The Four Winds have decided to visit various European port cities for the next leg of the Amazing Trivia Race 2.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Mar 16 14
Category:
Europe
Once upon a time, men used to wear hats...
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Oct 31 21
Category:
Thematic Hats
You may know a lot about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels but how much do you know about her faithful 'sometimes' sidekick, Lula? (Covers books in the series up to 'Finger Lickin' Fifteen' and may contain spoilers).
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jan 05 17
Category:
Stephanie Plum Mixture
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Lyophilization is the process of freeze-drying perishables. Which other methods of food preservation are you familiar with?
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jan 18 25
Category:
Cooking and Baking
The Four Winds have created a common bond quiz for the Amazing Race 4. The common theme you're looking for here is related to the weather.
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Nov 21 21
Category:
10Q CB Easy
But she's only taken them for the day. It's school holidays you see and they're driving us nuts! I'll take my turn with the kids next week but I need to take them to places they haven't been already. Guess where I'm thinking of taking the kids next.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jun 30 11
Recommended for grades: 1,2
Category:
Out and About
... is worth two in the bush, isn't it? Well not quite - my Ascension Quest challenge is now challenging you to figure out the word in these sayings that has been replaced by the word 'prayer'.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jul 02 13
Recommended for grades: 8,9
Category:
Idiom Wordplay
The Four Winds (Lones78, JanIQ, zorba_scank and shuehorn) are racing through another quiz writing competition, and this time we've set our sights on a wondrous animal, the snow leopard. Let's see how much you know about this fabulous species.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Apr 17 21
Category:
Leopards
You can't fit into the Australian way of life if you don't know the language. Try some of these fair dinkum, you-beaut, true blue idioms on for size!
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Oct 20 18
Category:
Australian Lingo
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Inspired by both the Ascension Quest and my daughter's birthday cake wish, I found some very interesting things that go into cakes, baked goods and sweets.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 05 13
Category:
Cakes
There have been plenty of disastrous cyclones in Australia's history. All these cyclones share their name with someone famous. Can you make the right match, or will this quiz end in disaster?
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Oct 09 17
Category:
Weather Disasters
The Four Winds have taken a step (or two) back in time to remember these toys requiring either wind or winding. Join us in our journey back through time!
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 06 18
Category:
Other Games & Toys
To which taxonomical family do the following bipedal (and limited bipedal) animals belong?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jun 09 14
Category:
Taxonomy and Scientific Names
With five men and five women athletes, all outstanding on the track, some were dogged by controversy and scandal. Yet, all were at one stage, 'young, gifted, and black'.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
May 17 10
Category:
Track & Field
Some of these lions were 'lion-ing' up to make it into this quiz, others I just found 'lion' around...
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Apr 14 22
Category:
Thematic Big Cats
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Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series contains all sort of weird and wonderful characters. How much do you know about these less-known characters?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jan 05 17
Category:
Stephanie Plum Mixture
It's school holidays, and I'm home looking after the kids and their injured Dad (who would've figured he'd hurt himself playing sport at his age?) We have lots of chores to get done so we can spend the day out tomorrow and leave dad at home by himself.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Aug 23 22
Recommended for grades: 2,3,4,5
Category:
Around the House
As a person who is not particularly religious, I found out (whilst writing this quiz) that there are some non-mainstream religions out there that aren't quite as scary as others may have you believe...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
May 20 24
Category:
Alternative Religions
Can you pick the leading men that Julia Roberts has blown away in this small sampling of her films?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jun 20 23
Category:
Roberts, Julia
The rain has cleared up but it's windy outside. Wendy has been cooped up indoors for most of the weekend and she's finally been sent out to play. With no Xbox to entertain her (it is the 1950s!), can you figure out which toys Wendy has to choose from?
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 07 18
Category:
Toys by Decade
Oops! Sorry, I didn't mean to sneeze on you. It's just all the flour I've been breathing in whilst making choux pastry...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 03 09
Category:
Cooking and Baking
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This is a general mixed quiz featuring the number 'four'.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Mar 16 22
Recommended for grades: 3,4,5
Category:
Number Themed
Can you drop, then add, a letter at each step to find out where the Four Winds are blowing next in the Amazing Race 2?
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 09 14
Category:
Letter Drop Heaven
A mixture of Australian geography, history, culture and events using the storyline of the 1980s Icehouse song 'Great Southern Land'.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 11 20
Recommended for grades: 11,12
Category:
Mixed Australia
... and some don't. Indian cuisine is simple, yet complex. Many spices go into an Indian dish to give it the flavour that some people desperately love. How many spices, common to Indian cuisine, do you know?
