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Category: Sport
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Basketball| |Boston Celtics| |NBA|
Johnson, Ainge, Bird and McHale are already there, so only the Chief beneath the basket is missing from this lineup. Who is he?
Robert Parish
Category: Science
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Anxiety Disorders| |Medicine| |Psychology|
Among the most common phobias is the fear of animals. How is this phobia called?
Zoophobia
Category: Science
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Anxiety| |Medicine| |Psychology|
Antidepressants are the most common group of medicines used for the physical symptoms of various phobias, while anxiolytics are also prescribed from time to time. Besides these two groups, which other type of medication is used for physical symptoms such as voice tremors or anxiety?
Beta Blockers
Category: History
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Ancient Israel|
Around 705 BC, which king of Judah led an anti-Assyrian alliance and is credited with restoring the Yahwistic cult, reforming the military and finances, and building roads and waterworks?
Hezekiah
Category: History
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Christianity|
Which elder brother of Moses, along with his sons Nadab and Abihu and seventy Israelite elders, was granted the sight of God, only later to be the one who cast the golden calf?
Aaron
Category: History
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Christianity|
According to Christian tradition, which apostle preached in India, Mesopotamia, and Armenia, was martyred by being flayed alive, and is credited with an apocryphal gospel?
Bartholomew
Category: Geography
Published: 21. 4. 2026.
Panaji, also known as Panjim, is the capital of which Indian state, whose central port of Marmagao handles around half of the country’s iron ore exports and whose former capital is home to the colonial Basilica of Bom Jesus?
Goa
Category: Sport
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Athletics| |Carl Lewis| |Olympics|
Who is the man responsible for Carl Lewis finishing with 9 Olympic gold medals and 1 silver instead of a neat total of 10 golds?
Joe DeLoach
Category: History
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Ancient Gods| |Greek mythology|
What is the name of the god of marriage who, according to one tradition, was the son of Apollo and one of the Muses, and according to another, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite?
Hymen
Category: Sport
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Atlético Madrid| |Football| |La Liga| |Madrid| |Real Madrid| |Spain|
Leaving aside Getafe, which is based in the Madrid suburb of the same name, the city of Madrid currently has three clubs in Spain’s top division. Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are two of them. What is the third called?
Rayo Vallecano
Category: History
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Early Medieval| |Iberia| |Madrid| |Spain|
The first recorded mention of Madrid goes back to the second half of the 9th century, when a fortress on the banks of the Manzanares is noted. Which people founded this fortification?
Arabs
Category: Geography
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Capitals| |Iberia| |Madrid| |Rivers| |Spain|
Here is one for geography experts. Madrid stands on a river whose entire course lies within Spain. What is the name of this river?
Manzanares
Category: Film
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |American Civil War| |Buster Keaton| |Classic Film| |Silent Comedy| |Trains|
Buster Keaton is one of the great figures of silent comedy, both as actor and director. In one of his finest films, he plays a train engineer during the American Civil War. What is the title of this classic?
The General
Category: Film
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Charlie Chaplin| |Cinema History| |Douglas Fairbanks| |Film Studios| |Hollywood| |Mary Pickford| |Producers| |Silent Era|
David Wark Griffith joined Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919 to found a film company, largely because the existing studios wanted to control their careers completely. What was the name of that company?
United Artists
Category: Film
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Actresses| |Classic Cinema| |Film History| |Hollywood| |Silent Film|
This question asks for the actress who was known as the First Lady of American cinema. She was the leading female star of the silent era in Hollywood and is now considered one of the greatest actresses ever. She appeared frequently in Griffith’s films, including The Birth of a Nation. Who is she?
Lillian Gish
Category: Literature
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |French Literature| |Humanism| |Novels| |Renaissance| |Satire|
The Renaissance produced the first truly great name of French literature, and his life’s major work was the fantastic satirical novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, in which he expressed ideas of justice, goodness, humanity, culture, and tolerance. Who was he?
François Rabelais
Category: Literature
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Drama| |French Literature| |Theatre| |Tragedy|
Together with Molière and Corneille, the dramatist in this question forms the great trio of seventeenth-century French theatre. He wrote mostly tragedies, and his most famous works include Andromaque and Phèdre. Who is he?
Jean Racine
Category: Science
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Cold War| |Communications| |NASA| |Satellites| |Space History|
In 1960, the United States launched a metallized balloon that became a predecessor of modern communications satellites. It acted like a giant mirror, bouncing signals from one point on Earth back to another. What was this satellite called?
Echo 1
Category: History
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Banknotes| |Currency| |Modern History| |Turkey|
Turkey’s currency is the lira, and it is used not only in Turkey but also in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A curious detail is that every banknote and coin features the same person, depicted with different motifs from his life. Who is he?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Category: Trivia
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Home Computers|
The ZX Spectrum was an 8-bit home computer launched in Britain in 1982, powered by a 3.5 MHz Zilog Z80 processor and sold in 16 KB and 48 KB memory versions. What was the name of the inventor behind it, whose surname also appeared in the name of the company that made it?
Clive Sinclair
Category: Film
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Film music| |Soundtracks|
Among the most memorable parts of the 1964 film Zorba the Greek are its music and the famous sirtaki. The man who composed them is often seen as the greatest Greek composer of the modern age. What was his name?
Mikis Theodorakis
Category: Music
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Pop music|
Released on the 2009 album The Fall, the song The Man of the Hour is about a poodle called Ralph. What is the name of the artist who sings it?
Norah Jones
Category: History
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Marco Polo| |Medieval History| |Mongol Empire|
For seventeen years, Marco Polo was in the service of which ruler bearing the title of khan?
Kublai Khan
Category: Geography
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Central America|
Over which canal does the Bridge of the Americas, about one and a half miles long, run?
Panama Canal
Category: Trivia
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Chemistry|
When chopped, which vegetable produces propanethial-S-oxide, the substance that triggers tears?
Onion