Round 1

Sounds Familiar

Give two words that sound alike but have different spellings. Each clue describes one of them.

  1. Question 1: An ancient stringed instrument and someone who deliberately tells untruths.

  2. Question 2: The capital of South Korea and a person’s spiritual essence.

  3. Question 3: A Mediterranean country and a substance used to lubricate machinery.

  4. Question 4: An aromatic herb and what a clock measures.

  5. Question 5: An edible shellfish and body tissue that contracts to produce movement.

Round 2

After Hours at the Museum

Name the artist responsible for each work.

  1. Question 6: Girl with a Pearl Earring.

  2. Question 7: The Persistence of Memory, featuring melting clocks.

  3. Question 8: The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

  4. Question 9: The Kiss, showing a couple embraced in richly patterned, golden robes.

  5. Question 10: Nighthawks, depicting customers in a brightly lit diner at night.

Round 3

New Name, Who’s This?

Give the present-day name of each city.

  1. Question 11: Bombay.

  2. Question 12: Saigon.

  3. Question 13: Leningrad.

  4. Question 14: Edo.

  5. Question 15: Christiania, later spelled Kristiania.

Round 4

Nature’s Oddities

Unusual bodies, abilities and bathroom habits.

  1. Question 16: Which burrowing marsupial produces famously cube-shaped droppings?

  2. Question 17: Which small, upright-swimming fish has males that carry developing young in a brood pouch and give birth?

  3. Question 18: Which group of birds can sustain controlled backwards flight, rather than merely drifting backwards in the wind?

  4. Question 19: The axolotl retains its external gills into adulthood. It is a type of which amphibian?

  5. Question 20: How many hearts does an octopus have?

Round 5

Numbers on the Playlist

Name the artist or band behind each song.

  1. Question 21: “9 to 5” — the original 1980 recording.

  2. Question 22: “Seven Nation Army”.

  3. Question 23: “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”.

  4. Question 24: “1999” — the song released in 1982.

  5. Question 25: “99 Luftballons” — the original German-language recording.

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Sounds Familiar
After Hours at the Museum
New Name, Who’s This?
Nature’s Oddities
Numbers on the Playlist