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Three’s A Crowd, One Out Of Three Ain’t It, Transforming Tribands, To The Nines, and What’s Missing?

Three’s A Crowd

Prepare yourselves, “three” is the word this week.

1

From which activity did the English idiom “three sheets to the wind” originate?

2

Who nabbed one of her three Best Actress Oscars for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?

3

Who joins the titular Three Musketeers in the Alexandre Dumas novel: D’Aramis, D’Artagnan, or D’Athos?

4

Which Australian fashion brand popular with tweens is being sued for allegedly infringing Adidas’s three-stripe trademark?

5

Who told us not to worry about a thing in the 1980 single “Three Little Birds”?

Three’s A Crowd

One Out Of Three Ain’t It

Keeping the three theme going. Tell us which one of the three options does not belong.

6

Bones found in the head:
Maxilla
Sacrum
Mandible

7

Musical instruments in the percussion family:
Xylophone
Vibraphone
Sousaphone

8

Film crew roles:
Gunzel
Grip
Gaffer

9

Types of fish:
Western Gobbleguts
Bald Uakari
Sarcastic Fringehead

10

Australian cities named after a lord:
Melbourne
Hobart
Brisbane

One Out Of Three Ain’t It

Transforming Tribands

We’ll show you a national flag and tell you how it can be changed to look similar to another country’s flag. Name that second country.

Shades and proportions may not match the pictured flag exactly, so think “similar”, not “identical”.

11
Remove the coat of arms from the flag of Mexico to get the flag of the only country that has two sovereign states completely inside its borders.

Remove the coat of arms from the flag of Mexico to get the flag of the only country that has two sovereign states completely inside its borders.

12
Remove the national seal of the flag of Paraguay to get the flag of the country that has the highest number of bicycles per capita in the world.

Remove the national seal of the flag of Paraguay to get the flag of the country that has the highest number of bicycles per capita in the world.

The flag of Paraguay has two sides – we are referring to the side with the national seal pictured above.

13
Change the position of every stripe in the flag of Bulgaria to get the flag of another European country that, like Bulgaria, borders Romania.

Change the position of every stripe in the flag of Bulgaria to get the flag of another European country that, like Bulgaria, borders Romania.

14
Reverse the order of colours in the flag of Ireland to get the flag of a West African country that is the world’s leading producer of cocoa.

Reverse the order of colours in the flag of Ireland to get the flag of a West African country that is the world’s leading producer of cocoa.

15
Remove the Eagle of Saladin from the flag of Egypt to get the flag of the southernmost country on the Arabian Peninsula.

Remove the Eagle of Saladin from the flag of Egypt to get the flag of the southernmost country on the Arabian Peninsula.

Transforming Tribands

To The Nines

Too many threes you say? How about 3+3+3?

16

Once our Solar System’s ninth planet, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in which decade?

17

Representing nine interconnected types, the Enneagram model is associated with a test that claims to determine what?

18

The 2009 sci-fi film District 9 was set in which country: Sierra Leone, South Africa, or Sudan?

19

Which palindromic word comes from the Latin phrase meaning “ninth hour”?

20
“Nine years in the making” according to team principal Toto Wolff, name this racing driver who last week became the youngest-ever Formula 1 World Champion.

“Nine years in the making” according to team principal Toto Wolff, name this racing driver who last week became the youngest-ever Formula 1 World Champion.

To The Nines

What’s Missing?

Can you name the missing element in the following groups of three?

21

Traditional three “R”s of education:
Reading, writing, ___

22

Not counting the serve, the usual pattern of touches in volleyball:
Dig, Set, ___

According to the International Volleyball Federation.

23

Three “B”s of classical music:
Bach, Beethoven, ___

24

Deities in the Hindu Trimurti:
Brahma, Shiva, ___

25

Vegetables in an Italian soffritto:
Carrot, onion, ___

What’s Missing?

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