Trains
History
Sport
Bonus question
100
High speed trains are currently planned to link London to Glasgow in the late 2030s (T/F)
What is (likely) True?
100
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The last time Sydney hosted the summer Olympics, the only time the Concorde crashed, and the first time Brad Pitt got married (to Jennifer Aniston)
What is the year 2000?
100
The item of clothing worn by the current leader (and eventually by the overall winner) of the Tour de France
What is the yellow jersey?
100
The musical group whose name translates in italian to Scimmie Artiche
Who are the Arctic Monkeys?
200
The home country of the "Frecciarossa" high speed train
What is Italy?
200
The country to which, for 10 years between 1883 and 1893, the Cutty Sark held the record for the fastest recorded journey from Britain (even overtaking steam ships on its way)
What is Australia?
200
The expansion of "SG" in the name of football club PSG
What is "Saint-Germain"?
200
The UK capital cities (of the 4 constituent countries) west of Bristol
What are Belfast, Cardiff, and Edinburgh?
300
The operator, between Great Western Railway (GWR), Avanti West Coast, and South Western Railway (SWR), currently nationalised
What is South Western Railway (SWR)?
300
The war that Florence Nightingale was most known for having served in.
What was the Crimean war?
300
The sport wherein the 'Sparkassen ATP Challenger Südtirol' is a tournament
What is Tennis?
300
Whether the product was historically transported by land or sea, dividing the world in two names for the same product
What is the difference between Tea and Chai?
400
The European country served by 'Pågatågen' (the little boy train) in the region of Skåne
What is Sweden?
400
A seafaring people in Medieval Europe who left this runic inscription on a marble parapet of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul
Who were the Vikings?
400
The thing that Anglo-Belgian football manager Will Still did not have that meant his club were fined €25,000 per game managed
What is a professional (football) coaching license?
400
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
500
The two termini of the current Orient express
What are Paris and Venice?
500
The product made and sold by Cistercian 'Trappist' monasteries as a means of remaining economically self-sustaining
What is Trappist beer?
500
The sporting acronym that fills in the following blank:
FIN, FRA, ___, GER, GRE
What is GBR?