Wednesday – 30 Question Quiz – 11/01/2023 Round 1: Acronyms Identify the missing word in each acronym. None What does the P stand for in ASAP? What does the first O stand for in YOLO? What does the T stand for in NAFTA? What does the S stand for in POTUS? What does the T stand for in SWAT? What does the D stand for in AIDS? What does the D stand for in PEMDAS? What does the N stand for in SONAR? What does the first S stand for in KISS? What does the E stand for in PETA? Round 2: Cake Names 10 questions sort of about where cake names come from... None Originating in the U.S., the ingredients of which cake include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain? Possibly originally made for Mary, Queen of Scots, which heavy fruit cake is named for the city it was first commercially developed in? What English cake is a variant of the Pandolce cake which originated in an Italian city as a Christmas cake? Which cake is sometimes mistakenly thought to originate from a group of islands; it was actually named after a Portuguese wine from the islands? Believed to be of northern European origin and dating back to the early 1700s, what type of cake is traditionally made with an equal amount of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar? Which layered dessert made its first appearance in print in Italian in 1980, and in English in 1982? First baked in 1884 to celebrate Prince Louis marrying Princess Victoria, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. Early examples of which cakes had as many as 25 squares? Consisting of several layers of chocolate sponge cake sandwiched with whipped cream and cherries, which dessert isn't actually named after the mountain range in southwestern Germany? The name for which traditional small cake from north-eastern France has several legends, which have tended to centre on a female character? The first-known printed use of which word to describe a now popular dessert appeared in the 1896 version of the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer? Round 3: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions, no theme or anything. None What is the second smallest Sovereign State in the world? Handlebar, toothbrush, and walrus are all types of what? The liquor Curacao is flavoured with what citrus fruit? Black, Whooper, and Berwick all varieties of what birds? Which famous family member had her first UK top 10 hit with "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" in 1986 at the age of nineteen? The largest moon in our solar system, what is the name of the largest moon of Jupiter? Which American heavyweight boxer nicknamed 'The Atomic Bull' was the first to defeat Lennox Lewis in a professional bout? Blue, red, green, and yellow are four Olympic rings colours, which colour is missing? Sorry!, and Ludo are among the many Westernised commercial versions of the game Pachisi - played from ancient times (1100-800 BC) in which country? What were the tree-like creatures such as Treebeard in The Lord Of The Rings called? Time's up
