History
First civilization to develop alcoholic fermentation?
China in roughly 7000BC
What countries occupy the Iberian peninsula? (At least 3)
Spain, Portugal, The United Kingdom, Andorra
When did Charlie Kirk die?
September 10th
Kazakhstan features significantly in which two major comedies
Borat 1 and 2
Famous book writen by Dante's boycrush
The Aeneid
Historical conflict in which the charge of the light brigade took place
Crimean War
Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil
Kier Starmer just stepped down as the pm of the United Kingdom who is replacing him? OR Which are the primary candidates in the Clacton by-election taking place this year?
Andy Burnham OR Nigel Farage and Count Binface
Which war movie is famous for appearing as one continuous take
1917
What are the 4 foundational texts in the Confucian cannon
The Analects, The Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean, and the Great Learning
What was the post-WW2 economic system called?
The Bretton Woods system
What are Chechnia, Dagestan, and Kalmykia and in what region are they located
Russian Republics, in the Caucasus
Name the two great world cup larpers
Aidan Muhat, Karina
Describe the plot of each transformers movie (3x if you can accurately explain the lore)
Judge decides
Which mystery book takes its name from the game played in which certain objects can pass through but others can't (3x if you can name the better book written by the same author)
The Greenglass house, The left-handed Fate
What were the 4 major Khanates of the Mongol Empire?
Ill-Khanate, Golden Horde, Chagatai, Yuan
The straits of Malacca
Name an album ranked by pretentious people of Rate Your Music in their top 10 of the 2020s.
Ants from up there, Imaginal Disk, LP!, Scaring the Hoes, Hellfire, The New Sound, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, The Forever Story, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Windswept Adan
Office Space, Fight Club, and 500 Days of Summer (sort of) are all at least in part cultural responses to what?
The soul crushing nature of the corporate existence (or similar)
Describe the plot of the book Leela gave to the baseball team for hazing
Judge decides
Country in which the earliest example of a medical/surgical treatise was written (3x if you can name the text)
Egypt (Edwin Smith Papyrus)
In which coastal port city did Marco Polo travel his furthest eastward extent? (3x if you can name what fellow traveler Ibn Battuta said about this city)
Quanzhou
Who are Los and Wad, AND make a convincing case for two people here that could take their place
Judge's determination
What does Deckard's daughter do for work in the Blade Runner Series (some bonus to be awarded if you can explain its significance in the wider context of the blade runner universe)
Dream-maker
The second to final chapter of Huxley's Brave New World mirrors a hypothetical conversation found in which book?
Ivan's poem The Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov