Question 1: Despite its name, Oktoberfest usually begins in September. Which German city hosts the original festival?

Question 2: Launched in October 2024, NASA's Europa Clipper is heading to study an icy moon of which planet?

Question 3: Which singer released Midnights, the album featuring Anti-Hero, on 21 October 2022?

Question 4: Which October birthstone is famous for its 'play-of-colour', with rainbow flashes appearing as you turn it?

Question 5: In October 2024, which South Korean author of The Vegetarian was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Question 6: Which five-letter palindrome is a narrow boat traditionally propelled with a double-bladed paddle?

Question 7: Which five-letter palindrome names a system that detects objects using reflected radio waves?

Question 8: Which five-letter palindrome means a principle or belief held by a group?

Question 9: Which five-letter palindrome is the British musical term for a note lasting two crotchets?

Question 10: Which seven-letter palindrome means made into a god or worshipped as one?

Question 11: What two-word Spanish name is used for Mexican professional wrestling, famous for its colourful masks?

Question 12: Which North American mammal, often found raiding urban bins, has a black 'bandit mask' around its eyes and a ringed tail?

Question 13: What is the English name of the mysterious masked spirit who offers gold to bathhouse workers in Spirited Away?

Question 14: The gold funerary mask of which Egyptian pharaoh became world-famous after his tomb was discovered in 1922?

Question 15: Who wrote the 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, whose title character conceals his disfigured face behind a mask?

Question 16: Which river flows through both Oxford and London?

Question 17: Vienna and Budapest both stand on which river?

Question 18: Cairo and Luxor both stand on which river?

Question 19: Vientiane and Phnom Penh both stand on the banks of which river?

Question 20: Which river flows through both Český Krumlov and Prague?

Question 21: In the 2022 film The Menu, what fast-food dish does Margot ask Chef Slowik to cook, then request to take away so she can escape?

Question 22: In the 2014 film Paddington, what sweet preserve fills the sandwich the bear keeps under his hat?

Question 23: In Breaking Bad, what is the Spanish name of the fried-chicken chain run by Gus Fring?

Question 24: In the first season of Squid Game, contestants must extract a shape from a brittle Korean sugar candy. What is that candy called?

Question 25: In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which sweet does the White Witch give Edmund?