Round 1
Flying Colours
Name the country from the details on its national flag.
Question 1: Which country's flag has a red maple leaf between two red vertical panels?
Question 2: Which country's national flag consists of two stacked pennants rather than a rectangle?
Question 3: Which Mediterranean country's flag shows a copper-orange outline of its island above two olive branches?
Question 4: Which Central American country's flag shows two men supporting a coat of arms?
Question 5: Which African country's flag features an AK-47 crossed with a hoe over an open book?
Round 2
Pen Names, Please
These writers have arrived under their real names. Tell us the names on their books.
Question 6: Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn under what pen name?
Question 7: What pen name did Eric Arthur Blair use for books including Animal Farm?
Question 8: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under what name?
Question 9: Mary Ann Evans published Middlemarch under what pen name?
Question 10: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, whose novels include Indiana, wrote under what pen name?
Round 3
Acronym and Get It
Small packages, long names: supply the missing word in each expansion.
Question 11: SCUBA stands for Self-Contained what Breathing Apparatus?
Question 12: In football, VAR stands for Video what Referee?
Question 13: UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and what Organization?
Question 14: LASER stands for Light Amplification by what Emission of Radiation?
Question 15: In electronic music, MIDI stands for Musical Instrument what Interface?
Round 4
Fruit of the Clue
Every answer is a fruit. Your five-a-day has rarely been this competitive.
Question 16: Which fruit completes the title of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork ...?
Question 17: Which fruit floats in front of the man's face in René Magritte's painting The Son of Man?
Question 18: In the title of a 1967 Beatles song, fields of which fruit are 'forever'?
Question 19: Which fruit sits on top of the Wimbledon men's singles trophy?
Question 20: Which fruit gives the liqueur crème de cassis its flavour?
Round 5
Ahead of Its Time
Two milestones enter; the older one wins. Say which happened first.
Question 21: Which came first: the first modern Olympic Games or the first FIFA World Cup?
Question 22: Which came first: the Wright brothers' first powered flight or the first Nobel Prizes?
Question 23: Which was published first: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species?
Question 24: Which came first: Disney's original film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Superman's first comic-book appearance?
Question 25: Which came first: the opening of the Suez Canal or the completion of the first transcontinental railway in the United States?
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