Round 1

Flying Colours

Name the country from the details on its national flag.

  1. Question 1: Which country's flag has a red maple leaf between two red vertical panels?

  2. Question 2: Which country's national flag consists of two stacked pennants rather than a rectangle?

  3. Question 3: Which Mediterranean country's flag shows a copper-orange outline of its island above two olive branches?

  4. Question 4: Which Central American country's flag shows two men supporting a coat of arms?

  5. 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.

  1. Question 6: Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn under what pen name?

  2. Question 7: What pen name did Eric Arthur Blair use for books including Animal Farm?

  3. Question 8: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under what name?

  4. Question 9: Mary Ann Evans published Middlemarch under what pen name?

  5. 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.

  1. Question 11: SCUBA stands for Self-Contained what Breathing Apparatus?

  2. Question 12: In football, VAR stands for Video what Referee?

  3. Question 13: UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and what Organization?

  4. Question 14: LASER stands for Light Amplification by what Emission of Radiation?

  5. 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.

  1. Question 16: Which fruit completes the title of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork ...?

  2. Question 17: Which fruit floats in front of the man's face in René Magritte's painting The Son of Man?

  3. Question 18: In the title of a 1967 Beatles song, fields of which fruit are 'forever'?

  4. Question 19: Which fruit sits on top of the Wimbledon men's singles trophy?

  5. 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.

  1. Question 21: Which came first: the first modern Olympic Games or the first FIFA World Cup?

  2. Question 22: Which came first: the Wright brothers' first powered flight or the first Nobel Prizes?

  3. Question 23: Which was published first: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species?

  4. Question 24: Which came first: Disney's original film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Superman's first comic-book appearance?

  5. 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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Flying Colours
Pen Names, Please
Acronym and Get It
Fruit of the Clue
Ahead of Its Time