Round 1

1. Spelling: PIROUETTE (ballet spin)

2. Are solar panels compulsory on new build houses in the UK? (builds started from 2021) YES | NO
NO

3. Which of these can be made by anyone because McVitie’s did not register the name? Penguin  | Jaffa Cake < | Hobnob
Jaffa Cake

4. A recording studio mixing console may have buttons labelled PFL. What does the L stand for?
Listen

5. Who was the US president on (actual) VE-Day?
Harry S. Truman

6. In the Lion King, what is the name of Simba’s father?
Mufasa

7. Which GG became famous with her first book “The Female Eunuch” and is regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement ?
Germaine Greer

8. Music – slowed down clip:
Real Gone Kid

9. The time now (question valid in summer). Which of these is the odd one out because it’s an hour out? Ivory Coast | Iceland | Morocco | Portugal
Portugal

10. Which amphibian shares it’s name with  a part of a horse’s hoof?
Frog

11. Which scientist, born in Yorkshire in 1733, is famous for discovering oxygen?
Joseph Priestley

12. The most recent FIFA (Men’s) World Cup Final was held in which city?
Lusail

Final Round

CONNECT 4 (4 quiz questions – for number 5, find the connection with your answers)

1. What word can be a a musical composition, or a quantity in statistics or units?
SCORE

2. What word can be a flat fish, or something with a blade by John Wilson & MK?
SKATE

3. What word can be applied to walls or a wound?
PLASTER

4. Which word can be something that can be used to play, pay or sent with sentiment?
CARD

5. Connection : BOARD
Scoreboard | Skateboard | Plasterboard | Cardboard

Final 5

6. The ghosts in Pac-Man are called Inky, Pinky, Blinky and… there is a 4th one. It shares it’s name with which river?
Clyde

7. “Got to Be There” was the debut solo studio album by who?
Michael Jackson

8. Which of these holiday destinations do you need a travel adapter, because they don’t use Type-G (as used in UK)? Jamaica < | Cyprus  | Malaysia |Dubai
Jamaica

9. In the human body, Plane, Condyloid & Ellipsoidal are all types of what?
Joints

10. In the 1956 film “The Ten Commandments”, which actor provided the voice of God at the burning bush?
Charlton Heston

Additional

Countdown

Answer: INTRUDERS

Letters: DRIER NUTS

Clue: People who enter without permission.

Tie Break

Jonathan is a giant tortoise who lives on the island of Saint Helena. He is the oldest known living land animal. How old is he as of 2024?

191 – 192

Bonus Guess The Year

London Mayor, Boris Johnson attends the opening of the first Invictus Games. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanishes. Lewis Hamilton wins his second World Drivers’ Championship. Rangers become champions of Scottish League One. Pharrel Williams is Happy to be at number 1.

2014.