Lifelong learner. Entertainer. Pizza Lover. Mathematician.

The Bad, The Good, and the Quizmaster

Disclaimer: The following is a fairly detailed extract of the questions I developed for the PubQuiz at Le Croque Bedaine on September 16, 2024. 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: Which band has famously announced their reunion after the separation in 2009?
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  • Question: Today, September 16th, is the anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fahrenheit, the German-Dutch scientist famous for naming a thermometer scale after him. At which temperature does the boiling temperature of water correspond to the Fahrenheit scale?
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  • Question: How many countries are bordering with Austria?
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  • Question: Which artist recently broke the record at the MTV VMAs for winning for the fifth time the Best Video of the Year award?
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  • Question: Which European city was once considered the "Manhattan of the Middle Ages" for its number of towers?
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  • Question: Which is the lowest-lying capital city in the world?
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  • Question: Which Mathematician, born on September 17th, 1826, is the father of a prime number hypothesis, regarded as the greatest unsolved problem in modern mathematics?
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  • Question: Among the great architectural views, with its great tram system is the second city in the world by number of passengers served per year. Which is the first one?
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  • Question: Which American comedy rock duo was created by the actor Jack Black?
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  • Question: On September 17th, 1994, the most influential philosopher of science and author of the "Poverty of Historicism" died. What was his name?
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  • Question: Name the three types of grapes that are used to make champagne
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  • Question: What's the name of the Norwegian explorer to first reach the South Pole?
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  • Question: What is traditionally celebrated in Luxembourg on September X?
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  • Question: Last week it was celebrated the assignation of the famous prize that "first makes you laugh and then makes you think". What's called the prize?
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  • Question: Dave Grohl, frontman of the rock band Foo Fighters, started his career in which other band?
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Books, TV Series and Boardgames

  • Question: In the TV series Friends, what character name does Joey play the soap opera character name?
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  • Question: Jack, Simon, Piggy and Roger are the main characters of which 1954 novel?
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  • Question: In the story "Around the world in 80 days", hows called the assistant of the main character Phileas Fogg?
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  • Question: Which movie character has been self-celebrated as "the Marvel Jesus"?
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  • Question: Which movie can be considered as the incomplete testament of Stanley Kubrick?
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  • Question: How many Pixar movies won the Oscar as Best Animation Movie?
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Sport

  • Question: Who won the recent Formula 1 Azerbaijan GP yesterday?
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  • Question: In which city was the 2024 US Open hosted?
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  • Question: Which country won the first historic Gold Medal at the Paris Olympic Games?
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  • Question: Which country or countries topped the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games leaderboard?
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  • Question: For the first time in history, which country hosted one Olympic event during the 2024 edition?
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  • Question: In which year were the Winter Olympic Games and Summer Olympic Games held in the same year for the last time?
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