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• Quiz Number #60419th July 2025

  Round 1
  1. Spelling: Pronunciation

  2. Sound travels fastest in which of these. air, steel, , wood or water.
  Steel

  3. Which cookware and small appliance manufacturer featured scientists with massive foreheads in their TV adverts?
  Tefal

  4. On a snooker table, what B is the name of the line that the D shape sits on?
  Balk Line

  5. Who commanded the British Army from late 1915 until the end of the war in 1918?
  Field Marshal Douglas Haig

  6. Which of these goalkeepers has never collected a World Cup medal? David de Gea | Emiliano Martínez | Hugo Lloris | Manuel Neuer
  David de Gea

  7. True or False: According to the (UK) Profiling the Profession survey (2019–2020) 91% of archaeologists were women?
  FALSE – it’s 47% (but they are good at digging up the past!)

  8. Which castle on the shores of Loch Sween, is believed to be the oldest stone castle in Scotland?
  Castle Sween

  9. Which novel by Graham Greene was adapted into a 1948 gangster film?
  Brighton Rock

  10. Who is the most recent Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the Labour Party prior to Angela Rayner?
  John Prescott

  11. What’s the hottest planet in our solar system?
  Venus

  12. Who are the intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy? IAEA | INSO | EIEIO
  IAEA

  Final Rounds

  Odd One Out Because…
  
  1. His name is not Brian Cox. (Pictures of 2 x Brian Cox & Peter Mullan)

  2. The opening word (lyric) isn’t “Hello”.
  Adele – Hello | Eminem – Hello | Lionel Ritchie – Hello <

  3. Wasn’t made fully or partly with scenes in black and white.
  Godfather Part III < | Oppenheimer | Schindler's List

  4. He’s not a Scottish snooker player.
  Graeme Dott | Mark Williams < | John Higgins

  5. It’s located in the asteroid belt. (note: the others are in the Kuiper belt)
  Pluto | Eris | Ceres <
  
  Final 5- Double Money! 5x Questions for 10 Points

  6. Who were the other two members of the pop band Brown Sauce, alongside Noel Edmonds?
  Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin

  7. Name both of the films directed by Danny Boyle that start with 28 and ends in later?
  28 Days Later – 28 Years Later (28 Weeks Later (2007): Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)

  8. Which two countries have produced the most men’s singles Wimbledon champions?
  USA and UK

  9. Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA are 5 members of the G7. Who are the other 2?
  Italy & Japan

  10. Who are the only two female players to have achieved a Career Golden Slam in singles?
  Steffi Graf and Serena Williams

  Additional

  Countdown

  Letters: Eldest Nut

  Answer: Unsettled

  Clue: Still in doubt.

  
  
  Tie Break

  How many Grand Slam singles titles have Venus and Serena Williams won in total?
  30 (7 + 23)

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Music Rounds

1 minute clip (play twice during presentation) with 5 songs from 5 different decades.

Format 1: Pull the first letter from each artist and it will spell out which 5 letter word?

Format 2: Give the teams the 5 letter word first, then play the clip and have them name each artist.

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