260 Question Alphabet Quiz

A special 260 question alphabet quiz. 260 rounds of 10 questions where the answers are in alphabetical order. I’ve grouped them into 20 questions at a time with the answers under so that you can just scroll though. Enjoy!

A

1. What is the name for a woman who is superior to a convent in certain religious orders?
2. What is the only country beside Azerbaijan that starts with an ‘A’ but doesn’t end with an ‘A’?
3. Which star, the brightest in the constellation Taurus, is known as the ‘Eye of Taurus’?
4. Winning in both 1957 And 1958, who was the first African-American woman to win a Wimbledon Tennis event?
5. What is the name of the daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, who is said to have escaped death in the Russian revolution?
6. Ethylene glycol is frequently used in automobiles, particularly in cold climates/weather. What is it better known as?
7. What name is given to a person bound for a number of years to a master who undertakes to instruct them?
8. What is the name for a well in which water rises through natural pressure?
9. Acetylsalicylic acid is the active ingredient in which incredibly popular and well known drug?
10. The Northern Lights are the Aurora Borealis, what name is given to the Southern Lights?

B

1. Groundhog day probably came from a German tradition, which animal did the Germans look for?
2. On which London street is the commemoration statue of fictional character Sherlock Holmes?
3. What is the name given to a large patterned handkerchief?
4. What is it called when fat and juices from the roasting tin are spooned over meat while it is cooking?
5. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg came together in 1948 to form an economic union, known as what?
6. What term describes the irreverent treatment of religion?
7. Who refused the Nobel Literature prize in 1958 for his novel “Dr Zhivago”?
8. Which spirit is added to sugar and egg yolks to make Advocaat?
9. In which card game are teams designated as North_South and East_West?
10. Chablis comes from what major wine producing area of France?

A

1. Abbess
2. Afghanistan
3. Aldebaran
4. Althea Gibson 
5. Anastasia
6. Anti-freeze
7. Apprentice
8. Artesian
9. Aspirin
10. Aurora Australis

B

1. Badger
2. Baker Street
3. Bandanna
4. Basting
5. Benelux
6. Blasphemy
7. Boris Pasternak
8. Brandy
9. Bridge
10. Burgundy

C

1. What instrument is used for measuring the distance between two points on a curved surface?
2. In which country was Greenpeace founded in 1971?
3. The Panama canal connects the Pacific Ocean and which other body of water?
4. What structure in the back of the brain governs motor control?
5. What name is given to a large French country house?
6. Which chemical compound in the body is linked to hardening of the arteries?
7. What is the fear of enclosed spaces called?
8. What was the computer called which was developed from Turing’s ‘bombes’ at Bletchley Park?
9. What is the name for the deep freezing of bodies of people in the hope of being woken in the future?
10. In Greek mythology Polyphemus was the leader of which group of mythical giants?

D

1. Dirk, poniard, and stiletto are all types of what? 
2. Best remembered for his fairy tales, what nationality was Hans Christian Andersen? 
3. In cooking six drops equal one what? 
4. Which famous part of a Californian desert drops below sea level?
5. Which famous English chef released the controversial cookbook ‘How To Cheat’ in 2008? 
6. What name is given to a doctor who specialises in skin disorders? 
7. What is an electronic device that allows the passage of current in only one direction? 
8. What type of racing has only two cars competing on the track at the same time? 
9. Which brand of beer does Homer Simpson drink regularly? 
10. Hills and ridges composed of drifting sand are known as what?

C

1. Caliper
2. Canada
3. Caribbean Sea
4. Cerebellum
5. Chateau
6. Cholesterol
7. Claustrophobia
8. Colossus
9. Cryonics
10. Cyclops

D

1. Daggers
2. Danish
3. Dash
4. Death Valley
5. Delia Smith
6. Dermatologist
7. Diode
8. Drag Racing
9. Duff
10. Dunes

E

1. The only two London boroughs that start with the letter ‘e’ are Enfield and?
2. What is another name for the spiny anteater?
3. What European city is nicknamed Auld Reekie?
4. If you ordered unagi in a Japanese restaurant what creature would you get?
5. How many individual bets make up a Yankee?
6. By what name is the artist Marshall Mathers better known?
7. What is the second largest extant bird in the world by height?
8. What was the name of the city in the Bible which was built by Cain and named after his son?
9. In the early 20th century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat which illness?
10. The study of word origins is called what?

