1. Which previous ‘Doctor’ from Doctor Who received an MBE recently?Tom Baker
2. Which actor received their first Oscar (known as a lifetime achievement Oscar), more than three decades after they were first nominated?Tom Cruise
3. Which major internet infrastructure firm went down yesterday, meaning the Mosaic Tap website and many others were inaccessible?Cloudflare
4. Which energy drink company is launching a zero-sugar female-focused energy drink called FLRT?Monster Energy
5. What new rules are being proposed in relation to ticketing laws?Ticket resale above face value will be illegal. Tickets can only be sold for their face value plus unavoidable fees including service charges / Service charges added by resale platforms will be capped, to prevent the new price limit being undermined / Resale platforms will have a legal duty to monitor and enforce compliance with the new price cap / Individuals will be banned from reselling more tickets than they were entitled to buy in the initial ticket sale / For example, if consumers were limited to purchasing four tickets each, only four can be resold
6. Which rapper has made the song for the newest Spongebob film?Ice Spice
7. Sky Sports has scrapped its new female-focused TikTok channel, after it faced a backlash online with its posts described as "patronising" and "sexist", what was it called?Halo
8. Who won TikTok video of the year?Bemi Orojuogun (Bus Aunty) Often seen smiling silently on TikToks as she stands at the side of a road or a depot – while a passing double-decker appears to narrowly miss hitting her – Bemi has turned her lifelong love of the London's transport network into a viral celebration of city life.
9. A new AI app has been released, being described as a Black Mirror reality, what does it do?
   • Talk to deceased loved ones
   • Play back most recent conversations with people
   • Earn money for recording yourself doing awful things
   Talk to deceased loved ones
10. What did Trump say to a female reporter as he fielded questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Air Force One?“Quiet, quiet piggy”

1. Threshold - Sex Bob-OmbScott Pilgrim vs. The World
2. The Best of Both Worlds - Hannah MontanaHannah Montana
3. Rock Got No Reason - No Vacancy (School of Rock)School of Rock
4. Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song) - The Lonely Island (Connor4Real)Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
5. Big Bottom - Spinal TapThis Is Spinal Tap
6. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The Blues BrothersThe Blues Brothers
7. 5,000 Candles In The Wind (Bye Bye Lil' Sebastian) - Mouse RatParks and Recreation
8. Ultraviolet - Stiff DylansAngus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
9. Take Me Away (from Freaky Friday) - Pink SlipsFreaky Friday
10. Golden - HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMIKPop Demon Hunters

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1. Vin Diesel
2. Jeffrey Tambor
3. Stanley Tucci
4. Terry Crews
5. JK Simmons
6. Dean Norris
7. Ving Rhames
8. John Malkovich
9. Jason Statham
10. Dwayne The Rock Johnson
11. Patrick Stewart
12. Samuel L. Jackson

I used an LLM to describe a logo, and I’m giving you the output, I want you to tell me what company logo it is

1. The logo consists of two large, golden-yellow parabolic curves joined in the middle to form a stylised letterMcDonald's
2. The image features a solid black, fluid shape with a thick, rounded curve on the left and swoops upward into a sharp, tapered point on the rightNike
3. The logo is a circular design outlined in black, featuring a red upper section and a blue lower section separated by a wavy white band across the center that displays a word in bold black lettering.Pepsi
4. The logo comprises four solid colored squares, orange, green, blue, and yellow, arranged in a two-by-two grid and separated by white space to form a larger square shape.Microsoft
5. This design consists of a shape with a curved top edge, featuring lowercase words in a stencil-style serif font across the bottomMosaic Tap
6. The image displays a bright green circle containing three curved, white lines stacked vertically and slightly tiltedSpotify
7. The logo features a bright red square background containing bold, white, rounded capital letters that are outlined in black and yellow.LEGO
8. The design features a reddish-pink square background containing a white, continuous-line symbol that resembles a looped, inverted heartAirbnb
9. The logo consists of three parallel, slanted black bars of increasing height that step upward from left to right to form a triangular shape.Adidas
10. The design features a stylized, upright letter standing perpendicularly over a flattened, horizontal shape that resembles a shadow or base.PlayStation

So to remind, +2 points for every correct answer, -2 for every wrong answer, and +10 if you get all 10 correct, so 30 points up for grabs

1. What nationality is actor Mads Mikkelsen?Danish
2. In the Star Wars film, what type of creature is Chewbacca?A Wookiee
3. From which country does the drink Campari originate?Italy
4. Which city is furthest north - Birmingham, Sheffield or Bradford?Bradford
5. What is PVC an abbreviation of?Polyvinyl Chloride
6. What condition is known in French as ‘mal de mer’?Seasickness
7. What is the name of Tarzan’s companion?Jane (also accept Cheeta)
8. A set square is what shape?A triangle (right angled)
9. What type of transport is a ‘ketch’?Ship
10. In which year was Spotify launched?2008