#186
History Repeats, Y though?, What’s in a Lyric?, Novel Ts, and City by Films.
History Repeats
We’ve seen this before.
How many sets of father-son U.S. presidents have there been?
What pandemic swept the world roughly 100 years before the 2020 COVID pandemic?
Napoleon and Hitler both famously invaded but failed to conquer what country?
What two wives of Henry VIII were accused of adultery and beheaded?
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is famous for being the only known survivor of what two events?
History Repeats
Y though?
Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself why.
Both starting with the letter Y and originating in Chinese philosophy, what are the two complementary forces thought to maintain harmony in the universe?
Also the name of a Major League Baseball team, what word represents the letter Y in the NATO alphabet?
Name three of the five African countries with the letter Y in its name.
In French, which two-word phrase is used to pronounce the name of the letter ‘Y’?
The chemical elements of Yttrium and Ytterbium are both named after a city in which European country?
Y though?
What’s in a Lyric?
For the lyrical geniuses out there.
In The Rolling Stones’ song Paint It Black, what colour is the door?
What song, whose title is featured in the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, knocked Bohemian Rhapsody from the number one spot on the U.K. singles chart in 1976?
In Natalie Imbruglia’s hit song Torn, what does she describe as being torn? (Apart from herself)
In the song Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus, frontman Brendon B. Brown asks the subject to listen to what band with them?
Name at at least two of the four houses mentioned in the opening lines of Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits.
What’s in a Lyric?
Novel Ts
All answers are books and start with the letter T.
What is the name of the second book in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy?
50 Shades of Gray started out as fan fiction of what 2005 Young Adult novel?
Go Set a Watchman is the 2015 sequel to what 1960 American classic novel?
Matt Damon plays the title character in the 1999 movie adaptation of what 1955 psychological thriller written by Patricia Highsmith?
The nameless narrator of what HG Wells novel finds himself in the year 802701?
Novel Ts
City by Films
We’ll give you three films. Can you name the city they’re all set in?
Scarface (1983), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Moonlight (2016)
Two Hands (1999), Looking for Alibrandi (2000), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Goodbye Lenin (2003), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Atomic Blonde (2017)
The Blues Brothers (1980), High Fidelity (2000), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Summertime (1955), Casanova (2005), The Tourist (2010)
City by Films
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