One liners
Age of Technology
Ad Wars
ESPN
Blast from the Past
100
Guess this novel from the plot (2012):
Two teenagers with cancer meet in a support group and fall in love
Fault in Our Stars
100
Founded in Israel in 2006 this Google app to map the fastest route for drivers often takes you down side streets
Waze
100
This company released an ad about their rival company with the tag ‘Bend to those who are worthy’ in 2014 which shows two unidentified phones in profile, one standing upright and the other cartoonishly bent into a near-prostrate bow of reverence. This led to many other companies to mock the rival company with the hashtag #bendgate.
Name the company that released this ad.
Samsung
100
This famous basketball player has the nickname His Airness. Nike created a signature shoe for him.
Michael Jordan
100
In 1240 Batu Khan leader of these people sacked & burned Kiev
The Mongols
200
Guess this novel from the plot (1955):
A middle-aged man becomes dangerously obsessed with a young girl
Lolita
200
A stopcock is an external, this item used to control a liquid flow through a pipe
Valve
200
This advertising campaign back in 2006 which was launched by Apple to promote their prime Operating System. It depicted the two sides: Apple’s all-white background with a casually dressed actor, Justin Long, who presented himself as “Hello, I’m a Mac“, and John Hodgman dressed in a suit and tie, presented himself as “And I’m a _____“. What did John Hodgman represent?
PC
200
Ravinder Bopara represents which country in Cricket?
England
200
In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city from which Islam spread across the region
Medina
300
Guess this novel from the plot(1949):
A humble civil servant resists the terrifying totalitarian society he lives in but is ultimately crushed by it
1984
300
This chipmaker the world's largest has announced systems on a chip measuring 22 nanometers
Intel
300
Mercedes-Benz started a viral ad campaign with the message “What do chickens and Mercedes-Benz have in common? Stability at all times.” This rival company used a similar concept of a chicken showing its stability throughout the video but with a twist at the end: "Magic Body Control? We prefer cat-like reflexes, don’t you?”
Jaguar
300
The ladies' singles trophy for this event is a sterling silver tray called the Rosewater Dish
Wimbledon
300
A member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. They were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4
The Jacobins
400
Guess this novel from the plot(1905):
Set during the French Revolution, this story follows the adventures of an Englishman with a heroic secret identity
The Scarlet Pimpernel
400
The first atom bomb using this transuranium element was detonated on July 16 1945 in New Mexico
Plutonium
400
The console wars between this company and Nintendo lasted from the 8-bit era of the 1980's all the way to the 32-bit era of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Nintendo emerged the victor.
Sega
400
This Football Club shares their name with a 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System platform game developed by Quest known in Japan as Matendōji. This club based in Selhurst, South London, England, and are currently competing in the Premier League.
Crystal Palace F.C.
400
In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group
Oligarchy
500
Guess this novel from the plot (1867):
This epic novel explores the events leading up to Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia
War and Peace
500
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
Modem
500
In 2015, Burger King asked rival McDonald’s if the two could come together for Peace Day to create a “peace-loving” burger made from the Whopper’s and Big Mac’s tastiest ingredients. What was the name of this burger?
McWhopper
500
This is where the football team Bengals are from
Cincinnati
500
Edmund Crouchback founded this branch of the Plantagenets, represented by the red rose, that fought with their rival cadet branch for control of the throne of England. These series of war was called the 'War of the Roses'.
The Lancasters
