Throughout the whole of December I have given players a daily question as part of my Online Advent Calendar. Each day a question was posted at a random time to keep it fresh and accessible for the many players taking part. Along the way there have been some giveaways and challenges. How would you have done on the following 24 questions?
1: What is the capital city of France?
2: What is the name of the current Prime Minister of the UK?
3: Who is this TV presenter?
4: What classic video game requires you to eat all the dots throughout a maze?
5: What is 50 in Roman numerals?
A: I
B: V
C: L
D: X
6:Name the food brand from this logo.
7: The baddie in Roger Moore's first outing is very TALL INDEED, I'VE noticed.
8: Rearrange these letters OT IE RG RO MA BB to spell out the name of an Australian actress.
9: In what year did Nelson Mandela die?
10:Two-digit answer required: in what century did Albert Einstein publish his general theory of relativity?
11: True or False... Wham's Last Christmas reached No1 in the UK charts?
12: In "Strangers in the Night", how many seconds into the song does Frank Sinatra start with the famous 'Doo Be Doo Be Doo' phrase? (5 Seconds on Either Side of the correct answer)
13: In which US state is the San Andreas fault line?
14: Pictured here is an official poster promoting which city's Olympic Games?
15: On a standard QWERTY keyboard, which number shares a key with the exclamation mark symbol?
16: Ben recently made a batch of 12 cupcakes and ended up eating all but 7 of them. How many cupcakes does he have left?
17: Can you solve the Disney puzzle from the picture below?
Add the Contamination code in Monsters Inc + The number of brothers Prince Hans has + Lightning McQueen's Racing Number.
18: Starting with the largest, put these European Union countries in order of population.
Croatia, Germany, Spain, Greece, Malta
19: What band released this 1986 album?
20: Which country am I standing in on the 'About Me' section of my website?
21: Streaky, Middle, and Back are varieties of which meat?
22: Connection Round 1
A: Excluding re-elections to the post, who was the UK’s 13th Prime Minister since the outbreak of World War II?
B: Which famous lyricist is also a co-founder of the Guinness Book of Hit Singles?
C: Which music hall, television, and film comedian, who died in 1990, was famous for his funny walks, deep sad voice, and rubber-faced grimaces? What connects all three answers?
23: Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen joined which British music icon on stage for his 2022 Glastonbury headline slot?
24: What is the combined age of these three celebrities?
How did you do?
December Advent - Answers
1: Paris
2: Rishi Sunak
3: Rylan Clarke
4: Pacman
5: C: L
6: Walls
7: LIVE AND LET DIE
8: MARGOT ROBBIE
9: 2013
10: 19th
11: True
12: 142 Seconds
13: California
14: Antwerp/Belgium
15: 1
16: 7
17: 2426 (2319 + 12 + 95)
18: Germany 83 million, Spain 47.4m, Greece 10.7m, Croatia 4.1m, Malta 0.5m
19: Genesis
20: Australia (Blue Mountains)
21: Bacon
22: A Gordon Brown B: Tim Rice C: Max Wall - Connection Brown Paper, Rice Paper, Wall Paper (Paper)
23: Paul McCartney
24: 34 + 60 + 74 Adele, , Arnold Vosloo, Ozzy Osbourne
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