30-POINT OPEN QUESTION – SECOND’S
What is Russia’s second largest city?
ST. PETERSBURG
CLUE A: I’ve been named in both literature and song for my beauty. WHAT AM I?
CLUE B: The singer known as Seal has a song about a kiss from one of me. WHAT AM I?
CLUE C: A movie named for me has a soundtrack that includes a song performed by Bette Midler. WHAT AM I?
CLUE D: One of Shakespeare’s sonnets notes that one of me by any other name would smell as sweet. WHAT AM I?
ROSE
What kitchen term is used to describe the shavings of the outer, colourful skin of citrus fruit, used in cooking and baking?
ZEST (Also accept RIND)
What country is home to the Vatnajokull glacier?
ICELAND
What is the study of the movement and distribution of ground water?
HYDROGEOLOGY
What is the second largest planet in our solar system?
SATURN
In what war did the first instance of aerial combat between jet fighters take place?
KOREAN WAR
Which author's main characters lived in a burrow called Bag End?
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
What Mexican resort’s name literally means “conquered city”?
ACAPULCO
What is second largest Great Lake?
LAKE HURON
Which Russian-born American author set down the “Three Laws of Robotics”?
ISAAC ASIMOV
Mount Everest is on the border between China and what other country?
NEPAL
Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras are two of the famous ‘Three Tenors’. Who is the third?
PLACIDO DOMINGO
What is the term for the point at which the moon is farthest from Earth?
APOGEE
The process of plunging a vegetable into boiling water, removing it shortly afterward, and plunging it into iced water is known as what?
BLANCHING
The name of what type of ideogram popular on smartphones comes from the Japanese for “picture letter”?
EMOJI