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Extra Extra, Who Got Game?, Add One Letter, Spiders, and Famous Handles.

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All the news that’s fit to quiz.

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Now returned to sea, what’s the name of Tasmania’s celebrated traffic cone-loving southern elephant seal?

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Who succeeded Keir Starmer as UK prime minister?

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Which television show recently broke the record for most Emmy nominations for a comedy: Hacks, The Bear, or Abbott Elementary?

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Marking the centenary of its architect’s death, Pope Leo XIV visited which famous unfinished building on 10 June?

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Qantas completed the longest-ever flight by a commercial plane this week from Melbourne to Toulouse, France. To the nearest hour, how long did it take?

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Who Got Game?

All kinds of games are fair game here.

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In the original Fruit Ninja, which non-fruit item sometimes appears on the screen but must not be sliced?

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Which Monopoly token first seen in the 1930s shares its name with a classic board game?

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Which fictional location does not feature in the Grand Theft Auto series: Liberty City, Los Santos, or New Vegas?

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Which board game removed mention of “settlers” to create a shortened name as part of its 20th anniversary release in 2015?

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Which actor connects the video game films Borderlands, A Minecraft Movie & The Super Mario Bros. Movie?

Who Got Game?

Add One Letter

Can you name the two words from the clues below? The second word is just the first word with one additional letter thrown in!
E.g. Old -> Gold or Rod -> Road

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A two-letter adjective for fashionable → an atom or molecule with a net electric charge.

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European capital city that took quite a while to build → given name mentioned in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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Talking lion from Narnia → language used by the Australian Deaf community.

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Chinese leader of the Long March → “saucy” Irish county that recently won their first All-Ireland Gaelic football championship in 75 years.

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The largest island in the Caribbean → aquatic acronym coined in 1952.

Add One Letter

Spiders

This category has legs!

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In Australia, a drink made of soft drink and ice cream is called a spider. Starting with the letter F, what do Americans typically call it?

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What is the name of the pig that befriends the titular spider in the children’s book Charlotte’s Web?

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J. Jonah Jameson is the long-serving editor of which fictional newspaper featured in Spider-Man comics and films: The Daily Planet, The Daily Bugle, or the Daily Globe?

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The Spiders from Mars were the backing band of which singer?

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Name at least three of the ten most dangerous Australian spiders, according to Australian Geographic.

Spiders

Famous Handles

We’ll tell you the Instagram username. You tell us the famous figure behind it.

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@badgalriri

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@champagnepapi

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@teddysphotos

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@tamepunk

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@kingjames

Famous Handles

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