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jun 29 12
Category:
Herbs and Spices
Some of these buildings have stood the test of time and are from all different periods, encompassing many different styles of architecture. Can you match each architectural style with a building in that style?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Apr 27 19
Category:
Architecture
Thanks to kyleisalive and his Commission XIX, "Three Things", I have come up with this transportation-based quiz that is hopefully not too taxing on the grey matter!
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Dec 13 11
Category:
Transport
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The Four Winds (Lones78, zorba_scank, shoehorn and JanIQ) are travelling again thanks to the FunTrivia Amazing Race.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 28 18
Category:
Places in Video Games
The Four Winds have been commissioned to write a quiz about instruments - how could we go past the Woodwind family?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Apr 25 19
Category:
Woodwind
'Mind the Gap' is a cultural reference originating the London Underground as a safety warning to passengers.
Can you pick where these cultural references in 'World of Warcraft' originally came from?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Feb 02 20
Category:
Related to Video Games
The Four Winds have got together to create a word game - with all answers synonyms of the word "wind" (obtained from thesaurus.com). Can you guess these words? All are single-word answers.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 08 18
Category:
Word Meanings
Storms appear in numerous forms of entertainment. Follow along with me to discover some of them.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 21 18
Category:
The Best Mixed Entertainment
So you're sick of being labelled as incompetent when it comes to writing documents? Try this quiz and see if you really are incompetent or not. This quiz relates to the functionality and use of MS Word 2007.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
May 07 12
Category:
Software and Programming
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Join the Four Winds on a tour through storms in entertainment.
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 19 18
Category:
Thematic Nature
There are not a lot of rules in the game of Netball, but some of them are quite complex to understand. See how well you know these rules.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Aug 22 09
Category:
Netball
The Four Winds are off to see some musical performers with a watery connection...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jul 01 23
Category:
Bands and Musical Acts
Grass is a wonderful thing. So nice and green. I hope you can learn as much by playing this quiz as I did by writing it.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Mar 19 12
Category:
Flowers, Plants & Gardens
In Australia, the harsh light of our summer day comes from the Sun. But what exactly is the Sun and how does it do what it does? (An attempt at a simple explanation)
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Nov 29 14
Category:
The Sun
While the story about storks bringing babies may not be entirely accurate, there are several interesting facts about storks that you may or may not know...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jan 12 11
Category:
Specific Bird Species
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The Four Winds have toured the globe looking for the tallest and most interesting buildings that face the wind every day all over the world. See how many of these you know about!
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 25 18
Category:
Skyscrapers & Towers
My husband and I live in Western Australia, and are lucky enough to have ten holidays booked for this year. To get all that relaxing done, though, we're going to be rushing a bit. Can you figure out where in Western Australia we'll be holidaying?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Dec 07 10
Category:
Western Australia
Can we write ten quizzes on one single colour? Yes we can, we already did. But here's another grand offering by Team Blue - what do you know about these Raven Rulers?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jul 01 19
Category:
Royalty & Monarchs
Whilst there are only a handful of men who have walked on the moon, there are several more who got so close, yet were so far. How well do you know those who went to the moon but didn't get to do the moonwalk?
Tough, 10 Qns, lones78,
Nov 08 10
Category:
Apollo Missions
Thanks to guitargoddess for the opportunity to write this quiz. - a light-hearted look at the history of one of the worst hairstyles - EVER!
Average, 15 Qns, lones78,
Sep 25 09
Category:
Hairstyles
There are many parody and fictitious religions around, but here are a few that I (personally) found the most interesting.
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Aug 29 23
Category:
Alternative Religions
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Turtle soup is like alphabet soup in that you can make lots of words using its letters. How many of these words do you know?
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78,
Oct 05 10
Category:
Words in Words for Kids
It is amazing what people can come up with when they are bored...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Sep 20 20
Category:
Thematic Emotions
All the songs have the word 'right' in the title - but what else do you know about these songs?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Jun 06 16
Category:
Up, Down - Directions in Songs
'Iron Chef' is a competitive cooking game show that originated in Japan. How much do you know about this cult phenomenon?
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Nov 08 11
Category:
Iron Chef
I was listening to the radio and the song 'Two of Hearts' came on. I hadn't heard it in a while and it has inspired me to write this quiz about cards ...
Average, 10 Qns, lones78,
Apr 01 22
Category:
Card Games