#279

Shape Up, Pumpkins, Famous First Words, Crazes, and Next In Sequence.

Shape Up

Get into the right frame of mind.

1

The biscuits of which Arnott's Shapes flavour are shaped like the Australian mainland and Tasmania?

2

The button to turn on a car’s hazard lights almost always features what shape?

3

The name of the pasta shape orecchiette translates to English as little what?

4

The die most commonly used in Dungeons & Dragons is an icosahedron, which has how many faces?

5

Born in 1898, which Dutch graphic artist is best known for his illustrations of optical illusions and impossible geometric shapes?

Shape Up

Pumpkins

Babe, wake up! It’s decorative gourd season!

6

The seeds of some pumpkins are sold as a snack under what other name also beginning with P?

7

Which Marvel villain was the first to use Pumpkin Bomb grenades as weapons?

8

In 2015, after over a decade on the market, Starbucks amended their Pumpkin Spice Latte recipe to include what ingredient?

9

Coloured pumpkins with polka dots feature heavily in sculptures and installations by which contemporary Japanese artist?

10

According to the first line of the Smashing Pumpkins song “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”, the world is what kind of mythical being?

Pumpkins

Famous First Words

Can you name the book based on its opening sentence?

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Call me Ishmael. (1851)

12

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. (1949)

13

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (1915, translated from German)

14

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (1992)

15

Your end is a dead blue wren. (2018)

Famous First Words

Crazes

Fads, frenzies, and flashes in pans.

16

The viral Ice Bucket Challenge aimed to raise awareness of a specific condition commonly known by what three-letter initialism?

17

The name “tamagotchi” is a portmanteau of Japanese words for “wristwatch” and what other object?

18

South Beach, Dukan, and Atkins are all fad diets that involve heavily reducing or cutting out which macronutrient?

19

Ed Sheeran and Robert De Niro are two famous figures who joined in a 2025 TikTok trend where straight men called a male friend just to say what?

20

In which decade of the 20th century did the Slinky debut?

Crazes

Next In Sequence

Can you work out our sequence and name the next thing or person?

21

Eins, zwei, drei, ...

22

New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Swan River Colony, ...

23

Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, ...

24

Keys & Sinner, Gauff & Alcaraz, Świątek & Sinner, ...

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Shannon Noll, Anthony Callea, Emily Williams, ...

Next In Sequence

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