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ending 27 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on industry:
1 A wanking machine processes cattle skin.
2 Every employee was named "employee of the month" every month.
3 A safety pin has two shafts and a coil.
4 They were all brand names that became words.
5 Apple ranks first globally, with its brand valued at $574.5 billion in 2025.
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ending 20 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on colours:
1 A purple finch is crimson.
2 (b) or (c). Black wattle is yellow or green.
3 (c) Elephants are black. They are seen to be black when they emerge from a wash, but immediately they cover themselves in dust, giving a grey appearance
4 They see no colours, just different shades of grey. (As stated in "Can Elephants Swim?")
5 Each word is unique in that it has no other word that rhymes with it.
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ending 13 April 2025
Answer to the week's question on what is common to all the expressions:
They are palindromes. Palindromes read the same forwards and backwards.
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ending 6 April 2025
Answers to this week's questions on food:
1 Veal is the flesh of an animal, usually a calf, killed before its first birthday.
2 (c) mostly, otherwise mainly (b)
3 Yes. First course in the US, second course in Australia.
4 0%. Most are beef burgers.
5 Edam
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 30 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on English word world records.
1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. We hope you got the spelling right. The Oxford Dictionary says it's a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine sand and ash dust (mostly volcanic silica ash dust).'
2 Queue is one. Others with vowels outnumbering consonants 5 to 2 are amoeba, evacuee and nouveau.
3 Probably only one, svelte, meaning slim
4 Eau, a watery solution.
5 Claimed to be the longest word that can be reversed to give a different word, is 'desserts'. (stressed).
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 23 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on chemistry:
1 Nothing can be burned after being burned once. (Absolute Trivia) If you didn't answer that question, you scored a point.
2 Ununbium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element.
3 Yttrium is a chemical element
4 DNA is the common abbreviation for deoxyribonycleic acid.
5 (c) Trona is a monoclinic mineral.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 16 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on word records:
1 Almost (Absolute Trivia) or begins
2 It is the longest word with no repeated letter.
3 Rhythms
4 Its first five even-numbered letters are all "i"?
5 Typed with only the left hand when using two hands. (Absolute Trivia)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 9 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on double letters:
1 The president of Ukraine has a surname ending in YY.
2 The Ukraine president is Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy. If you were unable to spell all his name, steal a point for this question anyway.
3 Aardvark, eel and llama are animal or fish names.
4 Pizzazz means appeal, charm, glamour and charisma.
5 Ignoring rarely-used words, bookkeeper is the only English word with three consecutive double letters
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 2 March 2025
Answers to this week's questions on single letters:
1 Headache = A
2 Back of beyond = D
3 Bottle opener = B
4 First aid = A
5 Star of these questions = U
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 23 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on capital cities:
1 Only one country has a capital city starting with Q - Quito, Ecuador, South America.
2 Quito appears in mosquito.
3 San Salvador is the capital of El Salvador.
4 Yes. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and Dakar is the capital of Senegal.
5 USA
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ending 16 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on literature:
1 Very little. Accrodnig to a stduy at an Egnlsih Unvireitsy, it wlil mkae liltte diffeenrce if the letrets isinde a wrod are tasrnposed, as we raed the wrod as a wohle.
2 In print, as it's an epic (in poetry)
3 (a) Standing (The Book of Lists)
4 Youth
5 The Australian Women's Weekly is published monthly.
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ending 9 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on walls:
1 A ruelle is the space between a bed and a wall.
2 Their whole lives. They were often born on the wall, grew up there, married there, died there and were buried within it. Many never left the wall in their entire lives. (Absolute Trivia)
3 (b) While the Huns could scale parts of the wall without ladders, they could not get their horses across. Without their horses they were not very effective conquerors. (Book of Facts)
4 (c). The total of the present and past parts of the Great Wall is 21,196m.
5 (a) Millions of pieces of paper have been left in the cracks in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
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ending 2 February 2025
Answers to this week's questions on foreign language:
1 There is no Latin word for "the".
2 They are languages, in all of which the Jehovah's Witnesses published their The Watchtower: Bicol (Philippines), Chichewa (Malawi), Efik (southern Nigeria), Ewe (Ghana, Togo and Benin), Ga (Ghana, in and around the capital Accra) Gun (Benin), Igbo (southern Nigeria), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Luo (4 million in Kenya and Tanzania), Mizo (India, Burma, Bangladesh), Oromo (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Egypt), Tiv (6 million in Nigeria and a few in Cameroon), Twi (principal native language of Ghana), Xhosa (8 million in South Africa) and Zande (Congo and Sudan)
3 (a) and (c) but they don't talk to each other. (Sydney Morning Herald 15-4-11)
4 (b) testicle
5 They have no written form of their language. (www.factmonster.com)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 26 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on overseas crime:
1 They were handcuffed together and as the fled they ran on either side of the power pole, something one would only think happened in cartoons.
2 (c) (The Week 13-3-09)
3 When three Somalis were killed in April while holding an American captain, Somali pirates were also holding about 230 sailors from more than a dozen ships.
4 Smuggling himself out of Britain, because "I found the country not as pleasant as I had been led to believe." (Time 5-8-02)
5 Drive them.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 19 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on non-human sex:
1 (a) 40 to 50 times (www.britannica.com)
2 (b) 4
3 Once in its life. (Absolute Trivia)
4 Yes, both
5 Penguins were found to be paying with stones for sex. (Sydney Morning Herald 28-Feb-98)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 12 January 2025
Answers to this week's questions on presidents:
1 Himself
2 Nigeria
3 China president Xi
4 China president Xi
5 (a)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week
ending 5 January 2025
A they sometimes take debate.
B free of charge.
C they fought tooth and nail.
D got twelve months.
E dead give away
Answers to this week's common statements:
1A 2D 3E 4B 5C |
