After 13 years in the making, Hollywood legend James Cameron is finally releasing a sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time with Avatar: The Way of Water. So, to celebrate this cinematic milestone - and let’s face it, a good number of you will end up seeing this film by the end of the Christmas holidays, like it or not - we’ve taken inspiration from the film’s alien Na’vi heroes and turned the weekly Tes quiz blue! (No, not like that.)
This week’s quiz will put your general knowledge to the test with 10 challenging, azure-tinted questions, covering everything from sport and pop culture to science and geography. So, do you know your aqua adventures from your marine melodies? Gather your fellow quizmates and see if you can score a perfect 10…
This week’s questions
1. Which Aussie actor plays the lead role of Jake Sully in the Avatar movie franchise?
2. Who sang “Blue, blue, electric blue / That’s the colour of my room” in a hit 1977 single?
3. Which traditional blue-green birthstone for those born in December is a mineral consisting of copper and aluminium?
4. Who wrote the 19th-century sci-fi adventure novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas?
5. What word, meaning “to collect or assemble”, is also the collective noun for a group of peacocks?
6. What does the “C” stand for in CMYK printing?
7. The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in which southern hemisphere country?
8. Which one of these European countries’ flags does not contain a shade of blue: Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania or Finland?
9. Which chemical element, with the symbol Co, can be used to produce a blue-coloured pigment - historically used in ceramics, jewellery and paint?
10. Which current Championship (and sometime Premier League) football team is known as the Bluebirds?
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