Question 1: Who directed the pastel-coloured caper The Grand Budapest Hotel?

Question 2: The second season of The White Lotus takes its wealthy holidaymakers to which Italian island?

Question 3: Which band released Hotel California in 1976?

Question 4: What is the name of the isolated hotel where Jack Torrance takes a winter job in The Shining?

Question 5: Which gin-based cocktail is traditionally credited to bartender Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore?

Question 6: Which tiny eight-legged animal is also known as a water bear?

Question 7: What is the world's smallest independent country by area?

Question 8: What is the Japanese art of growing and shaping miniature trees in containers called?

Question 9: One nanometre is one metre divided by what number?

Question 10: Which Japanese poetic form is commonly taught in English as three lines of five, seven and five syllables?

Question 11: Which microscopic fungus produces the gas that makes ordinary bread dough rise?

Question 12: Which compound gives chilli peppers their burning sensation?

Question 13: What is the collective name for the wheat proteins that form a stretchy network when bread dough is mixed and kneaded?

Question 14: Named after a French chemist, which reaction between sugars and amino acids helps give seared meat and bread crust their brown colour?

Question 15: What process disperses oil into tiny droplets throughout a water-based liquid to make a mixture such as mayonnaise?

Question 16: In NBA basketball, how many seconds are on the shot clock at the start of a team's ordinary new possession?

Question 17: What musical term means the speed of a piece, often measured in beats per minute?

Question 18: Which London district gives its name to the mean time abbreviated GMT?

Question 19: In Interstellar, time passes much more slowly on a planet near a black hole than it does far away. Which physicist developed the general theory of relativity that explains this effect?

Question 20: During the French Revolution, an experimental decimal clock divided a full day into how many hours?

Question 21: You're running a race and overtake the person in second place. Nobody else changes position. What place are you now in?

Question 22: A drawer contains plenty of red, green and yellow socks, all otherwise identical. In complete darkness, what is the fewest socks you must take to guarantee two of the same colour?

Question 23: Five identical machines make five toys in five minutes. Working independently at that same rate, how long would 100 machines take to make 100 toys?

Question 24: A pen contains only chickens and rabbits, all with the usual number of legs. There are ten heads and 32 legs. How many rabbits are there?

Question 25: Three boxes contain tea sachets, coffee sachets, or a mixture of both. They are labelled Tea, Coffee, and Tea and coffee, but every label is wrong. From which labelled box should you draw one identifiable sachet to work out the contents of all three?