1. Cruciverbalists get down sometimes when they get their meaning across. What are cruciverbalists? #twubquiz
2. Which Oscar-winning film is based on the trials and tribulations of Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell? #twubquiz
3. In novels from which cult author would one find an alien race called Tralfamadorians? #twubquiz
4. Which flamboyant and controversial Australian actor's apparent last words were "I shall return"? #twubquiz
5. What is the f-shaped sound hole in a violin called? #twubquiz
6. Robert, Aurore, Apple, White, Mornay, Ivory and Reform are all examples of what? #twubquiz
7. What do you call a material that can carry electricity? #twubquiz
8. Which side moves first in a game of chess? #twubquiz
9. Which word used to describe someone who is skillfull means, when translated, 'to the right'? #twubquiz
10. What was the name given to the first nuclear test in the USA on the 16th of July 1945?#twubquiz
Round 2 - Current Affairs
1. An Apple engineer lost or had stolen a prototype iPhone last week. What is his name? #twubquiz
2. Thursday will see another TV debate between UK political leaders before the UK elections next week. In total, how many such debates will that make? #twubquiz
3. Oil firm BP has announced a doubling of profits this week. To the nearest billion DOLLARS, how much did it make in the first quarter of 2010? #twubquiz
4. South Korean climber Oh Eun-sun has claimed a record this week by scaling the world's highest peaks. How many did mountaintops has she reached? #twubquiz
5. For what did Playboy boss Hugh Hefner pay $900,000 this week? #twubquiz
6. What technology product did Sony kill off this week? #twubquiz
7. Which children's TV character has just been withdrawn from a UK Labour party election event? #twubquiz
8. It was Anzac Day on 25th April. For what does the acronym Anzac stand? #twubquiz
9. A prisoner who has served 20 years in a US prison has just been extradited to France to face money-laundering charges. Who is it? #twubquiz
10. Which veteran snooker player is tonight proving a distraction for this week's Twubquiz host? #twubquiz
Round 3 - Metro maps
Name the city from the subway maps
Round 4 - Space/Solar System
1. Name the four INNER planets (half point for the correct names and half point for the right order, starting nearest to the Sun) #twubquiz
2. Now name the four OUTER plants (half point for the correct names and half point for the right order, starting nearest to the Sun) #twubquiz
3. Which Sun-orbiting object was demoted from 'planet' status in 2006? #twubquiz
4. What does the Russian word Sputnik mean? Satellite, telescope, star traveller or beep machine? #twubquiz
5. What is the largest object in our solar system? #twubquiz
6. The edge of the observable universe is estimated to be how far, to the nearest billion light years? #twubquiz
7. Which planet has moons named after Shakespearean characters? #twubquiz
8. What is the furthest distance in miles from Earth that astronauts have yet travelled? 250,000, 1m, 100m or 1bn? #twubquiz
9. What was the name of the comet that smashed into Jupiter in 1994? #twubquiz
10. And to throw you into a panic about your question 6 answer, to the nearest billion light years the universe's estimated age is?#twubquiz
Round 5 - Connections
1. Which castle was severely damaged by fire in 1992? #twubquiz
2. Which poet wrote the lines, "They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon"? #twubquiz
3. Which band did Professor Brian Cox play keyboards in while studying for his PhD? #twubquiz
4. The Common, Pygmy and Water are all species of what British rodent? #twubquiz
5. Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is stored in an art gallery in which city? #twubquiz
6. Which king won a historic battle against France on St Crispin's Day in 1415? #twubquiz
7. Which band's 1998 debut album was called 'Comin' Atcha'? #twubquiz
8. Where were the 2004 Olympics held? #twubquiz
9. By what name is 5th January also known? #twubquiz
10. What's the connection? #twubquiz
Round 1 - General Knowledge
1 Crossword fans/creatores
2 Chariots of Fire
3 Kurt Vonnegut
4 Errol Flynn
5 f-hole
6 Sauces
7 Conductor
8 White
9 Adroit
10 Trinity
Round 2 - Current Affairs
1 Gray Powell
2 3
3 $5.6bn
4 14
5 To save the Hollywood sign
6 The floppy disk
7 Peppa Pig
8 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
9 Noriega
10 Steve Davis
Round 3 - Tube maps
1 Moscow
2 Melbourne
3 Tokyo
4 Montreal
5 Washington
6 Singapore
7 Prague
8 Amsterdam
9 Beijing
10 Hong Kong
Round 4 - Space/Solar System
1 Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
2 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
3 Pluto
4 Satellite
5 The Sun
6 46.5bn
7 Uranus
8 250k
9 Shoemaker/Levy 9
10 13.7bn
Round 5 - Connections
1 Windsor
2 Lear
3 D:ream
4 Shrew
5 Venice
6 Henry V
7 Cleopatra
8 Athens
9 Twelfth Night
10 Titles of Shakespeare plays
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