#141

History, Wind, Baking, Ants, and Ologies.

History

Going back to the olden days.

1

In what decade did full-colour TV service commence nationwide in Australia?

2

Which city was the first to reach a population of over 5 million people - London, New York or Tokyo?

3

What was the name of the intergovernmental organisation formed to maintain world peace after World War I?

4

Who was the first emperor of ancient Rome?

5

In 1629, what Dutch East India Company ship was wrecked on a chain of small islands off the western coast of Australia?

History

Wind

What is the point of it?

6

Starting with A, what is a meteorological device that measures wind speed and direction?

7

In what decade was the children’s classic novel The Wind In The Willows first published?

8

What does it mean to say that someone is three sheets to the wind?

9

Elton John’s song Candle in the Wind was written in honour of who?

10

Do the Roaring Forties winds off the southern edge of Australia blow from East to West or West to East?

Wind

Baking

Edible chemistry.

11

How many items are in a baker’s dozen?

12

What is the more common name for sodium bicarbonate?

13

In France, what is a bakery called?

14

What is a large urn-shaped oven, usually made of clay, originating from the Indian Subcontinent?

15

What other cooking process happens before baking when making bagels?

Baking

Ants

The hardest workers in the room.

16

Ants are believed to have evolved from what other insect?

17

ANT is the IOC country code for what island nation?

18

In 1998, Pixar and DreamWorks both released films centred around a colony of ants - what was the Pixar one called?

19

Anthony McPartlin and Dec Donnelly form the British television presenting duo better known as what?

20

What idiom means to be so excited, nervous or anxious about something that sitting still is hard?

Ants

Ologies

Can you correctly identify the definitions of the following 'ology' words?

21

Anthropology

22

Dermatology

23

Horology

24

Etymology

25

Hippology

Ologies

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