The 2022 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Qatar. It was played later in the year to escape the heat of the Qatari summer. In the group stage four teams (in eight groups) played three games against each other for the right to contest the playoffs.
While death is inevitable, it is always sad when people who have achieved much in their life pass away. Here are ten exceptional people who passed away in 2021
Planned to visit some great world landmarks but somehow visited ten lookalikes instead. But these sights were great too. Come and see the best of all possible worlds where you get to see some lesser known great sights that resemble someplace else.
I inadvertently shredded my classic rock spreadsheet. I've started to sort things out. I now have a song title that is the front half of one song and the back half of another, both halves belonging to the same artist. Can you work out who the artist is?
In this quiz you are asked to find the movie title each containing the name of an American city. only a few clues are given and the photo is an aid to naming the city in the required movie title. Good Luck!
In some movies, books, songs and shows, cars are not just props but they're characters. here are ten such examples...
(Please note the photos provide clues not answers. Some derivation is required).
Trying to distill all the major events that occurred in the 100 years of the twentieth century is impossible. Here are a few examples that triggered larger events and spaced roughly a decade apart. Match the event to the year it occurred.
Jackie, Jacqueline, Jacqui, male, female. This quiz covers a wide variety of people with a name in common with a wide assortment of careers.
(Photos are hints not answers).
"Stranger Things" is somewhat of a sleeper hit. Its viewership increased for each successive season. Season 4 in 2022 was only the second Netflix show ever to surpass a billion hours viewed. Meet the characters that made this show so watchable.
No, no, No - That's a hard "G" in "Angles". By definition all landmarks are readily identifiable from a picture. But what if you saw that landmark from a different angle or worse, just a glimpse (insert maniacal laughter here). Here are ten Hell's Angles
In the classic age of automobile manufacturing in Australia 1955-1995, the market was dominated by three Australian manufacturers: Holden, Ford and Valiant. All you need to do is to attach the correct name to each classic Australian car.
Tough quiz ahead. A country's flag is the very crux of its identity. Yet with a few small substitutions (and ignoring dimensions), we can totally change one nation's flag into another country's flag. It's enough to make a grown vexillologist weep.
Animals feature heavily in automobile model names. Your job it to work out what model is depicted by each photo and then match it to the correct manufacturer. Of course car fans will not need the picture...
When a Man Loves a Woman? Well in this case when TWO men love a woman. Sequentially of course. Match the husband on the left with the husband on the right. What's that? Who is the wife? Well that would make it too easy wouldn't it? Good luck!
"Australian Survivor" is based on the parent US program "Survivor". However, it has many twists and turns of its own. This quiz examines the tenth season: "Australian Survivor: Heroes V Villains" (2023). Warning: SPOILERS ahead.
Azerbaijan sits at the crossroads of two continents wedged in between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea. Baku is its vibrant capital, a prosperous world city with more than its share of cultural and historical beauty. Let's explore.
Here is a selection of well known "G" cities from around the globe. All you have to do is to match them to their respective country.
This is a Sprint Reloaded Challenge.
Since social isolation became the new normal, team Phoenix Rising, with members scattered worldwide, have held weekly Zoom meetings to chat and undertake quiz tournaments. This week's quizmaster is Humanist. Good Luck.
Tunisia is a small progressive country jammed into the wide open spaces of North Africa. It is considered the only true democracy in the Arab world. Let's take a look...
Malta, a tiny island European nation, has, after centuries of rule by foreign powers, emerged in the second half of the twentieth century as a vibrant, thriving nation with a distinctive culture.
In this Globetrot Challenge, let's take a trip through the many years of popular music to explore the music about one of the world's most iconic cities: New York City.
"Is it quitting time yet?" is a much-used phrase in today's hedonistic society. Here are ten vignettes from people who overcame humble beginnings to become noted because they never, ever, did quit.
The title of this quiz is a line from the song "Promise" which is one of the songs in the 2022 Fun Trivia Community Challenge. The single line from the song encapsulates how the Solar System has evolved. Here is a precis of that concept.
Your task is to pick the most appropriate verb to fill in the blank in the sentence. Easy enough? But as you work your way through the questions you might see a pattern. See if you can find the common bond.
IATA airport codes by necessity are unique for each city. Given the propensity for marketeers to exploit any angle, how long will it be before such dedicated codes are used as advertising potential...
