#190

Super Stuff, Corn, Flags, Spooks & Spies, and One Lit Wonders.

Super Stuff

These questions are a cut above the rest.

1

Name one of the two teams competing in the 2024 Super Bowl.

2

True or false: our sun is big enough to trigger a supernova explosion.

3

What famous supermodel once said to a reporter, “We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.”?

4

In the 2007 film Super Bad, what one-word name did the character Fogell use for his fake ID?

5

What is the name of the fictional city that Superman defends?

Super Stuff

Corn

All about this a-maize-ing crop.

6

What Italian porridge-like dish can be made from boiled cornmeal?

7

Corn was first domesticated in what is now what country?

8

What film series that began in 1984 is based on a short story by Stephen King?

9

Grain alcohol made from corn is traditionally the source of what whisky?

10

What animal features on the box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in Australia?

Corn

Flags

Given a description of a flag, can you name the nation or people it represents?

11

A white banner symbolising purity and integrity with a crimson red circle, symbolising the sun.

12

Two juxtaposed red triangular figures symbolising bravery and the national flower, framed by blue borders and featuring white symbols of the sun and moon.

13

Green stripes for land, blue stripes for water, and thin black stripes for the people, adorned with a white star and a ceremonial headdress.

14

Three equal vertical panels. Two are green, symbolising agriculture, and the middle one is white, symbolising peace and unity.

15

A red banner with two symbols displayed in the corner - a gold hammer and sickle topped off by a red five-point star bordered in gold.

Flags

Spooks & Spies

Get your backstory ready.

16

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star in a 2024 spy series inspired by what 2005 film?

17

Singer and dancer Josephine Baker was an agent for the intelligence service of what country during WWII?

18

East Germany’s Ministry for State Security was more commonly known by what name?

19

Englishmen Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross were Soviet spies collectively known by what name, referring to the university where they were recruited?

20

In the language of espionage, what does a cobbler do?

Spooks & Spies

One Lit Wonders

We’ll give you an author and the year their only novel was published. You tell us the name of that novel.

21

Sylvia Plath (1963)

22

Boris Pasternak (1957)

23

J.D. Salinger (1951)

24

Anna Sewell (1877)

25

Margaret Mitchell (1936)

One Lit Wonders

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 22 TuPunks
  • 20 Rhalix
  • 20 Suttlors
  • 24 David M
  • 25 Riv & dan
  • 20 Jim and Kylie
  • 21 Nools and Rach
  • 20 Saturday S&M

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  • 16 Dani and Al
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