Wednesday – 30 Question Quiz – 18/09/2024

Round 1: The…?

Essentially a general knowledge round.

The French newspaper Le Monde translates as the…?

The building in Washington D.C. in which the United States Congress meets is called the…?

The first pop stars to appear in Madame Tussaud's were the…?

In "Peter and the Wolf" the instrument represents the duck is the…?

The Arthur Miller play which uses the witch trials of Salem to comment on the McCarthy witch hunts is the…?

Divided into 114 surahs, the name of the holy book of Islam is the…?

A sacerdotal person would likely be studying to join the…?

The river that provided water to feed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is the…?

Before a rugby match, the New Zealand team (The All Blacks) perform a dance called the…?

Before forming The Bad Seeds, the group Nick Cave sang with were called the…?

Round 2: Food and Drink

10 questions all about food and drink.

Tapenade, a Provençal name for a spread, condiment and culinary ingredient traditionally consists of puréed or finely chopped olives and which other ingredient?

What name is given to a cooking procedure in which alcohol is added to a hot pan to create a burst of flames?

Natural vanilla flavouring primarily comes from the dried and cured fruits (pods) of the Vanilla planifolia – to which group of flowering plants does it belong?

What is the name given to the edible internal parts of animals produced for food, including heart, kidney, liver and tongue?

Increasingly part of a "Full English", what is a popular American breakfast dish consisting of finely julienned potatoes that have been fried?

In the northern hemisphere there is a rule which says people should only eat oysters/shellfish during months containing which letter?

Traditional cold summertime soups of Russian cuisine, such as okroshka, botvinya, and tyurya, are based on what fermented beverage?

Allium cepa is a perennial herb belonging to the Liliaceae family and one of the worlds most used foods – by what name is it better known?

What type of meat is used in the traditional version of the slow cooked Italian dish called Osso buco?

The Blackthorn tree is famed for what purple fruits, sometimes used to flavour gin for winter?

Round 3: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection between the answers.

What is the only borough of New York City that is not on an island?

A word coined in 1868, the opposite of an Utopia is called a what?

According to the bible, the three wise men were Gaspar, Balthazar and who?

Used in English, often in legal terms, what is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’?

Excluding jokers, there are 42 what in a standard deck of cards?

What is the name of the process whereby plants lose water into the atmosphere?

His wife was Penelope and his son, Telemachus. Who was exiled from his home on Ithaca for angering the Greek gods?

What is the title of the last play that William Shakespeare wrote alone?

What is the name of the Polish author of "Heart of Darkness"?

Also called a ruband, what is a garment that covers the face, and is worn by some Muslim women?