Prior to the Aviation Age, a prosperous city was one that could trade with its international maritime neighbours. That meant access to the sea to create a port. This Author Challenge quiz explores the world's largest cargo ports.
(Very *TOUGH* quiz ahead). This time we are RE-constructing flags. Subtract or add details from one or more national flags (ignoring dimensions), to make a different country's flag. Colouring pencils, paper & a flag book may help!
The amount of air we breathe with each breath is a small percentage of the air in our lungs. There are various parameters with the volume of air in the lungs that changes in both health and disease. Let's explore these different respiratory parameters.
In 1975 this author saw the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", and, as great as that movie was (and still is), the novel it was based on was better. It provides a richer, layered and more nuanced story than the movie. Here are a few reasons why.
This quiz is part of the Globetrot Challenge.
Zambia, located in south central Africa, is far more than the Victoria Falls, its most famous landmark. Let's go explore Zambia...
Team Phoenix Rising still faithfully meet via Zoom weekly to thrash out a 20+ question quiz. This week we tried something experimental but here we share the best of those questions in a time-honoured Fun Trivia friendly format.
A tax on both you quiz writers! In this Sprint Challenge, Team Phoenix were only given 360 letters for all answer options. Bonuses for writing a 15 question quiz: that's six letters per answer. Hence this quiz is about musical acts with short names.
With today's automobile manufacturing focusing on function and safety, there is a tendency for all cars to look the same. Here are a few cars that were "different" yet were either commercially or critically unsuccessful or both.
Incoming celebrity name puns. I was trying to write a Celebrities quiz but was always thinking about food at the time. Determine the food-related almost-name of the celebrity I was trying to write about. Do not attempt this quiz when hungry!
In this Editors' Advent quiz you are asked to identify these ten poor souls who had the misfortune to pass away on Christmas Day. Warning: As question number increases number of clues decreases.
How easy is it to determine the colour in a song when only given an artist name, and only part of a title is given? Be careful though: There are some songs that have more than one correct answer but there is only one correct combination.
To reach the Super Bowl all 16 American Football Conference teams had to reach the top seven which allowed them to enter the knockout rounds to earn a spot in the Super Bowl. Place the teams in order of finishing at the end of the regular 2022-23 season.
When Westerners discuss Japanese cities, the biggest cities such as Tokyo and Osaka plus the cultural capital of Kyoto will nearly always get mentioned. However, Japan is such a diverse place. This quiz features other beautiful Japanese cities.
Physiology is the normal functioning of the body. Pathophysiology is when things go wrong with the workings of the body. This happens to all of us to some degree as we get older. Here are a few examples...
Australia has a rich mineral wealth with a large number of towns, mainly in the outback, established to service the nearby mine. Here are 11 different Australian mining towns for 13 different minerals.
In this team quiz we are travelling across the US from the West Coast to the East Coast on a road trip, Along the way our trip will be punctuated by frequent diner stops to sample regional speciality sandwiches Come along for the ride (and the food).
In this Commission 70 quiz, you can't see the Wood for the trees. You need to find the correct person called Wood and match it to what the Wood does (and ignore the trees). Good Luck!
To reach the Super Bowl all 16 National Football Conference teams had to reach the top seven which allowed them to enter the knockout rounds to earn a spot in the Super Bowl. Place the teams in order of finishing at the end of the regular 2022-23 season.
WWII facilitated the introduction of jet engines into commercial aircraft. The impact has been huge. Let's have a very quick look at one of technology greatest achievements of the latter half of the 20th Century...
Some movie quotes become so well known they become cliches. Some are great quotes in their own right. This quiz is somewhere in between where a character's name in the quote identifies the movie they came from. Intrigued? Let's go...
Mozambique, in some ways followed the 'traditional' African history model: A rich pre-history, an oppressive colonial era, a fiery independence and a struggle to prosper both commercially and culturally in a contemporary world. Let's explore...
In this exciting new branch of mathematics, you need to use your knowledge of national flags to solve the vexillological equations and match them to the correct answer. It is as easy as counting from 1 to 10! PEMDAS counts. The cover photo may assist.
Are you unlucky or blessed to have your birthday on December 25? The next ten people all have their birthday on Christmas Day. All you have to do is pick the year they were born ...
In this Author Challenge, the everyday Australian items seen in this quiz would seem quite routine to most Australians but what about those in other lands? Try your hand, or, in Australian parlance, "Have a go yer mug".