#61

The Five Senses, Finance, Ography, Extreme Adventures, and Formerly Known As.

The Five Senses

Warming you up by testing you on sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.

1

Short-sightedness is an eye condition that causes what to appear blurred - distant objects or close objects?

2

What is the name of the spiral cavity in the human ear which produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations?

3

Which city in France is known as the world's capital of perfume?

4

In the Braille alphabet each letter is placed on a cell containing how many dots - 6, 9 or 12?

5

What are the two basic tastes that don't start with the letter S?

The Five Senses

Finance

For all our spreadsheet loving fans.

6

The Big Four accounting firms are made up of Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and what other firm?

7

What does the finance acronym GDP stand for?

8

At what age can Australians access their super if they haven't retired?

9

Which finance themed TV show stars Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff and Paul Giamatti?

10

What is the name of the trading strategy that speculates on the decline in a stock?

Finance

Ography

Can you name the words that end in -ography based on the following definitions?

11

The science or practice of drawing maps.

12

An account of a person’s life written by that person.

13

The study and systematic recording of human cultures.

14

The activity or occupation of editing or making of a dictionary.

15

The art and science of writing and deciphering coded messages.

Ography

Extreme Adventures

If you want to do the quiz as an extreme activity, reveal the answer first then guess the question.

16

In what century was the first recorded parachute jump?

17

What do spelunkers explore?

18

The six-day, 251km ultramarathon Marathon des Sables takes place in what desert?

19

What building did Tom Cruise climb in the 2011 film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?

20

Is a bidoigt a climbing hold, a hunting knife or a knot?

Extreme Adventures

Formerly Known As

Quickfire time: can you name these cities from their former name?

21

Bombay

22

Saigon

23

Petrograd

24

New Amsterdam

25

Constantinople

Formerly Known As

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

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