#175

Pumpkins, Lollies & Sweets, Cults, Supernatural Creatures, and Witches & Wizards.

Pumpkins

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1

The word pumpkin appeared for the first time in what fairy tale?

2

Are pumpkins botanically fruits or vegetables?

3

Billy Corgan is the lead singer of what post-punk band?

4

Which of these is not an officially recognised variety of pumpkin - Autumn Gold, Baby Boo, Big Boy or Tricky Jack?

5

What Tim Burton character is known as The Pumpkin King?

Pumpkins

Lollies & Sweets

These questions have a high sugar content.

6

Caramel is made by slowly heating what substance?

7

The centre of a Ferrero Rocher contains a cream made from chocolate and what nut?

8

Salvador Dalí created the logo for what Spanish brand of lollipops and confectionery?

9

What hard candy’s name derives from a slang term for mouth?

10

Are there more calories in a single Oreo or a single Tim Tam?

Lollies & Sweets

Cults

If you can't beat em join em.

11

Charles Manson told his followers that several songs from what band contained prophetic messages?

12

“Blessed be the fruit” is a greeting used in what dystopian book and television show?

13

What word beginning with the letter D is given to the controversial process of removing someone from the influence of a religious cult?

14

What American band’s name is a portmanteau of a deceased Rolling Stones guitarist and a 1978 cult-related incident in Guyana?

15

What historical figure established a cult in 6th-century BC that worshipped numbers, believed in reincarnation, and, according to legend, were prohibited from eating beans?

Cults

Supernatural Creatures

We’re all supernatural creatures in some way or another.

16

What sign of the zodiac is commonly represented as a centaur?

17

Born (and re-born) from ashes, what mythical creature symbolises life and renewal?

18

A white siren (or mermaid) is featured in the logo of what worldwide chain founded in Seattle?

19

Stheno and Euryale are the less famous sisters of what legend of Greek mythology?

20

In 565 AD, Irish monk Saint Columba is said to have made the first reported sighting of what mythical creature?

Supernatural Creatures

Witches & Wizards

We’ll give you the witch or wizard. You give us the work they appeared in.

21

Radagast

22

Prue Halliwell

23

Yen Sid

24

Endora

25

The Wayward Sisters

Witches & Wizards

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 23 David M
  • 24 Evan & Siân
  • 20 Charlie, Chris and Sara
  • 20 The VeeZees
  • 20 Traisy
  • 22 Megan & Mose
  • 21 Big Yeeters
  • 20 Daz n Bec

Random Scores

  • 19 Harry Trish and Zahra
  • 6 Bridget
  • 14 ChloJo
  • 11 Rickbert
  • 13 Bea and Osh
  • 15 Dani and Tim
  • 11 The Koalas
  • 13 Dan & Liana
13 points was last week's average score.

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