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Disclaimer: The following is a fairly detailed extract of the questions I developed for the PubQuiz at Le Croque Bedaine on November 23, 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: On November 24th, 1859 the first version of the “Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection” was published, where the ideas of a young Charles Darwin were exposed after his trip to the Central American islands. How was called the legendary ship where he traveled?
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  • Question: How many communes do we have in Luxembourg?
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  • Question: Which animals draw the chariot of Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, fertility, battle, and death?
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  • Question: How many of the 2024 Nobel Prizes went to women?
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  • Question: Which is the highest capital city in the world?
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  • Question: Where is currently hold the "Birth of Venus", by Botticelli?
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  • Question: What is the unconventional main ingredient of Cui, the traditional dish of Peru?
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  • Question: What's the commercial name of the compound that geckos cannot stick to due to van der Waals forces?
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  • Question: What was the first US president?
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  • Question: In which chronological order presidency will Donald Trump serve his second mandate?
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  • Question: How many different US presidents did we have?
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  • Question: Which was the only US president to have served as president without ever actually winning an election (nor president nor vice president)?
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  • Question: Half a point for any of the 12 member countries of the OPEC group.
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  • Question: HoneyCrisp, Royal Gala, Fuji, Golden Delicious are all type of what?
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  • Question: In which city is the 2024 edition of the COP 29 currently held?
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  • Question: Where did Napoleon die?
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  • Question: Who recently reached the milestone of 1 billion followers on the manin social media?
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  • Question: Which Apple computer, predecessor of McIntosh, was called as the daughter of Steve Jobs?
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  • Question: One point for each of the following airport-IATA code associations: DXB, LHR, CDG, DFW.
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  • Question: If I'm staring at the Potala Palace, where am I?
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Books, TV Series and Boardgames

  • Question: In the TV Series “How I Met Your Mother”, what's the famous name Barney Stinsons refers to as “his job”?
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  • Question: For the Magazine People, who is the sexiest man alive in 2024?
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  • Question: Which is the alter ego of Saul Goodman?
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  • Question: In which city is the latest season of "Emily in Paris" set?
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  • Question: In this movie, we hear the famous quote “A martini, shaken, not stirred”.
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  • Question: Which 2006 documentary movie is based on a slide presentation of climate activist Al Gore?
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  • Question: In the Marvel comics, which type of radiation was responsible for the transformation of Bruce Banner into the Hulk?
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  • Question: Which animals is Indiana Jones afraid of?
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  • Question: In which movie can we find a representation of the “Penrose Stairs”, the famous impossible structure created by Escher?
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  • Question: It was recently the 50th birthday of Leonardo di Caprio. In which year did Leonardo win his first Oscar?
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  • Question: Which videogame Shigeru Miyamoto is named after the famous and beautiful wife of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?
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  • Question: Which award-winning board game consisting of a bunch of resource cards, two dice, some wooden houses, and 19 hexagonal tiles was created by a German Dental Technician?
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Sport

  • Question: Who recently won in Barcelona the 2024 MotoGP title after a thrilling season?
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  • Question: Who won the recent ATP finals?
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  • Question: In which City (or cities) will the 2026 Olympic Games be held?
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  • Question: Who was the YouTuber that defeated the legend Iron Mike in the so-called “Match of the Year”?
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  • Question: Which city hosted the first-ever Olympic Games in Oceania?
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  • Question: In which Olympic discipline, athletes engage in different sports among which there are horse riding, swimming, and fencing?
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Miscellaneous

  • Question: Which is the only Graphic Novel to have ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
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  • Question: In the books/movies of Harry Potter, what's the password to access Dumbledore's office?
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  • Question: Akira Toriyama, died in 2023, is the mangaka author of which famous manga?
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