Sunday Quiz – 15th May 2022 Round 1: Computer Games None Which was the first video game to be played in space? What game for the Intellivision is the first city-building game and considered one of the first real-time strategy games? What game did a team of MIT students develop, then go on to form Infocom to publish the title commercially in 1980? What game is widely recognized as the first 3D fighting game? What title did Harmonix conceive after development of Guitar Hero was shifted to Neversoft? Before mobile games, browser games were being predominantly played on the internet using what technology? Which game did Zynga release on Facebook in 2009, reaching 10 million daily active users within six weeks? What company developed and released Pac Man for the arcades in 1980? In what year was Dance Dance Revolution released in North America? Which phone company preloaded snake into its mobile phones and created the resurgence in the game? Round 2: History None Who was the Emperor of Japan during World War Two? Which Argentine was the first woman anywhere in the world to hold the title of President? Who gave the Gettysburg Address (full name)? In what year was the Russian Revolution? Augusto Pinochet took power in which country after a 1973 coup? In which country was the Battle of Ypres fought in World War One? Who was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire in the late 12th century? In which state of the USA did Rosa Parks famously resist bus segregation? Which empire was ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty from 305 BC until 30 BC? Who was the wife of Louis XVI of France? Round 3: Picture Round - Films From 1990 None What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? What film is this? Round 4: Food None Which Lombardy town is famed for its rich, blue-veined cheese? What name is given to a salad containing diced apple, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise? What cereal was created as a food that would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium? From the eggs of which type of sturgeon does the most expensive caviar come? What vegetable are Globe and Jerusalem both examples of? Taramasalata is a dish of the cured / smoked roe of which fish? What name is given to small or immature cucumbers usually grown to be pickled? What is a sweet almond-flavoured custard used in a variety of ways including cakes and such pastries? Hundreds & thousands are put on bread and butter to make what type of "bread"? The process where food browns during cooking is known as the what reaction? Round 5: General Knowledge None Which Scottsman played the character of the only escapee from Alcatraz in the film "The Rock"? Which Simpsons character has starred in such movies as 'The Erotic Adventures Of Hercules' & 'Dial M For Murderousness'? Which U.S. state shares the Blue Ridge Mountains with Georgia, and is home to the headquarters of the CIA? What did physicist Lord Rutherford discover inside the nucleus of the atom? John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Uma Thurman starred in which 1994 Quentin Tarantino film? Which female tennis star was handed a two year ban after testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon in 2007? The only colours a table tennis ball is allowed to be in competitions are white and what? In the Back to the Future films Doc Brown's dogs are always named after scientists, what is the name of his sheepdog in the first film? Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest? What part of mathematics uses letters and other general symbols to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations? Time's up
