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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 December 2025
(1) In 1971 Mr and Mrs William Farmer of Margate, near Dover,
travelled across England to Wales for their summer holidays.
At the start of the week they joined a British Rail mystery
tour. Where did it take them?
(2) On what form of US transport does the driver put the main
brake on when he wants to go and release it when he wants
to stop?
(3) On 11 June 1998 a Japanese train was sent to help another
that had broken down. How did the second train get the first
one moving?
(4) What train information schedule is an anagram of “Blimey!
A later wait”? (7,9)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 December 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about countries
(1) Which of Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Russia has or have ruled Latvia?
(2) To travel due east from Azerbaijan to Azerbaijan, what
country do you pass through?
(3) Seven countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia,
USA, Canada and Greenland—are partly north of the Arctic
Circle. How many countries are partly south of the Antarctic
Circle?
(4) What country’s name is an anagram of “Open
chip shop, eat rice, be full!” (3,6’1,8,2,5)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 December 2025 This week’s trivia questions are about capital cities
(1) What do the capital cities of Andorra, Djibouti, Gibraltar,
Guatemala, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, Monaco, Panama, San
Marino and Singapore have in common?
(2) What is the world’s last capital city alphabetically?
(3) What capital city is within a capital city?
(4) What US capital city and its state are an anagram of “So,
if all clean air’s gone”? (3,7,10)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 December 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about seas
(1) The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world.
Where is it expected to rank in 2050?
(2) What country is furthest from the sea (ie has all its
borders furthest from the nearest sea or ocean)?
(3) What way does water flow in the Strait of Gibraltar? (a)
east (b) west (c) east and west
(4) What huge waterfall is an anagram of “rainfall saga”?
(7,5)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 November 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about seas
(1) What is wrong with the name “Dead Sea”?
(2) Approximately how many people drowned in the Dead Sea
in the 1900s?
(3) Is the Caspian Sea a sea?
(4) What small piece of land in a sea is an anagram of “lies
stranded”? (6,6)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 November 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about mountains
(1) How high is the world’s lowest pass? (a) less than
500 metres (b) about 50 metres (c) more than 1000 metres
(2) Why is most of the world’s longest mountain range
rarely seen?
(3) All 10 of the USA’s highest mountains are in the
same state. Which state is this?
(4) What country’s name is an anagram of “Little
Asia”? (9)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 November 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about continents
(1) What city is on two continents?
(2) Of the 54 countries that make up the African continent,
how many have not been ruled by a foreign power?
(3) How many continents have no land below sea level?
(4) What unusual spelling feature is common to the names of
every continent (taking North and South America as America)?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 November 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about waterfalls
(1) How many litres of water flows over Iguazu Falls each
second in a very wet season? (a) 13 (b) 13 thousand (c) 13
million
(2) How many litres of water flows over Iguazu Falls each
second in a very dry season?
(3) Why are the Guaira Falls, on the Parana River between
Paraguay and Brazil, no longer the world's largest waterfall?
(4) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving
backwards?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 October 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about capital cities
(1) What do Baku, Bandar Seri Begawan, Ouagadougo, Bujumbura,
Nuuk, Tegucigalpa, Nidjamena Yamoussoukra, Antananarivo and
Paramaribo have in common?
(2) What does the name Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, mean?
(a) meeting place of the tribes (b) you never sleep (c) boil
your carrots in the wet season
(3) What is the world's most southerly capital city?
(4) What is the world's most northerly capital city?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 October 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about water
(1) What country more fresh water than any other?
(2) What country has the shortest coastline, a grand total
of three kilometres?
(3) What percentage of the world’s fresh water is stored
as ice?
(4) What is the name of the world’s highest lake? (You
might find it impossible to give an answer.)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending
12 October 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about islands
(1) What is the only human-eating creature known to have inhabited
a Pacific island?
(2) What is the name of the island off Cape York where Captain
Cook claimed possession of Australia's east coast in 1770?
(3) Assuming you could ascend at a rate of 5m a minute, approximately
how long would it take to climb to the equivalent of the highest
point on the Ashmore and Cartier Islands?
(4) Five-kilometre long Tory Island, off the north-west coast
of Northern Ireland, has a population of 141 according to the 2022 census. What country
owns the island?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending
5 October 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about country names
(1) Iran used to be called Persia. What was it called before
Persia?
(2) What is the full name of the small republic San Marino?
(a) San Marino (b) Most Serene Republic of San Marino (c)
Communal Democratic Implementation Republic of the Italian
People’s Independent Movement of San Marino
(3) There are 14 countries whose names begin with “a”
(15 if we count “America”), but amazingly only
two of these do not also end with “a”. What are
these two? And what are the other 12? Does the same pattern
apply to continents and US states?
