Trivia

1. Which European country was governed by two women in mid-2010: a queen and a prime minister? 1 point

2. The first issue of Reader’s Digest in 1922 featured an article by what Scottish-born inventor? 2 points

3. Most famous for the raid on its airport, Entebbe was which country’s capital until 1962? 2 points

4. The Hawaiian deity Poli’ahu is associated with a weather phenomenon that rarely occurs in Hawaii below its peaks. Which one? 1 point

5. Blood from a Siberian specimen may contain enough DNA to clone what extinct animal? 1 point

6. Australia has the world’s largest sand island. What is it named? 1 point

7. Name the signature drink of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. 1 point

8. The only Latin book to crack The New York Times bestseller list was a 1960 translation of what A.A. Milne classic? 1 point

9. What’s the name of the supercontinent that once incorporated most of the land on Earth? 2 points

10. In what movie did Joe Pesci improvise a scene based on a real incident in which he told a mobster he was funny? 1 point

11. PETA disapproved of Barack Obama’s ‘execution’ of what creature during a 2009 TV interview? 2 points

12. According to the adage ‘Betteridge’s law of headlines’, what answer can you give to any headline that ends in a question mark? 2 points

13. Put ‘Angkor’ before this word and you have a Cambodian temple. 1 point 14. Abimelech; Samson; King Saul; Saul’s armour bearer; Ahithophel; Zimri and Judas are the only biblical figures to die how? 2 points