracy McGrady is last season’s top scorer in the US league
of what sport?
5. What are the two biggest Glasgow football teams called?
Kinda recent
news
6. In what
town in Dalarna was a local reelection held for the first time
in modern history?
7. A fifteen-year-old girl abducted nine months ago in Salt Lake
City was recently found alive. Her name is Elizabeth Smart. What
name had her abductor chosen for himself?
8. What is the name of Vänsterpartiet’s new leader?
9. The papers which were supposed to prove that Iraq was trying
to buy fissionable material in Africa, but which were proven to
be poor forgeries, were supposedly signed by the president of
what nation?
10. What former soviet republic is holding elections today?
Entertainment
11. (Played
the theme from the Mission Impossible TV series) Who is the composer?
12. In which Hitchcock film does Tippi Hedren play a kleptomaniac?
13. After the quirky Kid A, Radiohead released a slightly more
accessible album from the same recording sessions. Do you remember
what it was called?
14. In which century was composer Philip Glass born?
15. TV4 just started running a new cop show starring former New
Kids on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg. What is it called?
Visual.
"Bang the
drum slowly"
Tell me the
names of the drummers and the bands they are most famous for drumming
with.
Clues: one drummer
has only got one arm, one drummer hates Napster, one drummer is
dead,
one drummer is now a singer and guitarist, one drummer is sometimes
called The Rhythmatist,
one drummer has a jazz band on the side, one drummer has left his
band for a solo career and
one drummer had to add "Jr." to his name so his dad wouldn't
get his tax bills.
General
Knowledge
16. What is
the name of the composer who turned both Shakespeare’s Macbeth
and Othello into operas?
17. A “Habanera” is the female native of what city?
18. In 1778 James Cook found a group of islands in the pacific
that he called “The Sandwich Islands”. The name didn’t
stick – what do we know them as today?
19. “Love apple” is an old term for what?
20. What is the Swahili word for “Sir”? You’re
more likely to have heard it than you think, and it's not "massa".
21. Which European country has only had female monarchs throughout
the 20th century?
22. What is a “nybble”?
23. The secretive nobleman Percy Blakeney is a fictional character
more commonly known by his alias. What is it?
24. In 1912, Josef Djugasvilij changed his name. To what?
25. What is the name of the danish-born scientist who formulated
the modern quantum theory of matter?
26. Please draw the symbol “ampersand” (and don’t
reverse it – a lot of people do)
27. For people who paid attention in the last quiz: what is the
heraldic name for the color red?
28. Who or what is Roy G Biv?
29. What was the name of the evil wizard who always hounded the
little blue Smurfs?
30. Which European country has a currency called the Lek, which
is divided into 100 Quintars?
Brain
Teasers
1.
All the items in the first list share a particular attribute. The
second list is of some items lacking the attribute.
with: battery,
key, yeast, bookmark
w/out: stapler, match, Rubik's cube, pill bottle
(Pay the most
attention to the 'with' list. The 'without' list is only present
to eliminate various 'stupid' answers.)
2. What phrase
is represented below?
siinformationde
3. What am I?
With thieves
I consort,
With the vilest, in short,
I'm quite at ease in depravity;
Yet all divines use me,
And savants can't lose me,
For I am the center of gravity.
4. Draw the
next figure in the sequence.
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