Quiz #234 - Saturday Quiz Time

#234

A Tale of Five Cities, Asian History, Shared Word, Winners are Grinners, and The Phonetic Alphabet.

A Tale of Five Cities

Why stop at two?

Which Australian state capital stands on the traditional lands of the Nyoongar people, who refer to the area as Boorloo?

Which city in the United Kingdom produced the bands Simple Minds, Primal Scream, and The Jesus And Mary Chain?

Inspiring the fictional restaurants depicted on screen in The Bear and The Menu, the three-Michelin-star restaurant Noma is located in what city?

First held in 2023, what US city hosts a Formula 1 Grand Prix as a night race on a temporary street circuit?

In 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin all met in what resort city surrounded by the Black Sea?

A Tale of Five Cities

Asian History

A look back at the world’s largest continent.

Who was the founder and first leader of North Korea?

In what century was the Taj Mahal built?

Prominent in the 13th and 14th centuries, which empire is the world’s largest contiguous empire in history - the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire or the Mongol Empire?

Murasaki Shikibu, also known as Lady Murasaki, was a Japanese writer widely credited with writing the world’s first what?

Due to the colour of the robes worn by Buddhist monks participating in a series of protests, what 2007 Revolution in Myanmar shares its name with a spice?

Asian History

Shared Word

We’ll give you two clues. Can you name the shared word between the answers to both clues?

E.g. Most populous Australian state and most populous US city = New (New South Wales and New York City).

A fortune-telling device and a 90s British game show hosted by Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien.

A British synth-pop duo with the hit song “West End Girls” & a 1966 critically-acclaimed album by The Beach Boys.

A 1957 legal drama film & an avian-themed game first released in 2009 on iOS.

A water gun invented in 1989 by a former NASA engineer & a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Kodak that revolutionised amateur filmmaking.

The narrow passageway surrounded by bones and ligaments on the palm side of the hand & an idiom referring to the end of a difficult or unpleasant situation.