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Twenty-Five, 25 in 2025, Getting Technical, Kitchen Words & Phrases, and Country of Occurrence.

Twenty-Five

New year, same topical categories.

1

Which element, with the atomic number 25 and the symbol Mn, is widely used in steel production?

2

Referring to the singer’s age at the time of recording, the title of Adele’s third album was ‘25’. What were the titles of her first and second studio albums?

3

Scoring 25 points, the outer/single bullseye on a standard dartboard is what colour - red, black or green?

4

What two-word term is commonly used to mark a 25th anniversary, such as that of a wedding or of a monarch’s reign?

5

In the USA you need to be at least 25 years old to be elected to the country’s House of Representatives. What is the minimum age to become an equivalent federal MP in Australia?

Twenty-Five

25 in 2025

Keeping up with the 25 theme, let’s take a look at who or what is turning 25 this year.

We’ll give you a description, you name the birthday-ee.

6

A replacement for floppy disks that was first introduced by a Singaporean company called Trek 2000 at a German trade fair.

7

US reality competition adapted from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson.

8

The first instalment of this book series by Julia Quinn later adapted by Netflix into a hit TV show.

9

Album from the band Radiohead that received a perfect ten from the music website Pitchfork.

10

American singer-songwriter and actress who portrayed Ariel in the 2024 film The Little Mermaid.

25 in 2025

Getting Technical

It’s time to enter the mainframe.

11

A coil of wire wrapped around an iron core forms the basis of what component found in many electrical devices?

12

Relating to equipment designed to reproduce quality sound, the term Hi-Fi is the shortened version of what two words?

13

What staple food of Italian cuisine lends its name to a term used for difficult-to-maintain and unstructured computer source code?

14

The acronym CAPTCHA features the surname of which famous scientist and mathematician?

15

Jensen Huang is the CEO of which technology company currently valued at over 1 trillion dollars?

Getting Technical

Kitchen Words & Phrases

Each of the answers contain an item usually found in the kitchen.

E.g. A sport with ten pins = BOWLing

16

Starchy, waxy and all-purpose are the three basic types of this vegetable.

17

What you face when you have to choose between two paths.

18

Impassive or expressionless, often used to describe a dry sense of humour.

19

A piece of gym equipment originally used in 18th-century Russia as a counterweight for weighing farm goods.

20

“Belly jeans”, “Plaster man”, and “a well-boiled icicle” are all examples of these.

Kitchen Words & Phrases

Country of Occurrence

Can you name the country where the following events occurred?

21

Chernobyl disaster

22

Bay of Pigs Invasion

23

Invention of gunpowder

24

2017 Fyre Festival

25

England's 1966 FIFA World Cup win

Country of Occurrence

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 21 Sarah
  • 20 Megan & Alex
  • 21 Nick and Maria
  • 21 Jema and Rhys
  • 21 Grase’s
  • 20 Team of Steele
  • 22 The FlemWalshes
  • 20 The Bubs

Random Scores

  • 17 Trevor and The Pig
  • 10 Eddys
  • 17 SoDa
  • 17 Candy
  • 13 Lil Elvis
  • 10 Quiz Quest
  • 14 Friedman Whalley’s
  • 13 Kalbarri SES
13 points was last week's average score.

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