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  1. Time for a #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion! Only 4 cities in #Germany have a population of more than 1 million people*. Berlin, Hamburg and Munich are 3 of them, which of the options in the #poll below is the 4th?

    * Note that this only refers to residents of the cities themselves, not their wider conurbations.

  2. Right, I'm off to the #PubQuiz at The Alehouse in #Zurich - in the unlikely event that you're local come along and say hi (starts at 6.30pm). In the meantime here's a very niche Swiss film #QuizQuestion for you to celebrate the fact that it's currently the Zurich Film Festival #ZFF.

    To the best of my knowledge, there's only one mainstream film in existence that features execution by molten cheese enema. What's the title of this gloriously over the top piece of Swissploitation cinema?

  3. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! The surname Loomis pops up a lot in horror film franchises, including Halloween and Scream. In both those cases the name is an homage to a character in which classic Alfred Hitchcock movie?

    #quiz #trivia #MovieQuiz

  4. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Although I'm not great at solving them, I do enjoy a UK style cryptic crossword. According to the Guinness Book of World Records the first entirely cryptic crossword was published in the Saturday Westminster Gazette in 1925, written by Edward Powys Mathers. He's much better known by his pen name - what is it?

    #quiz #trivia #crosswords #crossword #crypticCrossword

  5. Morning all on #CupOfTeaSocial and beyond! Sorry I've been away for a while, lots going on. Will hopefully be restarting the daily #QuizQuestion properly shortly, but in the meantime here's a #scrabble #question for you:

    Playing the official UK/US English language version (tiles and board), how much would you score in Scrabble if you started a game with the word “Quiz”?

    #trivia #WordGames

  6. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! A surprising number of successful TV shows over the years have been spin offs from other shows. Three spin offs are listed in the #poll along with one original - which is it?

    #quiz #trivia #TVShows #TVQuiz

  7. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! As well as both being president of the USA, Ulysses S Grant and Harry S Truman share a middle initial. What does it stand for?

    #quiz #trivia

  8. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Which letter links a star of Steptoe and Son, a member of Steps and a criminal mastermind from Line of Duty?

    #quiz #trivia

  9. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! The first official paid television advertisement came out in the United States on July 1, 1941 at 2:30 p.m., over New York station WNBT (subsequently WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. What was it for?

  10. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! There's lots of foods out there with names that don't in anyway describe what they really are - spotted dick, for example, which is a steamed sweet suet pudding made with dried fruit. Spotted dick is just confusing though, not downright false advertising like Albany Beef which is actually... what?

    #quiz #trivia #foodQuiz

  11. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Not sure if it's difficult or easy today, but let's give it a whirl. Looking at the flags of these nations, which one is the odd one out?

    #quiz #trivia #flags #vexillology

  12. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom also came out in 1984. Only one of the top three billed actors has won an Oscar - which is it? For a bonus question, which of the others has made a guest appearance on stage singing backing vocals with Bruce Springsteen?

    #quiz #trivia #IndianaJones

  13. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's June 8th when I'm writing this which was a big day for cinema back in 1984 when two massive blockbusters were released. One of them was Ghostbusters, what was the other?

    #quiz #trivia #MovieQuiz

  14. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Earlier today I was talking with a friend about BASE jumping - the extreme sport where people jump from bridges, skyscrapers etc. and hope to deploy a parachute quickly enough to avoid hitting the ground with a hell of a thump. As you might guess from the use of uppercase letters, BASE is an acronym. What does it stand for?

    #quiz #trivia #BASE

  15. An early #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion for you today. Although he didn't invent the Woozle, the fertile imagination of the writer Lewis Carroll spewed up a vast amount of other fantastical creatures in poetry and prose. His works weren't universally appreciated at the time of writing though - can you tell me which of the following publications was reviewed by Vanity Fair as being "not worthy [of] the name of nonsense"?

    #quiz #trivia #LewisCarroll

  16. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! The Woozle effect occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim it does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility. The name comes from a chapter of a very famous children's book first printed in 1926. Which book?

    #quiz #trivia #woozle

  17. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! Yesterday's question involved the famous London children's hospital Great Ormond Street which first opened in 1852. Many years ago GOSH was gifted the copyright to (and hence the royalties arising from) a famous children's character, and still benefits from it today - which character is it?

    #quiz #trivia #GOSH

  18. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! As I was out walking by the Greifensee (Griffin Lake) earlier today I thought some kind of mythological creature question would be good. The griffin has the body, tail, and back legs of a lion with the head and wings of an eagle. But which of the options in the #poll describes the Stratford Lyon, a mythical beast which roams the New Forest of southern England?

    #quiz #trivia #NewForest #MythicalBeasts

  19. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis were a staple of childhood back when & where I grew up and feature a set of siblings from the Pevensie family: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. In the freaky final book (The Last Battle, which borrows much of it's themes from the book of Revelation) the siblings return to Narnia with the exception of Susan, who is described as being "interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations". Lots of people feel this was somewhat harsh on Susan who should be allowed to live her life how she feels fit regardless of what magical lions might think. Among these people is a famous scifi/fantasy author who wrote a short story called "The Problem of Susan" on the topic. Who is the author?

    #quiz #trivia #narnia #susan

  20. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time and as it's #PuzzledPint day today here's a #beer question courtesy of my co-quizmaster Mark. Lambic is a type of very dry Belgian beer from Brussels and the Pajottenland and it used to be one of my favourites before I discovered that gluten does very nasty things to my insides. The method used to brew lambic is a bit unusual as you don't add what is normally considered a vital ingredient of beer. What is it?

    #quiz #trivia #lambic #belgium #brussels

  21. Time for a #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion? Why yes, it is! In many parts of the world (the UK being one) today is Mothering Sunday. Unlike the US holiday of Mother's Day (which dates back to the early 20th century), Mothering Sunday has roots in the Christian church of the Middle Ages and in its original form it had nothing to do with your own mother (lovely though I'm sure she is).

    Here's the question: to what does the Mother part of Mothering Sunday refer?

    Answers in the #poll below, spoiler-filled replies and discussion more than welcome but please stick them behind a CW.

    #quiz #trivia #MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #MotheringSunday

  22. Time for today's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion and it's a rare foray into the world of sport. Great Britain's Mia Brookes became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history at the age of 16 this week, beating New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott to women's #slopestyle gold at the #Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Georgia.

    Here's your question: which of the options in the #poll is a genuine snowboard trick?

    As ever, if you enjoy the daily #trivia #quiz please boost so that more people can discover it. Also, if you like #puzzles then check out the #EnigMarch hashtag.

  23. It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! As I've been at the science museum today here's a science question for you all.

    Even if you don't know the name you'll be familiar with the Doppler effect, where the apparent frequency of a sound (its pitch) changes if the source of the sound is moving.

    The most commonly used example is the siren on an ambulance - but is the pitch of the siren higher or lower when the ambulance is moving away from you?

    #🚨 #quiz #trivia #science #sound #DopplerEffect

  24. #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time!

    Once upon a time there was a very colourful witch. She was a stereotypical witch who lived alone in a #FFFFFF house with a #000000 cat in the middle of a forest called #DEB887. For breakfast she ate #FFEFD5 and #F0FFF0, then she worked all day casting spells with a wave of her wand (a #EEE8AA) and a puff of #F5F5F5. In the evening she relaxed with a glass of her favourite liqueur while nibbling on a #FFEBCD.

    What was her favourite liqueur?

    #puzzle #quiz