To spoil something for someone is to rain on their what?
Parade
Calamari is a culinary term for what creature?
Squid
What does a garrulous person do a lot: cry, sleep or talk?
Talk
Which Italian city hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics?
Rome
The Valley of the Kings is located on the west bank of which river?
Nile
What eight-letter word is the name for the person in charge of a gaming table in casinos?
Croupier
What name for part of a railway is also a type of secret agent and a deep-sea shark?
Sleeper (sleeper agent, sleeper shark)
In what sport is "corduroy to the horizon" a welcome sight?
Surfing (lines of incoming swell/waves)
Saint Pius V excommunicated which English monarch in February 1570?
Elizabeth I
The Candy House is Jennifer Egan’s sequel to which 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning novel?
A Visit from the Goon Squad
What year saw the cloning of Dolly the sheep, Pauline Hanson first elected to parliament, and The Fugees release their hit album The Score?
1996
Who is the only cricketer to have twice broken the world record for most runs in a Test innings?
Brian Lara (375 in 1994, and 400 not out in 2004).
Concluding on December 19, 1972, name NASA’s final mission to the moon.
Apollo 17
Introduced by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, the Mercator projection is a type of what?
Map (often described as a cylindrical projection)
What synonym for a massage was the original name for the company Google?
BackRub
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