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Sunday Quiz - Mystery Theme
Time for everyone’s favourite - a Mystery Theme round! Each round, a mystery theme connects all of your answers.
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SUNDAY QUIZ - MYSTERY THEME
The Power of Love (1922) was the first feature length film to introduce what? For reference, the first colour film was "A Trip to the Seaside" in 1908, and the first feature length film with sound was "The Jazz Singer" in 1927. (Yes! Colour beat sound! Take that Foley Artists!)
Which video-game villain of Kirby, first appearing in Kirby's Dream Land, is pictured here? His name when first released by Nintendo is: デデデ.
He is a blue anthropomorphic penguin-like being who is the self-proclaimed king of Dream Land and ruler of the Waddle Dees. He gained massive video-game popularity as one of the "heavies" in Super Smash Bros Brawl when he first appeared in 2008 - attacking with his trademark Hammer and Gordo's.
Paul Michael Levesque was better known by his stage-name and wrestling persona and is pictured here. What was the name of his persona? His acting roles include being in the 2004 movie Blade and voicing himself twice in Scooby Doo! WrestleMania Mystery and Scooby Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon. I know. Google Freddie Prinze Jr. if you want the lore behind why these two are connected. One of the most recognisable finishers in wrestling history, his special move is called "The Pedigree".
Here are the last eight winners from a mystery competition:
2019: Billie Eilish for "Bad Guy"
2020: Glass Animals for "Heat Waves"
2021: The Wiggles for "Elephant"
2022: Flume featuring May-a for "Say Nothing"
2023: Doja Cat for "Paint the Town Red"
2024: Chappell Roan for "Good Luck, Babe!"
2025: Olivia Dean for "Man I Need"
Which Australian radio station hosts the mystery competition? (Apologies for the local content)
Which domestic terror organisation was founded in 1865 and is led by the Grand Wizard. The terrorists are the subject of a movie starring John David Washington and Adam Driver as detectives.
Which queer comedy-drama follows the lives of two ambulance paramedics (Brooke Satchwell and Tahlee Fereday), as they save lives in absurd medical emergencies? The title of the show comes from the Australian emergency number.
More clues? Okay! It is an abbreviation that is seen on quite a few Leave Calendars, its a winning row in Tic Tac Toe, and a burger chain in Canada.
Which 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli is the most expensive Indian film to date ($69 Million USD)? It received universal critical acclaim for its direction, screenwriting, cast performances, cinematography, soundtrack, action sequences and VFX, and grossed $171 Million USD.
The film's song "Naatu Naatu" won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first song from an Indian film, as well as the first from an Asian film, to win in this category. This made the film the first Indian film by an Indian production to win an Academy Award.
Okay, forgive me, but this one doesn't QUITE fit the theme. It was hard to find 10 questions, okay? I think it still works.
Who was the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (winning in 2015) and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category? In the 1970s, after studies of traditional herbal medicines, she focused on sweet wormwood and managed to extract a substance, artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite.
Drugs based on artemisinin have led to the survival and improved health of millions of people. She then volunteered to be the first human test subject. stating: "As head of this research group, I had the responsibility".
She is also the hardest person to sing Happy Birthday to in the world.
CERN scientist Tim Burners-Lee is credited with developing what - which would make Shelob, Aragog, and Charlotte very happy?
In an open letter published to mark the 30th birthday of his invention, he wrote, "while [it] has created opportunity, given marginalized groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit."
Which letters on a moonshine bottle would indicate that the particular batch had been run through the still three times? It's also the name of a congenital syndrome that is usually caused by malformation of an egg or sperm cell or by an error early in embryo development. It's named after the extra chromosome present in people with the syndrome.
What is the mystery theme that links all of your answers? I’ll give you three guesses…
Answer Time! No peeking!
The Power of Love (1922) was the first feature length film to introduce what? For reference, the first colour film was “A Trip to the Seaside” in 1908, and the first feature length film with sound was “The Jazz Singer” in 1927. (Yes! Colour beat sound! Take that Foley Artists!)
The answer is 3D. Those funky red and blue glasses pre-date sound! What!? This title is heavily contested by seasoned quizzers, but it’s the most agreed answer.Which video-game villain of Kirby, first appearing in Kirby’s Dream Land, is pictured here? His name when first released by Nintendo is: デデデ.
He is a blue anthropomorphic penguin-like being who is the self-proclaimed king of Dream Land and ruler of the Waddle Dees. He gained massive video-game popularity as one of the “heavies” in Super Smash Bros Brawl when he first appeared in 2008 - attacking with his trademark Hammer and Gordo’s.
