Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz.
Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz.
March 16, 2025 — 10.59pm
BEGINNERS (1 point each)
1. Which vegetable incorporates Belgium’s capital in its name?
2. Cryogenics is the science that addresses the production and effects of what?
3. Which famous bridge links the New Prison and the Doge’s Palace in Venice?
4. In music mythology, which blues artist sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads?
5. The same year as Let It Be was released, what year did The Beatles disband: 1970, 1972 or 1974?
INTERMEDIATE (2 points each)
6. The British claymation characters Wallace & Gromit revived the popularity of what Yorkshire cheese?
7. What is the study of visual imagery and its symbolism?
8. Hollywood actress Jo Raquel Tejada was better known by what name?
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9. Who was Aristotle Onassis’s long-standing mistress?
10. Before starring in the TV series Charlie’s Angels, who modelled a red swimsuit for a 1976 poster that would become an all-time bestseller?
ADVANCED (3 points each)
11. Marfan syndrome, characterised by unusually long limbs, is believed to have affected which American president?
12. Which Australian folk-influenced pop group sang about living in A World of Our Own in 1965?
13. Located in the South Pacific Ocean, what is notable about Point Nemo?
14. In Norse mythology, the wolves Geri and Freki are associated with which god?
15. According to the title of David Bowie’s 1972 album, what band plays with his alter ego Ziggy Stardust?
ANSWERS:
1. Brussels sprouts 2. Very low temperatures 3. The Bridge of Sighs 4. Robert Johnson 5. 1970 6. Wensleydale 7. Iconography 8. Raquel Welch 9. Maria Callas 10. Farrah Fawcett 11. Abraham Lincoln 12. The Seekers 13. The farthest place in the world from land 14. Odin 15. The Spiders from Mars. Compiled by Michelle Stillman
By Michelle Stillman
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