Friday Quiz - Starts with "Mar..."

As the month of March marches on, we marry trivia with wordplay to bring you these ten marvellous questions to brighten your Friday. So martial your wits and see if you can mark up a score of ten out of ten! The common theme might help to make some educated guesses on the trickier ones. Good luck, friends.

Welcome to your Weekly Quiz 22 March 2024 – Answers with “MAR”

In this week’s quiz, all correct answers begin with the letters ‘mar…’. Correct answers may be one or more words.

The phrase "Let them eat cake" is anecdotally attributed to which member of the French aristocracy, who was executed in 1793?

Which celebration takes its name from the French for "Fat Tuesday" and coincides with the Christian feast of Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day?

What type of footrace is officially measured at a distance of 42km?

What general term names a butter substitute made of refined fats and oils, with the first such example being developed by a French chemist in 1869?

What was the surname of the Argentinian footballer who was jointly named FIFA Player of the Century alongside Brazilian legend Pelé in 2000, and is infamously remembered for scoring a goal from a hand-ball in the 1986 World Cup?

Which 2011 drama film inspired by the events of the 2007 global financial crisis and set mainly overnight in a Wall St investment banking office, featured an ensemble cast including Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, Demi Moore, and Stanley Tucci?

What is still commonly accepted to be the largest lake in South America, even though currently it is not geographically defined to be a geographic lake since it connects to the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Venezeula? (It happens to also name the second-largest city in Venezuela after the capital Caracas)

What type of rock, commonly carved and polished to be used in sculpture and architecture, is usually a metamorphic form of calcite or dolomite?

Pronounced similarly to a traditional style of pizza topped with tomato, mozzarella and basil, what common cocktail is made by shaking tequila, triple sec and lime juice with ice, before pouring into a stemmed glass with a salted rim?

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Acccording to Wikipedia, Jazz Cabbage, Reverend Green, Boo boo bama, KGB and Houdini are among the stranger slang names for what substance?