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Tie breaker
Please tell me the names
of as many NHL teams as you can. This includes location and team
name, so for instance, if the team’s official name is “The
Hoboken Thundercats” just “The Thundercats” is not
a correct answer.
Sports
1. Mexican boxer Yory
Boy Campas just lost a light-middleweight boxing match in Las Vegas.
Who beat him?
2. A squash game has five sets. How many points do you need to take
to win a game, barring a tie?
3. Swedish football player Marcus Allbäck plays for what Premier
League team?
4. Who just became the oldest tennis player ever to be ranked world
number one?
5. What former Olympic gold medalist recently admitted to having
used performance-enhancing drugs and is suspected of drunk driving
after crashing his Maserati two weeks ago?
Kinda recent news
6. What country is The
Pope currently visiting?
7. 97 oil workers were – until yesterday - being held hostage
on an oil rig off the coast of what nation?
8. A surprise discovery was recently made among debris from the
disintegrated space shuttle Columbia. What?
9. Toronto’s tourism has dropped due to SARS. What did Imperial
Oil and Petro-Canada do this weekend to try to help?
10. May 1st saw an earthquake kill close to 200 people – in
what country?
Entertainment
11. This song, written
by Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman features in the West End musical
Bombay Dreams. Which famous British composer produced this musical?
12. February 3rd 1959 is often known as “The Day the Music
Died” since Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson
were all killed in a plane crash. J.P. Richardson was more famous
under what name?
13. Pop singer Elvis Costello just got engaged to what jazz singer?
14. What British music star has been personally invited by Robert
de Niro to perform at his Tribeca Film Festival?
15. The Osbournes patriarch Ozzy has had a long solo career, but
what was the name of the band that made him famous?
Visual.
"Let's
hear it for the X chromosome!"
Three politicians,
two Nobel laureates, one porn star,
one scientist, one movie star, one pilot, two writers.
Tell me their full, real
names.
General
knowledge
16. Who
was the first person to fly into space?
17. What is Tony Blair’s wife’s first name?
18. Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?
19. Who or what is Alan Smithee?
20. What is the brief name for Italy’s longest river?
21. The phrase “Our lord is a shoving leopard” is an example
of what?
22. In the Bible, who succeeded Moses as the first leader of Israel?
23. The name of Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert is for
some reason used to indicate something of an intimate nature. What?
24. The Tangelo is a cross between a tangerine and what other citrus
fruit?
25. Bucharest is the capital of what country?
26. The Canary Islands were named for what animal?
27. What did Winston Churchill call “A riddle, wrapped in a
mystery, inside an enigma”?
28. In computers, what animal is the mascot of the Linux operating
system?
29. What artist painted the rather disturbing piece called “Study
After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X”?
30. How many time zones are there in China?
Brain
Teasers
1. A customer
at a 7-11 store selected four items to buy, and was told that the
cost
was $7.11. He was curious that the cost was the same as the store
name, so he
inquired as to how the figure was derived. The clerk said that he
had simply
multiplied the prices of the four individual items. The customer
protested that
the four prices should have been added, not multiplied. The clerk
said that
that was OK with him, but, the result was still the same: exactly
$7.11.
What were the prices of the four items?
2. What
phrase is represented below?
OHIOWA
3. When
I am filled
I can point the way,
When I am empty
Nothing moves me,
I have two skins
One without and one within.
4. Arrange
10 points so that they form 5 rows of 4 each.
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