Sunday Quiz – 1st September 2024

Round 1: Fictional Doctors

10 questions about fictional doctors.

In the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is the loyal companion and biographer of the titular Sherlock Holmes?

In Star Trek, who is the chief medical officer aboard the USS Enterprise who appeared in the original Star Trek series and several films?

Which Robert Louis Stevenson character creates a potion that transforms him into the evil Mr. Hyde?

Which cannibalistic serial killer assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling in catching another killer in The Silence of the Lambs?

Played by Christopher Lloyd, who is the eccentric inventor who creates a time machine from a DeLorean car in the Back to the Future trilogy?

Portrayed in film by Benedict Cumberbatch, in Marvel Comics who is the talented but arrogant neurosurgeon who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme?

Who creates a sentient creature through unorthodox scientific experiments, leading to tragic consequences in a 1818 novel by Mary Shelley?

Which paleobotanist investigates the dinosaur-cloning experiments at Jurassic Park in Crichton's 1990 novel and the 1993 film adaptation?

Gillian Anderson portrayed which FBI agent and medical doctor, who partners with Fox Mulder to investigate paranormal cases in The X-Files?

Created by Matt Groening, who is the incompetent alien doctor with a lack of medical knowledge for Planet Express?

Round 2: Science – Theorems and Laws

10 questions all about the names of scientific laws and theorems.

Whose second law states that the internal energy of an ideal gas is independent of its volume and pressure, depending only on its temperature?

Whose principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views?

What name is given to the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance?

First proven in the work "Elements", which statement in number theory asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers?

Which theorem states that if a hexagon is inscribed in a conic, then the three points at which the pairs of opposite sides meet, lie on a straight line?

Which Scottish physicist found experimentally that the rate of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of the molar mass of its particles?

What name is given to the law of electromagnetism predicting how a magnetic field will interact with an electric circuit to produce an electromotive force?

Which law determined for simple vertical sending and receiving antennas of equal height, the maximum working telegraphic distance varied as the square of the height of the antenna?

Which principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces?

Which theorem states that for every four kissing, or mutually tangent, circles, the radii of the circles satisfy a certain quadratic equation?

Round 3: Picture Round – Dingbats – T

Solve the 10 dingbats. All of them start with the letter “T”.

What is this dingbat?

Round 4: Audio Round – TV Themes

Identify the titles of the TV shows from the clip of their theme song.

What TV show is this the theme from?

Round 5: General Knowledge

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

Which band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris had A UK No.1 Album With "Number Of The Beast" In 1982?

What is the highest grossing film of all time that is based on a Saturday Night Live sketch?

In which branch of science are monocotyledon and dicotyledon terms?

The formal noun "Orient" refers to the Eastern world, which word refers to the western parts of the world, especially Europe and America?

The majority of robusta coffee (the low-quality coffee that ends up in many instant varieties) is grown in which country?

The oldest continuously operational example of what structure was built by the Romans near the city of Homs, Syria between 1319-1304 BC?

It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand of what sort of transport in Venice during the 17th and 18th century?

Also meaning "freedom" in Latin, who is the Roman goddess or personification of freedom?

What is the name of the player in baseball who is positioned behind the home plate?

The first episode of which long running American animated show appeared on American TV on December 17th 1989?