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Tiebreaker
List as many
as you can of the films that Alfred Hitchcock directed between 1940
and his death in 1972.
Sports
1. What is the
name of the Swedish female golfer who will be the first woman to
compete in a PGA tour in 58 years?
2. In baseball, what is the term for not striking the ball with
the bat, but just letting it hit the bat, in order to stop it dead?
3. What is the name of the horse who won the Kentucky Derby a few
weeks back?
4. In what sport are the two scoring maneuvers known as a goal and
a behind?
5. Arsenal just won the FA Cup, who did they beat?
Kinda recent
news
6. This weekend,
yet another nation had a national vote on joining the EU. 92% voted
“yes” – in what country?
7. Last week bombs went off in the capitol of Saudi Arabia. What
is it called?
8. The SARS epidemic seems to be over – what does the acronym
stand for?
9. What did we miss in Sweden on Friday morning because the sun
rises so early here?
10. What Finnish violin star is now bankrupt after having been sued
for slander by a multimillionaire?
Entertainment.
11. The Matrix
Reloaded is the second in a trilogy of Matrix movies – what
is the name of the third one, which will open this fall?
12. What rock song begins Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
/ And stars fill my dream / I am a traveller of both time and space
/ To be where I have been?
13. What is the name of the longest-running play in the world, currently
in its 48th year?
14. Jerry Garcia is the deceased, but still most famous member of
what stoner band?
15. What member of the Friends cast just got married in Hawaii on
May 3rd?
Audiovisual.
"Prime
time friends"
The visual clues
were matched with a sound clue (and I'm not about to put up MP3's,
sorry)
Tell me the title of
the show.
General Knowledge
16. What is
the difference between an ape and a monkey?
17. In December 1972, the last human - so far - to set foot on the
moon took off and headed homw. What was his name?
18. Who or what is Schrödinger’s Cat?
19. What country did Enver Hoxha rule with an iron fist from 1944
to 1985?
20. What was the name of the egyptian god of cats, from which all
cats were thought to be descended? It’s not Isis, mind you.
21. Paying attention? What does the dinosaur name “Velociraptor”
mean?
22. What was the name of Sherlock Holmes’ arch enemy?
23. In what spectacular manner did world-famous ballerina Isadora
Duncan meet her death?
24. Archie Leach was, as you trivia hounds should remember, Cary
Grants real name – but what British humor movie features a
character of the same name?
25. What distinguishing feature does the Chow dog have that is shared
by no other breed?
26. What US state has the southernmost point of all?
27. What world-famous copper female was created by Frederic-Auguste
Bartholdi?
28. Who was premier of the Soviet Union between Leonid Brezhnev
and Konstantin Chernenko?
29. With over 3 million works of art, in what city would you find
the world’s largest art gallery the Hermitage?
30. How would you describe the rare typographical character called
“interrobang"?
Brain
Teasers
1.
What phrase does the following represent?
X Mississippi
X Nile
X Amazon
X Rhine
_ Danube
2. What word
is represented below?
s . .
t . .
o n e
3. Name a common
English word, besides tremendous, stupendous, and horrendous, that
ends in "dous."
4. If 3 thistled
thrushes eat 3 packs of birdseed in 3 weeks and 4 feathery finches
eat 4 packs of birdseed in 4 weeks and 6 coloured cockatoos eat
6 packs of birdseed in 6 weeks then how much birdseed will feed
12 thistled thrushes, 12 feathery finches and 12 coloured cockatoos
for 12 weeks?
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