Round 01Questions 01–05
Fortune Favours the Quiz
For Friday the 13th: five ways to keep luck on your side.
Question 1: What U-shaped piece of riding equipment is traditionally hung above a doorway for good luck?
Question 2: Which musician warns about believing in things you don't understand in his 1972 song Superstition?
Question 3: In the Harry Potter books, what is the proper name of the potion nicknamed Liquid Luck?
Question 4: What is the Japanese name for the beckoning-cat figurine often displayed in shops to attract good fortune?
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.
Question 6: Which Australian city is home to the harbourfront opera house with a roof of white, sail-like shells?
Question 7: In which Spanish city would you find both Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família and Park Güell?
Question 8: In which city does the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel stand on an artificial island?
Question 9: Which planned South American capital is home to Oscar Niemeyer's crown-shaped cathedral?
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.
Question 11: What garden ornament usually depicts a tiny bearded fellow wearing a pointed hat?
Question 12: What word means a person entitled to inherit someone's property or title?
Question 13: What five-letter word means a sacred song or hymn, particularly one found in the Bible?
Question 14: What word names a finger joint that you might crack or use to rap on a door?
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.
Question 16: In which upright-swimming fish does the male carry developing young in a brood pouch and then give birth?
Question 17: Which penguin species has males incubate a single egg on their feet through the Antarctic winter?
Question 18: Which bird gives its name to a traditional clock and is notorious for laying its eggs in other birds' nests?
Question 19: What collective name is given to egg-laying mammals, including platypuses and echidnas?
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.
Question 21: Which band's 1991 album Nevermind has a cover showing a baby underwater, reaching towards a dollar bill?
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??
Question 23: Which singer poses at a steering wheel beneath a huge moon on the cover of her 2020 album Future Nostalgia?
Question 24: Which singer appears in an upside-down portrait on the cover of her 2018 album Sweetener?
Question 25: Which New Zealand singer appears in a painted bedroom portrait on the cover of her 2017 album Melodrama?
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