#63

Cutting Shapes, Wordplay, Centuries, Film & TV, and Famous Fives.

Cutting Shapes

Not the dance floor kind.

1

Round Brilliant, Asscher and Cushion are all types of what?

2

Which original Arnott's Shapes flavour comes in the form of a 28 sided polygon?

3

The sound holes on a violin are shaped as what lowercase letter?

4

Which car company logo is shaped as a wide, slanted cross and is sometimes described as a bowtie?

5

What religious symbol is comprised of just two equilateral triangles superimposed on each other?

Cutting Shapes

Wordplay

We hope this doesn't leave you at a loss for words.

6

Madam, kayak and civic are all examples of what?

7

Based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, what is the most common four letter word in the English language?

8

Which two ABBA song titles begin with one word repeated three times?

9

Commonly used in internet memes, what does the acronym HIFW stand for?

10

Which one word European capital city has the highest points value when using the letter scoring system in Scrabble?

Wordplay

Centuries

Given the historical event, can you name what century it occurred in? e.g. 1900s

11

Galileo Galilei makes a series of startling astronomical discoveries, using a telescope that he has devised.

12

Genghis Khan becomes the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

13

Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, ending the Byzantine Empire and beginning the Ottoman Empire.

14

The French Revolution begins, ending with Napoleon as ruler of France.

15

Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa in Florence, Italy.

Centuries

Film & TV

With lockdown continuing we revisit everyone's literal pastime.

16

Resurrections is the title of the upcoming fourth instalment of what film series?

17

Which father and son duo are the creators and stars of the television sitcom Schitt's Creek?

18

Which American actor was best known for portraying Omar Little in The Wire and Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire?

19

Reese Witherspoon has executively produced and starred in which three television drama series?

20

What is the last sentence in the famous quote from the 2000 film Gladiator that begins with the line My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius...?

Film & TV

Famous Fives

Quickfire time: can you name all five items from the following categories?

21

Boroughs of New York City

22

Earth's oceans

23

Daughters of Kris Jenner

24

Main vertebrate groups

25

Most common methods of dismissals in cricket

Famous Fives

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 24 Rish
  • 21 Dugongs 🌊🐮
  • 24 Zo
  • 21 Big W & K8Mart
  • 23 Tom and Jenny
  • 20 Brig & Adam
  • 23 Prince Yuki Fan Club
  • 21 Keely

Random Scores

  • 9 SmartGuys
  • 14 Magster
  • 11 Laura and James
  • 16 Jaffa
  • 16 The Hoc Monsters
  • 19 Saymy
  • 16 Anthea
  • 18 Georgus
17 points was last week's average score.

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