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Extra Extra, The Colour Purple, Tech Namesakes, Rhymed Out, and It’s Not The Capital.
Extra Extra
Some questions about the very recent past – aka The News.
374 pipers set a new world record for biggest bagpipe ensemble in Melbourne on November 12 with a rendition of what song?
Who won the 2025 New York City mayoral election held on November 4?
James Watson, who died in November aged 97, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the structure of what molecule?
Which pop star told billionaire attendees at a recent Wall Street Journal event “give your money away, shorties”?
Currently on a 24-game winning streak unmatched in AFL or VFL history, which AFLW team recorded a perfect home-and-away season in 2025?
Extra Extra
The Colour Purple
We’ve hit a purple patch.
A U.S. military decoration awarded to personnel injured or killed while serving is the Purple what?
Amethyst is the birthstone for which month of the year?
Known for its bright purple tint and use in Filipino desserts and treats, is ube a type of tuber, berry, or stone fruit?
What shape antenna does Tinky-Winky, the purple Teletubby, have?
In 1984 Prince became the first performer to have the number-one film, album and song at the same time with the film Purple Rain, its soundtrack, and which single?
The Colour Purple
Tech Namesakes
We’ll describe a word; you tell us which software, app, or consumer tech company took it as a name.
A German word (without its usual umlaut) meaning above or over.
The number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeroes, but misspelled.
Common name for a printed or written message that was often transmitted using Morse code.
The “seeing stone” used by Saruman, Sauron and others in The Lord Of The Rings.
A Japanese term used in the ancient board game Go, similar to “check” in chess.
Tech Namesakes
Rhymed Out
All these answers rhyme – not with each other, just with themselves.
Which classic cocktail is made from rum, curaçao, fresh lime juice, and orgeat syrup?
Which actor’s breakout role was the loudmouth record store employee Barry in the 2000 film High Fidelity?
On the UK edition of Monopoly, what is the first property after the Jail corner square?
Which legendary basketball centre won an NBA championship three-peat with the L.A. Lakers in 2000, 2001 and 2002?
The Hughes H-4 Hercules, a wooden plane that boasted the largest wingspan of any operational aircraft up until 2019, is better known by what nickname?
Rhymed Out
It’s Not The Capital
We'll give you a city that’s often incorrectly assumed to be its country’s capital. You give us the correct (current) capital city.
e.g. Sydney, Australia = Canberra
Toronto, Canada
Istanbul, Türkiye
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Karachi, Pakistan
Lagos, Nigeria
It’s Not The Capital
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