Sunday Quiz – 27th October 2024

Round 1: 10 Largest African Countries (land area)

10 questions and each answer is a country in Africa which is in the top 10 largest by land area.

Bordering Nambia, and the seventh-largest country in Africa, what is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country in both total area and population?

Bamako is the capital of which landlocked country in West Africa – it is bordered to the south by Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast?

The fifth-largest country in Africa, what landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa has a capital called N'Djamena?

Which country comprises three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica, and has maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north?

Which country in the Maghreb region of North Africa has its capital on the Mediterranean coast and is the largest country in Africa as of 2024?

What was the largest country in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of part of the country in 2011 – the capital and most populous city is Khartoum?

Bordered by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), which country in Central Africa is the second-largest country in Africa?

The nine provinces of which African country are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean?

With over 80% of its land area in the Sahara, which country and unitary state in West Africa has a capital called Niamey located along its namesake river?

Which country – the most populated landlocked country on Earth – is located in the Horn of Africa region and has a capital called Addis Ababa?

Round 2: Captains

10 questions about famous “Captains”.

Initially played in the MCU by Chris Evans, which superhero first appeared in 1940 in Timely Comics, a corporate predecessor to Marvel?

Which British Royal Navy officer is best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which included the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia?

Who is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations?

Who was serving as captain of the ocean liner Titanic, and went down with the ship when she sank on her maiden voyage?

In the Pirates of the Caribbean film series the ship the Black Pearl is captained by Hector Barbossa, and who else?

Which British explorer, cartographer and naval officer is particularly famous for his voyages between 1768 and 1779 to New Zealand and Australia?

Which mysterious character was created by Jules Verne and appears in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and The Mysterious Island?

With his five human "Planeteers" , who is the eponymous character in an animated environmentalist superhero television series from the early 1990's?

Who was the Lithuanian-born, Soviet Union sub commander of the Red October, a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine who appeared in The Hunt for Red October novel?

Which protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod – the white whale Moby Dick bit off his leg?

Round 3: Picture Round – Album Covers from 2000 to 2009

10 album covers, one from each year of the 2000’s. Identify who the album is by.

Released in 2000, who is this album by?

Released in 2001, who is this album by?

Released in 2002, who is this album by?

Released in 2003, who is this album by?

Released in 2004, who is this album by?

Released in 2005, who is this album by?

Released in 2006, who is this album by?

Released in 2007, who is this album by?

Released in 2008, who is this album by?

Released in 2009, who is this album by?

Round 4: Audio – Music Intros – Animals

10 music intros where the theme is animals. Provide the name of the artist.

Who is this song by?

Round 5: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection.

The best selling album by which group from a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is "From Under the Cork Tree" released in 2005?

Who was the second American to fly in space in 1961 – he was also the second American to fly in space twice?

What is the annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world?

The essential characteristic of aerobic exercise is the consumption of what?

What is the treatment of disease, deformity, or defect by manual and operative procedures, with or without the use of drugs?

George Washington, the first President of the US took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City and was inaugurated on April 30, of which year?

Which famous fashion designer was co-owner of Malcolm McLaren's Sex Cloths Shop in London's Kings Road?

The grand pensionary was the political leader of the entirety of which Republic when there was no stadtholder at the centre of power?

What name is given to the process of removing salt from seawater?

The world's first nuclear explosion occurred in 1945 at what site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico?