#243
Through the Centuries, It’s About Time, Hip Hop, Sporting Firsts, and Alphabetically Next.
Through the Centuries
To move forward, we have to go backwards.
Sporting powdered wigs rose to popularity in the 17th century as a practical way to hide scarring and baldness caused by what disease?
Which of the following composers were not born in the 1700s - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven or Johann Sebastian Bach?
Initially criticised by leading artists and intellectuals, what was constructed as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair?
In 1954, doctors performed the first successful human organ transplant. Which organ was transplanted?
Used to collectively describe people born between the early 2010s and mid-2020s, what name based on a Greek letter has been given to the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z?
Through the Centuries
It’s About Time
Tick tock. Tick tock.
To accommodate the slight discrepancies between Atomic Time and Observed Solar Time, what kind of “second” was added to the year on December 31st 2016?
What is the time difference between the International Date Line (IDL) and the Prime Meridian (GMT)?
Resembling a blue British police box, what is the name of the time travelling spacecraft that appears in Doctor Who?
The song Time is the fourth track on what 1973 critically-acclaimed concept album?
Commonly mistaken for being the name of the clock on the Palace of Westminster, what is Big Ben?
It’s About Time
Hip Hop
Mo’ questions, mo’ problems.
Born in 1965, which American record producer and rapper is often credited with popularising West Coast G-funk rap?
In 2023, who became the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Missy Elliot, Queen Latifah or Lauryn Hill?
Which hip hop group consists of members Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D?
Hip hop trio Kneecap are known for rapping in English and which other language?
What did the acronym B.I.G. originally stand for in the moniker The Notorious B.I.G.?
Hip Hop
Sporting Firsts
These facts will never be replaced.
The first perfect 10 achieved by gymnast Nadia Comǎneci at the Montreal 1976 Olympics was awarded for her routine on which apparatus?
Who was the first VFL/AFL player to kick 1000 goals?
Who was the first woman to have a commemorative statue erected at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
In 2013, who was the first soccer player to be transferred for €100 million when he moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid?
In 1926, American Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to achieve what feat, breaking the previous speed records set by men in the process?
Sporting Firsts
Alphabetically Next
Can you name the person or item that comes next alphabetically?
US States:
Alabama,
Alaska,
…
Australian Prime Ministers:
Abbott,
Albanese,
…
International Cricket Council full members:
Afghanistan,
Australia,
…
Signs of the Western Zodiac:
Aquarius,
Aries,
…
James Bond films:
A View To Kill,
Casino Royale,
…
Alphabetically Next
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