Lifelong learner. Entertainer. Pizza Lover. Mathematician.

Quizmaster of the Galaxy

Disclaimer: The following is a fairly detailed extract of the questions I developed for the PubQuiz at Le Croque Bedaine on November 10, 2023. While being open to everyone, I am that the audience was mostly coming from an academic background (indeed a significant percentage of the audience is undergoing/has undergone a period of doctoral studies), so if you feel that some of the following questions are particularly specific or niche, that is on purpose.
Please don't be discouraged by the apparent difficulty of several questions, I usually provide plenty of hints and suggestions during any pubquiz session.

General Knowledge

  • Question: The indipendent region of Macao (in China), used to be until 1999 a colony of which other country?
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  • Question: Half a point for all the 12 most common elements in the human body.
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  • Question: To which country does the northest university in the world belong?
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  • Question: How many edges does an hendecagon has?
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  • Question: In which year did Michael Jackson died?
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  • Question: Which color takes his name from a famous French liqueur?
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  • Question: In 2026 the famous Sagrada Familia will be completed. Which Pope did it consecrated it?
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  • Question: Which party won the last National Elections in Luxembourg?
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  • Question: In which city can you find the Smithsonian Museum of of History and Natural History?
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  • Question: Which musicist and actor, belonging to 30 second to Mars, recently climbed the Empire State Building to announce his new album? [Jared Leto]
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  • Question: Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo were the first names of three generations of which family? [De Medici]
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  • Question: How many theses did Martin Luther write?
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  • Question: half a point for each of the 10 countries the Danube runs through or touches.
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  • Question: Fossil records shows that dogs were the first animal to be domesticated by humans. Which was the second?
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  • Question: Which artist is currently undergoing a world tour with an estimated commercial value of 5 billions dollars?
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  • Question: Which gene editing technique was discovered/invented in 2013?
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Books, TV Series and Boardgames

Sport

  • Question: In which famous circuit you can find the series of corners called "the corkscrew"?
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  • Question: Which football player won the 2023 ballon d'or?
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  • Question: From which city/country will the 2024 Tour de France start?
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  • Question: In which sport can you find quaffles and bludger?
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  • Question: Novak Djokovich broke this month his own record for number of Master's won. How many are they?
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Miscellaneous