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Hot Quiz Time Machine, Culture Clash, SCRAMble, Space Exploration, and No Cap.
Hot Quiz Time Machine
We’ve taken you back in time to a previous year. We’ll ask you some questions about things that happened. For the last question, you tell us what year it is.
March saw the premiere of which teen series set in the fictional California town of Sunnydale?
Winning his first Masters Tournament in April, golfer Tiger Woods started a tradition of wearing what colour shirt on the final day of play?
156 years after the First Opium War, the British handed over which region at midnight on July 1?
At the funeral of Princess Diana in September, Elton John sang a new version of “Candle In The Wind”, which he and Bernie Taupin originally wrote about which Hollywood star?
The events of the first four questions all occurred in what year?
Hot Quiz Time Machine
Culture Clash
Where pop culture and fancy art forms meet.
2005’s award-winning “Big Ad”, featuring Carmina Burana’s “O Fortuna”, was produced for which Australian beer brand?
Shared with Renaissance artists, give us all four names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Which famous European landmark does not have a prominent replica in Las Vegas: Big Ben, the Rialto Bridge, or the Arc de Triomphe?
Vitamin C’s “Graduation”, Maroon 5’s “Memories” and the Pet Shop Boys cover of “Go West” all interpolate which classical piece often heard at weddings?
A 1990 “Treehouse of Horror” episode of The Simpsons features James Earl Jones narrating which Edgar Allan Poe poem?
Culture Clash
SCRAMble
Each answer is a word that contains the letters S, C, R, A and M at least once.
For example, an answer for “Run fast” could be SCAMPER, but not SCARPER or SPRINT.
Maybe she’s born with it; maybe she’s wearing this lash-enhancing product.
This three-leafed clover represents Ireland and/or St. Patrick’s Day.
We’re looking for the US / English spelling – apologies to our Gaeilge-speaking quizzers.
The Gen Z slang “rizz” might be short for this enviable personal attribute.
This bone near the base of your spine is the last stop before your coccyx.
This branch of political philosophy is often misunderstood – it’s anti-hierarchy, not just pro-chaos.
SCRAMble
Space Exploration
If you’re gonna boldly go anywhere, might as well be where no one has gone before.
Launched in 1957, what was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite?
The NASA mission to put a permanent base, as well as the first woman and first person of colour, on the moon is named after which Greek goddess?
Breaking a record they still hold today, the crew of which Apollo mission travelled further from the Earth’s surface than any other human?
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent nearly a full year “stranded” on space station Mir in 1991 and 1992 due to what major geopolitical event?
In 2019, which nation’s space program was the first to make a successful soft landing on the far side of the Moon?
Space Exploration
No Cap
Three cities, no capitals. Name the country.
Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai
Busan, Daegu, Incheon
Medellín, Cali, Cartagena
Perth, Dundee, Stirling
Fez, Marrakesh, Casablanca
No Cap
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