(4) What did Gambia change its name to after gaining independence
from Britain?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending
28 September 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about Norway
(1) Why do some people in northern Norway regularly water
their roofs?
(2) Olav V was 36th in line of succession to the British throne
in the 1980s. What were his chances of being king?
(3) Besides being familiar first names, you could see ALF
and EVE printed many times as you tour Norway by air. Why
is this?
(4) Where is the furthest north you can travel by car?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending
21 September 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about the spelling
of Australian town names
(1) What is special about the Blue Mountains town name Faulconbridge?
(2) What is significant about the spelling of the Victorian
town names Colignan and Nangiloc?
(3) What NSW town name has three consecutive vowels and four
vowels altogether but only two consonants? (a) Baia Ba (b)
Quaama (c) Zooama
(4) How many of the towns Zanthus, Zillmere, Zilzie and Zuytdorp
are in Australia?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 September 2025
This week’s trivia questions are about capital cities
(1) The name of the capital city of what country has eight
vowels but only three consonants?
(2) What capital city has no restaurants or bars?
(3) In 1630, Riga, present capital of Latvia, was the largest
city in where? (a) Russia (b) Germany (c) Sweden
(4) What South American capital city is laid out in the shape
of a plane?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 September 2025
This week's subject is American tennis player history.
1 What did John Isner do with the ball before each of his serves? (a) bounce the ball between his legs (b) cough loudly
2 What did Denis Shapovalov do with the ball before each of his serves? (a) The same as Isner (b) The same as Isner but a lot more.
3 Whose natural service style was to serve with his back to his opponent?
4 Did Pancho Gonzales ever marry?
5 Which of these was Bill Tilden known for when he wanted to brighten the match? (a) holding five balls easily in his left hand (b) serving an ace on each of the four points in a game
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 31 August 2025
This week's subject is Australian government.
1 What was the first name of the first Australian-born governor-general of Australia, Governor Isaacs?
2 What was the capital of Australia before Canberra?
3 Where in Newcastle was the original regional office for the Department of Youth and Community Services? (a) 13 Youth Street (b) 23 Government Road (c) corner Bull and Dick Streets
4 Where would you find 'Orat recens quam pura nites'?
5 What does it mean? (a) recent statute for legal evening associations (b) newly risen, how brightly you shine (c) high and mighty your merit shall be
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 24 August 2025
This week's subject is spelling.
1 Do transposed (out of order) letters in words significantly affect the ability to read them?
2 Is the correct spelling 'reparcharge' or 'repercharge'
3 What five differently-spelt one-syllable words are pronounced the same as 'or', making six altogether?
4 What do these words have in common? crabcake deft laughing hijack calmness hymnody canopy first stupid Tuvalu
5 "There are three misstakes in this sentance." What are they?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 17 August 2025
This week's subject is elementary logic.
1 Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?
2 There are 9000 species of birds. What type of bird doesn't lay an egg?
3 After removing the two vowels in 'standard', what three digits can you add to make a logical sequence?
4 A mute person enters a shop to buy a toothbrush. He shows the action of brushing his teeth to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Next, a blind man enters to buy a pair of sunglasses. How does he indicate what he wants?
5 How can you get the liquid out of a corked bottle without pulling the cork out, piercing the cork or breaking the bottle?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 August 2025
This week's subject is country names.
1 How many country names are of only one syllable? (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 12
2 What is the longest country name (using the main word only) that doesn't repeat a letter?
3 How many country names beginning with O are of only four letters? (Oh, man! That's a hard question!! Will you get it right?)
4 What country's name begins with the last letter of the alphabet and ends with the first?
5 What country's name starts with three letters in consecutive alphabetical order?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 August 2025
This week's subject is death.
1 When would you be successful with hated death?
2 The Texan town of about 2,500 people that was partly destroyed in a fertilizer factory explosion in April 2013 is called West what? (Leave your answer blank if you don't know.)
3 When Catherine Lawrence died on 16 June 2013 she was aged 103. So in what NSW country town did she die?
4 Since 1980, what has been the average number of deaths from spider bites each year in Australia?
5 More people died playing what sport in Australia 14 years ago than any other? (a) football (b) boxing (c) lawn bowls
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 July 2025
This week's subject is double meanings.
What second meanings can each of these provide? The answer to the first one should get you started.
1 When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
Answer: Debate or the bait.
2 A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
3 The batteries were given out free of charge.
4 A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
5 A will is a dead giveaway.
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 July 2025
This week's subject is premiers.
1 What Australian premier's name contained six As? (If you don't know, don't waste time. Just go on to the next question.)
2 How do you pronounce the surname of Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk?
3 What was Harriet Wran, daughter of NSW Labor premier Neville Wran, doing in 2015? (a) secretarial work for the Labor Party (b) preparing speeches for the Liberal premier (c) defending her murder charge
4 Which NSW premier started school unable to speak English and finished dux?
5 How good was the driving offences record of NSW premier, Nathan Rees? (a) excellent (b) appalling (c) average (d) none of the above
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 July 2025
This week's subject is Christianity.
1 Who is H. B. Mar Meelis Zaia? (a) Uniting Church minister in Melbourne (b) Baptist Church minister in Adelaide (c) Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East presiding over the Diocese of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon
2 What do Lutherans do when they're singing hymns? (a) stand, of course (b) remain seated
3 What did David Koresh, Charles Manson, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Inri Cristo, Goel Ratzon, David Icke, David Shayler, Vissarion, Mitsuo Matayoshi and Alan Miller have in common?
4 In what was Justin Bieber baptised? (a) Jordan River (b) a bathtub (c) Sea of Galilee
5 Did the founder and head minister of Hillsong Church in Baulkham Hills wear a watch?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 July 2025
1 What is the most used word in written English?
2 What is the most used word in spoken English?
3 In 500 AD, where did English rank in the order of languages spoken by most people?
4 What part of speech is "up"?(a) adjective (b) adverb (c) noun (d) preposition (e) verb
5 Fate of Nassan, an anonymous poem dating from pre-1870, is a lipogrammatic pangram. What does that mean, ie what two distinguishing features does each verse have?
Bold Nassan quits his caravan,
A hazy mountain grot to scan;
Climbs jaggy rocks to find his way,
Doth tax his sight, but far doth stray.
Not work of man, nor sport of child
Finds Nassan on this mazy wild;
Lax grow his joints, limbs toil in vain—
Poor wight! why didst thou quit that plain?
Vainly for succour Nassan calls;
Know, Zillah, that thy Nassan falls;
But prowling wolf and fox may joy
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 29 June 2025
This week's subject is weather.
1 Where on earth is the coldest place?
2 Where on earth is the windiest place?
3 Where on earth is the driest place?
4 How many of these temperature records were set on 04 January 2020? (a) hottest Sydney temperature (b) hottest Canberra temperature (c) Penrith hottest place on the planet
5 What were the scientists who were trapped by ice in the Antarctic in December 2013 investigating?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 22 June 2025
This week's subject is the Bible.
1 In what book would you find all these names? Ada(h, Chloe, Claudia, Dodo, Jared, Jemima, Julia, Ram, Rufus and Timon?
2 Who wrote the Bible book Ruth? (a) probably the prophet Samuel (b) Ruth, of course
3 According to a BBC Focus survey of the Biblical seven deadly sins, which country topped the list for the worst in the world?
4 The following inscription appears above the Ten Commandments on a small Wales church. Adding one letter many times explains the sign. What is the letter and where does it go? PRSVRYPRFCTMN VRKPTHSPRFCTTN
5 David fought 66 battles. How many did he win?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 15 June 2025
This week's subject is USA town names..
1 Is Frost Proof frostproof?
2 Is there somewhere you can go to Cut and Shoot in Texas?
3 Where would you get the biggest surprise in Arizona?
4 What is the Only town in Tennessee that had a population of just over 2,300 in 2007?
5 What town is Boring?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 8 June 2025
This week's subject is athletics.
1 What did Australian world athletics champion, Jana Pitman, and her fiancée, Rohan Robinson, do the day after she won a 400 metres hurdles Olympics event? (a) get drunk (b) break up
2 If you overtake the runner in second place, in which position are you now?
3 If you overtake the last runner, what position are you in now?
4 What is the maximum distance allowed for a high jumper's run-up?
5 The former Sydney city department store, Anthony Hordern's, held its 20th annual sports meeting in 1960. How many "Sports Officials" were there? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 159. And how many assistants did Mr A Drew, 'Controller Fairy Floss Machine', have? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 24
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 1 June 2025
This week's subject is inventions.
1 Who invented the biro? (a) Smith (b) Jones (c) Biros
2 What is American Douglas Engelbart's invention, which he called an "X-Y position indicator for a display system"? (a) the car driving offence detector (b) the computer mouse (c) the likely in/out result for a tennis ball
3 At how many different times could the alarm be set on the first alarm clock, invented by Levi Hulchins in 1787?
4 What did the American businessman King Camp Gillette invent?
5 Who invented the haggis?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 May 2025
This week's subject is cryptic crossword clues with foreign features..
1 Islamabad (6)
2 (Down clue) Noodle ball served up later (3,3)
3 The French wet the washroom (7)
4 The French versus the Spanish. It's even. (7)
5 Wash three foreign articles (7)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 May 2025
This week's subject is the Bible.
1 Which of these did Job lose in one day? His seven sons and three daughters, his 7,000 sheep, his 3,000 camels, his 500 oxen, his 500 donkeys
2 What is special about 3 John?
3 For how long did God have his prophet Isaiah naked? (a) one day (b) two weeks (c) three years
4 What record does Mahershalalhashbaz hold?
5 Where would you find Haggai?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 May 2025
This week's subject is foreign language.
1 What change in pronunciation of 'n' does ñ make?
2 What is the Oxford dictionary definition of 'metalanguage'? (a) a language used to discuss a language (b) an abbreviated vocabulary (c) a language used in print but rarely vocalized
3 Is 'honcho' derived from Spanish, Japanese or Inuit (Eskimo)?
4 The world's smallest countries, Nauru and Tuvalu, have two principal languages. Besides English, what is the other one for each country?
5 What is the capital of Nauru?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 May 2025
This week's subject is Pope Francis.
1 In the 25 years to 2015, for how many hours a day on average did Pope Francis watch TV? (a) none (b) 5 (c) 15
2 What was his full name before becoming Pope Francis? (a) Francisco Italiano (b) Jorge Mario Bergoglio
3 Besides Pope Francis, how many popes were born outside of Europe in the last 1,000 years? (a) none (b) only 3 (c) 25
4 What action did PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) take against him in 2015? (a) attempts for having him charged with cruelty to animals (b) No action was taken against him. Instead PETA named him their "Person of the Year" for his request that all Catholics be kind to animals.
5 What age had he reached? (a) 77 (b) 88 (c) 99
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 April 2025
This week's subject is industry.
1 What does a wanking machine do?
2 When Taco Bell employees complained in 2005 that awarding an "Employee of the Month" was unfair to those who missed out, they decided to abandon the award. Then the one who was to receive the award complained. How did they solve the problem to guarantee that no-one would complain about not being named?
3 What common household object has two shafts and a coil?
4 What do these products have in common? Aspirin, cellophane, corn flakes, dry ice, escalator, kerosene, lanolin, linoleum, nylon, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, zipper
5 What is the world's most valuable brand?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 April 2025
This week's subject is colours.
1 What colour is a purple finch? (a) crimson (b) purple (Of course it's purple. Don't ask stupid questions.)
2 What colour is black wattle? (a) black (b) yellow (c) green
3 What colour is an elephant? (a) black (b) grey, of course
4 Apes and higher monkeys share human's full colour vision. What about dogs, horses and cattle?
5 What do the names of the colours orange and purple have in common?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 April 2025
This week's subject has only one question:
What do the following have in common? (Preceding brackets are explanations that can be ignored.)
(a) (a disagreement between robot birds) Mr Owl ate my metal worm.
(b) (a hard-working staff) So many dynamos!
(c) (a restaurant customer) Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!
(d) Was it a car or a cat I saw?
(e) (a nun advising that her mother is one also) Ma is a nun as I am
(f) Do geese see God?
(g) Murder for a jar of red rum
(h) Never odd or even
(i) Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
(j) Doc note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
(k) A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
(l) Damn, I Agassi, miss again. Mad.
(m) (historic isolation) Able was I ere I saw Elba.
(n) (History's first introduction) Madam, I'm Adam.
(o) top spot
(p) a Toyota
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 April 2025
This week's subject is food.
1 What is veal?
2 What are the opening hours for 7-Eleven stores? (a) 7am – 11pm, of course (b) 6am – midnight (c) 24 hours
3 Is the entrée the first or second course?
4 What percentage of a hamburger is ham?
5 What kind of cheese is made backwards?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 March 2025
This week's subject is English word world records.
1 What is the longest word, one of 45 letters, to appear in a major English dictionary?
2 What English word has vowels outnumbering consonants by four to one?
3 How many English words in general use start with SV?
4 What three-letter word is all vowels?
5 What record does "stressed" hold?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 March 2025
This week's subject is chemistry. If you score more than one correct answer, you have done exceptionally well!
1 What can be burned after being burned once?
2 What is ununbium?
3 What is yttrium?
4 What is the common abbreviation for your deoxyribonucleic acid?
5 What is trona? (a) salt (b) pepper (c) a grey-white or yellowish-white monoclinic mineral consisting of a hydrous acid sodium carbonate
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 March 2025
This week's subject is English word records.
1 What is almost the longest common word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order?
2 "Uncopyrightable" is the longest word with what feature?
3 What seven-letter word has no vowels (a, e, i, o, or u)?
4 What is the feature of the word "divisibility"?
5 "Stewardesses" is the longest word with what feature? (Try typing it .)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 March 2025
This week's subject is double letters.
1 The president of what country has a surname ending in YY?
2 What is his full name?
3 What three animals or fish have names that start with double letters?
4 What word containing four Zs means appeal, charm, glamour and charisma?
5 What is the only known English word with three consecutive double letters?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 March 2025
This week's subject is single letters.
1 Headache
2 Back of beyond
3 Bottle opener
4 First aid
5 Star of these questions.
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 February 2025
This week's subject is capital cities.
1 What capital city name starts with Q?
2 What five-letter capital city name is included in a word for an insect?
3 Of which country is San Salvador the capital?
4 Is the city pronounced dar-car the capital of Bangladesh or Senegal?
5 If you are concerned that this week's questions are too hard, try this one: What country name appears in the middle of the name Jerusalem?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 February 2025
This week's subject is literature.
1 How much will it affect your readers if you type the first and last letters of each word correctly, but get many of the other letters in the wrong order?
2 Where would you find an epopee?
3 How did Lewis Carroll and Ernest Hemingway write? (a) standing (b) in the dark
4 What did playwright George Bernard Shaw say was wasted on the young? (No, it's not a hard question. It's very easy.)
5 How often is The Australian Women's Weekly published?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 February 2025
This week's subject is walls.
1 What is a ruelle? You should know because we think you've got one.
2 What was the longest time guards along the Great Wall of China spent, without a break, on or at the wall?
3 Why was the Great Wall of China primarily built? To keep out (a) Huns (b) horses (c) hedgehogs
4 What is the total length of the Great Wall (including branches and present and past sections)? (a) 21.96km (b) 2,196km (c) 21,196km
5 What are left in the cracks in Jerusalem's 'Wailing Wall'? (a) millions of pieces of paper (b) thousands of ants (c) hundreds of pens
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 February 2025
This week's subject is foreign language.
1 What is the Latin word for "the"?
2 Who or what are Bicol, Chichewa, Efik, Ewe, Ga, Gun, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Mizo, Oromo, Tiv, Twi, Xhosa and Zande?
3 How many people speak Ayapaneco fluently? (a) fewer than 5 million (b) about 1 million (c) 2
4 'Orchid' is derived from the Latin word 'orchis'. What does that mean? (a) flower (b) testicle (c) monocotyledonous plant
5 Why do the Berbers of North Africa never make spelling mistakes?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 January 2025
This week's subject is overseas crime.
1 How did a power pole hold two prisoners fleeing from a New Zealand court in the last week of January 2009?
2 How were offenders kept out of the previously seriously-vandalised centre of Waitakere city in New Zealand? (a) by regular police patrols (b) by a minimum one-year jail sentence on conviction for vandalism (c) by loud playing of Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Dame Kiri
3 When three Somalis were killed in April 2009 while holding an American captain, were Somali pirates holding any other sailors or ships?
4 What was Albanian Besim Elezi caught trying to do 10 days after smuggling himself into Britain?
5 What was illegal for women to do in cars in Saudi Arabia before 2017?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 January 2025
This week's subject is non-human sex.
1 How many times a day does an average pair of lions have sex in the mating season? (a) 40 or even up to 50 (b) 3 ( c) once only, and only on rainy days
2 How many times a year does a penguin have sex? (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) at least 50
3 How often does a snail have sex? (Don't give too large an answer.)
4 Do hippos mate in the water or on land?
5 What prostitution racket was discovered in Antarctica in 1998? (a) penguins paying with stones (b) None. It's a stupid question
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 January 2025
This week's subject is presidents.
1 Against whom did 19th century Mexican president Ignacio Comonfort lead a rebellion?
2 Goodluck Jonathan was elected president of what African country in February 2010?
3 What president has a surname beginning with X?
4 What president has a surname of only two letters?
5 What was the occupation of Tallis Obed Moses before he became president of Vanuatu? (a) minister and head of the Presbyterian Church in Vanuatu (b) union official (c) criminal
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 5 January 2025
This week's subject is common statements. What piece from the numbered group joins with what piece from the lettered group to make one of a comical collection?
1 When fish are in schools
2 A thief who stole a calendar
3 A will is a
4 The batteries were given out
5 After a dentist and a manicurist married
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