Pitch Perfect
The Big Apple
Did you hear that?
Humble Origins
Tudum
10
Ellyse Perry from Australia is the first (and only) person to play both the cricket and football world cups.
The closest someone has come to this feat from the men's side is probably _______, who played both the cricket world cup (1975/1979) and FIFA WC Qualifiers (1974). FITB.
Sir Vivian Richards
10
New York is one of the most important cities in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises of five boroughs, namely, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Long Island. With an estimated population in July 2024 of 8,478,072, distributed over 300.46 square miles the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States.
ID the error.
Long Island is not a borough. It's Staten Island.
10
ID this tune from an all time classic.
Titanic
10
In the early 2000s, people began distributing audio shows online using RSS feeds so listeners could automatically download them to portable music players. Because many people listened on Apple’s iPod, journalists combined “iPod” and “broadcast” to create the term that now refers to on-demand audio shows.
Podcast
10
This global music band claimed to have learnt English purely by watching Friends. Which band is this?
BTS
20
Which football club's former logo is this?
Real Madrid
20
Identify this NYC building
BofA Tower, Bryant Park
20
Which country's national anthem do we hear?
USA
20
In 2007, two designers in San Francisco couldn’t afford their rent and noticed a big design conference had sold out all local hotels. They bought three air mattresses, created a simple website, and offered guests a place to stay with breakfast. After seeing people were willing to stay in strangers’ homes, they pivoted from a one-time idea to building a global business.
AirBnb
20
One of the creators for friends says: "X was going to be the easiest part to cast because he/she had so many jokes on the page, but it turned out to be the hardest roles to fill. We saw actor after actor and it wasn't funny... When Y reads that dialogue it sparkles and comes alive, and for the first time through the casting process we knew there was a character there and that this was the only person to play it"
ID X and Y.
Chandler / Matthew Perry
30
Most football clubs share their name with the region/city they are based off of. However, this Premier League football club happens to take its name after a building/landmark, mostly because the owners of the structure were the founders of the club. In their initial days, the club even played their games in the grounds inside the building. Sadly, this structure was destroyed by a fire in 1936, but the club continues to carry its name.
ID the club.
Crystal Palace
30
NYC Parks are all fun and games until you realise X was actually a graveyard in the 1800s. In fact, if you take a stroll in X, you are actually walking over almost 20,000 dead bodies, including victims from the deadly yellow fever plague. ID X.
Washington Square Park
30
Which global film studio's intro tune do we hear?
20th Century Fox / DreamWorks Animation
30
The founder of this company was building an online multiplayer game called Glitch. The game struggled to gain users and was eventually shut down. However, the internal messaging tool the team had built to collaborate during development was incredibly effective. Realizing the tool solved a bigger problem for workplaces, they pivoted the company to launch a team communication platform
Slack
30
In Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper says this as probabilistically the most common name in the world.
Muhammed Lee
40
This LaLiga club from the Basque country (a geographical region covering the borders of Spain and France) has a strange tradition. Since its inception, they have only employed Basque footballers, never purchasing a player born outside of this region. The club follows this strict tradition even today, even though its not a written official rule.
It seems to be working out well for them, given they are the only team to have never been relegated to the Secunda Division (other than Madrid and Barca ofc)
Athletic Bilbao / Athletic Club
40
NYC subway is indeed the city's lifeline without a doubt. Did you know that in 1979, coloured groups were formed to quickly identify trains that shared the same tracks.
For example,
Blue - 8th Avenue Line (A,C,E)
Red - Broadway / 7th Av Line (1,2,3)
Orange - 6th Av Line (B,D,F,M)
____ - Nassau St Line (J,Z)
FITB
Brown
40
Which 2010 iconic TV show's theme do we hear?
Sherlock
40
In 1992, Jenny Joseph, a 28-year-old British graphic artist working for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, modeled for the iconic X logo. Photographed by Kathy Anderson in her apartment, Joseph posed during a lunch break using a sheet as a drape and a desk lamp as a torch. The resulting photos were used by artist Michael Deas to create the painting that has appeared on screens since 1993.
ID X
Columbia Pictures Logo
40
The big throne room scene where Daphne and Simon plead their case to Queen Charlotte, had to be rushed during shoot because the real life location, Lancaster House, was needed for some other purpose. Why was it needed?
The real Queen Elizabeth II needed it for an official event.
50
The #17 jersey for Ipshwich Town (currently 4th in the Championship; played Premier League 2024-25) is not your regular footballer. In fact, he is not a footballer at all. He is a local born die hard supporter of the club who also happens to be a 1.4% stakeholder of it. He even sponsored the team's kit in the 2021-22 season. All this, combined by his global fan following, prompted the club to give him this honorary shirt number, which he holds even today. Who are we talking about?
Ed Sheeran
50
Broadway musicals are as much a part of the city as Lady Liberty and the Wall Street firms.
The Richard Rodgers theatre is currently showing Hamilton, while the Minskoff Theatre is showing The Lion King. Where do you need to go if you want to catch a showing of Wicked?
Gershwin Theatre
50
In 1986, this dystopian announcement from the government was used to evacuate a town after an incident, which changed lives forever. Which historical incident are we talking about?
Chernobyl Disaster, Pripyat, Russia.
50
During World War I, British pilots used the term X to describe extremely large bombs designed to destroy entire city blocks at once. Decades later, the film industry adopted this word to describe movies so popular and spectacular that they “blow away” the box office and attract massive audiences.
Blockbuster
50
What does this graph show?
Cups of coffee poured/purchased/consumed over 10 seasons