F

1. Any important face of a building, usually the principal front with the main entrance is a?
2. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
3. What is the largest and longest bone in the human body?
4. How many bonus points do you get in Scrabble if you play all seven tiles at once?
5. What does a vexillologist study?
6. Which city is the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany?
7. What does a golfer usually shout as a warning if hitting an errant shot?
8. What is the hazelnut liqueur named for the mysterious monk that made it 300 years ago?
9. Another name for a tightrope walker is a what?
10. What were Cinderella’s slippers originally made from before the story changed and they were glass?

E

1. Ealing
2. Echidna
3. Edinburgh
4. Eel
5. Eleven
6. Eminen
7. Emu
8. Enoch
9. Epilepsy
10. Etymology

F

1. Facade
2. Fe
3. Femur
4. Fifty
5. Flags
6. Florence
7. Fore
8. Frangelico
9. Funambulist
10. Fur

G

1. Scientists have been able to segment what into 4 main types: spiral, elliptical, peculiar, and irregular?
2. In 1610, who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter using a telescope?
3. A trans-boundary river of Asia, the most sacred river in India is the what?
4. Name the Kiss member whose solo album featured Cher, Bob Seger, Donna Summer, Helen Reddy and Janis Ian?
5. Mary Ann Evans used which male pseudonym, which came around 1857 when she published her first short story titled “Amos Barton.”?
6. Who directed the 1973 film “American Graffiti”?
7. Who played the part of Cruella de Vil in the 1996 film “101 Dalmatians”?
8. What name is given to a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat?
9. In 1969, the Mystery Machine made its debut with Scooby-Doo and his gang of mystery solvers. What type of dog was Scooby?
10. Which book is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift?

H

1. A depilatory is a substance used for removing what? 
2. The four throwing events at the olympics are shot put, discus, javelin and what?
3. What is the name of the spicy paste that accompanies dishes such as couscous in North African cuisine? 
4. What is a regurgitation of acid from the stomach into the oesophagus commonly known as?
5. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of which god?
6. In 1898, the Bayer company began marketing what they claimed was a non addictive opiate. What was it? 
7. The three number systems commonly used in computers are binary, decimal and what? 
8. What is the chalice used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper called?
9. Part of the North American continent, what is the biggest bay in the world? 
10. Which is the most abundant element in the universe?

G

1. Galaxies
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Ganges
4. Gene Simmons
5. George Eliot
6. George Lucas
7. Glenn Close
8. Gondola
9. Great Dane
10. Gulliver’s Travels

H

1. Hair
2. Hammer
3. Harissa
4. Heartburn
5. Helios
6. Heroin
7. Hexadecimal
8. Holy Grail
9. Hudson bay
10. Hydrogen

I

1. Characters such as those in Chinese in which a word is represented by a picture, are called what?
2. What company was formed by the Swede, Ingvar Kamprad, one of the richest men in the world?
3. What name was given to the account by Homer of the Trojan War?
4. What is the term for paint applied very thickly, often projecting from the picture surface?
5. The teeth used for biting or cutting are known as what?
6. What is the common name for the condition dyspepsia?
7. Hibernia was the Roman name for which country?
8. What is the membrane that controls the amount of light entering the eye?
9. Which character is the narrator of Melville’s “Moby Dick”?
10. What Turkish city has spread to both sides of the Bosporus Strait?

J

1. As of 2021, who has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations?
2. What is the name of the compact, opaque gemstone ranging in colour from dark green to almost white?
3. What is the capital of Indonesia?
4. A large celebration or party, typically a lavish and boisterous one, would be called a what?
5. Which fictional park is the home of Yogi Bear?
6. When he was alive, Yorick in Shakespeare’s Hamlet had what job?
7. In 1951 Howard Hawks produced “The Thing”. Who directed the 1982 remake, which starred Kurt Russell?
8. Actor Jared Leto played the part of which DC Comics character in the 2017 film “Justice League”?
9. What is the river, on the banks of which is the Taj Mahal?
10. Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565, Who’s reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realised “restoration of the Empire”?

