Sunday Quiz – 30th June 2024

Round 1: Sport

10 questions about sport.

In 2021, who became the first player in NBA history to accumulate $1 billion in earnings as an active player?

How many hurdles are there in a 400m hurdle race?

What is the name of a sharp, slender sword, commonly used by duelists that starts with the letter E?

In which sport are terms such as 'Spare', 'Gutter', and 'Railroad split' used?

What is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin?

In which sport are left handed people banned from playing?

How many continents must a sport be regularly played in before it is accepted into the Olympics?

What is the name of the Japanese sport which uses bamboo swords (shinai) as well as protective armor (bōgu)?

Which country has produced the most Formula One World Championship winning drivers?

Which American TV personality, the daughter of Muhammad Ali, is widely regarded by many within the sport as one of the greatest female boxers of all time?

Round 1: Geography

10 questions on the subject of Geography.

In which state would you find the geographical centre of the contiguous United States of America?

What is the only country in the world whose name starts with 'O'?

Which Mediterranean island has coasts on three seas – Mediterranean, Ionian, and Tyrrhenian?

Located on an island in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, what is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?

An intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre in Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries, which country is Timbuktu in?

Which country was admitted to the U.N. in May 1993, making it the smallest country represented there?

Which country, bordered by Thailand and Vietnam among others, is the only landlocked country in South-East Asia?

What is the only river that flows both North and South of the equator, crossing it twice?

The Prime Meridian (a line of longitude) passes through the Royal Observatory in which London borough?

Separating Europe from Asia, which mountain range is regarded as the east border of Europe?

Round 3: Food and Drink

10 questions about food and drink.

Manufactured by The Hershey Company in the U.S., which company manufactures Kit Kats in the UK?

What name is given to a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey?

Food that is permitted to be eaten under Jewish dietary laws is known as what?

What is the name given to the watery part of milk left after making cheese?

What ingredient is included in food if it is in a Florentine style?

What is a typical Japanese dish usually consisting of seafood, meat, and vegetables that have been battered and deep fried?

Often served with fried fish, which sauce is made with mayonnaise and chopped pickled gherkin?

What name is given to the blend of Black China and Darjeeling teas, flavoured with oil of Bergamot?

What name is given to the bottle of Champagne which contains 9 litres, equal to 12 standard Champagne bottles?

Which spice provides the main flavouring and colouring of goulash?

Round 4: Physics

10 questions on the subject of physics.

ln Einstein’s famous theory E=mc2, the speed of light is represented by which letter?

What is the heaviest element that can be formed by regular fusion reactions in the core of a star?

In the acronym LASER what does the 'E' represent?

What is the term used for the speed a rocket needs to achieve to break free of Earth's gravity?

Which branch of physics deals with the general laws governing the motion of material objects?

In physics, Galileo reasoned that moving objects eventually stop because of a force called what?

What term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable atoms survive?

What is the phenomenon called in which light bends when passing through a lens?

What name is given to a chemical reaction which takes in heat?

Other than the Neutron and Proton what else makes up an atom?

Round 5: Art

10 questions on the subject of art.

Which American painter and art instructor created and hosted The Joy of Painting, which aired from 1983 to 1994?

The surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a native of which country?

Considered by the Chinese as the highest form of visual art, what is the art of writing decoratively called?

Picasso went through two periods named after colours, pink and?

Generally considered one of the greatest visual artists, what Dutch master painted 64 self-portraits?

Which famous painting by Edvard Munch was stolen from an Oslo museum on the 12th of December 1994?

What name is given to the famous elaborate jewel-encrusted eggs that were mostly made for the Russian Tsars?

Best known for "The Birth of Venus", which artist's name literally means 'little barrel'?

Born in Urbino in 1483, which Italian artist, with Leonardo and Michelangelo, is considered one of the three Masters of the High Renaissance?

What colour on black produces the most visible combination?