Round 01Questions 01–05

Fortune Favours the Quiz

For Friday the 13th: five ways to keep luck on your side.

  1. Question 1: What U-shaped piece of riding equipment is traditionally hung above a doorway for good luck?

  2. Question 2: Which musician warns about believing in things you don't understand in his 1972 song Superstition?

  3. Question 3: In the Harry Potter books, what is the proper name of the potion nicknamed Liquid Luck?

  4. Question 4: What is the Japanese name for the beckoning-cat figurine often displayed in shops to attract good fortune?

  5. Question 5: Which Roman goddess of luck is often depicted with a wheel, representing life's changing fortunes?

Round 02Questions 06–10

The Building Has Entered the Chat

The architecture is doing the talking; name the city.

  1. Question 6: Which Australian city is home to the harbourfront opera house with a roof of white, sail-like shells?

  2. Question 7: In which Spanish city would you find both Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família and Park Güell?

  3. Question 8: In which city does the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel stand on an artificial island?

  4. Question 9: Which planned South American capital is home to Oscar Niemeyer's crown-shaped cathedral?

  5. Question 10: Which Dutch city has a famous cluster of yellow cube houses designed by Piet Blom beside its Old Harbour?

Round 03Questions 11–15

Quiet at the Front

Every answer begins with a silent letter. Let the rest of the word do the talking.

  1. Question 11: What garden ornament usually depicts a tiny bearded fellow wearing a pointed hat?

  2. Question 12: What word means a person entitled to inherit someone's property or title?

  3. Question 13: What five-letter word means a sacred song or hymn, particularly one found in the Bible?

  4. Question 14: What word names a finger joint that you might crack or use to rap on a door?

  5. Question 15: What word means a memory aid, such as a phrase whose initial letters help you remember the order of the planets?

Round 04Questions 16–20

Wild Family Matters

Eggs, impostors and some very hands-on dads.

  1. Question 16: In which upright-swimming fish does the male carry developing young in a brood pouch and then give birth?

  2. Question 17: Which penguin species has males incubate a single egg on their feet through the Antarctic winter?

  3. Question 18: Which bird gives its name to a traditional clock and is notorious for laying its eggs in other birds' nests?

  4. Question 19: What collective name is given to egg-laying mammals, including platypuses and echidnas?

  5. Question 20: In a honeybee colony, what name is given to the male bees, whose reproductive role is to mate with a queen?

Round 05Questions 21–25

Judging by the Cover

Picture the album sleeve, then name the artist or band.

  1. Question 21: Which band's 1991 album Nevermind has a cover showing a baby underwater, reaching towards a dollar bill?

  2. Question 22: Which singer sits on a bed with an eerie grin on the cover of her 2019 debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go??

  3. Question 23: Which singer poses at a steering wheel beneath a huge moon on the cover of her 2020 album Future Nostalgia?

  4. Question 24: Which singer appears in an upside-down portrait on the cover of her 2018 album Sweetener?

  5. Question 25: Which New Zealand singer appears in a painted bedroom portrait on the cover of her 2017 album Melodrama?

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01Fortune Favours the Quiz
02The Building Has Entered the Chat
03Quiet at the Front
04Wild Family Matters
05Judging by the Cover