I

1. Ideograms
2. Ikea
3. Iliad
4. Impasto
5. Incisors
6. Indigestion
7. Ireland
8. Iris
9. Ishmael
10. Istanbul

J

1. Jack Nicholson
2. Jade
3. Jakarta
4. Jamboree
5. Jellystone
6. Jester
7. John Carpenter
8. Joker
9. Jumna
10. Justinian I

K

1. White Russian Cocktails are made from milk, vodka and which liqueur?
2. Better known as the title of a book, which Sanskrit phrase means “love story”?
3. Translated as “wooden temples”, what is the name of the capital city of Nepal?
4. Which food stuff has a name which translates into English as ‘On A Skewer’?
5. What is the name of the Japanese sport which uses bamboo swords (shinai) as well as protective armour (bōgu)?
6. What state, in the east central U.S., is home to Fort Knox and has a capital called Frankfort?
7. Which fibrous, sulphur-rich protein occurs naturally in hair, horns, hooves and feathers?
8. When Boris Becker was the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon, who did he beat in the final?
9. What is the more common name of the fruit known as the ‘Chinese Gooseberry’?
10. What is the capital of Ukraine and the name of a battered and breadcrumbed chicken dish?

L

1. Which famous opera house in Milan, Italy, rose to its greatest heights under Toscanini?
2. Which type of acid is produced in the muscles during exercise?
3. Florence nightingale was known as ‘the lady of the…’ what?
4. What has been the occupation of most American presidents prior to politics?
5. What was a Roman measurement that consisted of 1500 paces?
6. What is the main ingredient of the Indian dish “Dal”?
7. In what type of building would you see the Dewey classification system used?
8. What is the scientific name for earth’s outer layer of surface soil or crust?
9. Which company produced the World War Two aeroplane, the ‘Lightning’?
10. Humbert Humbert is a character in what controversial book?

K

1. Kahlua
2. Kama Sutra
3. Kathmandu
4. Kebab
5. Kendo
6. Kentucky
7. Keratin
8. Kevin Curran 
9. Kiwi Fruit
10. Kyiv

L

1. La scala
2. Lactic
3. Lamp
4. Lawyer
5. League
6. Lentils
7. Library
8. Lithosphere
9. Lockheed
10. Lolita

M

1. What Shakespeare character is it considered bad luck to mention in a theatre?
2. Who began her career making death masks from the severed heads of those executed by the guillotine after the French Revolution?
3. What substance is barley converted into before it can be made into beer?
4. What Venetian traveller and explorer landed in China and reached Kublai Khan’s court in 1275?
5. In Roman mythology, which God was the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome?
6. Who was the first ever person ever to sing a James Bond theme for the film ‘From Russia with Love’?
7. Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous are three periods during which geological era?
8. Which of the 48 contiguous states extends farthest north and is known as ‘The Land of 10,000 Lakes’?
9. Which word created by JK Rowling gained entry into The Oxford English Dictionary in 2003?
10. George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” was adapted to become which musical in 1956?

N

1. An onomastician studies what?
2. Whose army did Admiral Nelson defeat at the battle of Trafalgar?
3. Which fantasy land was discovered by Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy?
4. What was Keanu Reeves’ computer world alias in ‘The Matrix’?
5. Which gas discovered in 1898 has a name meaning new?
6. Which European country has regions named Limburg, Drente and Brabant?
7. What was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
8. What is the common name of the family of plants which includes potatoes, peppers and tomatoes?
9. When Odysseus was captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, what false name did he call himself?
10. What name is given to a settlement which is clustered around a central point?

