Week 2, Quiz Club | Sha Razeek

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On 26 March, singer Olivia Dean took home three awards at the MOBO awards. What does MOBO stand for?

The UK awards celebrated 30 years this year. Music of Black Origin

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One March 29, four men entered the Magnani Rocca Foundation Museum near Palma Italy and stole three paintings of famous French artists worth nearly 10 million dollars. Among them paintings by Cezanne and Matisse. But the most expensive painting worth nearly 6.5 million dollars was Les Poissons (The Fish) by which artist?

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Setting sail for the Paris Peace Conference in December 1918, who became the first sitting US president to cross the Atlantic?

Woodrow Wilson

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Originating in the Alps in the early 11th century, which Royal ruled the Italian peninsula until the 1946 referendum that abolished the monarchy?

It is also the name of a famous West-End Theatre in London and also a cinema hall in Wellawatte. Savoy

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From the Latin for "to strip off leaves" what term is used to describe itthe method of removing dead cells from your skin?

Exfoliation

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A light-up head of which Star Wars character, originally featured in the 1980's movie, was sold for a million dollars at auction recently. The character appeared in all 9 of the main Star Wars movies.

C-3PO

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Home to the largest rose quartz mountain in South Asia, which temple and forest sanctuary, dating back to the era of King Devnampiyatissa in the 3rd century BC, is located close to Dambulla?

It was recently declared a national heritage of Sri Lanka. National Namal Uyana

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"No matter where you are from or what you look like, we're all one people". Who said this recently while looking at Earth. He was the first black astronaut to serve as a member of a full duration ISS crew and is also the first black astronaut to reach deep space.

Victor Glover

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Classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, what family of musical instruments does the triangle belong to?

Percussion

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Officially enthroned on the 25th of March, who became the first female archbishop of Cantebury. She was nurse in the NHS before she became a minister in the Church of England.

Dame Sarah Mullaly

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In 2022, Brad Pitt said that he suffers from a condition called 'Prosopagnosia', which is the inability to recognize what?

Faces

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Sworn in on Sep 20, 1989, who was the final state President of South Africa and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with Nelson Mandela?

F W De Klerk

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A helixophile is a collector of what wine related accessory?

Corkscrew

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With documents and traditions dating back to the 14th century which worldwide secret society founded its first British Grand Lodge in 1717?

The Masons (Freemasons)

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Which symbol of the United States was derived from 2 earlier symbolic folklore figures—Brother Jonathan & Yankee Doodle?

Uncle Sam

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its roots back to moonshine runners during Prohibition and considered to be one of the top-ranked motorsports organizations in the world, what does NASCAR stand for?

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, the 1979 American psychological war thriller Apocalypse Now was set in which country?

Vietnam

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Defeating Poland's Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Muhammed Ali won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal in which Olympics?

It was the first olympics to be fully televised where tapes of the games were flown into New York after the end of each day. 1960 Rome

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Who holds the all-time NBA record for most points in a single game, scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks?

Wilt Chamberlain (1962)

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What were the first names of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in cinema, which film maker said "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." Alfred Hitchcock

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Capable of growing more than 40 feet and weighing as much as 30000 lbs, what fish is considered the largest in the world?

Whale Shark

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Which natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white and sometimes sharp-tasting gets its name from the Somerset village where it is said to have originated froim?

Cheddar

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Renowned for his victory over British ships of war off the east coast of England, which American naval hero, considered the father of the American Navy, went onto serve Catherine the Great, commanding the Russian forces in the Black Sea against the Ottoman Empire?

John Paul Jones

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By what name was Namibia known before 1968?

South West Africa

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What name is given to atoms with the same atomic number but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei?

Isotopes

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Native to freshwater habitats from south-eastern Iran to the Indian subcontinent, what sort of creature is a mugger?

A Crocodile

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Located around 150 kilometres southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, which cape is the true southernmost tip of Africa and the official meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?

The name is derived from the Portuguese for Needles, because the compass needle pointed straight to true north, with no deviation. Cape of Agulhas

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Which Sri Lankan movie won the Best Children's movie award at the 1980 Italy International Film Festival and is often considered the first movie solely dedicated to children in Sri Lanka?

Handaya

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In Norse mythology, what was the home of the principal gods, linked to earth by the rainbow bridge Bifrost?

Asgard

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By what name were the Nazi secret police, formed in 1933 by Hermann Göring, known?

Gestapo

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Which alcoholic drink distilled from the agave plant is named after a town in Mexico?

Tequila

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Which Spice Girl starred in the 2023 American biographical sports drama film Gran Turismo?

She is also famously married to a former racing driver? Geri Halliwell Horner (Ginger Spice) married to Christian Horner

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What word, meaning a low pressure belt of surface winds at the equator, can also relate to a bout of sadness?

Doldrums

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Born in Middlesex with a career spanning over 5 decades Reg Dwight is the real name of which celebrity?

Sir Elton John

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Vu Lan or the Wondering Souls day is the second biggest festival in which country?

The biggest is Tet which celebrates the Lunar New Year. Vietnam

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Known as Dona Aurora, Aurora Quezon, the widow of which country's first president, was assassinated by the Communist-led Hukbalahaps in 1949?

The Phillipines

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The cluster of 7 articulating bones in the ankle, the cartilaginous plates in the eyelids and the the final segment of an arthropod leg, all share the name with which ancient city located in modern day Turkey where Antony and Cleopatra are said to have met and later the home of Saint Paul?

Tarsus

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Which British lawyer and academic, who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon from 1942-1955 had roles to play in the drafting of constitutions in Ceylon, Pakistan, the Federation of Malaya and the Kingdom of Nepal?

Ivor Jennings

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Which planet was originally named Georgium Sidus by the discoverer, after King George III of England?

Uranus

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The longest known cave system in the world, which as of 2025 has almost 700kms of passageways surveys, is located in which appropriately named national park in Kentucky?

Mammoth Cave National Park

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A class of arthropods, hexapods are commonly known as what?

Insects

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By what name is the fruit granadilla which has a wrinkled skin when ripe and is full of tiny seeds better known as?

Passion Fruit

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Now known not to exist, what name was given to the major planet thought during the 19th century to orbit the sun within the orbit of Mercury?

In Star Trek it is also the fictional home planet for the humanoid species that is known for their use of logic and reason and their pronounced eye brows and pointy ears. Most famous member being Spock. Vulcan.

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In Opera, which island provides the setting for Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles (or the Pearl Fishers) which premiered in 1863.

Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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Who in 1985 became the first non-seeded player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title?

Boris Becker

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The area north of 10 degrees south latitude in the Indian ocean is which "zone", named after the wet wind system that reverses direction with the seasons?

Monsoon

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What common sulfide mineral is known as "fool's gold" due to its brass-yellow color and metallic luster. Its brittle nature makes it unsuitable for shaping like real gold.

Pyrite

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Apart from Greenland, what is the other self governing territory that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark?

Feroe Islands (North Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland)

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Featuring over 30km of tunnels and 371600 square meters of retails space, the largest underground shopping complex in the world is found in which city?

Toronto

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Flowing through 10 nations, visiting 4 national capitals and marking 8 national borders along its 2,800 km course, which river flows through the most number of countries in the world?

Danube

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Which famous comedian hosted the 68th Annual Grammy Awards that were held in February this year?

Trevor Noah

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Located in the Kalutara District and named after a legendary Chinese Buddhist monk who was an alleged resident there, what is the largest natural stone cave system in South Asia?

Fa Hien Cave (Pahiyangala) 54.