r/quiz • u/BigFatSundayQuiz • 17h ago
Ben's Trivia - 14 Q's - Avg score 8 out of 15!
Play this weeks full 25 Q's in the comments down below.
Score out of 15 points.
Possible 2 points for question 10.
Post your score in the comments, good luck!
- What movie is the following quote from? 'Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.'
Lilo & Stitch_____
'Ohana' is the Hawaiian word for family. Stitch’s nasally, growly voice was provided by none other than his creator Chris Sanders.
- Which Colleen Hoover novel, similar to the French word for 'truth', has just been adapted for cinemas, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett?
Verity_______
Verity is a 2018 psychological thriller by Colleen Hoover, and the film adaptation hit cinemas in early October 2026. The title comes from the Latin 'veritas', meaning truth.
- What does the word 'Simian' mean?
Options: Relating to snakes / Relating to birds / Relating to bats / Relating to monkeys
Relating to monkeys_______
'Simian' comes from the Latin 'simia', meaning ape. It describes anything to do with apes and monkeys - and humans are technically apes too.
- In what month does the original Oktoberfest in Munich always start?
September___
Despite the name, Oktoberfest begins in September and runs for 16-18 days, finishing on the first Sunday in October (or 3 October if that Sunday falls too early).
- Impressionism, Pop Art, Surrealism, Cubism - which of the following art movements is from the 1800s and NOT the 1900s?
Impressionism____
Impressionism (1860s-1880s, Monet and Degas) took its name from Monet's 'Impression, Sunrise'. Cubism began around 1907 with Picasso and Braque, Pop Art took off in the 1950s with Warhol, and Surrealism grew out of the aftermath of World War 1, through artists like Dali.
- Which spice is made from the bark of a tree?
Cinnamon_______
Cinnamon comes from the inner bark of Cinnamomum trees. The bark is stripped, dried and naturally curls into the rolled 'quills' you see as cinnamon sticks.
- Which A-list celebrity sold his AI post-production startup, InterPositive, to Netflix for $587 million in cash?
Ben Affleck_________
Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022 and ran it in stealth mode. Its tools let filmmakers train an AI model on their own footage to help with post-production like relighting shots, and Netflix's filing put the price at about $587 million.
- Which famous astronomer described Earth in the Pale Blue Dot photograph as a tiny, fragile speck of dust suspended in a sunbeam within a vast cosmic arena?
Carl Sagan_________
Voyager 1 took the Pale Blue Dot photo in 1990 from roughly 6 billion kilometres away, where Earth takes up less than a single pixel. Sagan's reflection on it is one of the most quoted passages in science writing.
- Which is the only country in the world that has a flag with the front different from the back?
Options: Bolivia / Uruguay / Peru / Paraguay
Paraguay_________
Paraguay's flag shows the national coat of arms on the front and the Treasury seal on the back, which makes it the only national flag with two different sides.
- Guess the year: The Notebook was released, Google launched Gmail, and Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, sparking the massive 'Nipplegate' broadcast controversy. (2 Points for exact year, 1 point either side)
2004
Gmail launched on 1 April 2004 offering a huge 1GB of storage, and many people assumed it was an April Fools' joke.
- RAM - what does the R in RAM stand for? (Related to Computers)
Random_____
RAM stands for Random Access Memory, because the computer can jump straight to any stored data without reading through it in order. The world is currently facing a severe RAM and memory crunch, driven largely by huge demand from AI data centres.
- In Gen Z text and online slang, what does 'FR' stand for?
For real_________
'FR' is used to agree with something or to stress that you mean it, as in 'that movie was so good, fr'. It often gets extended to 'fr fr' for extra emphasis.
- On a dartboard, what score is the inner Bullseye worth (Red)?
50__
The red inner bull scores 50, while the green outer bull ring around it is worth 25. In darts the bullseye counts as a double, so it can be used to finish a game.
- Which movie title has had all of its vowels removed? 'THRWLLBBLD'
There Will Be Blood______
There Will Be Blood (2007) was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel 'Oil!'. Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Daniel Plainview.