#239

From Love to Game, Let’s Get Musical, Pivotal Pivots, It Happened in 1968, and Make by Model.

From Love to Game

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1

Which US city’s name is a combination of two Greek words - one for love and one for brother?

2

The quote “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” is often misattributed to which artist?

3

In the film Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time to what year?

4

The average length of human gestation is 40 weeks, but which animal has the longest gestation period of any living mammal, totalling 22 months?

5

What game has sold over 300m copies since its initial release in 2011, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time?

From Love to Game

Let’s Get Musical

One, two, a one two three four five!

6

Thanks to a 2021 collaboration that remixed four of his songs, which artist is the first and currently only act to score a top 10 UK single in six different decades?

7

Which city is recognised by Guinness World Records as having the world’s largest jazz festival?

8

Which of the following is not a musical instrument - stylophone, lagerphone, or optophone?

9

Containing more tracks than a single but fewer than an album, what does the term EP stand for?

10

Which Australian pub rock band, fronted by vocalist Amy Taylor, takes their name from a recreational drug also known as “poppers”?

Let’s Get Musical

Pivotal Pivots

Given the clue, can you name these brands and companies that started selling something different from what they’re known for today?

11

Started in 1930 in the USA as a wallpaper cleaning compound, now known as a popular children’s toy.

12

Started in 1865 in Finland as a paper mill, now known for mobile phones.

13

Started in 1837 in the USA as a stationery and fancy goods emporium, now known for jewellery.

14

Started in 1938 in South Korea exporting dried fish, now known for consumer electronics.

15

Started in 1837 in France making horse harnesses, now known for luxury accessories.

Pivotal Pivots

It Happened in 1968

One of the peak years of political unrest.

16

Who did James Earl Ray assassinate at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4?

17

When he was sworn in as Australian Prime Minister on January 10, John Gorton became the first and to this day only politician to do so while serving in what legislative body?

18

What two-word term is given to the four-month period in 1968 when the Czechoslovakian government attempted to democratise the nation and reduce the control of the USSR?

19

Aussie Peter Norman stood on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their iconic Black Power salute at the Summer Olympics. Which city hosted these games?

20

Which of the following events did not occur in 1968 – the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the first inauguration of US President Richard Nixon, or the “Bloody Monday” student protests in Paris?

It Happened in 1968

Make by Model

Can you name the car make by model?

21

Pathfinder

22

Countryman

23

Amarok

24

Jimny

25

Firebird

Make by Model

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 22 Whiteley Fam
  • 20 TEALE N EMMKA
  • 22 Nunan
  • 20 Just the two of us
  • 22 Matt and Mel
  • 21 Warrnamfools
  • 20 LesleyPetraetal
  • 24 Chris and Gill

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  • 18 York Street Yobbos
14 points was last week's average score.

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