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Category: Trivia
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Ballon DOr| |Football| |Politics|
Only one country in the world can claim that it produced a Ballon d’Or winner who was regarded as the best footballer on the planet and later went on to become president of that very same country. Which country is it?
Liberia
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Indian Ocean| |Natural History|
Few extinct creatures are as symbolic as the dodo, the bird that vanished in the late seventeenth century after human arrival on the island to which it was native. What was that island?
Mauritius
Category: Trivia
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Technology|
DVD is an optical disc format used for storing data. If the first letter means digital and the last means disc, what word does the V represent?
Versatile
Category: TV
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |British Television| |Crime Drama|
Thomas, Arthur, and John Shelby, with Aunt Polly at their side, rule Birmingham under what collective name?
Peaky Blinders
Category: Science
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Biology| |Mammals| |Medicine|
The Rh factor is the protein on red blood cells that determines whether someone is Rh-positive or Rh-negative. After which mammal was it named?
Monkeys
Category: Art
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Modern Art| |Painting| |Photography| |Surrealism|
Painter, photographer, and poet Henriette Theodora Markovitch worked under which artistic name, and became known among other things as one of Picasso’s lovers?
Dora Maar
Category: Trivia
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Terms: |NASA| |Space History|
In 1976, NASA achieved the first successful landing on Mars with a spacecraft whose name was later also associated with an Austrian lawn-mower company, integrated into STIHL in 2019. What was the name of that spacecraft?
Viking
Category: Art
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Comic Books| |Marvel Comics| |Superheroes|
Just because he sometimes turns into a raging green monster called the Hulk does not mean there is anything wrong with him. What is the name of the scientist who, after being exposed to gamma radiation from an atomic bomb, occasionally transforms into the big green brute?
Bruce Banner
Category: Art
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Comic Books| |DC Comics|
This superheroine chose for holidays, non-working Saturdays, and Sundays a name she could use in those situations. She called herself Katherine Kane. Who appears when things become serious and the world needs the aunt hiding behind the name Kathy Kane?
Batwoman
Category: Art
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Comic Books| |DC Comics| |Superheroes|
Which superhero is known, in his everyday life, as Billy Batson?
Captain Marvel
Category: Film
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Animated Films| |Disney|
In Disney’s 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, everything revolves around the unfortunate Quasimodo. He falls in love with a Romani dancer, and so does the main villain, Frollo. What is her name?
Esmeralda
Category: Art
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Dance| |Modern Dance|
She was one of the most influential dancers of all time, and her methods still shape modern dance today. This American dancer and choreographer left a huge mark on the world of dance, and the company she founded under her own name was, and still is, considered one of the finest ever. What was the name of this artist, who died in 1991?
Martha Graham
Category: Science
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Astronomy| |Planetary Science| |Space Science|
Objects composed of interplanetary material that survive their passage through the atmosphere and then hit the surface of Earth or another celestial body are called what?
Meteorites
Category: Trivia
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Natural Disasters| |Unsolved Mysteries|
Deep in Siberia in 1908, a still-unresolved catastrophe destroyed a massive area of forest, and the absence of any crater gave rise to many explanations. What is this event called?
Tunguska
Category: Science
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Astronomy| |Giuseppe Piazzi| |Space Science|
On the first day of 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid ever identified, and it later turned out to be the largest object in the Asteroid Belt. What is its name?
Ceres
Category: Science
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Astronomy| |Space Science|
Among the comets that return near Earth, one appears more often than the others, coming back every 3.3 years. It was named after the scientist who worked out its orbit in 1819. What surname does this comet bear?
Encke
Category: Literature
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |French Literature| |Novels|
“Nothing arouses envy like another person’s laughter” was said to be her favorite sentence. Perhaps it is only natural, then, that she wrote the worldwide hit Bonjour Tristesse at the age of just eighteen. Who was the author of that novel?
Françoise Sagan
Category: Sport
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Driver Names| |F1| |Formula One| |Motorsport|
A former F1 driver who competed from 2004 until 2012 shares his surname with a pistol first made in 1982. Who is he?
Timo Glock
Category: Film
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Classic Cinema| |Film Characters| |Rio Bravo| |Walter Brennan| |Western Films|
In the western Rio Bravo, what is the name of the sheriff’s deputy, the grumbling old-timer brilliantly played by three-time Oscar winner Walter Brennan?
Stumpy
Category: History
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Ancient Cultures| |Archaeology| |Mexico|
Which pre-Columbian civilization is most famously associated with the archaeological site of La Venta in Tabasco?
The Olmecs
Category: Sport
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Basketball| |Los Angeles| |Los Angeles Lakers| |NBA| |NBA History|
It seems slightly unusual that a team based in Los Angeles should be called the Lakers, but the explanation comes from the city where the franchise played before moving west. From which city did the Lakers come?
Minneapolis
Category: Film
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Bill Pullman| |Bridget Fonda| |Horror Films| |Oliver Platt|
A 1999 film tells the story of a giant crocodile attacking the people around Black Lake in Maine. If Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, and Oliver Platt appear in it, and sequels were later made in 2007 and 2018, what is the title of the film?
Lake Placid
Category: Literature
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Cult Books| |German Literature|
What city serves as the setting of the now classic novel We Children from Bahnhof Zoo by Christiane F.?
Berlin
Category: Literature
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |American Literature| |Film Adaptations| |Horror Classics| |Horror Fiction| |Stephen King|
Here is an easier one, somewhere between film and literature. Children of the Corn is regarded as one of the classic horror films, and it was based on a literary work. Who is the author of the story from which the film was adapted?
Stephen King
Category: Music
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Album Titles| |British Music| |British Pop| |Hit Songs| |Modern Music|
Known for songs including Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud, and Perfect, this British singer-songwriter also became famous for album titles built around mathematical symbols. What is his name?
Ed Sheeran