1. Which company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, admitted an affair in a staff memo on Sunday? It follows reports that US intelligence believed the woman was a Chinese spy.Nvidia
2. Reports say three actors are the front runners to be the next James Bond (according to the BBC). Name all three. (1 point each, 3 in total)Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor and Callum Turner
3. On Monday, Russell Brand was sentenced for rape and sexual assault. How long was his prison sentence (years and months)?10 years and 6 months
4. Which high street brand has opened a luxury suite at Newcastle’s Hotel Gotham?Greggs (Can use a rotary phone so guests can “ring for a sausage roll”)
5. On Monday, Airbus announced that a Qantas A350 set a Guinness World Record for the longest flight by a commercial airliner. How long did the flight take?
   • 19 hours 50 minutes
   • 21 hours 15 minutes
   • 24 hours 24 minutes
   24 hours 24 minutes (more than 23,000 km non-stop, Melbourne to Toulouse)
6. Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year?Mogging (means outshining or outperforming someone)
7. The Welsh Government is consulting on scrapping a scheme in schools that has run since 1977. What is it?Free school milk
8. Which restaurant brand is opening two sites in Newcastle next month, and announced the dates by projecting them onto buildings on Grey Street?The Ivy
9. Last Wednesday, Newcastle City Council voted to give which football legend the Freedom of the City? He’s the first person ever to get it posthumously.Kevin Keegan
10. Which Newcastle defender has been recalled to the England squad after Marc Guéhi got injured?Dan Burn

1. Clocks - Coldplay
2. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
3. 1999 - Charli xcx, Troye Sivan
4. Manic Monday - The Bangles
5. Year 3000 - Busted
6. Disco 2000 - Pulp
7. Seven Days in Sunny June - Jamiroquai
8. Time - Pink Floyd
9. 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
10. Friday - Rebecca Black

Connection: Time

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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Monsters, Inc.
3. Toy Story
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. E.T.
6. The Matrix
7. The Lion King
8. Shrek
9. Whiplash
10. Back to the Future
11. The Grand Budapest Hotel
12. Love Actually
13. Forrest Gump
14. The Dark Knight
15. Parasite
16. The Truman Show

Each clue describes two things that share a word in the middle, and teams join them into one answer. Read the example first so everyone gets the format: “007 spy meets a green Monopoly square” → James Bond Street “The sixth Bond meets the singer of 7 Days” → Daniel Craig David

1. “Fight Club actor meets a quick tyre change”Brad Pitt Stop
2. “London’s famous landmark meets Britain’s highest mountain”Big Ben Nevis
3. “Silent character meets a squishy chair”Mr Bean Bag
4. “Top Gun star meets a holiday”Tom Cruise Ship
5. “Footloose actor meets a hangover breakfast”Kevin Bacon Sandwich
6. “Gateshead’s giant sculpture meets an outdoor clothing brand”Angel of the North Face
7. “Zombie comedy meets the salty lake between Israel and Jordan”Shaun of the Dead Sea
8. “Roman barrier across northern England meets New York’s financial district”Hadrian’s Wall Street
9. “School of Rock star meets part of a full English”Jack Black Pudding
10. “The band behind Rumours meets a food dish”Fleetwood Mac and Cheese

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. On which continent would you find the world's largest desert?Antarctica
2. What superhero built a "Fortress of Solitude" at the North Pole?Superman
3. What is a group of Lizards called?A Lounge
4. On the market for four decades, AutoCAD is a specific brand of CAD software. CAD stands for what?Computer Aided Design
5. How many stars are on the New Zealand flag?4
6. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?Marie Curie (1903)
7. Which year did the Titanic sink?1912
8. What size of paper measures 148mm by 210mm?A5
9. How many sides does a 50p coin have?Seven
10. Which bridge in the UK is nicknamed the “Blinking Eye”?Gateshead Millennium Bridge