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Twenty-Four, Lean Machines, The Wild Wild Nest, Medicine, and Excuse My French.
Twenty-Four
Happy New Year!
What nursery rhyme does the pie brand Four'n Twenty take its name from?
What was the name of Kiefer Sutherland's character in the television series 24?
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is considered one of the three races that form the unofficial Triple Crown of Motorsport. Name one of the other two.
What 5,000-year-old game is played on a board made up of 24 points?
The epic Greek poems Odyssey and Iliad are divided into 24 sections, corresponding to what?
Twenty-Four
Lean Machines
Starting the year off by hitting the gym.
What kind of weight, usually held with two hands, shares part of its name with a kitchen appliance?
According to its name, a GHD gym machine aims to develop what two muscle groups?
Also known as a cross trainer, what piece of equipment is named for the shape created by its moving parts?
What four-syllable term, beginning with the letter E, is often applied to bikes or rowing machines capable of measuring the energy expended by the user?
What piece of equipment was the focal point of the choreography in the music video for Ok Go’s 2005 song Here It Goes Again?
Lean Machines
The Wild Wild Nest
Birds be nestin’.
Finches and thornbills build spherical nests that share their name with what structures usually found on top of religious buildings?
What name is given to the structure on the upper part of a ship’s mast that is used as a lookout point?
Megapode birds like the Brush Turkey and Malleefowl do not use body heat to incubate their eggs. What alternative method do they use to keep their eggs warm?
According to an idiom, what type of nest refers to a very difficult or unpleasant situation?
Obligate brood parasites, like the common cuckoo, do not construct their own nests. Where do they lay their eggs instead?
The Wild Wild Nest
Medicine
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Quinine is used to flavour tonic water and to treat what infectious disease?
Place the following vaccines chronologically from when they were introduced: measles, tetanus, polio.
What is the scientific name of the substance more commonly called laughing gas?
In 1978, Louise Brown became famous for being the first what - recipient of a coronary bypass, person to perform a CT scan, or human to have been born after conception by IVF?
What does the medical term hypodermic mean?
Medicine
Excuse My French
Can you name the common French phrases from their English translation?
Have a nice meal.
That’s life.
A social misstep.
A feeling of having seen or experienced the present situation before.
The very best person or thing of a particular kind.
Excuse My French
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