M

1. Macbeth
2. Madame Tussaud
3. Malt
4. Marco Polo
5. Mars
6. Matt Munroe
7. Mesozoic
8. Minnesota
9. Muggle 
10. My Fair Lady

N

1. Names
2. Napoleon
3. Narnia
4. Neo
5. Neon
6. Netherlands
7. New Zealand
8. Nightshade(s)
9. Nobody
10. Nucleated

O

1. Which musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein shares its name with a U.S. State?
2. “Ladies Fingers’ ‘, which can get a bit slimy when the seed pods are cooked, are better known as what?
3. The Great Lakes are: Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan & Lake what?
4. Natural vanilla flavouring comes from which plant, the flower’s name being derived from the Greek word for testicle?
5. Used to flavour tomato based sauces, often on a pizza, what herb is also known as Wild Marjoram?
6. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol & De Profundis, were written from the experiences of who, while in gaol?
7. A major source of “withies”, used in basketwork, what is a small Eurasian willow which grows mostly in wet habitats?
8. As well as being a unit of measurement, what other name is used for the snow leopard?
9. Which morsel of meat found in a fowl’s back, reckoned by some to be the tastiest, is named after a sea creature?
10. Who underwent treatment for rabies following an incident in which he bit the head off a live bat?

P

1. What now famous painter was once so impoverished that he kept warm by burning his own paintings?
2. What is the name of the organ which produces insulin, and when turned into food is called sweetbread?
3. Which word describes 2 lines which are always the same distance apart?
4. What gem is measured in grains – with four grains to a carat?
5. What name is given to the branch of linguistics concerned with the production, physical nature, and perception of speech sounds?
6. Which gland, situated at the base of the skull, regulates growth and metabolism?
7. Which chemical element was formerly known as the latin “Kalium”, and hence bears the symbol “K”?
8. In Greek Mythology, who stole fire from the Gods and brought it back to Earth?
9. In which cult 1994 film are all of the clocks stuck on 4:20?
10. What is the name of the mountain chain separating most of Spain from France?

O

1. Oklahoma
2. Okra
3. Ontario
4. Orchid
5. Oregano
6. Oscar Wilde
7. Osier
8. Ounce
9. Oyster
10. Ozzy Osbourne

P

1. Pablo Picasso
2. Pancreas
3. Parallel
4. Pearls
5. Phonetics
6. Pituitary
7. Potassium
8. Prometheus
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Pyrenees

Q

1. What wireless charging standard is named after a Chinese word for life force?
2. The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets is what?
3. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play, American football star Tom Brady would be found in what position?
4. In land armies, who is generally a senior soldier who supervises stores and distributes supplies and provisions?
5. What traditional European pole weapon was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period?
6. In materials science, what is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, oil or air to obtain certain material properties?
7. Which English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children’s writer has illustrated 18 books written by Roald Dahl?
8. Similar to a pompadour, what is a classic men’s haircut featuring long hair on the top, especially in the front, and trimmed hair at the back and sides?
9. What is another word for “A witty remark”?
10. What is the standard keyboard layout used in Germany?

R

1. Whose ‘Variations On a Theme by Paganini’ is a standard part of the piano repertoire?
2. Which group, from Oxford, England, released the album “O.K. Computer” in 1997?
3. In computing what does the R in the acronym “RAM” stand for?
4. Which horse achieved an unmatched historic treble when he won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, and also came second in the two intervening years, 1975 and 1976?
5. In which French city, famous for its champagne, did the Germans surrender in World War II?
6. A political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, ‘perestroika’ means what in English?
7. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of dating trees, is better known as what?
8. In which modern day country would you find the region known as Transylvania?
9. What is the stinky gas called hydrogen sulphide said to smell like?
10. What unit of currency is shared by Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India?

Q

1. Qi
2. Qophs
3. Quarterback
4. Quartermaster
5. Quarterstaff
6. Quenching
7. Quentin Blake
8. Quiff
9. Quip
10. QWERTZ

R

1. Rachmaninoff
2. Radiohead
3. Random
4. Red Rum
5. Reims
6. Restructuring
7. Ring dating
8. Romania
9. Rotten eggs
10. Rupee

S

1. What is the name of the plant which is also called sea asparagus?
2. What is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground?
3. In the animal kingdom, the only male animals that undergo pregnancy and give birth to offspring are pipefish, the leafy seadragon, and what else?
4. What is the clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments of other minerals?
5. When used to describe a camera, what does ‘S’ in SLR stand for?
6. What would you call the public ownership of the basic means of production, distribution, and exchange?
7. Four thirds multiplied by pi multiplied by the radius cubed, gives you the volume of what geometric objects?
8. What is the representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography called?
9. In law, a formal document stating that a person (defendant) is notified to appear in court is a?
10. Which author’s autobiographical novel was called ‘The Bell Jar’?

