Sunday Quiz – 9th June 2024

Round 1: Food Types

Identify the 10 different types of food from the examples given of each.

What are Ristretto, Cortado, Doppio, and Affogato types of?

What are Matzo, Milk, Challah, and Pumpernickel types of?

What are Burrata, Stracciatella, Jarlsberg, and Asiago types of?

What are Arran Pilot, Yukon Gold, Melody, and Ulster Chieftain types of?

What are Kenkey, Manti, Wonton, and Pierogi types of?

What are Pot, Stargazy, Mince, and Custard types of?

What are Trenette, Vesuvio, Pappardelle, and Penne types of?

What are Sandwich, Speculaas, Anzac, and Shortbread types of?

What are Bomba, Wild, Jasmine, and Glutinous types of?

What are Barley, Bread, Beer, and Bird's Nest types of?

Round 2: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection.

What is the name of the person who created the popular animated characters Wallace and Gromit?

Which musical group released albums such as "Tango In The Night", "The Mask", and "Tusk"?

Which Discworld character has the reputation of a failed wizard after failing the wizardry course at an unnamed university for magic in the city of Ankh-Morpork?

With a headstone reading 'at rest, an American soldier and defender of the constitution', who was the only President of the Confederate States of America?

Which actor starred in films including Spartacus, The Vikings, and Ulysses?

Which physicist's portrait appeared on the reverse of the last £1 notes issued in the UK?

In 1780 which Northern U.S. state adopted a policy to gradually abolish slavery, the first state to do so?

The milk of which animal is used to make Pecorino cheese?

What is the 1981 British film about two male runners training for and competing in the 1924 Olympics?

What is the first name of J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books?

Round 3: Picture Round - Fictional Cats

Identify the 10 fictional cats from the pictures provided.

What is the name of this cat?

Round 4: Audio Round - Song Covers

10 clips of songs which are cover versions. Name either the artist performing the song or the original artist.

Name the artist performing this song, or the original artist.

Round 5: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection.

The dominant people of Hungary, the Hungarians, are in their own language known as what?

When preparing which sea creature for food might you find "Dead Man's Fingers"?

Said to have got the name from his former job as a riverboat captain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens is perhaps better known to us as which writer?

What is the name for a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing?

The disk of gas that orbits a black hole is called the what disk?

Boeing's global headquarters is located in Crystal City, in which U.S. State?

In which city were the majority of the top 10 selling U.S. Groups of all time formed?

One of the oldest and most important places in Islamic history, Medina is a city in which country?

What name is given to a substance in which resistance decreases as temperature increases?

Who was the first actor to ever win an Oscar posthumously - for his role as the unhinged TV personality Howard Beale in 1976's "Network."?

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