Wednesday – 30 Question Quiz – 01/02/2023 Round 1: Literature - Opening Lines 10 opening lines from books. What is the title of each book? None What book opens with the line; 'All this happened, more or less.'? What book opens with the line; 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'? What book opens with the line; 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'? What book opens with the line; 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'? What book opens with the line; 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.'? What book opens with the line; 'It was a pleasure to burn.'? What book opens with the line; 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.'? What book opens with the line; 'Call me Ishmael.'? What book opens with the line; 'It was the day my grandmother exploded.'? What book opens with the line; 'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.'? Round 2: Initialisms 101 initialisms. Identify the word from the letter asked for. Not the whole initialism. None What does the letter K stand for in the initialism - AFK? What does the letter W stand for in the initialism - POW? What does the letter H stand for in the initialism - ADHD? What does the letter A stand for in the initialism - DOA? What does the letter H stand for in the initialism - HIV? What does the letter Q stand for in the initialism - IQ? What does the letter U stand for in the initialism - SUV? What does the letter R stand for in the initialism - FUBAR? What does the second letter R stand for in the initialism - RADAR? What does the first letter T stand for in the initialism - CAPTCHA? Round 3: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions. There is no theme. None In which Disney movie can you see a bird called Zazu? What was the single released by Kelly Clarkson after she became the first American Idol winner? In which children's book by Dr. Seuss does the vocabulary of the text consist of just 50 words? What was the nationality of the painter and art theoretician, Piet Mondrian? In motorsports what colour flag is waved at the post just before the scene when there is a danger on the course? Nelson Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at which maximum security prison? Information from a reliable source is said to come from the mouth of which animal? In 1972, which country became a republic named Sri Lanka, repudiating its dominion status? The filbert is an alternative name for which nut? Bryology is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes - which are; liverworts, hornworts, and what other plant life? Time's up
