Round 1

Pair Pressure

One half of a famous partnership is here. Bring along the other.

  1. Question 1: Which outlaw was Bonnie Parker's partner in crime during the Great Depression?

  2. Question 2: In Aardman's animated films, what is the name of Wallace's long-suffering dog?

  3. Question 3: James Watson and which fellow scientist proposed a double-helix model of DNA in 1953?

  4. Question 4: Which musician formed Eurythmics with Annie Lennox?

  5. Question 5: In Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, which sinister alter ego shares a body with Dr Jekyll?

Round 2

Third Wheel

Two's company, but these sets need one more. Name the missing member.

  1. Question 6: The three Baltic states are Estonia, Latvia and which other country?

  2. Question 7: In the RGB model used by screens, red and green are joined by which third primary colour?

  3. Question 8: In Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Athos and Porthos are joined by which third musketeer?

  4. Question 9: Which race completes the US horse-racing Triple Crown alongside the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes?

  5. Question 10: In Hinduism's Trimurti, Brahma and Vishnu are joined by which third god, associated with destruction?

Round 3

All Rise

From the kitchen to the sky, everything here is on the way up.

  1. Question 11: Which gas produced by yeast helps bread dough rise?

  2. Question 12: Which celestial body's gravity is the main cause of Earth's ocean tides?

  3. Question 13: Which French brothers built the balloon used for the first untethered human hot-air-balloon flight in 1783?

  4. Question 14: What is the name of the back-first high-jump technique popularised by the men's gold medallist at the 1968 Olympics?

  5. Question 15: What Italian musical term instructs performers to get gradually louder?

Round 4

A Change of Letters

Rearrange every letter in bold, ignoring spaces, to find the answer to the clue.

  1. Question 16: Rearrange A PENCIL to name a bird with a large pouch beneath its bill.

  2. Question 17: Rearrange COOL CHEAT to name a food made from cacao beans.

  3. Question 18: Rearrange ANIMAL to name the capital of the Philippines.

  4. Question 19: Rearrange GIRDLE to name a craftsperson who applies gold leaf to surfaces.

  5. Question 20: Rearrange CART HORSE to name a large instrumental ensemble, typically including strings, woodwind, brass and percussion.

Round 5

Stone Me!

Rock-solid clues to things carved, built or written in stone.

  1. Question 21: Which ancient Egyptian object, inscribed in three scripts, helped scholars decipher hieroglyphs?

  2. Question 22: Which Renaissance artist carved the marble David now displayed in Florence's Accademia Gallery?

  3. Question 23: The stone figures known as moai are most closely associated with which Pacific island?

  4. Question 24: Which ancient city in Jordan is famous for the Treasury, a monumental façade carved into rose-coloured sandstone?

  5. Question 25: Which Babylonian king's law code is inscribed on a stone stele now displayed in the Louvre?

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Pair Pressure
Third Wheel
All Rise
A Change of Letters
Stone Me!