Maths & Tech
Which game was the most downloaded paid iPhone app of 2013: Angry Birds, Minecraft or Temple Run?
Minecraft
What was the name of the first artificial satellite in space?
Sputnik
In the 1940s, what was developed by Robert Oppenheimer and the team working on The Manhattan Project?
The atomic bomb
What is the name of the snowman in Disney's 2013 film, Frozen?
What is the national language of Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba and Chile?
Spanish
What is a googol?
The digit one followed by one hundred zeros (10100)
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Which common medicine produced by living microbes has a name that means 'against life' in Greek?
Antibiotic
Which actor appeared as Sherlock in the BBC crime drama series set in 21st century London?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Which of Shakespeare's plays featured a military leader married to a young Desdemona?
Othello
Your weekly wage is £250. What is your new wage after an increase of 4% plus an extra five pounds per week?
£265 per week
Where would you be if your geographic coordinates were 0° longitude and 51° latitude?
Greenwich, London
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Lord Greystoke was a fictional character brought up by apes on the West Coast of Africa. By what name is he better known?
Tarzan
Which form of exercise includes postures such as the downward-facing dog, the pigeon and the crane?
Yoga
Which version of the iPhone was released in 2013 with the slogan 'For the colourful'?
iPhone 5c
Which plotter was executed on 31st January 1606?
Guy Fawkes
Which is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table of the elements?
What was the profession of Natalie Portman's character in the 2010 film Black Swan?
Ballet dancer
What are the first three words of The Bible?
In the beginning
Which word is defined in geometry as 'a straight line that touches a curve but does not intersect it'?
A tangent
When did the last execution take place in the Tower of London: 1641, 1841 оr 1941?
1941 (Josef Jakobs, a German spy)
Which manoeuvre would you use to stop someone choking?
The Heimlich manoeuvre
What is in the hands of the Oscar statue presented to Academy Award Winners?
A sword
Alphabetically what is the last sign of the zodiac?
Virgo