Anyone who can read Hiragana would smash this one - but the answer is KING DEDEDE. Anecdote alert: when a friend started learning French they switched my Super Smash Bros Brawl language to French - and his name is Roi Dadidou. The announcer screams it when you select the character. Highly recommend.Paul Michael Levesque was better known by his stage-name and wrestling persona and is pictured here. What was the name of his persona? His acting roles include being in the 2004 movie Blade and voicing himself twice in Scooby Doo! WrestleMania Mystery and Scooby Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon. I know. Google Freddie Prinze Jr. if you want the lore behind why these two are connected. One of the most recognisable finishers in wrestling history, his special move is called “The Pedigree”.
I’m no wrestling fan, but even I know about TRIPLE H, or Hunter Hearst Helmsley.Here are the last eight winners from a mystery competition:
2019: Billie Eilish for “Bad Guy”
2020: Glass Animals for “Heat Waves”
2021: The Wiggles for “Elephant”
2022: Flume featuring May-a for “Say Nothing”
2023: Doja Cat for “Paint the Town Red”
2024: Chappell Roan for “Good Luck, Babe!”
2025: Olivia Dean for “Man I Need”
Which Australian radio station hosts the mystery competition? (Apologies for the local content)
The contest was the Hottest 100 and the radio station is TRIPLE J.Which domestic terror organisation was founded in 1865 and is led by the Grand Wizard. The terrorists are the subject of a movie starring John David Washington and Adam Driver as detectives.
This was the KKK - Ku Klux Klan. Ku Klux comes from the Greek for circle (Kuklos) - while Klan just means they can’t spell.Which queer comedy-drama follows the lives of two ambulance paramedics (Brooke Satchwell and Tahlee Fereday), as they save lives in absurd medical emergencies? The title of the show comes from the Australian emergency number.
More clues? Okay! It is an abbreviation that is seen on quite a few Leave Calendars, its a winning row in Tic Tac Toe, and a burger chain in Canada.
The series is Triple-Oh! - but this is quite esoteric. Hopefully you got it from the Tic Tac Toe clue or the Out of Office Clue.Which 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli is the most expensive Indian film to date ($69 Million USD)? It received universal critical acclaim for its direction, screenwriting, cast performances, cinematography, soundtrack, action sequences and VFX, and grossed $171 Million USD.
The film’s song “Naatu Naatu” won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first song from an Indian film, as well as the first from an Asian film, to win in this category. This made the film the first Indian film by an Indian production to win an Academy Award.
RRR is the movie. It. Is. Unironically. Amazing. If you’ve got 3hrs free one night - park yourself in front of a night to remember.Okay, forgive me, but this one doesn’t QUITE fit the theme. It was hard to find 10 questions, okay? I think it still works.
Who was the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (winning in 2015) and the first female citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category? In the 1970s, after studies of traditional herbal medicines, she focused on sweet wormwood and managed to extract a substance, artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite.
Drugs based on artemisinin have led to the survival and improved health of millions of people. She then volunteered to be the first human test subject. stating: “As head of this research group, I had the responsibility”.
She is also the hardest person to sing Happy Birthday to in the world.
A name worth memorising and immortalising, this sacrificial and brilliant hero of Medicine is TU YOUYOU (or Youyou Tu).CERN scientist Tim Burners-Lee is credited with developing what - which would make Shelob, Aragog, and Charlotte very happy?
In an open letter published to mark the 30th birthday of his invention, he wrote, “while [it] has created opportunity, given marginalized groups a voice, and made our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit.”
Something to make these famous literary spiders happy would be the WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW). By the way, that image is of an all-female comedy troupe from CERN Laboratories, and it’s the first image ever shared on the web!Which letters on a moonshine bottle would indicate that the particular batch had been run through the still three times? It’s also the name of a congenital syndrome that is usually caused by malformation of an egg or sperm cell or by an error early in embryo development. It’s named after the extra chromosome present in people with the syndrome.
Triple distilled is XXX. xXx is the film and not worth watching. The syndrome, where instead of XX or XY chromosomes you have a third XXX, is called TRIPLE-X Syndrome.What is the mystery theme that links all of your answers? I’ll give you three guesses…
The theme I hope was pretty clear, and allowed guesswork for the previous. Triple letter answers! But additional theme hint - they’re in alphabetical order! May have narrowed down some of the guesses :D
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