ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALS Flashcards
The longest english trail?
SOUTH WEST COASTAL PATH from Minehead to Poole
First female president of RA
Rebecca SALTER
Which work by Aphra Behn inspired Purcell and in turn the Young Persons guide to the Orchestra?
Abdelazar
Sounding like it involves a traditional dance, which two-player boardgame,
involves placing and moving black and white pieces, with the aim of getting lines
or “mills” of three in a row, at which point an opponent’s piece is removed from
the board?.
Nine mens morris
Only female presenter Robot Wars
Angela SCANLON
Originating in a tweet by @dril, which maize-based food stuff is used in internet
slang to a person who, despite having clearly lost a debate, continues to publicly
deny the fact, further damaging their credibility?
CORN COBBING
wrote New Grub Street
George GISSING
David Lloyd George became Earl of
DWYFOR
Which debut novel Mrs Gaskell was subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life
MARY BARTON
First f minister of education
Ellen WILKINSON
In 2021, 3rd mercury prize nomination out of three for PINK NOISE
Laura MVULA
Named after a famous nurse, what is the name of the huge tunnelling machine that has just commenced its work in helping the HS2 project through the Chilterns ?
Florence
New Birmingham Station for HS2
CURZON STREET
Female tennis player, Canada born
Emily RADACANU
Trained Minella Times and Minella Indo
Joe de BROMHEAD
tdf 123 2021
pogacar/ vingegaard/ carapaz
tdf 2021 combativity
bonnamour
tdf 2021 started
brest
bdo world darts 2020
wayne warren
gerwyn price aka
iceman
leader, only mp alliance party
naomi long
new wordls strongest man
tom STOLTMAN
Which company, known for its hour-long outdoor exercise classes, was founded
by three retired army officers in the late 1990s, and purchased by Bear Grylls
Ventures in 2018? The answer has three words
be militry fit
Which 2020 TV series, written by and starring Michaela Coel, was the recipient of
multiple BAFTAs and a GLAAD media award?
i may destroy you
Brothers Paul and Mark Collyer founded the company Sports Interactive to
further develop which simulation computer game series that they conceived in
their Shropshire bedroom in the early 1990s?
CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER
The clothes brand Florence and Fred is sold by which supermarket chain?
TESCO
Which American science communicator is known as ‘the Science Guy’, after that
phrase was rhymed with his name in the title of the popular children’s science
show he hosted from 1993-98?
BILL NYE
Dale Vince and Arsenal right-back Hector Bellerin are the two largest
stakeholders in which League Two football club?
FOREST GREEN
A favourite among Norwegian-Americans in the Midwest, what notoriously smelly dish is
made by reconstituting dried cod in lye for several days and then baking or boiling the fish
down to a gelatinous mash?
LUTEFISK
Credit Suisse estimated it had sustained $3 billion of losses as a result of the March 2021
liquidation of which supply chain financing group named after the man who had founded it
in in 2011?
GREENSILL
What term in bricklaying describes a brick laid flat with its long narrow side
exposed?
STRETCHER
Which Swedish dish, known for its characteristic strong smell, is made by adding just
enough salt to herring, to allow it to ferment while preventing it from rotting
altogether?
SURSTROMMING
Which is the third largest lake in the Lake District after Windermere and Ullswater?
This lake located in Borrowdale lies immediately south of Keswick and is drained by
the river which forms part of its name.
DERWENTWATER
What was the forename and surname of The French Lieutenant’s Woman in the
novel by John Fowles?
SARA WOODRUFF
The name of what type of entertainment facility completes the title of this 2018
album by the Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel and … what?
CASINO
The great great grandson of a cavalier poet, and also related to Robert Walpole, which naval officer is now best known as the man who trained his nephew Horatio Nelson?
MAURICE SUCKLING
Which wetland and SSSI in Cambridgeshire was in 1899 the first nature reserve run by the National Trust?
WICKEN FEN
Which rapper, MC and internet personality was born Tyrone Lindo?
BIG NARSTIE
Which fellow Made in Chelsea star married Millie Mackintosh in 2018?
HUGO TAYLOR
made his league debut after coming on as a 88th-minute substitute for André-Frank Zambo Anguissa in a 1–0 away defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers. In doing so, he became the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days, beating the record set by fellow Fulham player Matthew Briggs in 2007.
HARVEY ELLIOTT
Which ship succeeded the SS Great Eastern in 1899 to become the largest passenger ship in the world?
RMS OCEANIC
What was the name of the brothers who founded Superdrug in 1964?
GOLDSTEIN
Which Lake District hill has the alternative name Saddleback?
BLENCATHRA
Which 1974 novel was set in the fictional African nation of Zangaro?
DOGS OF WAR
Head chef at Dorchester
Alalin DUCASSE
Head chef at Sketch
Pierre GAGNAIRE
Head chef at connaught
helene darroze
head chef at core
claire smyth
Which Lib Dem life peer founded the nightclub Ministry of Sound in 1991?
james palumbo
