#256

Make Room!, Can You Dig It?, Visions of Europe, Hey Big Spender, and Author By Detective.

Make Room!

If these walls could talk…

1

“The Room Where It Happens” is a song from which 2010s Broadway musical?

2

According to the Australian National Construction Code (NCC), what is the minimum height required for ceilings of any habitable room, like a bedroom: 2.4m, 2.8m or 3.2m?

3

Also the name of a documentary about the movie, what number hotel room do Danny and Jack Torrance each discover is haunted in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of The Shining?

4

What term starting with C describes the room of a house that is usually filled with plants and typically features walls and a ceiling made of glass?

5

In all three versions of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Bedroom (aka Bedroom in Arles), how many chairs are there?

Make Room!

Can You Dig It?

My love is mine, all mine.

6

The largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, discovered in the Victorian goldfields in 1869, is commonly known by what name: Welcome Stranger, Howdy Friend, or G'day Mate?

7

Dating back to approximately 4,300BCE, the site widely considered to be world's oldest man-made mine is found on which continent?

8

Welsh coal miners going on strike partly inspired which director to make his 1986 animated film Castle In The Sky?

9

What name starting with E is commonly given to a naturally occurring alloy of silver and gold?

10

The world's largest land vehicle, Bagger 293, is what kind of machine: a bucket-wheel excavator, dump truck, or electric rope shovel?

Can You Dig It?

Visions of Europe

We'll give you the sights, you tell us the European city where you'll find them.

11

Kastellet Fortress, The Little Mermaid, and Gefion Fountain.

12

The Cannaregio Canal, Ponte di Rialto, and St Mark's Basilica.

13

Temple Bar, Trinity College, and the Poolbeg Chimneys.

14

25 de Abril Bridge, Belém Tower, and São Jorge Castle.

15

Fisherman's Bastion, Szechenyi Baths, and Magyar Allami Operahaz.

Visions of Europe

Hey Big Spender

In this economy??

16

According to The Hollywood Reporter, who secured the highest ever upfront salary paid to a female actor to appear in a single film (for a 2013 movie in which she is on screen for 73 of its 91 minutes)?

17

Valued at over $10 million, one of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings was given to Mariah Carey by which former beau?

18

In 2017, which player set a record for the most expensive football transfer when they joined Paris Saint-Germain for a fee of 220 million Euros?

19

Businessman Mukesh Ambani spent US$2 billion building a 27-floor home on Altamount Road, known as the Billionaire's Row of which city?

20

Breaking the record in 2022, the most expensive car ever sold at auction was produced by which European car manufacturer?

Hey Big Spender

Author By Detective

We’ll give you the names of famous literary sleuths (and their creator's initials); you tell us the writer who created them.

21

Sherlock Holmes
(ACD)

22

Miss Marple
(AC)

23

C. Auguste Dupin
(EAP)

24

Precious Ramotswe
(AMS)

25

Miss Phryne Fisher
(KG)

Author By Detective

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