Fliss Fun Fact
How many years have Fliss and Harini known each other?
18
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
What unrecognised, self-proclaimed sovereign micro-nation was established in 1967 on an abandoned WW2 anti-aircraft platform off the coast of Suffolk, England?
Which city hosted the summer Olympic Games in 2012
London
What fantasy race speaks Sindarin and Quenya in J.R.R. Tolkien works?
Elves
Orchid
What fruit was so rare and expensive in 18th century Europe that people rented them for parties just to carry them around as a status symbol?
Pineapple
What slender wild cat of the African savannah uses its ears to radar-detect rodents moving underground?
The serval
What American swimming phenomenon has an abnormally large lung capacity?
Michael Phelps
What is the highest grossing and most watched 2000s chick flick?
Mamma Mia (2008)
What metal, according to British and Irish folklore, is capable of burning fairies and keeping them from crossing into your home?
Iron / Cold Iron
Name at least one person, other than Stalin, in the power struggle after Lenin’s death
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky
This terrifyingly large invertebrate, known to battle sperm whales, was first filmed in its natural deep-sea habitat in 2012 Best Japan’s Ogasawara Islands.
The giant squid
How many players are on the field for a single football team during a standard match?
11
What is the Korean term for an obsessive, stalker-like fan?
Sasaeng
Anaconda
What is the precise scientific term for a single organism that contains two or more completely distinctive sets of DNA, often caused when two fertilised eggs fuse in the womb?
Chimera
The five highest volcanoes on Earth are located in what mountains?
Andes
To which language family does English belong?
Germanic
Harry Styles
What animal has a tongue that weighs as much as an entire adult elephant?
The blue whale
The scaphoid bone is found in what exact part of the body
the hand
What country has the most time zones ?
France
What English word comes from the Greek verb meaning “to tear flesh like dogs”? Matching its sharp nature.
Sarcasm
What 2005 DreamWorks animated film was completely banned in the Maldives because government censors feared it’s plot-line of rebellion against authority would incite a real life political revolution?
Madagascar