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Helen’s Favourites
100
The island best known for housing the Ancient Greek poet Sappho.
What is Lesbos?
100
The main protein found in wheat bread.
What is gluten?
100
The food Hannibal Lecter ate that one guy’s liver with.
What are fava beans and a nice chianti?
100
A country who’s well-known for having the worlds only non-rectangular flag.
What is Nepal?
100
My favourite colour.
What is brown?
200
The decade the sun set on the British Empire.
What is the 2020s?
200
The animal which encompasses over 7000 of the 8054 species of amphibians.
What are frogs?
200
The director of the recently released “The Phoenician Scheme”.
Who is Wes Anderson?
200
A European country which experienced an approximately 30 year sectarian war during the 20th century.
What is (Northern) Ireland?
200
My favourite animal.
What is a mudskipper?
300
The vegetables used to make Jack O Lanterns in the 19th century in Ireland and Great Britain.
What are turnips?
300
A commonly used material which requires around 11 times as much energy to make new as opposed to recycling it.
What is aluminium?
300
A song which reached the UK Singles chart twice: once in 1975 and once in 1991.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
300
The Maōri word for New Zealand, which some argue should be used to refer to the country to honour its original inhabitants.
What is Aotearoa?
300
My favourite band.
What is Propagandhi?
400
A Jamaican religious and social movement which originated in the 1930s and championed the political ideal of African nationalism.
What is Rastafari?
400
The major four phyla of plants.
What are Bryophyta (mosses), Filicinophyta (ferns), Coniferophyta (cones), and Angiospermaphyta (flowering plants)?
400
The film that won a Best Picture Oscar despite a brief mix-up while reading out the cards.
What is Moonlight?
400
Besides Liechtenstein, the only other double-landlocked country in the world.
What is Uzbekistan?
400
My favourite videogame.
What is Disco Elysium?
500
An ancient South Asian civilisation present from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE.
What is the Indus Valley Civilisation?
500
The probability of a random sample being more than 2.96 standard deviations away from the mean of a normal distribution.
What is 0.05?
500
A fantasy and sci-fi author born in 1929 and active from 1959 until her death in 2018.
Who is Ursula K. Le Guin?
500
A country which adopted this flag in 1996, symbolising a dynamic move into the future.
What is the Seychelles?
500
My favourite book.
What is Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style?