T

1. Formerly known as Formosa, what country are the Islands of Quemoy and Matsu part of?
2. Located in the northern part of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, what is the capital and most populous city of Estonia?
3. Housed at the former site of the Bankside Power Station, what British art gallery features an area known as the Turbine Hall?
4. The music in Walt Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is based upon which composer’s version of the classic story?
5. What term is used for the speed at which a piece of music is played?
6. Who became the 26th president of the U.S. following the assassination of William McKinley in 1901?
7. The only chemical element with a three letter name, what is extracted from the ore cassiterite?
8. In which sporting activity are the manoeuvres Fliffus, Miller, Adolph and Barani executed?
9. What name is given to a great wave resulting from an earthquake?
10. Which region in central Italy is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance?

S

1. Samphire
2. Sarcophagus
3. Seahorses
4. Shale
5. Single (lens reflex)
6. Socialism
7. Spheres
8. Still life
9. Summons
10. Sylvia Plath

T

1. Taiwan
2. Tallinn
3. Tate Modern
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Tempo
6. Theodore Roosevelt
7. Tin
8. Trampolining
9. Tsunami
10. Tuscany

U

1. On TV, who struggles in the publishing business and is rebuked because she doesn’t meet the traditional standards of beauty?
2. Originally a nomadic Buddhist centre, what is the capital of Mongolia?
3. Which modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review?
4. In some sports what name is given to someone who watches closely to enforce the rules and arbitrate on matters arising from the play?
5. What series of computer games following the character Nathan Drake, were turned into a film starring Tom Holland in 2022?
6. In which 1989 film is a lovable bachelor left in charge of his brother’s children during a family emergency?
7. What name is given to  members of a diverse clade which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves?
8. Which song by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, released in 2014, topped the charts of 19 countries?
9. As of 2021, who is the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay?
10. What name is commonly given to a conic projection from the back edge of the middle of the soft palate in your mouth?

V

1. What is administered to help the immune system develop protection from a disease?
2. Which star appears brightest in the northern constellation Lyra, also the fourth brightest in the night sky?
3. What name is given to the diagram in which sets are represented by circles?
4. Which plant has leaves with delicate trigger hairs, allowing it to sense and trap insects?
5. In which North Italian city is a world renowned opera season held annually in the Roman arena during July and August?
6. What name is shared by the Roman goddess of the hearth, and the brightest asteroid visible from earth?
7. Which instrument do you associate with Stradivarius and also the Amati family?
8. The first British actress to appear on a British stamp in 1985, who played Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind”?
9. Translating to ‘Ruler of the East’, which city lies at the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway?
10. When Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space what was the name of his spacecraft?

U

1. Ugly Betty
2. Ulaanbaatar
3. Ulysses
4. Umpire
5. Uncharted
6. Uncle Buck
7. Ungulates
8. Uptown Funk
9. Usain Bolt
10. Uvula

V

1. Vaccines
2. Vega
3. Venn
4. Venus flytrap
5. Verona
6. Vesta
7. Violin
8. Vivien Leigh
9. Vladivostok
10. Vostok 1

W

1. In what film does a robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meet another robot and falls in love with her?
2. Released in November 1996, what was the debut single by English girl group the Spice Girls?
3. Produced by Games Workshop, what is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, with the first edition of the rulebook published in September 1987?
4. A thin plate with a hole that is normally used to distribute the load of a threaded fastener, such as a bolt or nut is a?
5. What profession might encounter component parts called Bezels, Crystals, Lugs, and Pushers?
6. What antelopes, native to Eastern and Southern Africa, are also called gnu?
7. From the genus Salix, there are around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs called sallows and osiers, by what other name are they known?
8. James Howlett, also known as Logan is a fictional character from the X-Men, what is his codename?
9. What fermented liquid condiment created by John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins causes people pronunciation problems?
10. Which song by Miley Cyrus, recorded for her fourth studio album, Bangerz (2013), won the award for World’s Best Video at the 2014 World Music Awards?

X

1. Also a huge TV franchise, what describes a noteworthy special talent or quality?
2. The summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan empire, what was also a song by Olivia Newton-John, and by Rush?
3. Alprazolam is a fast-acting tranquilliser of medium duration in the triazolobenzodiazepine class, sold under what brand name?
4. In XXX, the 2002 spy action film starring Vin Diesel, what was the first name of his character?
5. What is the name of the Psychic/Flying-type Pokémon introduced in Generation II, known as “The mystic Pokémon”?
6. Appearing in Marvel Comics and colloquially known as Professor X, what is the last name of Charles?
7. What was a brand of x86 microprocessors designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded system markets and introduced in June 1998?
8. Ethernet was a registered trademark of what company, better known for photocopiers?
9. One of the Chinese Four Great Ancient Capitals, having held the position under several dynasties in Chinese history, what city is also known as Sian?
10. The basic function of which part of a plant is to transport water from roots to stems and leaves?

W

1. WALL-E
2. Wannabe
3. Warhammer 40,000 (Half point for Warhammer)
4. Washer
5. Watchmaker
6. Wildebeest
7. Willow(s)
8. Wolverine
9. Worcestershire sauce
10. Wrecking Ball

X

1. X-Factor
2. Xanadu
3. Xanax
4. Xander
5. Xatu
6. Xavier
7. Xeon
8. Xerox
9. Xi’an
10. Xylem

Y

1. What name is given to a length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, knitting, etc?
2. Known simply as “wasps” in other English-speaking countries, what is the common name in North America for wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula?
3. What is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register and the high-pitch head register or falsetto?
4. What name is given to a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India?
5. Which Looney Tunes character made his debut in “Hare Trigger” and is one of Bugs’ antagonists?
6. According to Broadcast Music, Inc., which song, published by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell in 1940, has been recorded by over 350 artists and translated into 30 languages?
7. What 1967 spy film, the fifth in the series, starred Sean Connery as the fictional agent James Bond?
8. Which former country existed in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century and came into existence after World War I in 1918?
9. What baked good is essentially a twisted doughnut, but flakier and stretchier than a standard doughnut, with an icing glaze on top?
10. Known as the “Sunniest City on Earth,” according to Guinness World Records, which city in Arizona promises sunshine and warm weather at least 91% of the year?

Z

1. What is the capital and largest city of the country Croatia?
2. The first ice resurfacer was developed by which American inventor and engineer in 1949?
3. Which character from DC comics was a successful stage illusionist before she discovered her true magical powers?
4. What word could be described as “great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective”?
5. Introduced in 1986, which princess is the titular character in a Nintendo video game series?
6. Who was David Bowie’s titular alter ego, a fictional androgynous and bisexual rock star who is sent to Earth as a saviour?
7. On June 5, 2012, which company manufactured its 500,000,000th lighter and celebrated its 80th anniversary?
8. What pasta, originating in Campania, is shaped into a long, wide tube, about 25 cm long, that needs to be broken by hand into smaller pieces before cooking?
9. Which 2009 film follows Jesse Eisenberg making his way through a post-apocalyptic U.S., meeting three strangers (Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin) along the way?
10. Which fictional character in Nickelodeon’s animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, was the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation?

Y

1. Yarn
2. Yellow Jackets
3. Yodelling
4. Yoga
5. Yosemite Sam
6. You Are My Sunshine
7. You Only Live Twice
8. Yugoslavia
9. Yum Yum
10. Yuma

Z

1. Zagreb
2. Zamboni (Frank)
3. Zatanna Zatara
4. Zeal
5. Zelda
6. Ziggy Stardust
7. Zippo
8. Ziti
9. Zombieland
10. Zuko