Tiebreaker

List as many as you can of the winners in the Best Picture category of the Oscars from 1980 until today.

Sports

1, When Abebe Bikela won the olympic marathon race in 1960, what did he go without?
2. Sweden got knocked out of the tennis tournament Davis Cup by what country?
3. In what sport do you have to get a rock into a house?
4. What is the name of the winning horse from this year’s classic horse race The Grand National?
5. What is the name of Baltimore’s american football team?

Kinda recent news

6. What is the name of the 19-year-old female American prisoner of war rescued by coalition troops a few days ago?
7. Which venereal disease has been linked to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome?
8. Which former Robinson contestant claimed that she was a legend and deserved to get a house from the state? Just the first name will do.
9. Bo Lundgren recently stepped down as head of Moderaterna. One of the main candidates lined up to replace him is called Fredrik. What is his last name?
10. What is the name if Iraq’s foreign minister?

Entertainment.

11. (Played The Divine Comedy’s cover version of the “Life on Mars") What is the birth name of the person who wrote this song and made the original version famous?
12. The principal of Bart Simpson’s school and Mulder and Scully’s boss at the FBI share what name?
13. What non-American movie star is marrying his girlfriend Danielle Spencer tomorrow and following it with a three-day party?
14. What was John Cleese’s original family name?
15. What country band had a member proclaim at a concert that they were ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, just as they are?

Visual.

"Underneath the bark"

Tell me the breed of dog (the first one is very grey, but it is not a greyhound).

General Knowledge

16. What do Argentinians call the Falkland Islands?
17. Who or what is “Bibendum”?
18. What is the name of Winne the Pooh’s human friend?
19. In 1978 Karol Wojtyla became one of the most famous people in the world. Why?
20. What is the name of the architect famous for buildings like Fallingwater and the Guggenheim museum?
21. Which Florentine adventurer gave his name to America?
22. Mount Godwin Austen or Chogori, is more well known by a much shorter name. What?
23. When it comes to computers, what does SQL stand for?
24. Who wrote the books “High Fidelity”, “Fever Pitch” and “About a Boy”?
25. What does a numismatist do?
26. What dinosaur’s name means “three-horned head”?
27. What was the name of the evil sorceress who plotted the overthrow of her brother King Arthur?
28. What is the name of the famous riding school in Austria that features a Slovenian breed of Arabian horses?
29. Paying attention? What are the colors of the spectrum, in order?
30. What country is the home of Stilton cheese?

Brain Teasers

1. Why are 1898 silver dollars worth more than 1897 silver dollars?

2. What phrase is represented below?

3.

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
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4. You can only pass the letters in order ABCABC, etc. Each point can be crossed several
times (but the in the proper solution no point gets passed more than twice).

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